Public and leisure
Public and leisure
"Sohofication is strangling our city centres"
A proliferation of strangely similar restaurants in our cities is at risk of making them boring places to live, writes Jonathan Nunn. More
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Design
Design
"Declaring a climate emergency is just the beginning of the journey"
The design industry has joined several others in declaring a climate emergency. Design Declares organiser Alexie Sommer explains the background to the launch and what the movement hopes to achieve. More
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Opinion
Opinion
"History now seems to be repeating itself at the Sainsbury Wing"
The criticism over Selldorf Architects' redesign of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery is the latest in a long line of controversies surrounding the building, writes Catherine Slessor. More
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Solar Revolution
Solar Revolution
"The design industry needs to imagine a world where we use less energy, full stop"
Architects and designers have a huge part to play in the solar revolution, but they also need to find ways to reduce our energy consumption overall, writes Making Design Circular founder Katie Treggiden. More
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Solar Revolution
Solar Revolution
"Now is the time to design a solar future"
A radical change in perceptions is needed for society to fully embrace solar power, write pioneering designers Marjan van Aubel and Pauline van Dongen as part of Dezeen's newly launched Solar Revolution series. More
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Landscape
Landscape
"Grassy parks are no longer viable in the face of global heating"
In the face of climate change, Britain's lawned parks should be replaced with urban forests to help control city temperatures and keep green spaces green during hot summers, writes Phineas Harper. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"Architects must reject the 'follow your passion' narrative and see ourselves as workers"
Widespread unionization should be supported by studio leaders as it would help architecture businesses thrive as well as giving workers a fair deal, writes Andrew Daley of Architectural Workers United. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"High-tech is next in line for a revival and I for one would welcome it"
The high-tech architectural style is about to make a comeback and its philosophy could be central to decarbonising the built environment in the face of climate change, writes Jerry Tate. More
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Architecture
Architecture
Ten principles for designing cool spaces for hot weather
Following a record-breaking heatwave in the UK and western Europe, with climate change meaning that sweltering temperatures are likely to become more common, Smith Mordak outlines 10 ways to design buildings that remain cool in hot weather. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"Are we ready to see public housing's beauty and suburbia's impoverishment?"
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. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"Homes manifest mechanisms of power via relationships of gender, class and age"
The way our homes are designed is intrinsically linked to domestic power struggles, write Charles Holland and Margaret Cubbage. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"We must not allow the destruction of what is still great about architectural education"
The exposure of alleged abuse at the Bartlett must not become an excuse for dismantling how we teach architecture, says Sean Griffiths. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"Reports of modernism's death turned out to be greatly exaggerated"
On the 50th anniversary of Pruitt-Igoe's demolition, it's clear that Charles Jencks declaration that modernism had died was a self-serving myth, writes Catherine Slessor. More
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Design
Design
"Design practices must lead the way in rethinking capitalism to save the planet"
Design practices and architecture firms need to rethink capitalist business models to meet the challenges of the climate emergency, writes Katie Treggiden. More
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Deconstructivism
Deconstructivism
"Deconstructivism started well over a century ago and still continues today"
Deconstructivism existed long before the 1970s, writes architecture critic Joseph Giovannini, who wrote the book Architecture Unbound to tell the full history of the style, in this opinion piece as part of our series revisiting deconstructivism. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"Using street votes to fix the housing crisis is like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic"
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. More
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Deconstructivism
Deconstructivism
"Deconstructivism left us with the notion that architecture can be an act of continual revolution"
There are lessons to be learned from the dying embers of deconstructivism, says Aaron Betsky in this opinion piece as part of our series revisiting the style. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"The death of George Floyd has become a catalyst for social change and urban redevelopment"
A promising new future for Minneapolis is emerging from the trauma of George Floyd's murder by a police officer two years ago, writes a local architect who knew him, James Garrett Jr. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"Suspension and investigation of prominent members of SCI-Arc are not enough"
The recent events at SCI-Arc are a flashpoint for industry-wide labor grievances and must lead to systemic change writes Corie Yaguchi, a former student of the Los Angeles architecture school. More
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Deconstructivism
Deconstructivism
"My late father was the first to deliver the new movement to architecture"
Dezeen's deconstructivism series has overlooked the role publisher and editor Dr Andreas Papadakis played in defining the movement, according to his daughter Alexandra Papadakis. More
