R L Surveys Ltd, a Land Surveying Company based in Ashford, Kent is proud to announce that they have achieved ISO9001:2008 accreditation. The accreditation confirms that R L Surveys has put together a system to ...
Located in the heart of the new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Moshe Safdie, 2011) in Bentonville, Arkansas, USA, the museum store is an insertion by Marlon Blackwell Architect into an existing 3,040 square foot curved ...
For decades, schools have slowly morphed into prison-like facilities with artificially lit rooms and barricaded playgrounds. However, the trend is beginning to shift. With a highlight on sustainable design, a focus on safety and an ...
When plans for the High Line were first revealed it made quite an impression on the design community. The converted elevated rail line, long abandoned by New York City, was threatened by demolition until a group of activists fought ...
Grimshaw have recently unveiled a video update on the construction of Pulkovo Airport, St Petersburg (The video can be viewed through the vimeo link below). The architects were chosen for the project back in 2007 ...
One of Lord Norman Foster’s first public buildings in the United Kingdom, the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia, has received a protected status from Heritage Minister Ed Vaizey. The move was welcomed ...
This unusual little bridge in Sarajevo is the design of three Bosnian product design students in response to a tender issued five years ago. Just completed, the Festina Lente bridge (which translates as ‘to make ...
A new eco-friendly hotel, ‘The Orchard’, has opened for business on The University of Nottingham’s award-winning main campus. The £20 million hotel, funded entirely by the University, has been completed by BAM Construction on a ...
Adrienne Chinn is a well established independent, London-based interior designer. She applies her natural talent for colour coordination and in-depth knowledge of style with equal success to residential or commercial interior design. She treats all ...
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has released images of their most recent design project – a 420ft-high observation tower in Phoenix, Arizona. Commissioned by local developers Novawest, the Danish/American practice has conceptualised a 70,000 sq ft ...
SPPARC has secured planning permission, on behalf of their client, in the heart of the Kensington Conservation area for an exciting contemporary mixed use redevelopment of an ‘island site’ recognised as the entrance to Notting ...
Plans to create a ‘cathedral of stories’ in Oxford have been given the green light by the city’s planning committee. Purcell Architects was selected as the winners of the competition to transform The Story Museum. ...
Former 21 for 21 Award-winning firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects have completed two prototype low-cost houses in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam as a potential solution to the country’s need for more residences for low-income families. ...
Construction has exploded along the High Line ever since it opened: condos hover over the rehabilitated track and look out onto the Hudson, while the new location of the Whitney Museum is making headway on the southern end of the park ...
On the advice of English Heritage, architecture minister Ed Vaizey has listed Norman Foster’s first major public building: the 1977 Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, in the United Kingdom. According to BDOnline, the popular ...
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Board of Directors has announced that Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects will receive the 2013 AIA Architecture Firm Award. Tod Williams, FAIA, and Billie Tsien, AIA, have been working together since ...
Sussex based Westgate Joinery has made a commitment to supply high tech energy efficient timber windows and doors for the U.K.’s first sustainable and social innovation building to be built largely out of waste to ...
The new National Centre for Network Rail in Milton Keynes is one of the ‘greenest’ office spaces in the UK being awarded a BREEAM ‘excellent’ rating. The building is naturally ventilated and uses recycled rainwater ...
Where access into a building is required to be at the same level internally and externally, the designer must consider how damp and water transference is to be prevented?
Europe’s leading manufacturer of fans and motors, ebm-papst, has launched a new axial fan that will provide energy savings of up to 66%.
Four awards recently presented at The Renewables Roadshow were for projects where Windhager biomass boilers have been specified.
Construction fixings specialist, ANCON, has been honoured at a royal reception at Buckingham Palace in celebration of its achievement in winning the 2012 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation.
nora system blue: safety with a system – now available worldwide Weinheim, October 2012 – nora system blue, the first certified and environmentally compatible floor installation system, is conquering the world. Rubber specialists nora systems ...
Award from the US healthcare industry for nora systems Weinheim, November 2012 – The noraplan sentica rubber floor covering from nora systems has won the gold Nightingale Award. Inaugurated in 1990, the Nightingale Award is ...
Parents and children alike have commented how much they like the Owl shaped Fun Notice Board, designed specifically to appeal to young children, that has recently been supplied by Jtech Services to a nursery school in ...
Armstrong Ceilings has refreshed its Atelier stand at The Building Centre. Almost three years after debuting at The Building Centre, Armstrong Ceilings has moved its exhibition space there up a gear and relaunched it under ...
Planet has completed the partitioning installation over seven floors of the eye catching newly built prestigious ‘Sir Duncan Rice’ library. With its spiralling off-centre atrium, Planet’s low profile ‘Advanced Frameless Glazing’ creates an open peaceful ...
Pleckgate Mathematics and Computing College, is the first Building Schools For the Future (BSF) College in Blackburn, and one of a growing number of new schools using Senior Hybrid Systems.
Around a third of all construction firms in North West England could go bust in the next year, according to new research.
Wind turbines. Ground source heat pumps. Solar panels. Sustainability is often seen as large scale. But at Surface Design Show, exhibitors are proving how surfacing products can play a valuable part in the bigger green ...
The Government has unveiled a brand new plan that it hopes will see the UK become a “global leader” in building information modelling (BIM).
For the third year in succession, Hansgrohe SE has won the most prestigious official German design award. On 25th October in Berlin, the designer brand of Hansgrohe SE received one of only three Design Awards of ...
At the world-famous IceHotel in Sweden, ice is the key material. However, there are just some things that just can’t be made from ice, including doors and door controls. For the entrance to the hotel’s ...
Contour Casings’ pioneering Aluminium parapet wall capping range withstood windspeeds of over 400mph during recent independent testing. The system is now being extensively used by Taylor Wimpey throughout Hampshire and Essex on chic apartments and ...
Building a multi-million pound Access for All bridge is no bag of sweets but the modular design allows many options and better maintainability, says AATi’s DAVID BISSET. The best Access For All(AFA) bridge to date, ...
Eastern White Cedar shingles from leading roofing specialist, Cembrit, have been used in a quirky refurbishment project, which has seen two railway carriages integrated into a holiday home. The carriages form part of the accommodation ...
GEZE UK has published two new brochures to provide architects and specifiers with a comprehensive and clear overview of its market-leading range of automatic sliding, telescopic and folding door systems, and its swing door systems.
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Jerusalem’s iconic Montefiore Mill has been restored to full working order with the help of world-leading Accoya® modified wood.
Astor-Bannerman (Medical) Ltd design and manufacture a wide range of height adjustable patient handling and assisted bathing care equipment throughout the UK for people with varied and special needs within the community, care homes, social ...
