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A ban on constructing with timber is one of the more misguided responses to Grenfell writes Rowan Moore.

Alex de Rijke talks to the Wood Awards about a favourite wooden object – a tulipwood CLT sample.

Director Jonas Lencer talks to Archivibe about timber and sustainability.

One day, the virus will subside. It could be eradicated. But even then, life will not simply return to the way it was before Covid-19. Spurred on by the coronavirus crisis, architects have been rethinking the buildings we inhabit.

How best to spend the government’s £1bn school building bonanza? Four sets of priorities range from better access and bigger spaces to flexibility and promoting hygiene.

More than 100 sign letter to Boris Johnson over concern for small and BAME-led practices.

Designs need to adapt to mitigate the stresses highlighted by the coronavirus pandemic, says dRMM director and Quality of Life Foundation founder Sadie Morgan.

Architects must stop following style or theory, writes Jonas Lencer.

Stirling Prize nominees call for structural timber to be excluded, while RIBA argues for more buildings to be covered.

Choosing high-quality, robust materials that lend themselves to future adaptation should be the starting point for any project – new-build or retrofit, says dRMM’s Saskia Lencer.

New infrastructure projects should consider four key principles covering not just value for money but also fostering a sense of local identity and cutting carbon emissions.

dRMM founding director among 2020 recipients.

The RIBA has named an all-female list of recipients for its honorary fellowships for the first time since the awards began. Recipients include Sadie Morgan.

Alex de Rijke admires the creativity and commitment in a self-built experimental house by Matthew Barnett Howland with Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton.

Proponents of cross-laminated timber were up in arms when the government announced its plans to ban combustible materials from the external walls of high-rise buildings.

Design guru Sadie Morgan has been appointed to the board of Homes England.

Architecture needs to make its voice heard in government and client circles – and that’s exactly what the first winner of BD’s Female Architectural Leader Award is doing, says Elizabeth Hopkirk.

dRMM celebrates modern timber construction at the Building Centre.

Sadie Morgan has created the Quality of Life Foundation to drive improvements in the way life-quality and wellbeing are factored into the development process.

The co-founder of Stirling Prize-winning practice dRMM has taken on a broader role, ensuring that design is valued on major public projects writes Pamela Buxton.

Architects on project include AHMM, dRMM, PTEa and Maccreanor Lavington.

Practitioners hope ‘common sense’ will prevail on cross-laminated timber.

Pre-fabricated homes tipped to be the solution to London’s housing shortage.

Strong, clean and versatile, engineered timber is the ‘new concrete’. With wooden skyscrapers in the offing, could it be the answer to the global housing crisis?

Sadie Morgan tells Robert Bevan about how we need to get some joy back in our lives.

Alex de Rijke of RIBA Stirling Prize-winning practice dRMM talks to the AJ’s Richard Waite about its Hastings Pier scheme, describing it as ‘less of a building and more of a platform for future architecture’.

Drop the jargon and charge for your ideas, adds Alex de Rijke

Sadie says the pier has risen, phoenix-like, from its all too real ashes thanks in large part to local craft and ingenuity.

Nicknamed the Plank, de Rijke Marsh Morgan’s stark wooden wonder – using timber reclaimed from previous fires – was praised for changing ‘the idea of what architecture is’.

The Royal Institute of British Architects has awarded its annual Stirling Prize to an example of an enduring British archetype: the seaside pier.

dRMM wins the biggest prize in UK architecture for transforming a century-old, ruined pier into a new attraction for the seaside town.

This, the 21st of the cancer centres begun by Maggie Keswick-Jencks, stays true to the group’s founding mission to create spaces of calm and light to help support patients and their families.

The lessons of the past 20 years will shape British architecture going forward – and could even solve the housing crisis. Sadie Morgan of progressive, wood-loving architecture practice dRMM talks about flatpack housing, her passion for placemaking and pick’n’mix homes.

Architect and government adviser Sadie Morgan has called on the UK government to stick to its infrastructure investment plans as it prepares to leave the European Union.

Multi-coloured bricks cover the facades of this residential scheme by architects dRMM, which is built on the site of the former brutalist Heygate Estate in south London and has been shortlisted for this year’s Stirling Prize.

A beautiful new seafront register office is one of the gems of Blackpool’s regeneration.

The new, improved Kingsdale comprehensive is such fun the pupils won’t want to leave. Jonathan Glancey reports.

Timber, despite being the world’s oldest construction material, is now the most modern.

Design innovations are showing that houses – and cars – can have flexible shapes, says Stephen Bayley.

It sits in a scrapyard and there’s a railway line outside the window. My dream place, says Jonathan Glancey.