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WEBNews Architectural mentors: the initiatives offering training to young people Fran Williams. Against criticism that the profession fails to reflect the wider population it serves, Fran Williams and Rob Wilson highlight initiatives offering training and mentoring in architecture to young people from underrepresented backgrounds
Full AJ100 rankings: Foster + Partners tops league of UK’s largest ...
WEBJun 18, 2021 · Norman Foster’s practice now employers 383 qualified architects, up two from last year, extending its lead to 30 over second-placed BDP (353), which year-on-year had slowly been narrowing the gap.. Foster + Partners first topped the AJ100 league table in 2012 – then with a roster of 304 qualified architects – taking over from perennial chart-topper BDP in the definitive list of Britain ...
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WEBArchitectural mentors: the initiatives offering training to young people. Against criticism that the profession fails to reflect the wider population it serves, Fran Williams and Rob Wilson highlight initiatives offering training and mentoring in architecture to young people from underrepresented backgrounds
Building regs 2022: what’s changed and what you need to know
WEBJun 15, 2022 · The updated regulations include amendments to Approved Documents Part F (Ventilation) and Part L (Conservation of fuel and power) and the release of a new Approved Document for Overheating (Part O) and Infrastructure for charging electric vehicles (Part S).They are primarily focused on new non-domestic buildings but also include policies for existing non-domestic buildings and new and existing ...
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Saving the earth: making the case for rammed earth architecture
WEBApr 15, 2021 · Examples of rammed earth architecture by Fran Williams. Strawbale Workshops by Grain Architecture, Suffolk, 2019 This scheme in the Suffolk Coast and Heath Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is a redevelopment of a dilapidated cowshed.
Wright & Wright’s Museum of the Home completes
WEBJun 2, 2021 · The museum had to relaunch its search for an architect for the project in 2013, after it dropped David Chipperfield Architects, which had controversially proposed demolishing the former pub as part of a scheme that was refused planning consent in May that year.. Before making the decision, the museum initially said it was considering an appeal following Hackney Council’s refusal for ...
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A broad church: Dow Jones’s restoration of St Mary Magdalene
WEBOct 24, 2019 · The ‘hard must’ in this case was the position of the church, about 60m from the south edge of the Regent’s Canal near Little Venice. The neighbourhood around the church was rebuilt in the 1960s and Pevsner noted then that it was ‘no longer obvious that Street had to cope with a very restricted sloping site …