Elizabeth Line triumphs with RIBA Stirling Prize 2024 | RIBAJ
Oct 16, 2024 · Grimshaw has had a proud history of transport design in London since the International Terminal at Waterloo Station completed in 1993. It has now been co-opted for the expansion of the country’s domestic lines and also the first phase of reworking Paddington Station (1999) and the Northern Line stations on the spur to Battersea Power Station that pop up with their faceted canopies (2021).
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RIBA National Awards 2024: the winners - RIBA Journal
Jul 10, 2024 · The second of the McLaughlin projects, working with Purcell, is Auckland Castle Tower and Faith Museum in County Durham, where the RIBA judges commented on the skill in ensuring there was fully accessible visitor route – a challenge in such a historic building. (The Elizabeth Line similarly achieves the milestone of step-free access from platform to street at all its stations – a challenge ...
Stirling Prize 2024 shortlist: six schemes make it through to the …
Jul 30, 2024 · Every year in choosing the shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize we remember the significance and incredible variety of work made by the great British 20th-century architect James Stirling.
Navigating the Building Safety Act's position of Principal Designer
Nov 20, 2023 · On 1 October the Building etc (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2023 came into force, providing further clarity on how the government intends to implement the new regulatory regime introduced under the Building Safety Act 2022, Any project requiring a new Building Regulations application, from domestic house extensions to higher-risk buildings (HRBs), will now require two ‘principal duty ...
Breaking timber in Denmark: How, why and what next
Nov 27, 2024 · How is Danish architecture tackling sustainability? In 2023, new CO 2 requirements were introduced in Danish building regulations, which are being tightened next year, so there’s been a huge focus on these issues over the last five years. As part of that, C.F. Møller has been promoting timber buildings because, in contrast to Norway and Sweden, there actually isn't much timber in Denmark ...
RIBA International Prize shortlist: Modulus Matrix by Peris + Toral ...
‘A matrix of identical rooms’ is how Marta Peris and José Toral of Peris + Toral Arquitectes describe their social housing project of 85 homes in the Cornellà district of Barcelona. But what is remarkable is the variety contained in that grid. The six-storey courtyard housing is much more than a rational approach to using timber frame construction.
What are the key principles for architects when it comes to setting ...
Dec 5, 2024 · With upward pressure from payroll, insurance, premises and IT, costs are going up for architects. In addition, the arrival of the new building safety regime – albeit welcome - has created its own costs in terms of additional resourcing and competence required to perform the Principal Designer role.
Quatre-Cheminées housing by Déchelette Architecture | RIBAJ
Nov 11, 2024 · Prefabrication is not the conventional approach to rammed earth. Why did you choose it? This is our second rammed-earth building. At the first, a three-storey private house in Paris called Casa Franca completed in 2023, the earth facade was rammed in-situ by hand. That took two months per storey – one for framing and ramming, the second for drying, which took longer than usual as it was winter.
2024 RIBA President’s Medal, Silver: Ultra Town by Joe Franklin
Dec 4, 2024 · Silver Medal winner Joe Franklin for Ultra Town Kingston University | UK Tutors: Nicholas Lobo Brennan, Astrid Smitham. Joe Franklin takes the belt of countryside for the shelved HS2 as a site for a forested new town, a ‘weird’ place in the woods for counter-culture and temporality: Ultra Town.