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Tower hungry: City of London s high-rise appetite is as fierce as ever

Tower hungry: City of London’s high-rise appetite is as fierce as ever Will Ing investigates why so many are still being built The City of London’s appetite for more steel-and-glass skyscrapers shows no sign of relenting, unaffected by either the global pandemic or the climate emergency. Advertisement In the first few months of this year, three office towers, all taller than 145m, were approved by the City of London Corporation. They join three consented towers given the green light in the past few years  – two of which are more than 250m tall, plus a further three under construction and another two in the planning process.

Unpicking the London Plan

Unpicking the London Plan Teresa Borsuk, Andrew Beharrell and Patrick Devlin of Pollard Thomas Edwards examine what it says about housing, the circular economy, and tall buildings What do you need to know about the new London Plan? For a start, it’s a weighty tome, 542 pages in all. That’s about 24 hours of uninterrupted reading. The plan has been four years in the making since its first draft. Sadiq Khan has been desperate to publish it before next month’s mayoral elections, ultimately accepting amendments by housing secretary Robert Jenrick. Broadly, these include a reduction in the number of homes to be delivered annually (down from 65,000 to 52,000); restraining growth across the city and the green belt; promoting ‘gentle density’ development in town centres; reducing protection of industrial sites; allowing more car parking spaces in outer London; and only allowing tall buildings to be developed in ‘suitable’ locations as defined by local development plans.

The dirty secret of so-called fossil-fuel free buildings | Green building

Last modified on Sat 3 Apr 2021 08.02 EDT Hanging plants smother the walls of a new office block proposed for Salford, giving it the look of something from an abandoned post-Covid city, reclaimed by nature. The ivy-covered tower, designed by Make Architects, has been trumpeted as “fossil-fuel free”, set to run on 100% renewable energy and reach net zero operational carbon, with tenants enjoying the “biophilic” benefits of dangling foliage. But not everyone is convinced. “It’s strange to see something described as ‘fossil-fuel free’ when it is made of concrete, steel and glass,” says Joe Giddings, coordinator of the Architects Climate Action Network (Acan) campaign group. “The production of these materials entails burning a huge amount of fossil fuel.

Modernism is really sexy, but problematic , AJ Summit hears

Modernism is really sexy, but problematic , AJ Summit hears
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