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May 16, 2023
Digital transformation in practice: benefits and challenges – ADC
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 10, 2023
Retrofit for purpose: Policy, procurement and practice – ADC
Retrofit for purpose: Policy, procurement and practice Join us live on Wednesday 31st May as we explore the ways in which we can encourage building retrofits and reuse in the U.K. and how a progressive framework for using existing buildings can benefit architects. How can architects work with clients to prioritise retrofit and re-use? How […]
May 10, 2023
Norman Foster retrospective – ADC
The largest retrospective exhibition of Norman Foster’s work has opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Photos Nigel Young / Foster + Partners Spanning some six decades, the largest retrospective exhibition of Norman Foster’s work has opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Curated by Frédéric Migayrou, Deputy Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, […]
May 4, 2023
Gallery Barn – ADC
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
Rethinking Resi 2023 – ADC
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
A systems approach to the Golden Thread – ADC
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
The Long House – ADC
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
The art of living – ADC
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
Embodied carbon: Why our legislation and policy has to change – ADC
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. Tom Webster, one of our three industry experts, gives his view as to how this should be addressed. Bicycle storage facility […]
February 28, 2023
Introduce RIBA Stage Minus 1 to tackle embodied carbon – ADC
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 28, 2023
ARCHITECT@WORK 2023 – ADC
Taking place at The Truman Brewery from 22-23 March, A@W London 2023 is set to showcase more than 200 product innovations. In association with Inspiration is key to the architecture and design community, this much is sure! A selection of carefully curated product innovations will be presented to visitors attending A@W London 2023 on 22nd […]
February 15, 2023
Old Customs House competition – ADC
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 […]
