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Félicie Krikler
Félicie Krikler is director of Assael Architecture
InsightCollaboration is key to good design
The most successful new places are hardly ever the vision of one person. They are usually the result of sustained collaboration – with the community, between architects, but also across sectors and disciplines and benefiting from being strongly driven by the clients.
InsightHigh streets need a non-retail fix
As we start to envisage the end of the Covid crisis, our high streets and surrounding neighbourhoods will play a huge role in how we look closer to home for all those services or occupations we were previously travelling for.
InsightNew toolkit helps to create social value
One positive trend to have emerged during lockdown is the growing importance people now place on physical activity and engaging with their local communities.
InsightInteraction is key to creativity
Speculation that the Covid-19 crisis will herald the end of the office makes me think of Mark Twain’s quip that reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated. Just like Twain in 1897, the office has not died in 2020.
InsightDesign is key in later-living sector
My grandmother always told me that “until you’re 80, nothing changes, but after that your knees start to be sore when you get out of bed”.
InsightDesigning for a net-zero future
London mayoral candidate Rory Stewart has faced a backlash after suggesting that trees should be planted on Regent Street. He tweeted that it was a “disgrace” that the historic street lacked greenery “crucial for the environment – carbon, air quality – but also for mental health and wellbeing”.
InsightIt is up to us to rein in emissions
When it comes to tackling climate change in the built environment, the prevailing philosophy seems to be that talk is cheap and action is expensive.
InsightLet’s reimagine our high streets
Debenhams has joined the ever-growing list of retailers that have fallen prey to the long, slow death of Britain’s high streets.
Insight2019 forecast: Félicie Krikler (Assael Architecture)
“While ever-taller towers in the City grabbed headlines last year, we need to remember that most buildings people interact with are homes and workspaces”
InsightProperty needs social as well as economic values
The way in which value is conceived is slowly changing in the property industry.
OnlineWhat do high-rise and low-rise development have in common?
It might sound like the start of a terrible industry joke, but it’s not. The answer to this question is, of course, the public realm. It is the often forgotten glue that holds cities together, linking the existing to the new, residential into commercial and people to place.
InsightArchitectural review: the rise of multi-generational communities
One of the biggest shifts in recent years has been the surge of activism among younger voters. Some see this as a vital move to rebalance policymaking towards the young, but others see it as potentially wanting to drag us back to the 1970s.
InsightA council house boom, or bluff?
The additional £2bn of funding for affordable housing unveiled by the prime minister last week will help deliver 25,000 social rent homes over a period of 5 years - but that really is not a great deal considering the scale of our housing crisis.
