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Drawing inspiration from Hampstead’s woodlands, Black and Milk’s garden house design skillfully merges organic architecture with modern luxury, creating a garden house that serves as both a guest retreat and a spa-like sanctuary. What made this project…. Brighton Dome by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.
WA100 2024: The big list | Features | Building Design
WA100 is Building Design’s annual survey of the world’s largest practices ranked by the number of fee-earning architects they employ. WA100 2024. Company name. Country. Architects employed. Fee income (US$)
The Shard: pointers on reaching the top | Technical - Building Design
Feb 2, 2012 · Above level 87 the three highest tips — Shards 1, 6 and 14 — will be lifted, bolted into place and glazed. These are fabricated, vertical trusses joined together to create a 3D frame that holds the glass tip of the shard up. The largest one is a box truss 10.4m long, reaching up some 18.2m above level 87.
Battersea power station: the remarkable journey from ruin to ...
The long-running saga of Battersea power station is coming to a close, nearly 40 years after it stopped generating electricity. Since then, the mighty brick edifice has defied numerous attempts to give it a new lease of life.
Studio E: ‘We wouldn’t have won Grenfell refurb in competitive …
Mar 2, 2020 · The founder of Studio E Architects has told the Grenfell Tower Inquiry panel that his firm would probably not have been appointed to refurbish the 1970s block if there had been a competitive process for the work. Andrzej Kuszell told the panel probing the causes of the fire that claimed 72 lives in June 2017 that his firm had no track record of ...
RIBA builds Hackitt Review into core guidance
Sep 17, 2018 · RIBA has floated an update of its Plan of Work process bible for architects, developers and the wider construction industry that incorporates the Hackitt Review’s recommendations to improve fire safety in tall buildings. The institute supported many of the proposals in Dame Judith Hackitt’s post-Grenfell Tower tragedy review, published in May.
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Grimshaw profit down 20% as HS2 Euston delay takes toll
Feb 2, 2024 · Pre-tax profit was down 20% to £6.5m although booming workloads in the rest of the world – the region Grimshaw defines as not being in the UK, US, Australia and Europe – meant turnover was up a third to £98m. UK revenue was down 4% to £21m but income from the rest of the world more than doubled from £19m to £43.5m.
Architecture CPD - Building Design
Aug 29, 2024 · CPD 11 2024: Thermal regulation and the performance gap. 15 August 2024Sponsored by ROCKWOOL. Sponsored by Rockwool, this CPD module examines the regulations and considerations relating to a building’s thermal performance and the role that stone wool insulation can play in ensuring that the as-built performance of buildings is as intended.
A guide to fire protection for architects - Building Design
Oct 17, 2011 · The regulations do not specify what a “reasonable period” is, but Approved Document B contains guidance on this. Structural fire resistance periods vary between 30, 60 and 90 minutes, according to the occupancy and the height of the building, and requirements change at 5, 18 and 30 metres. For example, an office that is less than 18m tall ...