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1 week ago | architecturetoday.co.uk | Isabel Allen

Timber is an increasingly important construction material. The business-as-usual global demand for timber is set to increase 37% by 2050; in a scenario where mass timber and manmade cellulose fibre use increases, that figure could reach 60%. Unregulated expansion of timber demand poses some risks, such as biodiversity loss from unsustainable sourcing, as well as carbon leakage due to inefficient material use. The sector needs more examples of what good practice looks like to facilitate expansion.

2 weeks ago | architecturetoday.co.uk | Jason Sayer

What is your pavilion about and how does it respond to the title of Intelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective? The main idea of the pavilion is to explore the overlap between food production and architecture in the UAE, specifically within arid environments. Pressure Cooker examines how local food production has adapted to climatic challenges over time.

2 weeks ago | architecturetoday.co.uk | Jason Sayer

© What position is the British Pavilion, GBR – Geology of Britannic Repair, putting forward on post-colonialism and its relationship to architecture? The exhibition is concerned with architecture’s fundamental status as an ‘earth practice’. At root every building is an intervention in the earth’s geology – with all building materials derived one way or another from the ground.

2 weeks ago | architecturetoday.co.uk | Jason Sayer

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2 weeks ago | architecturetoday.co.uk | Isabel Allen

It was never going to be straightforward. The extension to London’s National Gallery has been a divisive subject in the architectural world for decades. Since 1981, to be precise, when the Secretary of State, Michael Heseltine, launched a competition to give the Gallery a new wing at the north west corner of Trafalgar Square. The site’s former occupant, Hampton’s Furniture Store, had been bombed during the Blitz, and the site had never quite regained its sense of purpose.