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- Why Brexit will see a glass half-full emptied
- Long Live the Office
- Making shops exciting again: Lessons from the Nordics (part 3)
- Making shops exciting again: Lessons from the Nordics (part 2)
- Making shops exciting again: Lessons from the Nordics (part 1)
- The Architecture Drawing Prize Exhibition Review
- Drawing Architecture
- The art of an art historian
- World-class architecture
- Make models: The Luna
- The Make Charter
- Art Editor’s picks
- Drawing to an end?
- Make models: Portsoken Pavilion
- Disappearing Here – On perspective and other kinds of space
- My time with the BCO
- Employee ownership
- Plein air in the digital age
- The future of bespoke HQs
- Make models: Grosvenor Waterside
- The tools of drawing
- Above and beyond
- The call of the wild
- The future is bright but not the same
- A “Plan in Impossible Perspective”
- Mary, queen of hotels
- The Hollow Man: poetry of drawing
- Trecento re-enactment
- Make models: LSQ London
- Reporting from Berlin
- Advocating sustainable facade design
- Hand-drawing, the digital (and the archive)
- Drawing as an architect’s tool
- Don’t take a pop at POPS
- Stefan Davidovici – green Mars architect
- The role of the concept sketch
- Make models: an urban rail station
- How drawing made architecture
- Full court press
- Ken Shuttleworth on drawing
- Make models: FC Barcelona’s Nou Palau Blaugrana
- Hotels by Make
- Make calls for a cultural shift in industry’s approach to fire safety
- When drawing becomes architecture
- The Architecture Drawing Prize
- Lessons on future office design from Asia Pacific
- Make models: Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
- City-making and Sadiq
- Digital Danube
- 2036: A floor space odyssey
- The green tiger
- The human office
- London refocused
- Designing in Sydney
- Cycle design for the workplace
- Harold on tour
- Are you VReady?
- Property’s rising stars on the future of the industry
- UK Employee Ownership Day 2016
- Letter from Hong Kong
- Long life, loose fit
- Unique cities – questions of identity
- Relevant cities
- Greener cities
- Completing the architecture
- BIM
- The future of architecture – Gavin Mullan
- The future of architecture – Andrew Taylor
- The future of architecture – Alejandro Nieto
- Put a lid on it
- The future of architecture – Jet Chu
- The importance of post-occupancy evaluation for our future built environment
- Bricks – not just for house builders
- The future of architecture – Bill Webb
- Designing for a liveable city
- The future of architecture – Rebecca Woffenden
- The future of architecture – Matthew Bugg
- The future of architecture – Robert Lunn
- The future of architecture – David Patterson
- The future of architecture – Katy Ghahremani
- Safer streets for all
- Responsible resourcing should be an integral part of every project
- Developing a design for the facade of 7-10 Hanover Square
- Curious Sir Christopher Wren
- The socio-economic value of people-focused cities
- Responsible sourcing starts with design
- Designing in the City of Westminster
- Is off-site manufacture the answer?
- Rolled gold
- How to make a fine suit
- Just a game?
- Judo’s big fight
- Hand-to-hand combat
- Make models: electricity pylon competition
We asked ten architects – each of whom joined Make in a different year since 2004 – to write about how they see architecture and the built environment changing over the next ten years. Here are their responses.
China is a metaphor for what has happened to the world over the last 100 years. Hyper-growth economically, institutionally and in the population, has called for the hyper-consumption of resources to feed this demand.
For the Chinese this offers opportunity. Firstly, the scale and projected development of the country as a whole means that even slight increments of change with regards to energy consumption, water use, choice of fuel and material procurement will have a fundamental global impact on us all. Secondly, this is a populace who are highly adaptive and open to change. The urbanisation of the last 20 years has left few Chinese citizens untouched and created a culture where the new – whether this be electric bicycles or building technologies – is quickly embraced as the status quo.
The changes that will affect our profession are the same as those that will affect all professional and manufacturing businesses in China. As predicted by Jim O’Neill, originator of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) acronym, there will be a shift from quantity to quality over the next ten years that will impact the built environment from the user upwards. Proven expertise in delivering high-quality buildings will be valued over the ‘bigger is better’ business model, and the consumer will become more sophisticated in what they demand from their built environment.
As information becomes more freely shared and architects begin to understand how to capture, curate and harness ‘big data’ – the information generated by our daily lives – so our products will become more nuanced, which ultimately means less waste.
Proven expertise in delivering high-quality buildings will be valued over the ‘bigger is better’ business model, and the consumer will become more sophisticated in what they demand from their built environment.