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AJ Climate Champions podcast: AKT II’s Hanif Kara on CLT virtue signalling and concrete innovations
Structural engineer Hanif Kara, co-founder of AKT II, shares insights from his new book on CLT yet argues that concrete is here to stay
Tag: Climate Champions
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Marina Tabassum on why climate crisis isn’t a geographic problem
Bangladeshi architect and 2021 Soane Medal winner Marina Tabassum describes her approach as distilling the essence of vernacular buildings into contemporary architecture
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Philippe Madec on sustainable development
‘All architecture is political,’ says architect and urban designer Philippe Madec, a co-founder of France’s growing ‘frugal’ architecture movement
AJ Climate Champions podcast: How France is pioneering contemporary architecture built from straw, hemp and thatch
Natural materials expert Dominique Gauzin-Müller describes France’s growing movement to build in straw, hemp and thatch with a contemporary aesthetic
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Why France is increasingly building with bio-renewable materials
French architect and natural materials expert Dominique Gauzin-Müller describes France’s growing ‘frugal’ architecture movement
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Justin McGuirk on the Design Museum’s Waste Age exhibition
This week Climate Champions brings you inspiration for the holidays and practical tips for the new year
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Rachel Hoolahan on material passports
AJ100 Sustainability Champion 2021 Rachel Hoolahan asks us to imagine a world where it’s no longer possible to source new materials
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Duncan Baker-Brown on mining the Anthropocene
Architect and academic Duncan Baker-Brown describes the evolution of his early interest in regenerative bio-materials into an obsession with waste
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Glasgow’s plans for carbon neutrality by 2030 + ACAN’s COP26 fringe activism
This week we bring you more on Glasgow: how the city is tackling its target to be carbon neutral by 2030 and what ACAN has in store for COP26
AJ Climate Champions podcast: COP26 pop-up activism and Glasgow’s new climate-resilient public realm
This week we explore two projects happening on the ground in Glasgow as the COP26 host city anticipates up to 30,000 visitors