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WEBTechnology in practice: how to grow your business. Up to the minute architecture news, including building reviews, insight on running a successful practice and the latest architectural competitions.
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. Gort Scott wins contest for major Cambridge college expansion. Gort Scott has won a competition to design a major addition to Girton ...
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 …
Defining the English mosque: Marks Barfield’s Cambridge Central …
WEBNov 11, 2019 · Confronted by four superb finalists, the jury picked a design by Marks Barfield Architects. The scheme exploited the overlap between the colour and texture of Cambridge gault brickwork with some of the great brick buildings of central Asia and Turkey. But the building is strongly modern in inspiration and temper.
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.
THE DISTANCE AT WHICH TREES CAN AFFECT A BUILDING IS …
WEBDec 7, 2006 · The distance between trees and foundation should be identified on the table together with information about the relevant height of the tree, and the high, medium or low shrinkage nature of the soils, to enable you to read off the foundation depth. Where two or more trees influence the foundation, design and specify to the deepest requirements.
From the archive: 100 years of steel in architecture
WEBApr 5, 2016 · The Brooklyn Bridge in New York was completed in 1883 to the designs of architect and engineer John Augustus Roebling. For 20 years Brooklyn Bridge was - at 486m - the longest suspension bridge in the world, and was the first bridge to make extensive use of steel. The Forth Bridge - started in 1882 and completed in …