See my second article in RIBAJ on the new RICS WLCA Standard, and what it means for Architects ow.ly/eLrR50Rg1YE

Interesting, Fosters is not the practice that springs to mind with ‘Eco’ anything.

You have an important point! What I was trying to get across was deploying imagination with unpromising existing buildings.

Simon Sturgis Architects’ Journal Completely agree here. But that Heatherwick project has got to be the worst example - have you seen how much additional concrete it took to « retain »?! 🤯

See my article in Architects’ Journal on why the future must include the past.
architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion/w…

A major reason for this is that we have offshored a lot of our manufacturing to places like China. So these reduction whilst welcome are a sign of decline.

3/3:🤔
'Option 2 is the option that is most consistent with the approach favoured by the commercial bids in the City’s market testing exercise. Why was this then excluded?'

2/3
'These proposals not only met the CoLC’s commercial requirements, but also met a whole range of UK, GLA and CoLC net zero, retrofit, and carbon policies for this site.'♻️

Simon Sturgis: 1/3 👏
'The CoLC received a number of credible and viable proposals for a ‘major refurbishment’ of the existing buildings. '

Astonishing

Worth watching

Enjoying #ajarchitectureawards with legend #evajiricna

Embodied impact should definitely be measured per occupant and not per m2 #GrandDesigns

kg/CO2e/person should absolutely be a metric for reporting, alongside per m2 to avoid overly #GrandDesigns masking massive climate impacts by achieving low figures per sqm, despite sometimes being 300sqm as a 1 bed home. Let’s start this.

Very much looking forward to talking today at 12.15 at Dublin City Councils ‘Generous Architectures’ series. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https…

You can sign up for zoom access to my and other great sessions on Thursday and Friday urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https…

Very excited to be a keynote speaker as a guest of Charles Duggan of Dublin City Council Dublin City Heritage Office on ‘Architecture and Climate, how the past can save the future’. 12.15 on Friday 3 Nov. Also on Zoom.

Thanks Barnabas! At my March Royal Academy lecture I called for a change in architecture in response to the climate crisis. We are at an exiting inflection point for architects, however this is about materials, reuse and is a more subtle and complex issue than boring or not.

Highly enjoyable attack piece by Olly Wainwright, calling out Heatherwick's reductive nonsense. Quite depressing how much more attention it's had than serious discussion of buildings now. Wish it were Simon Sturgis or Philip Oldfield getting the press.
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

There is no environmental logic to making people go faster and faster. Environmental transport is walking & cycling in your neighbourhood, then taking a normal speed train on holiday rather than one which shaves 30 minutes off the journey. HS2 is a complete nightmare