Architecture is now the official and autonomous mascot of hung-parliamentary culture
Ian Martin: Cultural bearings
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BS 5534: A ridge too far for listed buildings?
Geoff Wilkinson looks at the revised British Standard for roofing
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The AJ100 survey portrays a profession treading water
Uncertainty around Brexit gave architecture business leaders the jitters in 2016, but look a bit deeper and there are signs of resilience, writes Emily Booth
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Architecture and politics: bedfellows that don’t get on
The biggest worry about the short term is uncertainty. But architects are pretty good at dealing with this, writes Paul Finch
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Studio Egret West: Why we don’t like the word ‘masterplan’
David West shares his practice’s 10 principles for creating loose-fit frameworks for a place’s evolution
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Grenfell Tower: scapegoating won’t get to the truth
There is only one way to respond to disasters such as the Grenfell Tower fire: gather evidence, analyse it and take actions on that basis, says Paul Finch
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‘Could we have done more to prevent the Grenfell Tower disaster?’
Manchester-based architect Faheem Aftab discusses how much responsibility can be laid at architects’ doors, how the profession should react and the powers that already exist to stop further disasters
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Ian Martin: Not with a bang
Bauhau the architectural dachshund has very little time left
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Where are the Welsh buildings in this year’s RIBA Awards?
For the fourth year in the last five, Wales is unrepresented in the RIBA National Awards. But that’s no reason to architecturally write off the nation, argues Kristian Hyde
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High rise, low quality: how we ended up with deathtraps like Grenfell
A vast number of UK housing tower blocks arose from often ignoble motives and shaky logic, writes LSE professor Patrick Dunleavy
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Grenfell shows it’s callous governance we need to change, not just the building regs
We must challenge the administration’s market forces-driven approach to housing, callously indifferent to the lives of the poor and marginalised, in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, says Catherine Slessor
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The RIBA’s role takes on fresh importance post-Grenfell
In this time of crisis the RIBA’s actions demonstrate its value to the profession, says Paul Finch
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The coach: ‘Architecture bores me stiff’
Careers expert Matthew Turner advises an architect who’s finding that his chosen profession just isn’t doing it for him anymore
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AJ Architecture Awards will recognise best sustainable project
Architects should take inspiration from Francis Kéré’s Serpentine Pavilion and enter the AJ Architecture awards now, says Hattie Hartman
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Ian Martin: Bauhau the architectural dachshund, an obituary
Architecture critic of the Creative on Sunday and theorist of epic space
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Construction can learn safety lessons from aviation’s ‘Just Culture’
In the world of aviation reporting of errors and near-misses is encouraged to prevent similar mistakes turning into disasters. The building sector needs to adopt the same approach to prevent tragedies like that at Grenfell Tower, says Emily Booth
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Awards and competitions show that talent will out
As shortlisting takes place for this year’s World Architecture Festival Awards, Paul Finch’s heart is gladdened by a wonderful range of projects and acts of imagination
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Why ‘starchitects’ stand apart from modern-day celebrity culture
Amid back-biting, bickering and knee-jerk soundbites, Paul Finch is thankful that some people are still behaving like grownups
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The coach: ‘Do I have a one-off opportunity to go it alone?’
Careers expert Matthew Turner advises an architect who wonders whether they should set up on their own, taking a repeat client with them
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Ian Ritchie: ‘The Garden Bridge’s backers live in an alternate reality defined by privilege’
There must be a reckoning on the Garden Bridge and it must not happen again, writes Ian Ritchie
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