Deezen

MARCH 28, 2024

Nearly 60,000 social-rented homes have been bulldozed in England over the last 10 years , while in London alone 101 estates are reportedly still under threat. The Balfron Tower renovation forced out council tenants. Anti-demolition campaigns failed to save Robin Hood Gardens (also top). That could be five or 10 years apart."

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Renovation Housing Home Construction 139

Deezen

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Following the Grenfell Tower inquiry, architects must face up to their responsibility for Britain's building safety crisis instead of blaming contracts that lessen their influence, writes Peter Apps. Read: Architecture education has "shifted away" from fire safety, experts say on Grenfell anniversary.

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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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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.

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e-architect

JANUARY 10, 2022

UK government funding for cladding repairs, British Tower Combustible Facade Replacement Scandal, English High Rise. The Fire Brigades Union has said that Michael Gove’s announcement on the building safety crisis still leaves residents “desperately short of where they need to be”, more than four years after Grenfell. 10 January 2022.

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Architizer

AUGUST 2, 2023

A fake bubble of certainty… has imprisoned us in the West,” Curtis remarks in Hypernormalization in his trademark droll voiceover , “and is now preventing us from understanding what is really going on in the world outside.” Plug in to the latest design discussions by subscribing. This isn’t a criticism. And he was good at that too.

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