All Building Design articles in February 2023 – Page 4
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Features
ACME unveils rooftop bar in east London
Inspired by east London’s textile industry, Florattica features custom woven fabrics and a flower ceiling composed of preserved gypsophila, achillea and bloom broom
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Dowen Farmer Architects: pursuing the path less travelled
From backland sites to dark kitchens, Dowen Farmer Architects relish unusual and challenging projects, finds Ben Flatman
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News
In pictures: Water Pavilions by Glenn Howells Architects
The Pavilions are each constructed on a floating concrete hull and clad in a transparent aluminium framed curtain wall
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AHMM the latest to redesign plans following London’s single staircase ban
Developer Landsec sends practice back to the drawing board to rejig 1,800-home Camden scheme following mayor’s fire safety ruling
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HS2 station at Euston to cost nearly double its original budget
Spending watchdog says HS2 admitted costs had gone up by more than £2bn in just two months
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Opinion
Tomorrow’s architects: why we’re consulting on the biggest education reforms in 50 years
ARB’s chief executive sets out the thinking behind the regulator’s proposed education reforms and related consultation
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Features
Bay system launches at Passenger Terminal Expo 2023
After analysing how people occupy waiting spaces, Foster + Partners has helped produce a flexible solution
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Firm floats double-height vision for disused Debenhams
Nottingham practice GT3 looks to turn shopping landmark into a mixed-use commercial, leisure and residential hub
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Green light for Fletcher Priest’s revised £700m Oxford life sciences scheme
Initial plans for Red Hall approved in 2021 with Laing O’Rourke set to start building work this summer
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Opinion
Community engagement and co-design: it’s our duty, not a luxury
We need to make community engagement and co-design core to what we do as designers, writes Simone de Gale
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Ben Pentreath to receive $200,000 architecture prize in Chicago
Leading traditionalist designer picks up lucrative Driehaus prize from University of Notre Dame
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Sheppard Robson lodges plans for £250m Cambridgeshire science park redevelopment
Bruntwood SciTech behind proposals for 400,000 sq ft scheme
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Features
Clare College Cambridge regenerates St Regis accommodation with Vandersanden
Designed by Freeland Rees Roberts Architects, the project saw the specification of Vandersanden brick as the principal element of the new facades
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Housing associations and councils share £1.4bn housing retrofit funding
Government claims 115,000 homes across England will benefit
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Public Practice receives £1 million to boost council planning skills
Public Practice gets government backing to expand into the South West and Midlands
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Building archives: The construction of the Forth Bridge, 1873 - 1890
The Builder makes an ascent up the “vast bones” of the half built bridge, the scale of which astonished the engineering world at the time
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Building control body ‘very concerned’ about exodus of veterans as new regulator looms
LABC’s chief executive said highly experienced people were “desperately needed” to train new recruits
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Architects expect workloads to increase for the first time in seven months
Confidence soared in the profession last month despite ongoing uncertainty in the economy, RIBA survey finds
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Stanton Williams lands Oxford University library commission
Merton College selects Stirling Prize-winning practice through invited competition
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RIBA and industry groups call on Gove to lower second staircase threshold to 18m
Institute also says all existing blocks above 18m with single staircases should be refurbished with evacuation lifts