Places.
Manchester’s gorgeous neo-Gothic goldmine
A sourcebook for creativity in Hackney Wick
Facilitating world-changing discovery in Cambridge
People.
Galvanising Gen Z through a reframed, individualistic approach
The environment expert on the language of the climate crisis and the opportunity for this generation
Possibilities.
Major movement in transit networks means connectivity is reaching new heights
On the cusp of urban evolution, today’s city-dwellers have different expectations
Exploring current barriers to MEP implementation
FOREWORD
Evolving the built environment puts us at a unique intersection. We span technology, economics, local and global regulation, environmentalism, and the health and wellbeing of society. We craft the stage where lives – billions of them – play out every day.
The privilege, magnitude, complexity, and responsibility of this role can sometimes feel daunting. With every innovation, every development in how we work, and each impactful project, the need for more, better, newer seems to follow. The world feels fast, vast, and often out of control. Despite the pioneering developments they may feature, when projects take years to come to fruition, it can feel as though there’s always more that could be done.
So how do we combat that overwhelming feeling? How do we even begin to make changes that keep pace?
We explore.
In the transport sector, it feels more like a case of keeping pace with the changes at the moment, as various forms of forward movement begin to take off. Meanwhile, in workplace and housing, conversations are underway about their modern requirements, after research that we undertook earlier this year suggested that younger folk have new and emerging expectations of cities which differ to those of their predecessors.
Bastion of environmental storytelling Dr Roger Harrabin has been sharing some thoughts around this subject too – as well as making the case for ‘clean economy’ and the need for it to be both accessible and aspirational.
Elsewhere in our corner of the professional sphere, we’re figuring out how we reframe engineering as activism and march on with the next generation at the helm. Then, we’re getting spherical; that is, thinking about the transition to a truly circular economy and how the practice can be translated and implemented in MEP. Plus, we check out a neo-Gothic academic goldmine that recently got itself a glow-up, a phenomenal physics facility, and an access-all-areas cultural landmark removing the old barriers of the museum experience.
Cover photo: Courtesy of Dr Roger Harrabin
Photo below: Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash
The future belongs to the curious
“We shape our buildings, thereafter, they shape us.”
Winston Churchill
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