Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The UK government has threatened to block property developers who refuse to contribute towards the costs of fixing unsafe cladding from obtaining planning permission or building control sign-off. Some residents have previously been issued cladding remediation invoices for more than £100,000 by building owners. "It

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

At just 32, the self-proclaimed "outspoken" historian Neal Shasore has become the head of the London School of Architecture. Shasore, who was appointed the London School of Architecture (LSA) head and chief executive officer in June 2021, believes that architecture education needs to respond better to today's social and political climate.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Image courtesy of the Collection of Sam Webb Sam Webb, UK "Architect and activist Sam Webb's campaign to make council tower blocks safer began in 1968 after Ronan Point in Newham, east London, suffered a partial progressive collapse killing four people.

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Architizer

AUGUST 2, 2023

Balconies of Trellick Tower, London’s most famous council tower. Designed by Ernst Goldfinger and erected in 1972, Trellick Tower is considered a landmark of the Brutalist style. Within just a few decades of their construction, thousands of council towers built in the 1960s were demolished.

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BD+C

JUNE 29, 2017

The exterior aluminum cladding with flammable polyethylene core used on the Grenfell Tower in London is banned in the US on buildings taller than 40 feet.

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Deezen

MARCH 22, 2023

Fire safety "a problem of competency" "Timber can be perfectly safe if it's done right," said José Torero, head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London and a world-leading expert on mass-timber fire safety. This is not a technological or technical problem," he told Dezeen. "It

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BD+C

JULY 20, 2017

FirstEnergy Stadium, where the Cleveland Browns play their home games, may be covered in the same cladding used on Grenfell Tower, according to the Associated Press. The cladding is being investigated as a possible accelerate in the tragic London fire that killed at least 80 people last month.

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e-architect

JANUARY 24, 2022

Grenfell Tower Fire London News, Inquiry, Building Photos, Property Development, Expert Witness, Review, Architect. Grenfell Tower Fire West London. Grenfell Tower Inquiry: “those who created and enabled” deserve most blame. Grenfell Tower Inquiry Update in 2022. 24 January 2022.

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Archinect

MARCH 21, 2024

A new dramatization of the deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy is being staged next month at the St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, after traveling from the National Theatre in London, where it premiered last summer. Potential criminal charges stemming from the London Me.

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2022

The most senior politician to appear at the inquiry into the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in London has insisted that his government's deregulation policies did not lead to a failure to update lax building codes ahead of the disaster. Seventy-two people were killed by the Grenfell Tower fire, which took place in June 2017.

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