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Council rejects plans for huge expansion of Sky’s new Elstree Studios

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Concerns over loss of green belt land sink UMC Architects-designed application to add eight new blocks to existing site

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Workload optimism ticks up as market shows sign of improvement, RIBA finds

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But uncertainty over the election and high interest rates are dampening investment according to latest Future Trends survey

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‘Recession is a change agent’: Why Gensler is launching itself into the UK housing market

In the second of our interviews with senior Gensler executives, global co-chief executive Julia Simet and co-managing principal for Europe Duncan Swinhoe talk to Tom Lowe about turning towards office-to-residential conversions, how the UK planning system needs to change and why the world’s biggest practice doesn’t have targets

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‘His legacy will stand for generations’: Chris Dyson pays tribute to artist Richard Serra

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The Chris Dyson Architects founder describes how he has been influenced by the American abstract artist, who died this week at the age of 85

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Even a shopping centre can have emotional resonance - and that value is hard to quantify

2024-03-27T00:05:00+00:00By 2 comments

When visitors start scattering their loved ones’ ashes, you know you’ve developed a precious connection to place, writes Martyn Evans

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The procurement system is crushing smaller businesses - it needs reform

2024-03-25T00:05:00+00:00By 3 comments

Our public procurement processes are not serving the best interests of consultants or the end users, writes David Rudlin

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Why the British neighbourhood pub must be saved: A Canadian perspective

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With British pubs in decline, Dorian Moore asks whether their role as ‘third spaces’ could help save them

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Does the US approach to planning mean architects get more respect in America?

2024-03-21T06:00:00+00:00By 2 comments

In his first column for BD, New York-based Chris Fogarty assesses the relative merits of the US and UK planning systems

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Chasing housing targets, cash-strapped Birmingham risks destroying its cultural soul

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Birmingham is the canary in the coal mine, showing us how financially stricken local authorities are increasingly sacrificing cultural assets in pursuit of investment, writes Simeon Shtebunaev

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