All Architects articles – Page 213
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NewsPrize giving: British Council for School Environments' annual award
Architect Architype was named school architect of the year at the British Council for School Environments’ annual award ceremony this week.
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NewsBIM project to show savings
A commercial building will be developed using BIM from start to finish, with the hope of showing how 50% savings can be made
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FeaturesKen Shuttleworth: No more crazy shapes & silly profiles
Ken Shuttleworth, the man behind the Gherkin, doesn’t ’get’ the Shard, reckons the era of tall glass boxes is over and thinks a lot of designers are really egotistical. So why does the founder of Make think this is such a great time to be an architect? He tells Building.
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FeaturesSainsbury Laboratory: Nurture vs nature
Stanton Williams’ serene Sainsbury Laboratory combines classicism with modernism while remaining anchored to its natural surroundings
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NewsArchitype scoops three schools awards
Architect triumphs at annual British Council for School Environments ceremony
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NewsAukett's losses triple in 'depressed' market
Architect reports falling half year revenue but says profits will return
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Architects against anti-social behaviour
Public sector insurer Zurich Municipal has released a series of design guides aimed at cutting the cost of crime and anti-social behaviour in the education sector.
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FeaturesEngineering Britain's biggest retained facade: Going to great lengths
This was once a dilapidated hotel that just so happened to be on prime land overlooking Hyde Park. To convert it into luxury flats the whole thing had to be demolished and rebuilt – apart from the facade. Building talks to the team responsible for the largest ever retained Victorian ...
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FeaturesThe construction strategy: Together at last?
The government and the construction industry. It’s been a long, love-hate affair but the new construction strategy is an offer to try to work things out
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FeaturesRiver trip: Zaha Hadid's Riverside Transport Museum
Far from the Olympic aquatics centre, the first of Zaha Hadid’s big UK projects is complete. Building reviews her dramatic and somewhat psychedelic transport museum in Glasgow
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NewsDesign Council names Paul Finch deputy chair
Little room for former Cabe commissioners as merged body announces board
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NewsOpik to present RIBA charity auction: 24 June
Fundraiser to help architecture students facing hardship will be held in June
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NewsBIM could cost QSs £2k per person
Davis Langdon estimates that for QSs, the industry bill could reach £82m for training
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FeaturesHands up if you can cut 20%
We’re all more or less signed up to the government’s target of cutting 20% off costs in the next four years (or so we say). But how we do it is still the subject of fierce debate. Building asked three construction professionals what they would do
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FeaturesDe-coding BIM
Building information modelling could be applied to save time and money on every government project within five years. But few people are using it and many don’t even know it exists. Here are seven key ways BIM will affect you and your work
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NewsArchitects required for Glasgow 2014 stadium design
Interested parties should submit expressions of interest before 17 June
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NewsBuro Happold and NEX combine for Chelsea pavilion
Design of Chelsea Flower Show exhibit based on how plants grow
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CZWG and Holder Mathias unveil £70m Barnsley plan
Regeneration follows Will Alsop’s ’Tuscan hill-top’ vision
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NewsArchitects challenged to redesign the electricity pylon
Government and RIBA launch design competition to improve on 84-year old design