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Foster + Partners criticises RIBA climate report over “deviation” from global treaty

January 4, 2022 Nat Barker 0
RIBA climate report presented at COP26

The UK’s largest architecture firm, Foster + Partners, has criticised a RIBA sustainability report backed by nearly 250 built environment organisations, claiming that it contradicts the watershed Paris Agreement treaty on climate change. Foster + Partners is one of only two architecture studios among the country’s top 10 largest that have failed to endorse the

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Peter Barber Architects revamps and densifies London social housing estate

December 23, 2021 Nat Barker 0

Peter Barber Architects has rejuvenated the post-war Kiln Place social housing estate in London and created 15 new homes. Working with the London Borough of Camden, Peter Barber Architects aimed to update the whole estate and increase its density without demolishing any of the existing homes. “Fundamentally, focused interventions can avoid demolition of existing homes, whilst still

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McDonald’s opens “UK’s first net-zero restaurant”

December 20, 2021 Nat Barker 0
Net-zero McDonald's

Fast-food chain McDonald’s has opened what it claims is the UK’s first net-zero carbon restaurant building. Built using natural or recycled materials and powered by a combination of wind turbines and solar panels, the restaurant, in Market Drayton, Shropshire, was designed to meet net-zero standards in both its construction and everyday operation. However, McDonald’s confirmed

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The 10 most controversial architecture projects of 2021

December 16, 2021 Nat Barker 0
An appeal has been launched for The Tulip by Foster + Partners

Next in our review of 2021, we round up 10 of the most controversial schemes that made headlines this year, including the Sky Pool and The Tulip. Sky Pool, UK, by HAL A transparent swimming pool suspended between two buildings at the Embassy Gardens development in London gained huge attention this summer as aerial footage

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Residents “livid” over £450 daily cost of heating Sky Pool

December 15, 2021 Nat Barker 0
Sky Pool at night

Residents at the Embassy Gardens development in southwest London claim its controversial Sky Pool is too cold to be used in winter, despite heating costs of £450 a day. There are calls for the transparent swimming pool, which is suspended 35 metres in the air between two buildings, to be closed during the colder months

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Neri Oxman and Bill Ackman told to alter Norman Foster design for their New York penthouse

December 9, 2021 Nat Barker 0
Glass penthouse by Norman Foster

Architect and designer Neri Oxman and her husband, the hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, have been told to modify plans drawn up by Norman Foster for a glass penthouse on a 1920s building in New York. Oxman and Ackman want to demolish the existing one-storey, pink stucco penthouse on the roof of the Upper West

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Controversy over Notre-Dame restoration reignites as plans for “Disney” interiors emerge

December 2, 2021 Nat Barker 0
Notre Dame could take decades to repair after the fire

The row over how the fire-gutted Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris should be restored has restarted as plans to give the interior a tourist-friendly makeover are emerging. Confessional boxes, altars and classical sculptures are set to be replaced with modern art murals and new light and sound effects designed to create “emotional spaces”, according to a report

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