Passivhaus goes large

LISTEN HERE 🔊 Agar Grove is set to become the UK’s largest Passivhaus scheme, with its housing tenants already seeing the benefits from the first completed phase. James Woodward, architect at Hawkins\Brown, tells Roseanne Field why the practice decided to [...]

Opening a new volume in NYC

LISTEN HERE 🔊 A renovation project on 5th Avenue opens up a public library facility and resolves the functional anomalies of a former department store to provide high quality spaces for all users. James Parker reports on a fruitful collaboration [...]

'The Future of Tall Buildings' - Architects' Datafile's latest White Paper

ADF's latest White Paper 'The Future of Tall Buildings' is now available to download! We recently partnered up with Edge Insight and surveyed architects to find out their views on the future of tall buildings, homing in on some of [...]

Wright & Wright Architects' Lambeth Palace Library crowned in Brick Awards

The annex to Lambeth Palace Library was crowned best public building and supreme winner at this year's Brick Awards.  Designed by Wright & Wright Architects, this contemporary building is home to the Church of England's library and national archive which [...]

Singapore’s central park

A major mixed-use skyscraper with a difference is approaching completion in Singapore’s central business district – the facades of this richly diverse ‘vertical city’ by Bjarke Ingels Group opens up to reveal generous and highly usable green spaces. James Parker [...]

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Practice Profile: White Ink Architects

LISTEN HERE 🔊 James Parker spoke to a Belfast practice founded at the start of the 21st century, which expanded to specialise in “difficult” mixed use schemes, and is now... View Article

View Point: Rory Bergin from HTA Design

LISTEN HERE 🔊 Rory Bergin from HTA Design says that with timber under fire in the complex testing landscape post-Grenfell, specifiers are being wrongly deterred from choosing the material for... View Article

AGILE CABLE MANAGEMENT

  The way we use workspace is changing and so must the design of power supply in these environments says David O’Flynn, Regional Specification & Contractor Manager at Marshall-Tufflex. Here... View Article
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