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What lies ahead for architecture in 2025? 2025-01-02T05:00:00+00:00 By Ben Flatman. From rethinking housing policy and urban wellbeing to advancing sustainability and overcoming talent shortages, these comment pieces explore the ideas and priorities that will confront architects in …
Midland Metropolitan University Hospital: Inside the long, costly ...
A difficult inheritance. Carillion left the hospital about three-quarters complete and mostly watertight. According to a National Audit Office investigation into what happened to Carillion’s two PFI hospital contracts, one of the main problems afflicting the MMUH was delays to the designs for the mechanical and electrical fit-out, which had delayed the original completion date of …
DSDHA’s plans for West End office redevelopment resurface after …
Dec 10, 2024 · DSDHA’s plans to refurbish and extend a large office block in the heart of the West End have resurfaced six years after the original plans were granted planning approval. The practice has tweaked the design of the 12-storey 125 Shaftesbury Avenue scheme to align with post-pandemic working ...
Eric Parry’s revised 1 Undershaft tower set for approval this Friday ...
Dec 10, 2024 · Eric Parry’s latest plans for the City of London’s tallest tower are likely to be approved this Friday despite Historic England branding the scheme’s revised design as “arguably worse” than a previous version it had objected to. City planning officers have recommended the …
Stiff & Trevillion submits plans to overhaul BBC Maida Vale …
Dec 9, 2024 · But the 150m-long building, originally built in 1909 as an indoor ice rink and now grade II-listed, has long been under threat of closure by the BBC due to its high maintenance costs and location in a residential area.
WA100 2024: The big list | Features | Building Design
WA100 2024: The big list View a table of this year’s top 100 architects. WA100 is Building Design’s annual survey of the world’s largest practices ranked by the number of fee-earning architects they employ.
Finalists announced for 2024 RIBA international prize
Nov 8, 2024 · RIBA has unveiled the three finalists for its prestigious 2024 International Prize, highlighting projects in Germany, Spain, and China. The shortlisted buildings – Jacoby Studios in Germany by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, Modulus Matrix in Spain by Peris + Toral Arquitectes, and the Lianzhou Museum of Photography in China by O-office Architects – represent innovative approaches to ...
London home designed by 31/44 Architects wins RIBA House of …
Dec 2, 2024 · Outside, there are three separate garden spaces, including a low-maintenance, west-facing rainwater garden that channels water from all the roofs that tumble out of a huge spout and into a steel tank to prevent overflow and promote reuse.
World Architecture 100 - the only comprehensive survey of the …
Sep 8, 2024 · WA100 2025 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.
Who was to blame for the unseaming of Britain’s cities?
Nov 14, 2024 · Nicholas Boys Smith finds Simon Jenkins' new book A Short History of British Architecture to be both a celebration and critique of British architecture, tracing two millennia of design while unflinchingly exposing the postwar attitudes that reshaped - and sometimes ruined - the nation's cities