RIBA Journal magazine: | Design in the making
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
Nov 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
Oct 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 plus, on the basis that ...
RIBA Stirling Prize | Design in the making - RIBA Journal
Stirling 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.
Glass reuse and recycling in architecture | RIBAJ - RIBA Journal
Mar 5, 2024 · Recycling one tonne of glass saves up to 300kgCO 2 e, 1.2 tonnes of raw materials, including 700kg of sand, and 30 per cent of energy. To date, reuse of insulated glass units has not been widely adopted due to their short lifespan, rapid obsolescence, warranty requirements and lack of standardisation of sizes.
Architects’ copyright in more detail | RIBAJ
Jul 10, 2017 · The new owner is not the ‘owner of the copyright in the drawings’, as was claimed in our correspondent’s case – under an RIBA contract, reflecting the position without any contract, the architect retains copyright in the drawings but licenses it to the client. However, even if it were the owner rather than licensee, it couldn’t rely ...
Stirling Prize 2024 shortlists Park Hill Phase 2, Sheffield, by Mikhail ...
30 July 2024. With Park Hill’s listed concrete structure untouchable on the outside, and 37 different types of flat but no repeating cluster, Mikhail Riches found complex technical details defied a standardised approach, as Annalie Riches explains. The Brutalist Park Hill estate, commissioned by Sheffield City Council architect JL Womersley ...
Top ten dos and don’ts | RIBAJ - RIBA Journal
Mar 5, 2015 · It is also worth noting that the lap should always be taken from the lowest row of fixings in whatever it is covering. 9. Fixing. The fixing of lead sheet is carried out in many different ways, all of which are dependent on the particular application. For instance, a lead bay on a roof with a pitch of up to 3 degrees differs in the arrangement ...
How to calculate embodied carbon for the 2030 Climate Challenge
Jan 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 ...
What do architects need to know about biodiversity net gain …
Feb 8, 2024 · BNG will be dealt with as a post-permission matter: once planning permission has been granted, a Biodiversity Gain Plan must be submitted and approved prior to the commencement of development. This will confirm how the biodiversity gain objective of at least 10% will be met for the development within approved plans, or whether offsite gains ...