FUTURE CITIES FORUM

Image courtesy of Dezeen Magazine Copenhagen's new waste-to-energy plant currently under construction is to help the country win more medals at the next winter Olympics. Sounds confusing? Not if you realise that this comes from the imagination of one of the world's most talented architects, Bjarke Ingels. The Amager Resource Centre already provides recycled materials, electricity and district heating back to the residents of the city. The company says it now wants to offer a

On 9th October we will be holding our Healthy Cities forum at The Crystal Building which is one of the world's most sustainable buildings, achieving Outstanding BREEAM and Platinum LEED accreditation - the most stringent standards for sustainable design and construction. The Crystal, which sits on the waterside at London's Royal Victoria Docks near Canary Wharf and the Emirates Airline Cable Car, is an all-electric building that uses solar power and a ground source heat pump

Zurich - courtesy: Instagram.com/taorminalocke Swiss academics are pushing ahead this year with vital research into sustainability and our future cities. ETH Zurich covers a number of research areas that help society and aims to look at the economy both globally and locally, but based in the very city that Dutch building consultants, Arcadis has named as the top out of 100 most sustainable cities, it is a university that is concerned with the built and public space environmen

Talking to developer Native Land, it has become clear that the word 'luxury' when used to describe high-end developments in London, is not really the right term and in some senses the story of quality build has not been told correctly in the media. Sales and Marketing Director, Nick Gray came to our third Future Cities Forum to voice a more nuanced understanding of how Native Land's development projects have been creating better living environments, more social housing and su