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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 ...
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. This year's rain-soaked Labour party conference was ‘a housing conference with politics on the side’, according to one panellist.
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 …
Brighton’s i360 tower is a testament to Marks Barfield’s vision and ...
WEBFeb 10, 2017 — Nardo Hoogendijk, managing director of Hollandia Infra. The POMA group is proud to have participated in building the British Airways i360. To meet the requirements of its creators, David Marks and Julia Barfield, we engineered a unique and futuristic observation cabin holding up to 200 visitors per trip.
Students - The Architects’ Journal
WEBArchitecture student news and degree show reviews – The Architects' Journal. News about and degree show reviews of the UK’s schools of architecture, including the Bartlett and the Architectural Association. We also celebrate students’ work with the. This year's AJ Student Prize winners have been revealed at an event held last night ...
Building study: MICA’s redevelopment of Centre Point
WEBOct 30, 2018 — Building study: MICA’s redevelopment of Centre Point. The practice has created public realm from what was a pedestrian-unfriendly development – and added some impressive social housing, writes. The renovation and retrofitting of the Centre Point Tower, completed earlier this year by Conran + Partners for developer Almacantar, has restored ...
Saving the earth: making the case for rammed earth architecture
WEBApr 15, 2021 — Rammed earth is seen by some as primitive, or associated with poverty. Yet it can be rendered, clad, painted, plastered, dry-lined or sealed and so used as a direct replacement for energy-hungry clay bricks or concrete blocks. It is formed largely from aggregates – sands and gravels – with a small clay content acting as a binder.
Video: building Foster + Partners’ Crossrail Place roof garden
WEBMay 4, 2015 — Watch a fascinating timelapse video of the construction of Crossrail Place roof garden at Canary Wharf. Opening today (1 May), the Foster + Partners-designed Crossrail Place sits above the new Crossrail station at Canary Wharf. It is the first retail and public realm space to be created as part of the Crossrail network.