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WEBSep 18, 2024 · Children's museum is latest element in timber town's cultural revival. Timber looms large in Steinberg Hart’s Children’s Museum of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, both as a material and a design motif, referencing the logging boom-town origins of a US city now reinventing itself as an arts and culture destination. 24 September 2024.
RIBA Stirling Prize | Design in the making - RIBA Journal
WEBStirling Prize People's Poll chooses 'subtle and striking' winner. In a close vote, poetry and practical concerns such as sustainability dominated the popular pronouncement for which of the six Stirling Prize shortlist was the best building this year. 17 October 2023.
Navigating the Building Safety Act's position of Principal Designer
WEBNov 20, 2023 · On 1 October the Building etc (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2023 came into force, providing further clarity on how the government intends to implement the new regulatory regime introduced under the Building Safety Act 2022, Any project requiring a new Building Regulations application, from domestic house extensions to higher-risk buildings (HRBs), will now require two ‘principal duty ...
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WEBRIBA Journal is the largest circulation publication serving the architecture profession. Published monthly, plus its two-monthly Products in Practice supplement, it is the only magazine to reach nearly 28,000 RIBA members across UK and international markets.
Hindsight: Ken Yeang on blazing a trail for ecological design
WEBMar 25, 2022 · Ken Yeang talks about his five-decade-long career, creating his own experimental passive house in 1985 and how was only in the early 2000s that clients started asking for green buildings. Ken Yeang, 74, has been a pioneer ecological design since 1971. He founded Hamzah & Yeang in 1977 with …
Practice revenue is up – by 17% – but even higher costs leave ...
WEBDec 6, 2023 · Architectural businesses are growing again. For the first time in four years, RIBA chartered practices report higher revenue. And that growth is spectacular; total revenue generated by all RIBA chartered practices is 17% higher than last year’s figure, shows the RIBA Benchmarking Report 2023 – Revenue and …
Architects’ average 15% rise returns salaries to their long-term ...
WEBApr 1, 2023 · Architects’ average earnings on 1 April 2023: £50,000. A rise of 15% from last year. Average earnings keep up with inflation over the long-term. 13% work part-time. 5% unemployed or not working for other reasons. Architects have seen average earnings rise by the largest figure ever recorded – up by 15% on the year to April. That’s the ...
How the Passivhaus Overlay to the Plan of Work can help …
WEBFeb 23, 2023 · The RIBA in partnership with the Passivhaus Trust has launched a Passivhaus Overlay to the Plan of Work in order to help project teams and their clients make informed design decisions at the right time so that their project may achieve Passivhaus standards.. According to author, architect and certified Passivhaus designer, Mark Siddall, the Passivhaus Overlay provides a useful starting point ...
The RIBA Plan of Work 2020 update analysed and explained | RIBAJ
WEBOct 28, 2019 · The 2020 Plan of Work responds to feedback on how Stage 2 works and particularly to different approaches to the timing of planning applications. It acknowledges adjustments required at the Stage 3 and 4 interface, depending on the procurement strategy. Industry has adopted terms such as Stage 3 minus or Stage 4 …
Scotland | Design in the making - RIBA Journal
WEBGeographically the largest RIBA region, Scotland has an extremely diverse architectural culture. It incorporates the robust blocky buildings of Glasgow, Georgian terraces and medieval tenements of Edinburgh and granite city of Aberdeen as well as the more extreme conditions of the Highlands. On the west coast and islands of the Hebrides, such as Skye, there is growing movement to a 'pre ...