Architecture News & Buildings | The Architects' Journal
In an age of dizzying speed, architects need to slow down. It’s time for architecture to make space for nature between our buildings. An AJ subscription is better value – click here to view our packages. The project adds a two-storey extension to a Grade II-listed house in Somerset, built in the 1860s as a local school.
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 ...
Architecture competitions and news – The Architects' Journal
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]
Latest architecture news – The Architects’ Journal
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.
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.
THE DISTANCE AT WHICH TREES CAN AFFECT A BUILDING IS …
Dec 7, 2006 — The distance between trees and foundation should be identified on the table together with information about the relevant height of the tree, and the high, medium or low shrinkage nature of the soils, to enable you to read off the foundation depth. Where two or more trees influence the foundation, design and specify to the deepest requirements.
Building sustainably with timber - The Architects’ Journal
Jun 29, 2021 — Timber – described as ‘nature’s own building material’ in 100 Projects UK CLT, Waugh Thistleton’s book on cross-laminated timber – has a lot of benefits.It captures and stores carbon, has the lowest embodied energy of any mainstream construction material, is renewable, durable, and can be easily maintained, has warm aesthetic properties, is highly versatile, quick and simple to ...
RIBA Stirling Prize 2024: this year’s finalists revealed
Jul 31, 2024 — Having scooped the UK’s highest accolade in architecture in 2019 with its Goldsmith Street council housing, Norwich, the practice is back in the running for the prestigious prize – this time for its work on the second phase of the ongoing revamp of the Brutalist Park Hill estate in Sheffield.
From the archive: 100 years of steel in architecture
Apr 5, 2016 — The Brooklyn Bridge in New York was completed in 1883 to the designs of architect and engineer John Augustus Roebling. For 20 years Brooklyn Bridge was - at 486m - the longest suspension bridge in the world, and was the first bridge to make extensive use of steel. The Forth Bridge - started in 1882 and completed in 1890 to the designs of ...