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WEBMaking the most of what you have: Cockpit by Cooke Fawcett Architects. Knight Architects-designed bridge between Germany and Poland opens. Secular and sacred: Westminster Coroner’s Court by Lynch Architects. GT3 designs sports, leisure and library hub in Northumberland. Fathom Architects upgrades 10-year-old King’s Cross workspace.
Apt wins go-ahead for ‘Europe's largest Passivhaus development’
WEBAug 20, 2021 · Tower Hamlets Council’s strategic development committee approved the mixed-use scheme for student accommodation provider Urbanest. The project, on a vacant 0.4ha site in Trafalgar Way, will include 1,672 student rooms, 80 apartments for University College London staff, commercial office and retail space, and indoor children’s play space.
Ropemaker Place, London, by Arup Associates - The Architects’ …
WEBAug 12, 2010 · Reaching 20 storeys at the front of Ropemaker Place, with the core pulled to the perimeter, the81,200m² building steps down to six floors on the north side to relate to existing buildings – as required by planners. Floorplates range from1,100m² to 4,000m² and were designed to be flexibly combined to suit different tenants.
Salary survey: architects’ wages increase in ‘candidates’ market’
WEBNov 23, 2021 · The average number of years’ experience of Part 1s who completed the survey was 1.55, compared to 1.38 in 2020, while for Part 2s the figure rose from 3.62 to 4.03 year on year. However, the benefit of gaining the Part 3 qualification is increasing: recently qualified architects are now being paid around £4,250 more than their Part 2 ...
The Regs: Take care when building over drains and sewers
WEBJun 28, 2018 · Any sewers that are up to 1.1m deep from ground level to invert must maintain a minimum 150mm gap away from the foundations. Any sewers where the invert level is more than 1.1m below ground level must run at least 500mm away from the foundations. If the invert level is more than 2m below finished ground level, any proposed foundations must be ...
Tim Ronalds to design new home for Quentin Blake’s House of …
WEBApr 28, 2020 · Tim Ronalds to design new home for Quentin Blake’s House of Illustration. Tim Ronalds Architects has won a design competition for new home for the House of Illustration inside a complex of historic buildings in Islington, north London. The practice was selected ahead of five rival shortlisted teams to win the commission to design a 1,000m² ...
From the archive: 100 years of steel in architecture
WEBApr 5, 2016 · The Forth Bridge - started in 1882 and completed in 1890 to the designs of Benjamin Baker and John Fowler - is an immense structure which - at a mile and a half in length - was for 30 years the longest bridge in the world. It is formed of huge balanced cantilevers, linked by trussed spans, with large riveted tubes used for the compression ...
Will Gamble fuses contemporary and traditional in Victorian house …
WEBMar 4, 2022 · Will Gamble Architects has combined gridded forms and decorative mouldings in a reworking of a Victorian house in Clapham, south London. Designed for a young professional couple and their growing family, the project sympathetically marries pared-back contemporary elements with reintroduced Victorian features.
Piers Taylor completely remodels his AJ Small Projects-winning …
WEBNov 5, 2020 · Piers Taylor completely remodels his AJ Small Projects-winning home. Winner of AJ Small Projects 2009, the house near Bath now prioritises massively upgraded thermal performance over the original innovative passive solar design. AJ Small Projects 2021 is now open for entries! Apply. 'Moonshine' …
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 …