Dezeen speaks to residents of new council housing in London about what their homes mean to them as part of our Social Housing Revival series. “When I got here, I was just really in shock because it is absolutely beautiful,” said Amanda Bennett*, a mother-of-three who recently moved into a new council house near south London’s
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To help kick off our Social Housing Revival series, Peter Apps calls for a return to mass public house-building in cities around the world. What does the future hold for our major cities? Urbanisation has been one of the most important trends of the modern era. More than half of the world’s population now lives
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Following the Grenfell Tower inquiry, architects must face up to their responsibility for Britain’s building safety crisis instead of blaming contracts that lessen their influence, writes Peter Apps. It may not make national headlines anymore, but Britain is experiencing an ongoing building safety crisis. In the aftermath of the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, thousands of
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