New planning legislation that aims to boost biodiversity in development projects will come into effect in England in January. Here, Dezeen explains what architects need to know. What is biodiversity and why does it matter? In this context, biodiversity usually refers to the variety of all species living within a certain area or ecosystem, including
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Following recent controversy over proposals for an MSG Sphere in London similar to Las Vegas’s new light-up venue, Dezeen examines the arguments on both sides of the debate. Should London build a Sphere? The colossal Las Vegas venue – not spherical, more like a ball sliced in half with an exoskeleton of light-emitting diode (LED)
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Architecture task force Create Streets is calling for Britain’s multi-lane roads to be replaced with homes to aid the housing crisis and protect the country’s green belt. In a paper titled Moving Towards Growth: Why it’s time to build on Britain’s roadbelt, the organisation argued that building on existing roads could create narrower streets with
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Discussions about planning and urbanism are awash with talk of “placemaking” but the term remains strangely and troublingly opaque, writes Reinier de Graaf. UK housing secretary Michael Gove is backing the creation of a new “School of Place”; the city of San Francisco has adopted a placemaking ordinance called “Places for People”; Edinburgh Council has
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Paris has reimposed a height limit for new buildings in the city, following the controversial construction of Tour Triangle tower designed by Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron. The height limit, announced yesterday, will limit new buildings in the French capital to a height of 37 metres or 12 storeys. It reinstates the same Parisian
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Dezeen teamed up with World Monuments Fund to present a talk exploring the legacy of architect Christopher Wren and the challenges of developing cities while retaining their historic characteristics. Called Wren Conversations: Building Cities, the talk is the second in a series of conversations exploring the life and legacy of the British architect to mark
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Decades of harmful policymaking mean America exclusively associates public housing with squalor, but an influx of subsidized homes would make the suburbs infinitely better, writes Dana Cuff. At the June 2022 American Institute of Architects convention in Chicago, former president Barack Obama admonished architects to listen more carefully to the people around us. Listening closely
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Decades of harmful policymaking mean America exclusively associates public housing with squalor, but an influx of subsidized homes would make the suburbs infinitely better, writes Dana Cuff. At the June 2022 American Institute of Architects convention in Chicago, former president Barack Obama admonished architects to listen more carefully to the people around us. Listening closely
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The UK government’s plan to encourage “gentle densification” of neighbourhoods by promising communities financial benefits and neo-Georgian aesthetics will not help solve the housing crisis, writes Anna Minton. Street votes, mini referendums and design codes are the UK government’s latest plan to solve England’s housing crisis. Last month ministers introduced the Levelling Up and Regeneration
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A planning law introduced in the city of Brighton and Hove, England, calls for new buildings to include special bricks that provide nests for solitary bees. Brighton & Hove Council’s policy stipulates that all new buildings above five metres should include bee bricks, as well as bird nesting boxes suitable for swifts. These bee bricks
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