The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has named two winners and three finalists of its 2013 Innovation Award. The highlighted innovations stand to revolutionize the technology, ...

Under pressure from fire chiefs, the RIBA and campaigners, Michael Gove announced plans before Christmas for mandatory second staircases in towers over 30m. But what impact is this likely to have? “If ...

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While the birth of the high-rise building can be traced back to the late nineteenth century, designing high-rise buildings for the purpose of science remains a relatively recent concept. Historically ...

Eyesores and scandalously unsafe? Or utopian housing for the working classes? Here are the stories and scandals behind some of the UK’s most revolutionary homes ‘There is nothing, it seems to me, more ...

High-rise residential buildings should have individual evacuation plans, a government-funded research project has said, running counter to the Home Office’s ongoing reliance on ‘stay put’. The ...

It is time to start mandating second staircases, writes Gavin Tomlinson of the National Fire Chiefs Council #UKhousing “It is essential that everyone, in all buildings, can evacuate during a fire,” ...

Danish firm 3XN has revealed its design for a 153-metre-high apartment building in Toronto, including a dual-level glazed plaza to host public events in the local area. Retractable glazed walls ...

Mass timber projects in Portland and New York City offer eco-friendly dwellings, but can ‘plywood on steroids’ actually catch on in the industry? The concrete jungle has a rival: forests. Two urban ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “How do you think I can adapt myself to these modern surroundings?” asks an elderly woman in Stephen Willats’ ...

Back in 2006, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS) and Alison Brooks Architects teamed up to design a new urban block on the fringes of Cambridge. That development, Accordia, went on to win the 2008 ...