And welcome back to day two of the CBI’s Urban Revival conference.
When I came to the UK from India in the early 1980’s for my further education, Britain was known as the ‘sick man of Europe’. And our cities were quite frankly pretty run down. With some even down and out.
Fast-forward to today and so many of those cities are far more vibrant, happening, and attractive places to live, work and invest in.
London is the greatest of the world’s great cities.
And whether you go to Birmingham or Manchester, Edinburgh, or Cardiff, these are all now truly exciting and thriving cities.
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By Flora Samuel
Flora Samuel looks back at the recent history of social value and finds much to celebrate
“In the context of the built environment, social value is created when buildings, places and infrastructure support environmental, economic and social wellbeing, and in doing so improve the quality of life of people.” This definition of social value, recently published by the UK Green Building Council, will I hope become the standard for the industry.
The team have done a remarkable job in developing a diagram that somehow morphs Kate Raworth’s famous Doughnut and the commonly used triple bottom line of sustainability – social, economic and environmental. For me, as argued in the social value toolkit for architecture, we have to keep referring back to that triple bottom line as the basis of everything we do, not only because it aligns with the government’s
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Six women architects reveal how they rose to the top of a once male-dominated profession
20 February 2021 • 7:00am
Jee Liu, Stephanie Macdonald OBE and Farshid Moussavi 0BE
Credit: Photographs by Tereza Cervenova. Styling by Tara Greville
What do The Caprice (Princess Diana s favourite restaurant), JW Anderson s Soho store and the Cohen Quad at Exeter College have in common? They were all designed by women architects. The days of the boy s club are over - and these six women have broken major new ground.
Eva Jiřičná CBE
Eva Jiřičná in her west London home
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