Simon Aldous

Did you know that despite being in a #ClimateEmergency, 50,000 buildings are demolished every year in the U.K.? That averages as 137 every day, 6 every hour, 1 every 10 minutes. Keep an eye out in Glasgow + Edinburgh for the @ArchiFringe poster campaign! architecturefringe.com/news/2021/cop26

News catch-up: Five years on, Durham’s brutalist Dunelm House has been listed, reports @ArchiAldous #ribajintelligence ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

It is really worrying that @RIBA has once again blocked @ArchitectsJrnal from attending its council meeting today – because of 'technical reasons'

School that replaced architect with D&B contract told to rebuild it to original design and Venice Biennale opens a year late, but don’t expect many visitors @ArchiAldous on the week’s news #ribajintelligence ribaj.com/culture/news-c…

maybe he was thinking of this ....

Playwright David Hare likens Alison Brooks Architects’ design for a house in Hampstead to an elephant’s backside – can you tell the difference? ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

News catch-up: Pollution campaigners take on plans for London’s Silvertown Tunnel #ribajintelligence ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

RIBA’s Alan Vallance acknowledges racism and vows to ‘tear down barriers’ in architecture after controversial CRED report: @ArchiAldous rounds up the news #ribajintelligence ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

It’s a house Jim, but not as we know it: $500,000 nets digital house; plus action on ‘chaos’ and mismanagement in government. @ArchiAldous on this week’s news #ribajintelligence ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

Does the award of the Pritzker to adapt-and-reuse champions Lacaton & Vassal signal a change to the nature of architecture? @ArchiAldous news catch-up #ribajintelligence ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

Cardross seminary could yet have a happy ever after if plans for a sprinkle of Hollywood glitter come off. This week’s look at the news from @ArchiAldous #ribajintelligence ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

With DS+R’s Centre for Music dead, what will the City of London Corporation’s Barbican upgrade entail? A paint job and some new carpets or something more radical? #ribajintelligence ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

Rogers Stirk Harbour implements the ultimate Brexit-workaround: setting up in France. Read my @RIBAJ news catch-up at ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

@RIBAJ @dsrny

Scooby-doo sandwich anyone? Milan snaffles @dsrny design … while RSHP British Library proposal garners brickbats. @ArchiAldous catches up with the news #ribajintelligence ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

Diller Scofidio + Renfro's proposed Milan residential tower looks like it would appeal to a certain canine sleuth. Read my @RIBAJ news catch-up at ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

Government aims to end ‘ugliness’ with new housing design code – but its permitted development free for all undermines such aspirations. @ArchiAldous sifts the news #ribajintelligence ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

Could the Olympic Park become a ‘derelict, costly disaster’? LLDC rejects London Assembly’s grim prognosis, reports @ArchiAldous in his weekly news round-up #ribajintelligence ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

Simon Rattle's departure from the LSO raises the prospect that Diller Scofidio+ Renfro’s Centre for Music will not now include a concert hall. What next? An airport that doesn’t have any planes flying out of it? Read my @RIBAJ news roundup ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

Will Simon Rattle’s LSO departure scupper the concert hall in Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s City of London Centre for Music? @captainbrolly catches up with the news #ribajintelligence ribaj.com/intelligence/n…

Make a U-turn as soon as possible: practice forced to reverse order for staff to come into office during lockdown #ribajintelligence ribaj.com/intelligence/c…