All Buildings, design and specification articles – Page 49
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OpinionThe joy of designing and building appropriately
”Sustainability” is too vague a concept when it comes to the environmental crisis that we are facing. We need to think in terms of “appropriate design” and embrace new procurement models, writes Felix Holland
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FeaturesMEDITE SMARTPLY defines the standard of innovative wood-based panels
Europe’s most recognised brand of MDF, MEDITE are seen as the benchmark for quality, consistency and performance in the MDF market
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NewsNotre Dame to get 400m riverside park under new redevelopment plans
Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets named as winner of competition three years after cathedral lost its roof in devastating blaze
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FeaturesFrom gas plant to office space: Foster + Partners’ latest reuse project
Foster + Partners designs a demountable timber structure for a disused gas plant in Madrid, Spain, creating a natural, flexible workspace
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us from designing more holistically?
Architects and engineers need to work together more closely to realise the opportunities for efficiency, and beauty, says Anna Beckett
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FeaturesBIG-designed refugee museum opens in Denmark
The practice has adapted and extended one of the refugee camp’s few remaining structures - a hospital building - into a 1,600 m2 museum dedicated to displaced humans
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FeaturesAttractive, versatile and non-combustible rainscreen options by Tata Steel
Offering an alternative to a flat faced facade, the Trisobuild range increases the aesthetic options available for building designs whilst also delivering peace of mind
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NewsGreen light for Design Engine’s robotics school at Stowe
School building in grounds of grade I-listed house is practice’s second approval within a week
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NewsAecom releases time-lapse film of Serpentine pavilion under construction
Watch Theaster Gates’s pavilion rise from the ground in Kensington Gardens
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NewsGreen light for Design Engine’s contested Oxford Uni student resi scheme
Plans stirred controversy for their setting next to the grade I-listed Christ Church Meadow
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NewsRSHP appointed to transform Lloyd’s Building into hotel or event space
Chinese owner reportedly seeking contingency plan if insurance giant decides to leave grade I-listed building
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FeaturesThe Insulation Solution for Rainscreen and Masonry Facades
Poltern Max Plus is a non-combustable stone wool insulation offering both thermal and acoustic benefits
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NewsWilkinson Eyre unveils designs for Buckinghamshire film studio
Practice submits plans for 170,000sq m Marlow Film Studios
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FeaturesVectorworks Architect: Your all-in-one design solution
Sketch, draw, and model in a fully integrated BIM workflow
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NewsRed tape cuts left officials “unable” to escalate fire safety warnings in years before Grenfell, government admits
But housing department lawyer tells inquiry that “competent professionals” would not have signed off dangerous materials
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NewsRIBA reveals National Award winners for 2022
Tim Ronalds and Niall McLaughlin score double entries on 29-strong list of the UK’s best new buildings
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FeaturesEnvironmentally-friendly furniture factory is a big plus in the forests of Norway
Furniture factory, experience centre and 300-acre public park, the colourful manufacturing village is committed to the carbon-neutral fabrication of urban furniture
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FeaturesFull turnkey smoke control system delivery. All in house, from Colt
It’s no accident that Colt are recognised as leaders in smoke and climate control, louvre and service & maintenance
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OpinionSelling off social homes is not the answer to the housing crisis
Instead of building the new social housing we need, Boris Johnson is fixating on populist policies we already know don’t work, writes Ben Derbyshire
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NewsPlans to demolish historic Oxford Street M&S called in
Pilbrow & Partners scheme will be looked at by public inquiry