Jane Embury looks at light in contemporary architecture. We recently warned about the looming danger of what our new public buildings might look like. With public finances in disarray, it would be tempting for public bodies to simply look at the capital cost of new-build projects. In a time when there aren’t many bucks to […]
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Out with the old?
Wrightstyle lends its support to a campaign by Architects’ Journal to rethink the value of old buildings. Jane Embury explains why. The government recently announced £5 billion of investment into the construction sector. While we welcome that investment, it’s unlikely to kickstart the kind of recovery that the government is looking for. It seems also […]
What next for public architecture?
In the first part of her article on public sector building after Covid-19, director Jane Embury looked at some of the financial pressures the country faces. Here she weighs up construction costs with whole-life costs. Earlier this week, I outlined my worry that the new austerity brought on by COVID-19 may lead to new public […]
Town centre trauma
Jane, Embury, director Wrightstyle recently cautiously welcomed the government’s pledge to “build, build, build.” The prime minister has promised to build hundreds of thousands of new homes across the UK. He’s also promised investment in major infrastructure projects. The prime minister likened his £5 billion pledge to US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1930’s New Deal. […]
Track record for running on rails
As the country moves out of lockdown, more of us will be using the rail network to travel back to work. It’s therefore a good time to look back at our contribution to railway infrastructure projects here and abroad. Internationally, we have been involved in railway projects in Hong Kong and Dubai. For example, ten […]