Episode 241: Tackling urban density, rediscov...

In our first Shortcast in over two years, we talk with Will Messiter, Chief Operating Officer - Residential Communities and Home Building at Sekisui House Australia, at the company's manufacturing and assembly facility in southwest Sydney, about house building, the bottlenecks in ...  Afficher plus

As operational energy efficiency improves, attention is increasingly turning to embodied carbon—the emissions associated with extracting raw materials, manufacturing products, transporting them, installing them, and, ultimately, dealing with them at the end of their useful life. ...  Afficher plus

In this episode we discuss living in cities through examples of the different buildings and spaces built and occupied in London since the second world war. 

Our contributors are:

John Boughton is a social historian whose book Municipal Dreams: the Rise and F ...

Where did all the lumps and bumps on buildings go? When did city architecture become so ... dull? Here to talk about why cities need inspiring architecture, designer Thomas Heatherwick offers us a visually stimulating path out of the doldrums of urban monotony -- so cities are fi ...  Afficher plus

This week, I’m joined by Anne-Marie Galmstrup, architect and Obel Award jury member, and Enlai Hooi, Head of Innovation at Schmidt Hammer Lassen and part of House Europe. They share a visionary yet practical take on how retrofitting, not tearing down, can reshape Europe’s urban f ...  Afficher plus

In this episode we talk to acclaimed architects Kate Macintosh and Peter Barber about housing. In the UK, a whole generation have been priced out of owning or renting high quality homes to live in. This is especially the case in large cities, with London being the most extreme ca ...  Afficher plus