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Stark new additions to our urban landscape are usually met with moaning – but it rarely lasts.
Perhaps the “art” label designates Assemble and the Granby project as outsiders, unique, creating something that can’t be replicated.
It’s up to state governments to ensure urban planning rules properly reflect both the desires of residents in the 21st century and the principles of sustainability.
Architects and those working on the built environment can learn valuable lessons about their discipline – how it’s taught, and how it’s carried out – from the 2015 student protests.
Public ‘restroom’ is a euphemism of the highest order. We don’t find it restful.
‘I deeply believe that design will meet its true promise when designers engage in design for the sacred.’
We can live comfortably and sustainably in hot places – but we’ll have to ditch the glassy skyscrapers.
Temperatures are set to rocket throughout the 21st century, but design lessons from history could help the gulf states stay cool.
A school in south London has become the latest building to win the UK’s most prestigious architecture accolade, fuelling the debate as to the importance of architecture to learning.
The timing of Hitler’s home renovations coincided with his public makeover as a statesman and diplomat.
The ongoing destruction of Palmyra is a tragedy, a betrayal of the past and an impoverishment of the future.
There was a time in the 1970s when the world of building design was taking psychological research findings seriously. It’s high time it started paying attention again.
Porn. Few words come with as many pre-loaded connotations and assumptions. So what are we to make of the rise of “ruin porn”? Should photos of urban decay brighten or darken our day?
A new form of research is needed to bring us the cities of the future.
With Robin Hood Gardens in danger of being destroyed, it’s time to look beyond appearances and recognise its real value.
Air conditioning alone won’t make global warming more bearable – architects must reinvent the window.
Some wild ideas have been put forward for the UK’s seat of power over the years.
TV ratings are down, but the rebirth of the ballpark could be a reason that the sport still boasts the highest total attendance of any in the world.
Home teardowns are often unnecessary and costly, in more ways than one.
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Director of the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT, RMIT University
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Professor and Chair of History of Art, Vanderbilt University
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Chair Professor of Architecture, UNSW
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Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne
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Architectural Technologist and Urban Designer, Nottingham Trent University
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British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Adjunct Professor of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD Candidate, Building Engineering, Carleton University
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Lecturer in Architecture, UCL
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Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Practice, University of Technology Sydney
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Transformation Fellow + Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Queensland University of Technology
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Head and Professor of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art
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Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Northumbria University, Newcastle