Architects' Journal

High-rise flats: spruce them up or tear them down?

Has the climate emergency tipped the balance in favour of upgrading rather than demolishing the UK’s ageing tower blocks? Ella Jessel reports ‘Retrofit is quite expensive but it’s still the right ...
Architects' Journal

High rise, low quality: how we ended up with deathtraps like Grenfell

A vast number of UK housing tower blocks arose from often ignoble motives and shaky logic, writes LSE professor Patrick Dunleavy Between 1945 and 1975, the UK built 440,000 high-rise flats for public ...
The Financial Times

High-rise flats could help Labour hit its housing target

Good morning. The government has an ambitious housing target that would be easier to achieve if it could do two things: better support the construction of tower blocks, and dispel some of the fears ...
The Conversation

The Hong Kong high-rise fire shows how difficult it is to evacuate in an emergency

Erica Kuligowski is affiliated with the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) as a Section Editor for their Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering (Human Behaviour Section) and as a member of ...
The Financial Times

The vertical village: the evolution of high-rise buildings

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In JG Ballard’s 1975 novel High-Rise, residents of an upmarket tower block enjoy swimming pools and black-tie ...