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Sustainable architecture efforts hindered by "sloppiness" says UN climate ambassador

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Architects must take greater accountability for their sector to help decarbonise the built environment, says UN Race to Zero ambassador Sarah El Battouty in this exclusive interview from the final day of the COP27 climate conference. The entire sector and all its players, including the architects, are lagging," said El Battouty. "The

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Demolition of council estates "has peaked"

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Eamon McGoldrick, the managing director of trade body National Federation of ALMOs – council-housing management companies – added that local authorities may be less inclined to demolish social housing as they spend increasingly large portions of their budgets responding to rising homelessness.

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Chicago's buildings "still not as efficient as those built 130 years ago" says Energy Revolution curator

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The Energy Revolution exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Center aims to demonstrate that the city's buildings need to become much more energy efficient. The exhibition takes aim at the way that big buildings under-perform. Were still not as efficient as buildings built 130 years ago," he continued.

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"Both sides in the style wars are equally wrong"

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Last week the century-old squabble between modernism and historicism raised its tired old head once again after a UK government minister backed a report advocating a more "tradition"-friendly new architecture school. per cent of the building was actually made up of the flashy marble it was coated in.

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Stop the Presses: Chicago’s Tribune Tower and the Future of Newspaper Offices

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Rising 463 feet above downtown Chicago, Tribune Tower is a jaw-dropping relic from a bygone era. 1921 was a different story, though, when the Chicago Tribune newspaper ran a competition to mark its 75th anniversary, first prize of $50,000 for whoever could design “the most beautiful and distinctive office building in the world.”

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Dezeen survey finds 84 per cent of UK architecture studios want to reverse Brexit "catastrophe"

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The responses were overwhelmingly downbeat, pointing to higher construction costs, difficulties attracting European talent and additional administrative burdens. The Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ) said Dezeen's findings closely mirror what it has been hearing from the sector.

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LWK + PARTNERS Architects, Hong Kong

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LWK + PARTNERS Architects, Building Awards, HK Design Studio Images, Architecture Office China. It seeks to serve the community with high-quality apartments, ample and energising public spaces, as well as convenient commercial facilities. Architecture Categories – Commercial Building (Honorable Mention). 16 Dec 2021.