All the latest updates on building safety reform
2024 events calendar
好色先生TV Awards
Keep up to dateTimber importer John Brash has developed a quality control system that pre-grades roofing battens at the sawmill.
The high-precision scanning procedure involves optical and laser scanning, which the company says ensures that every batten passed down its production line is analysed, with defects being measured and assessed for acceptability against prescribed profiling criteria.
John Brash
308
Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, 鈥榙ragon-tailed鈥� cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK鈥檚 13th Maggie鈥檚 Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment.
The Maggie鈥檚 Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar, very few were identical.
The former deputy prime minister, whose death was announced this morning, forced construction to realise that things couldn鈥檛 go on as they were
With a focus on innovation and access, the east London studio is leading the charge in the architectural education revolution. Ben Flatman reports on how they are helping a new generation of architects to design the cities of tomorrow
Two architects who have made a film about the child-friendly estate where they live explain what鈥檚 so special about its design
No comments yet