Articles by Amy Peacock

The Global Centre for Clean Air Research has published research that found botanical gardens are one of the best ways to cool cities and mitigate the effects of heatwaves. In its study, the Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) at the University of Surrey analysed how different examples of blue infrastructure (water areas and features)

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Mass-timber columns fan out to form a tree-informed roof structure at the World of Volvo exhibition and events centre in Gothenburg, Sweden, by architecture studio Henning Larsen. Made from glued laminated timber (glulam) and cross-laminated timber (CLT), Henning Larsen created the 22,000-square-metre circular structure for Swedish manufacturers Volvo Cars and Volvo Group. Set to open to

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People of colour and women working as architects are often actively discouraged from following their design instincts, FAME Collective founder Tumpa Husna-Yasmin Fellows tells Dezeen in this interview. Fellows, an architect and an educator at London’s Central Saint Martins university, argued that some architects in senior positions limit design responsibility to themselves and undervalue the

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