Bonus episode. AJ Climate Champions hosted by Hattie Hartman. Author and critic Owen Hatherley describes approaches to the retrofit of Modernist buildings, lessons learned from post-Soviet housing and why he thinks White Design’s straw bale Lilac Cohousing in Leeds could be a replicable new build approach. The AJ's Will Hurst explains the tactics and ambitions of the RetroFirst campaign, from engaging with MPs to raising public awareness, as well as the policy levers necessary to prioritise retrofit.
In a quick news roundup, hosts Hattie Hartman and George Morgan share their views on Zaha Hadid Architects’ Forest Green Rovers timber stadium proposal and round up other sustainability news, including ACAN’s Carbon Footprint of Construction report.
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Danish architect Lone Feifer on ‘absolute’ sustainability
Hawkins\Brown’s Louisa Bowles on what net zero actually means
Editional Studio on persuading domestic clients to build less and retrofit more
Bob Prewett explains why Passivhaus is often too much for heritage buildings
ACAN founding member Sara Edmonds on ramping up domestic retrofit
John Christophers on his zero carbon home, which generates a 40% energy surplus
Lessons from AHMM’s Stirling Prize-winning Burntwood School building performance study
Judit Kimpian on why building performance studies are crucial for net zero
AKT II’s Hanif Kara on CLT virtue signalling, concrete innovations and Bloomberg’s embodied carbon
Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum on why the climate crisis is not a north-south problem
Philippe Madec on combining sustainable development with Frampton’s critical regionalism
How France is pioneering contemporary architecture built from straw, hemp and thatch
Why France is increasingly building with bio-renewable materials – with Dominique Gauzin-Müller
Justin McGuirk on the Design Museum’s Waste Age exhibition and Kat Scott on the Architects Declare Practice Guide
Rachel Hoolahan on material passports for retrofit
Duncan Baker-Brown on mining the Anthropocene
COP26: Glasgow‘s plans for carbon neutrality by 2030 + ACAN‘s COP26 fringe activism
COP26 pop-up activism and Glasgow’s new climate resilient public realm
RIBA Climate Special with Simon Allford and Gary Clark
The 21st-century village: Sarah Featherstone and Jennifer Ross on VeloCity
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