All Building Design articles in February 2022
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NewsChipperfield and Feix and Merlin win LSE Lincoln’s Inn Fields competition
Chipperfield and Feix and Merlin beat a field of six runners to win the commission
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Simpson Haugh gets go-ahead for 51-storey Manchester towers
But viability concerns see city’s 20% affordable housing target ditched yet again
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Tonkin Liu on shortlist for Kew treehouse contest
Ten design teams in running for Royal Botanical Gardens’ main exhibition of 2023
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RIBA reveals 68-strong London Awards 2022 shortlist
Contenders include Fosters’ Principal Tower, SOM’s Harrow Square and four AHMM projects
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Hollaway Studio designs ‘floating’ bike factory for Brompton
Kent wetlands HQ will be ‘a 21st-century Bournville’
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Glenn Howells completes canal development for Urban Splash
Architect worked with Shedkm on central Birmingham island site
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Dijon gastronomy centre set to cut the mustard
Anthony Béchu-designed celebration of French food and wine targets May opening
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Opinion
What’s stopping us using more innovative structural materials?
The ready availability of concrete and steel seems to have discouraged us from experimenting with new possibilities, says Anna Beckett
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BRE manager did not tell minister that ACM had failed fire test 16 years before Grenfell
Debbie Smith denied reaching agreement with senior official to withhold key details about cladding from minister in meeting three days after fire, inquiry hears
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British Pavilion team for Venice Biennale announced
Curators to create exhibition exploring sustainable materials
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Parliament restoration could take 76 years and cost nearly £50bn
Keeping MPs in Palace of Westminster during works would see costs and delivery time skyrocket, report finds
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BRE staff may never have received impartiality training, Grenfell inquiry hears
Testing house’s former managing director admits lack of formal training regime was a ‘weakness’
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Opinion
The Medici effect is real in levelling up
The new white paper’s Florentine references provoked some hilarity, but many of its ideas are sound, says David Rudlin
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DHaus delivers design cocktail for Highgate pub infill project
Practice draws inspiration from local mews houses and Tokyo courtyard homes
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RBKC gears up for battle over police station redevelopment
Council wants Notting Hill nick for its own HOK-designed community plans but mayor of London seeks market rate
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Tim Ronalds gets go-ahead for £12m Clerkenwell illustration centre
New River Head project will repurpose 18th- and 19th-century industrial buildings to house Quentin Blake archive
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Government’s ‘confusing’ fire safety guidance did not consider life safety
Document published in 2002 appeared to equate British standards with tougher European standards, Grenfell Inquiry told
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Minister approves Tate Hindle’s Wembley flats following inquiry
Junior minister Eddie Hughes approves 454-home development
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Alan Higgs submits whisky distillery for Scottish island
In pictures: Islay scheme uses reclaimed stone
