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INSIDE World Festival of Interiors Announces Day Two Winners from RAI Amsterdam

Friday, 30th November 2018

INSIDE World Festival of Interiors has today announced the best interior designs of 2018 across the categories of Civic, Culture & Transport, Creative Re-use, Residential, Display, Hotels and Bar & Restaurant. The annual awards encompass the best interior designs from... View Article

Warren and Mahoney and Woods Bagot celebrate Best in Category at World Architecture Festival

Friday, 30th November 2018

On day two of the World Architecture Festival, Warren and Mahoney, Woods Bagot, Boffa Miskell and Lab-works are celebrating the Lincoln University and AgResearch Joint Facility in Christchurch, New Zealand, winning the Best in Category Award for Education – Future Project. Known as the Lincoln Research Hub, the... View Article

Blog: Age and Size: Hindrance or Opportunity?

Thursday, 29th November 2018

The age and size of a building shouldn’t serve as a restriction to upgrading safety protocols and security measures. Andrew Shaw of Allegion UK, discusses how to maximise safety and security based on your building’s age and design. It’s easy... View Article

New Henry Royce Institute Tops Out

Thursday, 29th November 2018

The Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials Hub, a new £150m national materials science research centre at the heart of The University of Manchester’s campus, was ceremoniously topped out yesterday by the University’s key stakeholders and project team. The Institute’s... View Article

World Architecture Festival 2018 – Day One Winners of International Architectural Awards Announced

Thursday, 29th November 2018

World Architecture Festival, the world’s largest international architectural event, opened earlier today in Amsterdam. Following a busy day of live presentations, in which hundreds of shortlisted projects were presented by architectural practices from around the world, the first award winners... View Article

INSIDE World Festival of Interiors Announces Day One Winners from RAI Amsterdam

Thursday, 29th November 2018

INSIDE World Festival of Interiors has today announced the best interior designs of 2018 across the categories of Health, Education, Offices and Retail. The annual awards, which started today at RAI Amsterdam, encompass the best interior designs from the past... View Article

Johnson Favaro Designs New Master Plan for UCLA’s Library System

Thursday, 29th November 2018

Johnson Favaro has been commissioned to redesign a comprehensive library master plan for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), to be completed in the coming year. The master plan will include seven out of the ten libraries located across... View Article

Switzerland’s New Concert Hall in Andermatt Designed by London-based Studio Seilern Architects Opens in Summer 2019

Thursday, 29th November 2018

The new Andermatt Concert Hall, a world-class centre for music which will establish the Swiss Alpine village of Andermatt as an important cultural destination alongside its celebrated sports facilities, will open in June 2019. The concert hall is designed by... View Article

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects’ newest education building for HU University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands plays with color and connectivity

Thursday, 29th November 2018

Until four years ago, the HU University of Applied Sciences, a school founded in 1995 through the merger of several previously independent institutions, was spread across some 30 buildings in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The university prioritised consolidating its footprint into... View Article

Mayor appoints practitioners in Board refresh for Old Oak and Park Royal

Thursday, 29th November 2018

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has appointed nine leading industry experts to join the Board and Planning Committee that is responsible for governing the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC). The decision was made in response to... View Article

Spring launch for new Formby homes

Thursday, 29th November 2018

The first new homes at The Dunes in Formby will be released in spring /summer 2019, Elan Homes has announced. The homebuilder has recently started work to prepare a site off Lenton Avenue for housing after securing reserved matters consent... View Article

Return to underlying profitability for Stewart Milne Group

Thursday, 29th November 2018

Stewart Milne Group has today reported strong results which have seen the business deliver a second successive year of turnover and profit growth. The independent, award-winning housebuilder and timber systems manufacturer has posted a £40million increase in turnover, from £240.5m... View Article

More than 14,500 new homes registered in October, reports NHBC

Thursday, 29th November 2018

New home growth has continued throughout October according to the latest statistics from NHBC, with 14,579 homes registered in the UK, following the strong numbers seen in recent months. This represents an 8% increase on October 2017 (13,482), with the... View Article

Work under way on new homes development in Norton Canes

Thursday, 29th November 2018

Work is well under way on a new housing development in Norton Canes that will support around 2,000 jobs locally. Housebuilder Persimmon Homes West Midlands has started building at Norton Hall Meadow, in Norton Hall Lane, a joint development with... View Article

Construction set to begin on state-of-the-art leisure centre designed by Cambridge architects

Thursday, 29th November 2018

The first stage of building work is set to begin on Cambridge-based Saunders Boston Architects’ design of a £10.7 million state-of-the-art leisure centre in Sheringham, Norfolk – which will replace the existing ‘Splash’ facility. The project, which has now been... View Article

Architects and artists raise more than £100,000 for building projects in the developing world

Thursday, 29th November 2018

Last Thursday, 350 senior figures from the world of property, architecture and art crowded into London’s prestigious Twentytwo Bishopsgate for the annual 10×10 art auction, hosted by Article 25, the humanitarian architecture charity. Now in its 8th year, the auction... View Article

TODD Architects delivers Fit Out for Savills new HQ

Wednesday, 28th November 2018

TODD Architects worked with the multinational property firm Savills to transform their new 5,500 sq ft headquarters at Longbridge House in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter, realizing a distinctive, spatially-efficient, and flexible workspace fit-out. Following extensive research and analysis of the Savills’... View Article

Hercule, a monolithic single-family house by 2001, juts like an iceberg from the ground

Wednesday, 28th November 2018

Luxembourg-based architectural practice, 2001, has completed Hercule, a monolithic concrete single-family house in Mondorf-les-bains, in the South of Luxembourg. Named after local hero John “Hercule” Gruen for its robust strength, the volume emerges fiercely from the ground like the tip... View Article

Work starts on new quad buildings for Dublin Institute of Technology

Wednesday, 28th November 2018

Construction has started on two new Quad buildings for Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) which form the next exciting phase of the award-winning masterplan for the Grangegorman project. Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBStudios) and AHR were appointed by the Eriugena consortium to design... View Article

Delivering affordable homes in Durham

Tuesday, 27th November 2018

A regeneration partnership, established to revive communities and economies in the Durham coalfields, has just been granted planning permission to build its 2,000th home. The property will be at Gibside, Chester-le-Street, where the Durham Villages Regeneration Company will construct 78 two,... View Article