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A mixed-use building naturally combines commercial, residential, hospitality, and retail within a single property, which can make designing a fire detection system quite complex and challenging. The way that each part of the building is used, the movement of people,... View Article

Forming an unmissable addition to the London Festival of Architecture’s ongoing season of events and installations and the City of London Corporation’s outdoor arts programme, Liminal – a major new artwork next to the Thames created by Wolfgang Buttress –... View Article

Green-tech invited its customers and suppliers to help celebrate its 25th anniversary at a VIP open day last week. More than 150 customers and suppliers attended the open day at Green-tech‘s purpose built business park in North Yorkshire. Guests were invited... View Article

One of the biggest volunteer-built organic straw-buildings in Britain, and an architectural piece of innovation constructed of just five main materials, is ready to throw open its doors for the first time for youth groups such as Scouts, Guides, care... View Article

Thrive, the sustainability division of architects Chetwoods, has been appointed by leading logistics developer Gazeley as its specialist environmental, social and governance (ESG) consultant. Thrive will work with Savills to review and develop Gazeley’s policies, processes, funding and decision-making, helping... View Article

Luye Medical, Cleveland Clinic and Foster + Partners are coming together to create a new state-of-the-art general medical hospital in Shanghai’s New Hong Qiao International Medical Center (IMC) campus. The project will create the world’s first ‘Cleveland Clinic Connected’ project... View Article

Yorkshire architecture practice Halliday Clark has secured planning approval to transform a 250-year-old Methodist church in Rotherham town centre into an ‘apothecary for the magical’, which will act as the headquarters for local children’s literacy charity Grimm & Co. The... View Article

MVRDV, together with local neighbourhood organisations, has presented a plan to the city of The Hague which proposes to reopen the city’s 17th-century canals, which were filled-in during the 20th century. The neighbourhood participation project aims to revive a run-down... View Article

By Nick Atkinson, Director at Ambar Kelly Our cities’ skylines are rising. Yet with the construction of multi-storey buildings, risk becomes a greater issue, one area of which being the riser zone. As with many aspects of building design, if... View Article

Saunders Boston Architects is celebrating the official opening of its latest housing with care development; Brighton Place, a £4.4 million project in Washingborough, Lincolnshire. Named in memory of former local Council Leader, Marion Brighton OBE, Saunders Boston Architects’ design sees... View Article

The Sadler Brown group of companies, AKA SBA, has appointed leading design Architect David Davies to a new position of Architectural Director, and to its Board of Directors. David, who has worked at the firm’s head office in Newcastle for the... View Article

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson (BCJ) announces their design of Everlane’s newest and largest store to date in the heart of vibrant Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located at 104 North 6th Street, the space is a redesign of an existing 1960s, two-story brick building.... View Article

Stephen George + Partners (SGP), an AJ Top 100 architectural practice, has appointed Luke Abbott as Studio Director, based at their Leicester office. Luke will be working with Partner Marcus Madden-Smith in SGP’s industrial and logistics sector group. In addition... View Article