This week on Dezeen, the Royal Institute of British Architects revealed the 26 winners of its 2024 National Awards, which celebrate the UK's best new buildings.
This year's winning projects included the redevelopment of Sheffield's Park Hill Estate by Mikhail Riches, WilkinsonEyre's restoration of Battersea Power Station in London and a glued-laminated temple complex in Hampshire.
The six-strong Stirling Prize shortlist will be chosen from the 24 buildings.
Some experts are beginning to cast doubt on its sustainability credentials of rammed earth
Also this week, we spoke to experts about rammed earth and the sustainability concerns around adding cement as a stabiliser.
"I've seen, in the UK, rammed-earth projects going into the glossy architecture mags and you think, 'wow, that's a beautiful looking building'," said Tim Coleridge, MSc sustainability and adaptation programmes leader at the Centre for Alternative Technology. "But [we're] not talking about the cement that's gone into making that possible." "As soon as you're using cement in ratios of five or 10 per cent in rammed earth, environmentally it's not that much better than using a concrete block."
Images revealed Richard Rogers-designed skyscrapers in Bogotá
In other architecture news, images were revealed of a pair of rhombus-shaped skyscrapers in Bogotá that were designed by the late Richard Rogers.
Forming part of the wider Atrio development, the completed North Tower rises to ...