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RIBA launches new suite of Professional Services Contracts

Tuesday, 16th October 2018

RIBA’s new Professional Services Contracts (PSCs) are the essential, customisable contracts to make the appointment of architectural services easier and more efficient. Replacing the current RIBA Agreement documents, RIBA PSCs will launch 23rd October 2018. The five new documents will... View Article

Stephen George + Partners on the ball with new sports and leisure appointment

Monday, 15th October 2018

Stephen George + Partners, one of the UK’s leading architectural practices, has appointed Umesh Mistry, focusing on client relationship and project management, particularly in the sports and leisure sector. Umesh Mistry, Stephen George + Partners LLP said, “I’m looking forward... View Article

President of Taiwan opens world’s largest peforming arts centre under one roof

Monday, 15th October 2018

On the 14th October, a ceremony and the inaugural concert marked the official opening of Taiwan’s national arts centre, the National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts (Weiwuying). Incorporating a 2,236-seat Opera House, a 1,981-seat Concert Hall, a 1,210-seat Playhouse, a 434-seat... View Article

100 years past and future for Saunders Boston Architects

Monday, 15th October 2018

Saunders Boston Architects celebrated 100 years of business with a retrospective and future gazing look at its journey through the past century and into the next 100 years, and marked the occasion with the launch of its new branding, at... View Article

LTS Architects Completes Science Gallery London

Friday, 12th October 2018

LTS Architects has completed work on Science Gallery London, a ground breaking new public space where art and science collide. Housed within a wing of the original Guy’s Hospital, opposite London Bridge Station, the space provides exhibition galleries, a lecture... View Article

Architect who helped rebuild Manchester after IRA bomb honoured as University marks its Foundation Day

Friday, 12th October 2018

Architect, Rachel Haugh has been awarded an honorary doctorate by The University of Manchester as part of its annual Foundation Day event. After graduating from the University of Bath, Rachel Haugh returned to the northwest, co-founding SimpsonHaugh in 1987. Inspired... View Article

Building engineers conference puts standards, responsibility and compliance under the spotlight

Thursday, 11th October 2018

Responsibility, public confidence and competency was echoed across the full complement of speakers at last week’s Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) Annual Conference. With the construction industry at a quality crossroads, it became clear that professionals of the future... View Article

Structural Timber Awards – Winners Announced

Thursday, 11th October 2018

Put it down to perfect timing, with the heightened interest in offsite technology, combined with the abundance of outstanding projects and product innovations it is easy to see why the 2018 Structural Timber Awards surpassed all previous events in terms of... View Article

Benoy celebrates a decade in Singapore

Thursday, 11th October 2018

Benoy Singapore celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, following in the footsteps of the Benoy Shanghai studio which marked the same anniversary earlier in August. Over the last decade, Benoy has grown and evolved in the island nation and pioneered... View Article

ANARCHITECT designs one of the entrances to the Dubai Design Week 2018

Thursday, 11th October 2018

This November sees ANARCHITECT design one of the entrances to the 2018 edition of the Dubai Design Week, taking place at the Dubai Design District (d3) between 12-17 November. ANARCHITECT is an award-winning architecture practice founded by British architect Jonathan Ashmore and... View Article

1st Lilly Reich Grant for equality in architecture awarded

Thursday, 11th October 2018

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the Ajuntament de Barcelona announced today, at a press conference held in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, the resolution of the 1st Lilly Reich Grant for equality in architecture that has been... View Article

Multiply: modular tulipwood pavilion pops up for new london architecture’s factory-made housing season

Thursday, 11th October 2018

MultiPly, the carbon-neutral, modular wooden pavilion made entirely of American tulipwood that was the star of the London Design Festival, will have a new incarnation and a temporary home in South Crescent on London’s Store Street as part of a... View Article

Bloomberg HQ wins 2018 Stirling Prize

Thursday, 11th October 2018

Bloomberg’s European headquarters, designed by Foster + Partners, has won the 2018 Stirling Prize, meaning it’s “the UK’s best new building” according to RIBA judges. The judges were unanimous in their decision to award the media giant’s HQ in the... View Article

More homes, more efficient homes

Wednesday, 10th October 2018

The Concrete Block Association (CBA), the independent UK body for aggregate concrete block manufacturers, has launched its part of the Modern Masonry ‘Better Built in Blockwork’ campaign to educate the construction industry on benefits of concrete block construction. The CBA... View Article

Construction industry takes lead on fire safety while waiting for Government clarification, research reveals

Tuesday, 9th October 2018

The first research to investigate what has changed in construction practice since the Grenfell Tower fire reveals a wide range of improvements being implemented by the industry itself, but a growing frustration with the slow response from Government – despite a... View Article

Sonia Parol appointed Senior Associate Director at Urban Edge Architecture

Tuesday, 9th October 2018

Urban Edge Architecture has appointed Sonia Parol as Senior Associate Director. As part of her new role, Sonia will be looking to develop strategic business partnerships, further expanding Urban Edge’s workload into care and residential, as well as exploring opportunities... View Article

London Festival of Architecture launches River View competition

Monday, 8th October 2018

The London Festival of Architecture, in partnership with the City of London Corporation and Illuminated River Foundation, has launched a competition to encourage greater public interaction with the River Thames. Subject to planning consent, the winning design will be installed as part of the... View Article

Hackitt calls for “root and branch” industry reform to create safer buildings

Friday, 5th October 2018

Dame Judith Hackitt, author of the independent report looking into Building Regulations and fire safety post-Grenfell, has called for a “root and branch reform” of the construction industry’s culture, alongside a tougher regulatory regime. Hackitt told the annual Chartered Association... View Article

RGU Professor and students triumph at Aberdeenshire Design Awards

Friday, 5th October 2018

An architecture professor from Robert Gordon University (RGU) and three final year students have triumphed with their innovative approach to design at the Aberdeenshire Architectural and Landscape Design Awards 2018. Students Sophie Houston, Sophie Perrot and Katie Rice were all competing in the ‘Future... View Article

Grant Associates part of winning design team for Australia’s tallest building

Friday, 5th October 2018

Landscape architect Grant Associates was part of the winning team led by UNStudio and Cox Architecture to design Southbank by Beulah – an AUS$2 billion mixed use development in Melbourne, Australia. Known as Green Spine, the scheme will, subject to planning approval, see the construction of... View Article