Author Archives: Paul Downie

Revisit: BedZED in Beddington, UK by ZEDfactory

By Steve Webb and Paul Downie 1 May 2023 Buildings

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BedZED by ZEDfactory in suburban south London promised a utopian future which has failed to materialise

AR April 2023: 1,500th issue

3 April 2023 By AR Editors

The 1,500th issue of the AR looks back at its vast archive,…

Editorial: pressing issues

4 April 2023 By Manon Mollard, Eleanor Beaumont, Kristina Rapacki and Ellen Peirson

The April issue looks back to look forward

Architecture is climate diagram by MOULD

Architecture criticism against the climate clock

6 April 2023 By Jeremy Till

The architecture media urgently needs to address ecological questions to help end…

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Death to the skyscraper

11 April 2023 By Martha Dillon

Skyscraper construction, and the financial system that underpins it, is not stopping…

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In the hothouse

17 April 2023 By Sam Johnson‑Schlee

The history of indoor plants traces that of empire, technological progress and…

Colonial constructs

24 April 2023 By Tomà Berlanda

Studies of ‘primitive huts’ may be deeply flawed, but bring to the…

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