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Norman Hayden calls on architect Chapman Taylor which has been on an international journey, starting at Scotland Yard. The Metropolitan Police headquarters at New Scotland Yard, central London is one of the most recognisable buildings in the country. With its... View Article

Why did you become an architect? It was almost by accident. I decided to enrol at the Architecture University in the Polytechnic of Milan after a brief conversation with a girlfriend from senior high school who was upset due to... View Article

Martin Townsend, director of sustainability at BRE Global, looks at the importance of building standards which reflect local needs across the globe, in order to share best practice and drive change. There is a rapidly growing appetite for rating methodologies... View Article

Autonomous vehicles and driverless cars are definitely coming our way, but what impact will they have on way we design public spaces? Rachel Skinner of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff argues that they will have a positive effect. Autonomous vehicles will... View Article

Alan Yates, technical director, sustainability at BRE Global looks at how the BREEAM assessment method can assist architects in optimising building design, while keeping their clients happy too. The commercial property sector is a fiercely competitive and fast-changing environment where clients... View Article

Architect Alireza Ravanshad is the creator of Dandi Space, a whole new architectural approach to combining work and living space through smarter design. Here, he makes the case for challenging the traditional spatial divide between working life and home life.... View Article

The BRE’s James Fisher describes how commercial clients are seeing the need to analyse and improve the environmental impact of their buildings in use, to increase asset value. For many businesses, operating their buildings presents a major cost overhead, often... View Article

Andrew Tang of Pellings spells out the design lessons for secondary schools as they expand to meet the intake ‘bulge’. Having worked for the past 10 years, largely in the primary education sector, I have been involved with a number... View Article

Architects, contractors and suppliers to the brick industry gathered at Arup’s UK head office recently to hear how the quintessential British building material was seeing a resurgence in a range of urban regeneration projects in London and across the UK. The audience invited by... View Article

September 15, 2008 is a date Phil Waind will not forget in a hurry. As the global financial crisis bit hard, his fledgling practice hit what turned out to be its low point. “Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, and our... View Article

With a work reach that spans the continents, Atkins architecture practice clearly lives up to the title of the overall Global group of which it is part. Atkins is one of the world’s leading practices – indeed, it is formally listed... View Article