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WEBFrom the ground up: Ackroyd Lowrie on a mission to turn school leavers into architects with real work experience. 27 August 2024By Ben Flatman. With a focus on innovation and access, the east London studio is leading the charge in the architectural education revolution. Ben Flatman reports on how they are helping a new generation of architects ...
World Architecture 100 - the only comprehensive survey of the …
WEBSep 9, 2024 · World Architecture 100 brings you the latest news, data and analysis on the biggest architecture practices form around the world.
Studio E: Anatomy of the death of a practice - Building Design
WEBStudio E founder Andrzej Kuszell giving evidence at the Grenfell Tower inquiry on 2 March 2020. Studio E has been wound up owing £144,014 to its remaining four staff and other creditors. Documents filed with Companies House show it has just £15,688 to its name. Yet just 12 years ago it employed 45 staff and had assets of £168,048.
WA100 2023: The big list - Building Design
WEBWA100 is Building Design’s annual survey of the world’s largest practices ranked by the number of fee-earning architects they employ.
Digital construction | Programmes | Building Design
WEBDigital construction | Programmes | Building Design. The digital construction programme is the home of cutting-edge thought leadership and online events and engagement for transformative digital activity across the UK built environment and beyond.
Battersea power station: the remarkable journey from ruin to ...
WEBOct 7, 2022 · Many had given up hope of ever seeing it brought back into use, but after decades of failed starts, Battersea power station is now, finally, complete. Thomas Lane charts the remarkable journey
Could our year of crafting revive the craft of building?
WEBMar 29, 2021 · One of the most noted craft revivals in British design history – the arts and crafts movement – came from a reaction away from the industrial and impersonal. It reacted against unemployment caused by machines and embraced the soul and imperfection of the handcrafted. After a year of enforced appreciation of the local, a growing resurgence ...
Sadiq Khan lays out new London ‘net zero’ standard - Building …
WEBHomes funded under the £4bn affordable homes programme will have to meet new standard. All large developments in the capital funded with public money will have to be net zero carbon, under new rules brought in by London mayor Sadiq Khan. Developers will also have to ensure that developments are “air quality neutral”, with Khan saying the ...
Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen by LDA Design - Building Design
WEBAug 14, 2023 · The future of Aberdeen’s celebrated Union Terrace Gardens has been a preoccupation of the local newspaper since the 1950s. By the early years of this century the saga had begun making headlines in Building Design as a string of new visions for the Victorian city centre park, some quite outlandish, were proposed and then ditched.
The Shard: pointers on reaching the top - Building Design
WEBFeb 2, 2012 · The Shard is a composite structure, with a steel structure through the office floors up to level 40 followed by a post-tensioned concrete frame through the apartment and hotel levels up to 69 topped by the steel-framed and steel-cored “spire”. In all, there are 12,500 tonnes of structural steelwork, 530 of which form the spire.