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The AJ’s Competitions Editor rounds up the best UK and international architectural competitions – including frameworks, ideas contests, high-profile commissions and other opportunities. Ards and North Down Borough Council is recruiting a design team for a major regeneration of Bangor Waterfront, Northern Ireland [Deadline: 19 December 2024]
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The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings. The latest architecture news covering buildings, architects, planning, competition wins and business. You can also read about topics including the climate emergency, retrofit, the RIBA and architectural education. Top names vie for Building Beauty Awards – but £12k prize dropped.
Building regs 2022: what’s changed and what you need to know
Jun 15, 2022 · New and replacement heating systems in both domestic and non-domestic builds must have a maximum flow temperature of 55°C. Existing non-domestic buildings must improve the efficiency of heating and hot water boiler systems through installation of new controls. In new buildings (non-domestic), the minimum lighting efficacy has been raised to 80 ...
Saving the earth: making the case for rammed earth architecture
Apr 15, 2021 · Rammed earth is seen by some as primitive, or associated with poverty. Yet it can be rendered, clad, painted, plastered, dry-lined or sealed and so used as a direct replacement for energy-hungry clay bricks or concrete blocks. It is formed largely from aggregates – sands and gravels – with a small clay content acting as a binder.
Full AJ100 rankings: Foster + Partners tops league of UK’s largest ...
Jun 18, 2021 · 4/5 Foster + Partners’ vision for a modular resort on the Red Sea of Shurayrah. Foster + Partners remains the UK’s largest employer of architects, retaining the top spot in the AJ100 rankings for the 10th year in a row. Norman Foster’s practice now employers 383 qualified architects, up two from last year, extending its lead to 30 over ...
The Regs: How to design movement joints in masonry
May 3, 2023 · The required width of the joint can be calculated as follows: 1/3rd of the distance between joints plus the distance – but measured in millimetres, not metres. So, if you have 12m between joints, then the joint width should be 1/3rd of 12m/1,000 – ie 4mm plus 12mm; 4+12 gives you the 16mm width required for the joint.
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RIBA Plan of Work 2020 released with new focus on sustainability
Feb 27, 2020 · RIBA Plan of Work 2020 released with new focus on sustainability. The RIBA has beefed up the role of sustainable design in its updated Plan of Work, published today (27 February) The new document is the first overhaul of the guidance since 2013, when the A-L steps were scrapped in favour of the current numbered steps.
Video: building Foster + Partners’ Crossrail Place roof garden
May 4, 2015 · Watch a fascinating timelapse video of the construction of Crossrail Place roof garden at Canary Wharf. Opening today (1 May), the Foster + Partners-designed Crossrail Place sits above the new Crossrail station at Canary Wharf. It is the first retail and public realm space to be created as part of the Crossrail network.