Elizabeth Line triumphs with RIBA Stirling Prize 2024 | RIBAJ
Oct 16, 2024 · Grimshaw has had a proud history of transport design in London since the International Terminal at Waterloo Station completed in 1993. It has now been co-opted for the expansion of the country’s domestic lines and also the first phase of reworking Paddington Station (1999) and the Northern Line stations on the spur to Battersea Power Station that pop up with their faceted canopies (2021).
RIBA National Awards 2024: the winners - RIBA Journal
Jul 10, 2024 · The second of the McLaughlin projects, working with Purcell, is Auckland Castle Tower and Faith Museum in County Durham, where the RIBA judges commented on the skill in ensuring there was fully accessible visitor route – a challenge in such a historic building. (The Elizabeth Line similarly achieves the milestone of step-free access from platform to street at all its stations – a challenge ...
2024 Regional Awards South East winners | Design in the making
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Masdar balances sustainable aims and economic reality | RIBAJ
Dec 6, 2024 · Scaling up ambitions, the Masdar City Square (MC²) development, designed by Woods Bagot and under construction, includes seven buildings. Its centrepiece, the 12,000m² Abu Dhabi Department of Energy headquarters, aims for net zero carbon status with a striking canopy of more than 1000 photovoltaic panels to produce 109% of its annual energy needs.
Stirling Prize 2024 shortlists Park Hill Phase 2, Sheffield, by Mikhail ...
Jul 30, 2024 · Let’s begin with how the design process developed. Annalie Riches Urban Splash launched a competition to find a new architect after Phase 1, with a slightly different focus of retaining more of the listed building. It was quite an unusual competition because it gave every architect an apartment to look at over two weeks; then the jury was invited into those flats and we showed them our ideas.
2024 RIBA President’s Medal, Silver: Ultra Town by Joe Franklin
Dec 4, 2024 · Silver Medal winner Joe Franklin for Ultra Town Kingston University | UK Tutors: Nicholas Lobo Brennan, Astrid Smitham. Joe Franklin takes the belt of countryside for the shelved HS2 as a site for a forested new town, a ‘weird’ place in the woods for counter-culture and temporality: Ultra Town.
Quatre-Cheminées housing by Déchelette Architecture | RIBAJ
Nov 11, 2024 · Prefabrication is not the conventional approach to rammed earth. Why did you choose it? This is our second rammed-earth building. At the first, a three-storey private house in Paris called Casa Franca completed in 2023, the earth facade was rammed in-situ by hand. That took two months per storey – one for framing and ramming, the second for drying, which took longer than usual as it was winter.
How will Labour solve the housing crisis? - RIBA Journal
Aug 13, 2024 · What the bill holds. We await publication of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which will apply primarily to England and Wales. But early hints from Rayner suggest it will focus on unlocking barriers to creating infrastructure ‘laboratories, gigafactories, data centres and electricity grid connections’.
New site aims to enhance specification learning | RIBAJ
Nov 4, 2024 · The new and improved RIBACPD.com has arrived. Launching as part of the long-standing partnership between RIBA and NBS (powered by Hubexo), the new website introduces powerful features to enhance the experience of accessing …
Reinventing the Home webinar | RIBAJ - RIBA Journal
Oct 1, 2024 · A well-designed house extension can, with just a few key moves, unlock new possibilities for how clients want to live in their homes. So said RIBA Journal contributing editor Chris Foges introducing the Reinventing the Home webinar in partnership with Maxlight.