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“The shadow of Grenfell Tower’s burnt-out husk will follow the refurbishment architect forever”

September 4, 2024 Nat Barker 0

As the long-awaited final report from the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire is published, Nat Barker reflects on the role of the lead architect on the building’s notorious refurbishment project. And so we come to the end. I watched hundreds of hours of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Among the dozens of witnesses I

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Grenfell Tower Inquiry concludes that architect “bears a very significant degree of responsibility”

September 4, 2024 Nat Barker 0

The architecture studio that refurbished Grenfell Tower has been excoriated in the final report of the long-running public inquiry into a devastating fire at the building in 2017. London-based Studio E was determined to have “demonstrated a cavalier attitude to the regulations affecting fire safety” during its work on the project, which included the installation

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One Za’abeel voted best skyscraper of the past year by Dezeen readers

September 3, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Japanese studio Nikken Sekkei’s skyscraper in Dubai with a 230-metre-long skybridge has pipped BIG’s first supertall to be named Dezeen readers’ favourite new skyscraper. To mark World Skyscraper Day today, we invited readers to vote for the best tall building completed in the past year from a shortlist of 10 that included projects by Snøhetta,

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Ten recently completed unusual Indian houses

August 21, 2024 Nat Barker 0

With a 12-storey home in Mumbai gaining attention, we’ve put together a roundup of Indian houses recently featured on Dezeen that depart from the norms of residential architecture. Architects in India have increasingly sought to experiment with the form of the conventional house in recent years, to the extent that unusual homes have become a notable

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“We don’t want to develop like Europe” says Suriname’s architect minister

August 19, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Suriname’s Marciano Dasai is possibly the only government minister in the world who’s also an architect. In this exclusive interview, he discusses the challenges facing the tiny rainforest nation. Dasai has been Suriname’s minister of spatial planning and environment since last year, having previously spent 20 years practising and teaching architecture. “I was never into

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Reusing existing venues for Olympics “is not easy” says Populous’ Francois Clement

July 25, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Paris 2024 comes close to the limit of what is possible in terms of minimising construction for Olympic Games hosted in a single city, explains Populous’ Francois Clement in this Olympic Impact interview. Clement, who has been involved with the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games since he assisted the city’s bid in 2016, explained

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The race to reduce the Olympic Impact

July 24, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Today we launch Olympic Impact, a series investigating whether the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games can be the blueprint for sustainable major sporting events. Nat Barker sets out what to expect. In this series we will examine in detail how Paris has sought to minimise the environmental footprint of the games and use it as

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Ten bathroom design ideas from Dezeen

June 22, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Designing your dream bathroom? From tips for tiles to suggestions for sinks and baths, here are 10 bathroom design ideas taken from Dezeen’s archive of lookbooks. Since 2020, Dezeen has published more than 300 lookbooks providing visual inspiration for all kinds of interiors based on the stories we publish. Below, we organise 10 recent lookbooks into

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