Welcome to the November issue of Designer.
With energy prices forming a major component of the cost of living crisis that the UK is facing, plus memories still fresh of this summer’s record temperatures, the focus is perhaps more than ever on wider questions of sustainability.
In a recent roundtable discussion – hosted by Cosentino City London and summarised in this issue – we brought architects and designers together to discuss some of these questions, and to try to get a handle on the progress made so far, as well as perspectives on what remains to be done.
I was especially keen to understand how far down the road we have gone to genuinely embedding sustainable design thinking into the plans, processes, and ultimate building of the projects that our industry creates.