Sustainable place-making: The end of The Road?

Sustainable place-making: The end of The Road?

by Francis Glare, Manchester Studio Director  Sustainable place-making In Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic novel ‘The Road’, the charred and apparently hopelessly denuded landscape is the setting…

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Why Urban Design?

Why Urban Design?

by Jaimie Ferguson, Urban Design Director We live in an Urbanising world. In less than 50 years more than twice as many people will live…

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Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool

Community and identity

 by Chris Harding The concept of community is as old as civilisation itself . More than a practical necessity , it is fundamental to our…

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Castlefield Viaduct Manchester

Greening the City

by Darrell Wilson The idea of ‘greening the city’ has become synonymous with initiatives that increase and enhance the quality and content of nature and…

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Sabah Al Ahmad City, Cultural Centre, Kuwait

A Cultural Heart

by Richard McDowell It could be said that one way of assessing a society’s degree of civilisation is the extent to which it invests in…

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Somerset House and King's College London

Old buildings – new life

by Tim Leach The richness and diversity of our towns and cities create a visually stimulating, culturally rich sense of place, providing continuity and stability…

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Blackburn Meadows

Lessons from the Moai

by Steve Merridew Our cities are our future. By 2030 60% of the world’s population will live in urban areas.(ref 1) Global economic growth and…

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Nanjing Road, Shanghai /BDP

It’s not what you buy, but the way that you buy it…

by Tessa O’Neill  The dynamic retail sector is going through its most significant period of transition in a century. The current global financial crisis is…

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Qingdao Westcoast Masterplan /BDP

Cities 2013

The mistake that architects made a century ago was to envisage the city of the future in terms of aesthetics. Such a view, is doomed…

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Shanxi Broadcast & TV Centre /BDP

More metro than macro – the economic potential of the city

Deyan Sudjic has likened the city to a forcefield, one in which mobility and ideas are the energy of the city flowing through the network…

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