Ten ways in which architecture is addressing climate change
To honour Earth Day, we ve rounded up 10 ways architects are reshaping the built environment to benefit both people and the planet.
Architecture has a large environmental impact, with the built environment accounting for 40 per cent of the UK s carbon emissions in 2019, according to the UK Green Building Council.
With a 2018 United Nations report warning that humanity now has less than 10 years to slow down global warming, the architecture industry is one of many to have been forced to reassess the ways in which it works.
From reducing waste and maximising urban greenery to collaboration and lobbying for change, solutions to reduce pressure on the planet are now taking centre stage.
What we lose when we tear down a building
Updated / Thursday, 22 Apr 2021
08:30 In 2016, Apollo House in Dublin adopted a new place in our building culture, not by design but because the building itself emerged as a logical site of direct housing action.
Analysis: Buildings are intangible culture, enabling social and spatial exchange with other people and places near and far. However, recent political, economic and cultural policy in Ireland has framed them primarily as commodities.
In March, Ann Lacaton and Philippe Vassal were announced as Pritzker Laureates for 2021, an award in architecture comparable to the Nobel Prize. A popular choice, the architects are becoming confirmed leaders of a very contemporary kind of architectural resistance.
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Friarsgate Surgery in Winchester: set for demolition SIR: With reference to Judith Martin’s letter (Chronicle, April 1) I think the current Zeitgeist of Rescue, Refresh, Up cycle is entirely appropriate. She quotes the Pritzker Prize winning architects’ mantra of ‘never demolish’. I’m sure there are many architects with vision who can see the potential and architectural merit of the old Friarsgate practice. Once a building is demolished any new build typically dominates the site: the river passing underneath the glass walkway, the large handsome trees, now vandalised, will be conveniently subjugated to a monolithic edifice.
Now that’s a slogan that befits The Crest in more ways than one.
Before I go into greater detail on that however, allow me to first share a little more about our project today.
The Crest is a 99-year leasehold condo built by Wing Tai Asia (TOP-ed 2018) with the aid of renown architect Toyo Ito (recipient of the esteemed Pritzker Prize back in 2013).
To say that the towers at The Crest are of a unique structure would probably be a keen understatement.
For those who frequent Alexandra Road, you’d likely recall three distinct towers with units extending outward at varying heights (somewhat resembling a blooming flower’s petals if you will).
PARIS - The 1964 summer Olympic Games were Japan's great return to the world stage after its defeat and destruction two decades earlier in World War II.