“We shape buildings, Winston Churchill argued, and they shape us.” Mr Gove opened his speech with a quote that many who have suffered from the building safety crisis in the last six years will no ...

Smoke billows from a fire that has engulfed the 27-storey Grenfell Tower in west London (Picture: PA) Flammable insulating material and a narrow stairwell in Grenfell Tower could have been just as ...

Sixty blocks in 25 areas across England have been found to have unsafe cladding that failed safety checks, with 540 blocks still to be inspected. The Telegraph reported the total bill of replacing the ...

A staircase can become a focal point in a room given the many materials and options available today, says Swati R Kiran. <div class="section1"><div class="Normal ...

The pros and cons of having just one staircase in high rise residential buildings was the subject of an impassioned debate on Tuesday 17 May at the 7 th International Tall Buildings Conference, held ...

The narrow staircase that was the residents only means of escape has been described as a 'deathtrap' THE NARROW staircase and “flammable” insulation at Grenfell Tower proved as deadly as the firetrap ...

The metal cladding of German architect Jürgen Mayer H's FOM Hochschule university building in Düsseldorf is carved into sculptural shapes that connect windows, balconies and stairs. The Berlin-based ...