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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.
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 ...
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 …
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 …
RIBA names 29 buildings in 2022 National Awards | RIBAJ - RIBA …
WEBJun 22, 2022 · The RIBA has named 29 buildings as winners of its 2022 National Awards, with a pupil referral unit among a number of education projects on the list, and a growing emphasis on energy efficiency and reuse. Twenty-nine buildings have received RIBA National Awards with two practices, Niall McLaughlin Architects and Tim Ronalds Architects, winning ...
How to calculate embodied carbon for the 2030 Climate Challenge
WEBJan 19, 2023 · The analysis shows the embodied carbon footprint of The Thomas Gainsborough School is 1067kgCO 2 e/m 2. The updated (V2) edition of the 2030 Climate Challenge provides a baseline of 1000kgCO 2 e/m 2 for current business as is usual in newbuild schools. While Thomas Gainsborough is innovative in its approaches to space, light and passive ...
Sustainability is dead; long live regenerative design | RIBAJ
WEBSep 13, 2019 · For those of us who have been involved in sustainable design for 30 years or more, it is painful to accept how badly sustainability has failed to prevent the multiple environmental crises from worsening. The implication, and all too often the reality, has been that fully sustainable simply meant ‘100% less bad’ as Bill McDonough, architect ...
Fixing the system: inside the mind of Indy Johar - RIBA Journal
WEBNov 10, 2023 · His mission to redesign bureaucracy for the common good can seem both idealistic and the only real solution. Indy Johar co-founded Dark Matter Labs with Architecture 00 colleague Joost Beunderman. Credit: Cherihan Hassun. Dark matter is the most abundant substance in the universe, and the most mysterious. Although invisible, its gravity shapes ...
Leeds South Bank regeneration: river turned asset - RIBA Journal
WEBAug 1, 2023 · Opening up the South Bank. One of the moves to unlock the South Bank site was the addition of a southern entrance/exit to the train station (designed by Bauman Lyons and Aecom); its blingy gold mouth was opened in 2016.Cutting through the station you are confronted with the force of the river itself, rushing dark and …
RIBA House of Year | Design in the making - RIBA Journal
WEBOct 27, 2023 · House of the Year 2023 shortlist: extension boosts flexibility and thermal performance of stone cottage. Made of Sand, Studio Weave’s self-contained annexe, is both successful in its own right and enhances its host house – demonstrating the value of using an architect. Below, founder director Je Ahn looks at the key points.