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How a baked potato challenge can help lead the way on climate change
A sustainable architecture workshop for primary schools is one way of involving the next generation in how the built environment can save the planet, writes Hattie Hartman
Opinion
Comment from leading voices in British architecture on news, practice and discourse
Construction is a cause of global warming, but is concrete really the problem?
With cement blamed for 8 per cent of world CO2 emissions, Aidan Reilly and Oliver Kinnane examine the options facing the construction industry if it is to help prevent irreversible climate change
Architects are sleepwalking into a climate crisis. Time to wake up!
We’ve got 12 years to reduce global warming to 1.5°C or face droughts, floods and extreme heat – a huge challenge, but also an opportunity for the profession, writes Emily Booth
Architects needn’t take a guilt-trip on concrete
Look at the big construction picture before condemning concrete, writes Paul Finch
Amin Taha’s lead on materials could help save the planet
Architects love concrete but its high contribution to global CO2 emissions makes Taha’s preference for other materials a lead others need to follow, writes Emily Booth
Brexit provides the opportunity to rebalance anti-retrofit VAT rules
The perverse tax rules that favour new-build over refurbishment could go once we no longer have to conform with EU regulations, writes Paul Finch
RIBA must commit to ethics commission’s recommendations
Now the institute’s Ethics and Sustainable Development Commission has released its final report, resources and leadership must be given to implement its findings, writes Hattie Hartman
Architects are finding their way back towards the centre of the national conversation
Your problem-solving abilities and clear thinking will be vital as we prepare to combat climate change, writes Emily Booth
‘Architecture is political; it’s time for the timber revolution’
Anthony Thistleton, founding partner of Waugh Thistleton Architects, explains why the age of concrete is over and why engineered timber is a solution to the biggest issue of our age
Peter Zumthor is wrong: architects do have the power to tackle climate change
Zumthor thinks he ‘can only do so much’ to protect the environment – but there are plenty of ways architects can effect policy change, writes Hattie Hartman