📊 Mapping public opinion on architecture: numbers matter, writes Create Streets' @boys_nicholas

Surveys that quantify public opinion on design are a powerful tool: the figures grab attention, show support – and can improve buildings too, he argues.

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🦾 How can architects harness big data and AI to enrich their design decisions?

Sector experts explain how architects can get to grips with analysing huge datasets with artificial intelligence tools, and two ways such techniques are being used.

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Planners design review: What changes do planners recommend to secure a scheme’s approval? In the first of a new series, Charlotte Walker of Lichfields looks at alterations made to a Blackheath house extension by Hawkins\Brown ow.ly/heNU51041UU

AI is helping practices function more effectively, but they must understand and take. Responsibility for the outputs they use – this was the message at a RIBA Leaders Breakfast in association with Lumion
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Obituary: Donald Insall insisted conservation should be distinguished from preservation, believing that buildings changed throughout their life ow.ly/Va8u5102uOl

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💦 How did Townshend Landscape Architects approach SuDS on four recent projects?

With sustainable drainage systems an increasingly important part of masterplanning, director Martha Alker discussed her firm’s method at schemes in London and Nottingham.

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🥁 Alison Brooks Architects’ mixed-use Cadence scheme brings a new rhythm to King's Cross

It marks the culmination of the King’s Cross Central masterplan, playing with the idea of the tower while bringing lively streetscape and high-quality housing.

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☝️OPPORTUNITY Do you have technical expertise in project feasibility analysis? Buyers at this London museum are looking for a ‘visionary thinker’ …

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Obituary: Pioneering conservation architect Donald Insall, who has died aged 100, played a key role in changing the way historic buildings were regarded ow.ly/sH2l5102uJX

🏘️ How did the UK complete almost 230,000 council homes in 1953?

Almost 75 years ago, astonishing numbers of homes were being built by local authorities.

Social historian and Municipal Dreams blogger John Boughton helps explain how that was possible.

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