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Dec 11, 2024 | 
bdonline.co.uk | Nicholas Smith
As the government considers changes to planning committee delegation, Nicholas Boys Smith explores how collaboration, clarity, and existing legislation could help ensure the system works for all
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, so it must be time for the now traditional festive update to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), so beloved by those of us who get to read it over the Christmas holidays.
Planning reform is certainly in the news.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
bdonline.co.uk | Nicholas Smith
Nicholas Boys Smith finds Simon Jenkins’ new book A Short History of British Architecture to be both a celebration and critique of British architecture, tracing two millennia of design while unflinchingly exposing the postwar attitudes that reshaped – and sometimes ruined – the nation’s cities “Buildings,” wrote John Betjeman, are “a public art gallery which is always open.” Simon Jenkins has spent a lifetime in the gallery, arguing against the despoliation of London in the 1970s and...
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
dx.doi.org | Nicholas Smith |Anna L. Garden
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
pubs.acs.org | Nicholas Smith |Anna L. Garden
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
phys.org | Nicholas Smith |Paul Bacon
Over the past decade, the idea of an important geopolitical space called the "Indo-Pacific" has become integral to the grand strategizing of countries inside and outside this vast geographical area. The term is not new, however.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Nicholas Smith
Data centres are the backbone of Big Tech, pivotal for business continuity, and offer enhanced performance and security for hosted data. The internet does not float in a cloud but sits securely in servers at data centres. On 19 July 2024, worldwide IT outages occurred. Crowdstrike – a cybersecurity company which produces antivirus software – was identified as the cause of the outages.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Sheena Sood |Nicholas Smith
Case ReportBuilding Liability Orders – Important new guidance from the CourtOverview:On 21 March 2024, Mrs Justice Jefford delivered an ex tempore Judgment in the Technology and Construction Court on an application brought by various Lindner Group companies regarding Part 20 claims brought by AECOM Infrastructure & Environment UK Ltd (“AECOM”) for Building Liability Orders under the Building Safety Act 2022.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
bdonline.co.uk | Nicholas Smith
Many people are happy to name-drop Jane Jacobs, but fewer seem to have truly listened to and absorbed her message, writes Nicholas Boys Smith
In the 1920s, the Swiss architect, Le Corbusier, funded by a car producer, dreamed of sweeping away the boulevards of Paris and replacing them with sixty storey concrete towers, zoned by class and linked by fast roads in open parkland. It never happened.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
nature.com | Xiangzhong Luo |Haoran Zhou |Trevor F Keenan |Stephen Sitch |Nicholas Smith
AbstractPlants with the C4 photosynthesis pathway typically respond to climate change differently from more common C3-type plants, due to their distinct anatomical and biochemical characteristics. These different responses are expected to drive changes in global C4 and C3 vegetation distributions. However, current C4 vegetation distribution models may not predict this response as they do not capture multiple interacting factors and often lack observational constraints.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
bdonline.co.uk | Ben Flatman |Nicholas Smith
In a series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year Awards finalists, we look at the Individual House Architect shortlistIn a series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year Awards finalists, we look at the Interior Architect shortlist
Earlier this year BD announced all the architects who made it on to the shortlists for our prestigious annual Architect of the Year Awards.
Now we are shining the spotlight on each category in turn and publishing a selection of the images that impressed the judges.
