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May 17, 2023
Hassell set to unveil Uganda’s Bidi Bidi Refugee Music & Arts Centre at the London Design Biennale 2023. A pavilion dedicated to Bidi Bidi Music & Arts Centre in northern Uganda’s Bidi Bidi refugee settlement will debut at the London Design Biennale which takes place at London’s Somerset House from 1-25 June. The project, which […]
May 17, 2023
Basil Anuar, an architectural apprentice at Levitt Bernstein, explains why apprentice architects can learn a lot from practice – and vice versa. Basil Anuar The profession of architecture is adapting to the changing times in which we live, by taking steps to be more inclusive and better reflect the communities for whom we design and […]
May 16, 2023
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Inevidesk, Total Synergy, and Vectorworks, which explores the opportunities, benefits and challenges of adopting the latest digital technologies in practice. How are digital technologies aiding collaboration, supporting new ways of working and improving competitiveness, productivity and efficiency in practice? These questions were explored in this AT webinar, supported by Inevidesk, […]
May 4, 2023
IF_DO’s highly accomplished barn conversion in Suffolk employs a series of delicate interventions that are mostly freestanding and demountable. Photos Jo Underhill IF_DO has transformed a 17th century, Suffolk-based agricultural building into a gallery for the display and storage of 20th century paintings and furniture. An earlier restoration of the grade II-listed structure in 2009 […]
March 13, 2023
An AT online conference exploring how the U.K. is addressing the problems posed by the housing crisis is taking place on Wednesday 22nd March. Despite many new housing ministers, England still needs an estimated 345,000 new homes every year and much of our existing housing stock needs to be made energy efficient, comfortable and safe. […]
March 7, 2023
Knauf explains how its ThroughWall exterior infill panel system can help specifiers comply with the Building Safety Act. In association with Heath Primary School by Associated Architects. External walls – infill panel system: Knauf ThroughWall System (ph: Ben McPhee) The changes outlined within the Building Safety Act are being reviewed at Knauf. One area of […]
March 3, 2023
Hayward Smart Architects has specified Conservation Plateau and neo rooflights from the Rooflight Company for a striking new-build house in the Cotswolds. In association with Hayward Smart Architects has completed The Long House on the outskirts of Sibford Ferris, a small rural village in north Oxfordshire. This impressive new build, on an idyllic wooded plot, […]
March 1, 2023
Bespoke, full-height, sliding minimalist windows from panoramah! articulate a sculptor’s house in Madrid. In association with PhotosSérgio Padura Exchanges between sculpture and architecture are always challenging and productive. The Berned House in Madrid, property of the sculptor Arturo Berned and designed by himself and his architect collaborator Ignacio Rejano, confirms this assumption. Berned’s artistic work […]
February 28, 2023
As a sector, we are getting more adept at producing designs and specifications that reduce operational carbon, but there is less clarity on how to reduce the embedded carbon in the projects we deliver. Greg Shannon, one of our three industry experts, gives his view as to how this should be addressed. The Drysdale Building, […]
February 15, 2023
The City of Helsinki has launched a competition for the sale and redevelopment of Gustaf Nyström’s Old Customs House in Katajanokka. PhotosAntti Pulkkinen Launched by The City of Helsinki, Finland, the goal of the competition is to find a technically and economically feasible, as well as architecturally outstanding solution, for redeveloping Gustaf Nyström’s Old Customs […]
February 14, 2023
pH+ Architects’ fascinating reinvention of the English Country House combines boldness and precision with intimacy and a strong connection to its site, finds David Hills. The striking and contemporary Waterfield House by pH+ Architects can be found against the backdrop of the quiet Kent village of Goudhurst, which with its charming high street tumbling down […]
February 7, 2023
Architecture has always depended on its ability to create narratives and communicate ideas. Architect and influencer Hamza Shaikh explains how social media is opening up new markets for these fundamental skills OMA’s 1972 collage Exodus or The Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture. Drawing Matter director Niall Hobhouse says “In the urgent need to express a powerful […]
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