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Let’s turn the ‘grey belt’ green
Can the new ‘grey belt’ concept provide a pathway to sustainable housing without sacrificing the green belt, asks Jerry Tate Labour was the only political party to be honest about what needs to be done to deliver 1.5 million houses over the next five years – some of them will need to be built on the green belt. As a practice with a particular specialism in sensitive landscape settings, we have considerable experience on green belt sites.
Inside UCL East’s new £250m Marshgate campus
With the biggest development in its history, University College London (UCL) wanted to create a new type of university campus. Daniel Gayne reports on how the team got on Everyone is moving east these days. Whether you are Sadler’s Wells, the V&A or the BBC, it seems that East Bank, Stratford’s wannabe cultural hub, is the new place to be.
We urgently need to invest in our state school buildings. It’s already too late…
The disparity in terms of investment in England’s independent and state school buildings is huge, getting bigger and unacceptable, writes Jerry Tate The current RAAC scandal – where 156 school buildings have been identified by the Department for Education as at risk, with 52 of these at risk of “imminent collapse” – is clear evidence of the underinvestment in our state school buildings.
Densifying suburbia will help our cities thrive - and save the green belt
I recently had an opportunity to reflect on London’s suburbia, which gave me pause for thought in some of the work we are developing in our office at the moment. Asked to do a ‘talking head’ slot on a Grand Designs suburban special, I resorted to extensive research (so as to appear fantastically knowledgeable) and happened upon the most amazing book by Robert Stern called Paradise Planned. This has to be the most thorough survey of the suburban housing model to date.
"High-tech is next in line for a revival and I for one would welcome it"
The high-tech architectural style is about to make a comeback and its philosophy could be central to decarbonising the built environment in the face of climate change, writes Jerry Tate. High-tech is next in line for a revival and I for one would welcome it as the movement has a lot to give in our 21st-century context. High-tech was always more of a philosophy than a style, which is why the original proponents have adapted so successfully over the years.
Why are there are so many badly designed edge-of-town housing schemes?
By Jerry Tate 2022-03-28T07:22:00 Planners and architects must engage more with developers to ensure plans are of good design and provide connectivity with other developments, argues Jerry Tate Our practice has built up specialist knowledge working in landscape settings, often creating low-energy housing, and this makes us a natural fit for ‘edge of settlement’ developments.
It is time to talk again about protecting the function of architects
By Jerry Tate2021-05-11T06:00:00 Making the golden thread a legal part of an architect’s role would have so many benefits. It’s about protection not protectionism, argues Jerry Tate You don’t need me to tell you that our profession is facing intense commercial and insurance pressures. These, alongside our responsibility to ensure a safe and sustainable built environment, have led me to conclude that we should be lobbying the government now to reintroduce protection of function for architects.
Getting to net zero is hard: here are five tips for architects
Creating net zero carbon buildings is quickly moving from pipe-dream to reality. The climate emergency, new regulations and changing client attitudes will reshape the built environment, but achieving this standard is really hard and, as a profession, we need to be honest with ourselves about what is needed to meet the challenge. The first obstacle is to reduce the operational carbon in our buildings.
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