Architecture News & Buildings | The Architects' Journal
WEBThe Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings. Architectural mentors: the initiatives offering training to young people. Against criticism that the profession fails to reflect the wider population it serves, Fran Williams and Rob Wilson highlight initiatives offering training and mentoring in architecture to young people from ...
Architecture competitions and news – The Architects' Journal
WEBThe AJ’s Competitions Editor rounds up the best UK and international architectural competitions – including frameworks, ideas contests, high-profile commissions and other opportunities. Heidelberg Materials has announced an open international contest for ideas to boost biodiversity and community involvement across a range of quarry sites ...
Full AJ100 rankings: Foster + Partners tops league of UK’s largest ...
WEBJun 18, 2021 · Foster + Partners’ vision for a modular resort on the Red Sea of Shurayrah. Foster + Partners remains the UK’s largest employer of architects, retaining the top spot in the AJ100 rankings for the 10th year in a row. Norman Foster’s practice now employers 383 qualified architects, up two from last year, extending its lead to 30 over second ...
Building regs 2022: what’s changed and what you need to know
WEBJun 15, 2022 · New and replacement heating systems in both domestic and non-domestic builds must have a maximum flow temperature of 55°C. Existing non-domestic buildings must improve the efficiency of heating and hot water boiler systems through installation of new controls. In new buildings (non-domestic), the …
The Regs: How to make buildings fire-safe with cavity barriers
WEBJun 3, 2021 · Wherever possible cavity barriers should be mechanically fixed tightly in place to a rigid, fire-resistant construction. When this is not possible, they should be fitted in accordance with clause 24.4 of BS 9991. Ensure they run continuously and are not bridged by combustible materials – they should break up areas of insulation, rather than ...
Designing the Greenwich Peninsula’s Design District
WEBMar 26, 2021 · Eight different practices have designed Greenwich Peninsula’s Design District, which opens this May. HNNA’s Hannah Corlett spoke to. At the end of May the first ‘creatives’ will begin moving into the almost-complete Design District on a car-free 1ha site next to the O2 on the Greenwich Peninsula. Rather than a single large building ...
In focus: Ten years on, how is Birmingham’s Big City Plan doing?
WEBDec 4, 2019 · The Highbury Initiative, a weekend workshop in 1987, organised by DEGW and Urbed, was a key event that helped the city’s management realise it had to aspire to a better-quality city centre. Several policies formulated that weekend have shaped the city’s subsequent development. The 2010 Big City Plan (BCP) for the city centre, produced by ...
Atkins - The Architects’ Journal
WEBThe AJ can reveal that Atkins is behind plans for 400m-tall cube-shaped skyscraper in Saudi Arabia and that it will help deliver NEOM’s massive desert linear city The Line. Shortlist in Network Rail stations contest revealed. AJ100 Best Use of Technology award 2020 finalists announced. Atkins reworks listed Plymouth museum as cultural centre.
Latest architecture news – The Architects’ Journal
WEBThe latest architecture news covering buildings, architects, planning, competition wins and business. You can also read about topics including the climate emergency, retrofit, the RIBA and architectural education. Gort Scott wins contest for major Cambridge college expansion. Gort Scott has won a competition to design a major addition to Girton ...
AJ100 Building of the Year 2022 shortlist revealed
WEBApr 19, 2022 · The eclectic shortlist also includes two schemes in Brighton, an institute of Immunology and Transplantation in London and a higher education project in Leeds by Hawkins\Brown – the practice behind the winner of the award last year (see full list at bottom).The firms behind the projects range from the UK largest studios such as Foster + Partners and WilkinsonEyre to those newer to the ...