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The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings. The 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. Space race: time running out to save Future Systems’ pioneering school pod.
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The AJ’s Competitions Editor rounds up the best UK and international architectural competitions – including frameworks, ideas contests, high-profile commissions and other opportunities. The Holcim Foundation is now accepting entries to its annual awards programme featuring a $1 million prize fund [11 February 2025]
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New white paper provides a guide to calculating embodied carbon. Hanson is now Heidelberg Materials: welcome to the future of lower carbon construction products. Up to the minute architecture news, including building reviews, insight on running a successful practice and the latest architectural competitions.
Full AJ100 rankings: Foster + Partners tops league of UK’s largest ...
Jun 18, 2021 · 4/5 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 ...
Building regs 2022: what’s changed and what you need to know
Jun 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 minimum lighting efficacy has been raised to 80 ...
Building study: MICA’s redevelopment of Centre Point
Oct 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
Apr 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
May 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.
From the archive: 100 years of steel in architecture
Apr 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 1890 to the designs of ...