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WEBLabour’s National Planning Policy Framework revisions explained. 12 August 2024By Daniel Gayne 2. Keir Starmer’s government has put planning reform at the heart of its ambition to get Britain building, to the delight of many developers. Daniel Gayne looks at the proposals announced last month and assesses their chances of success.
World Architecture 100 - the only comprehensive survey of the …
WEBSep 8, 2024 · Welcome to the World Architecture 100, Building Design’s compendium of the world’s biggest practices. Every year Building Design surveys the world’s biggest architecture practices to create a report that is one of the most respected annual publications in the industry. The rankings are compiled from …
In pictures: LOM’s 250 Bishopsgate retrofit - Building Design
WEBLOM Architecture and Design has completed its retrofit of NatWest Group’s 250 Bishopsgate headquarters building at the north-eastern edge of the City of London. The practice’s transformation of the 11-storey steel-and-glass structure – designed by EPR Architects in the late 1990s – was carried out over multiple phases during and after ...
Technical Study: Elizabeth Tower refurbishment, London, by Purcell ...
WEBCompleted in 1854, the 96m-high, neo-gothic tower is the work of architect Charles Barry who added a clock tower to his final designs for the Palace of Westminster reconstruction after it burnt down in 1834. Historically, the building has needed attention approximately every 30 years, with the last major refurbishment taking place in 1983–85 ...
WA100 2024: The big list | Features | Building Design
WEBWA100 is Building Design’s annual survey of the world’s largest practices ranked by the number of fee-earning architects they employ. WA100 2024. Company name. Country. Architects employed. Fee income (US$)
Hopkins unveils new School of Data Science on University of …
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Phil Bourne, founding dean of the School of Data Science, said, “Every aspect of the design speaks to our guiding principles of responsible data science: ethics and openness; diversity, equity, and inclusion; translation, and more.
Elain Harwood dies aged 64 | News | Building Design
WEBApr 21, 2023 · The highly regarded architectural historian and campaigner for the preservation of modernist architecture, Elain Harwood, has died at the age of 64. Harwood was born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire in 1958 and studied history at the University of Bristol. She began her career in architectural conservation at English Heritage in …
Does the US approach to planning mean architects get more …
WEBMar 20, 2024 · Recently, I was traveling with an old college friend who owns an architecture firm in London. After finishing a long and frustrating call with a local planning officer regarding a new housing project, he vented that the UK planning process has led to a general lack of respect for the architectural profession.
City approves John Robertson Architects’ Daily Mail makeover
WEBAug 24, 2021 · 1 /8. John Robertson Architects’ plans to refurbish the Daily Mail’s former headquarters have been approved by the City of London Corporation. The Northcliffe House project is the practice’s third listed ex-newspaper office in the City, following its refurbishment of the Daily Express building on Fleet Street in 2000 and its work to ...
Industry had ‘head in the sand’ over combustible cladding dangers ...
WEBMay 7, 2021 · The inquiry has already heard that a design manager at Harley Facades, the cladding specialist which worked on Grenfell’s flawed refurbishment, did not check the fire performance of the insulation fitted in the cladding system and assumed that the ACM panels would melt rather than burn in the event of a fire.