Architecture Today

How can architecture address neurodiversity in schools? Sarah Knize, #K12 academic practice leader and an associate principal at Ratcliff Architects in the US, talks to AT about her research in designing for #neurodiverse learners and the impact architecture can have on #teaching and #learning. Read on in the link below! ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gtAMXBFS #dyslexia #designfordyslexia #neurodiversity #mentalhealth

We're delighted to support the Architecture Today #ATAwards again this year. These awards are unique in that they focus on projects that have stood the test of time, with all that means. These projects are characterised by longevity, sustainability, performance - all part of how AccuRoof approaches its work with specifiers and the wider supply chain. We're delighted that the finalists have been published today. What a range of projects with great stories! Check out the links for each of the category finalists below: ➡ #Education category finalists: https://lnkd.in/eA26S25i ➡ #Healthcare category finalists: https://lnkd.in/esMz88wt ➡ #Hospitality, #Sport & #Leisure category finalists: https://lnkd.in/eGuaejz9 ➡ Individual #House category finalists: https://lnkd.in/eDsHtxiY ➡ #Infrastructure & #PublicRealm category finalists: https://lnkd.in/eycZWwZm ➡ #International category finalists: https://lnkd.in/ebtSNAit ➡ #MixedUse & #Retail category finalists: https://lnkd.in/euGeY7e2 ➡ #Religion & #Culture category finalists: https://lnkd.in/ecHKPzbm ➡ #Residential category finalists: https://lnkd.in/eJtRkGUz ➡ #Workplace category finalists: https://lnkd.in/eWsg6yPX ➡ 2024 Architecture Today Awards #StudentPrize: https://lnkd.in/eBFDwUiH The Live Finals are on Wednesday 18 September 2024 at the Building Society and The 2024 Winner’s Party is on Thursday 21 November 2024 at Battersea Power Station. See you there!

Hugh Strange Architects has combined #domestic and #agricultural typologies to produce a carefully considered courtyard house that complements its setting on the north Cornish coast. Graham Bizley (Prewett Bizley Architects) reviews the project and draws links to #JørnUtzon’s Kingo Houses and #AlvarAalto and Elissa Aalto’s Muuratsalo Experimental House. Read on in the link below! ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eavEnXjB Structural engineer: Price & Myers Services engineer: Ritchie+Daffin Clay blocks: wienerberger / Wienerberger UK / Porotherm UK Lime render/plaster: Heritage Cob and Lime Heat pump: Kensa Heat Pumps Floor tiles: LIVING TERRACOTTA LTD Windows: Complete Joinery and Design Ltd

In 1969 Foster Associates (now Foster + Partners) reworked and extended a Victorian cottage in north London. Gianni Botsford Architects has demolished the cottage but retained the extension, drawing on its distinctive architectural language to design a replacement house. Amir Sanei traces the project’s provenance and assesses the results. See more photos and read Sanei's review in the link below! ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gX3Zdp36 Structural engineer: TALL Engineers Mechanical and electrical engineer: Integration Landscape architect: FFLO Quantity surveyor: Measur Construction Consultants Ltd Heritage consultant: HCUK Group Planning consultant: Barton Willmore, now Stantec Contractor: New Wave London Interior metalwork: Weber Industries Exterior metalwork: Q-METALS LTD Schüco UK Limited glazing: MGI UK and Ireland Skylight: Glazing Vision / Glazing Vision Inc

Huge congratulations to UK Architects Declare on their 5th birthday. The work they’ve done to raise awareness of the climate and biodiversity emergencies is admired by us all and we are hugely proud to be joining forces to accelerate the transition to a regenerative construction industry.

Lynch Architects’ addition to the Coroner’s Court in #Westminster serves as a place of remembrance and embeds the work of stained glass artist Brian Clarke. See more photos and hear from coroner Dr Fiona Wilcox in the link below ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gkUufuMT

In Crystal Palace, south London, Gbolade Design Studio | Architects has completed its first #netzero development. Read about how the scheme's #fabricfirst approach has resulted in an average U-value of 0.10W/m²K and see more photos in the link below! ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gx_BvCia

Module in the spotlight: Collaborative construction procurement and contracting (CCPC)! This course, led by Darya Bahram (King's College London, Assael Architecture), Dr Paolo Ettore Giana (King's College London, Buro Happold), Dr Roxana Vornicu, PhD (King's College London, SIRBU & VORNICU LAW) and Professor David Mosey CBE (King's College London), focuses on collaborative procurement and contracting for architects, and the benefits it brings to the design, construction, and operation of projects. The following units and lessons will highlight the use of collaboration to create new systems that improve and integrate key information related to designs, costs, time, and risks.   By the end of the course, learners will have a greater understanding of collaborative procurement and contracting, how it can benefit architects, and how it can be effectively managed. - By the end of this module you will be able to understand: - Why #collaborativeconstruction procurement and #contracting is beneficial - Using #BIM to integrate multiple project phases - Collaborative construction #procurement and contracting in action - How is collaborative procurement brought to life? - Maximising early engagement and value-based procurement - Proposing a procurement strategy that attracts investment - Improving #design, #construction and operation of projects - Navigating legal and cultural issues - Benefits of procurement efficiency for designers and clients - Introduction to #riskmanagement (ISO 31000) - Collaborative #BusinessRelationshipManagement (ISO 44001) - #IPrights - How to deliver net zero carbon through collaborative procurement - Collaborative procurement strategies for MMC - Collaborative procurement approaches for better building safety - Integrating the Golden Thread of information with collaborative procurement - Contractual mechanism enablers - FAC-1, IIMC, PPC 2000, TAC - #CCPC management and resolution frameworks Discover more and start learning today in the link below! ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eHq6HEgY #elearning #constructionmanagement #learningcontent #specification

#AccuRoof Sales Director Ross Finnie, and Neville Grunwald, Chair of the Joint Competence Initiative for the Envelope Sector (JCI), in conversation with Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discuss key areas surrounding competency and the Building Safety Act in relation to roofing design, supply and installation.

The latest issue of Architecture Today is here! And you can read the digital edition of the July-August issue of AT online too! In this issue: · Catherine Slessor explains how Wright & Wright Architects are working on The British Museum, Lambeth Palace and St John's College, Oxford and looking at #decarbonising the country’s most sensitive historic estates. · Ian Volner revisits Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) 1969 John Hancock Center, a building that announced to the world that #Chicago, birthplace of the modern #skyscraper, was still very much an incubator for innovative #design. · Amir Sanei (Hopkins Architects) enjoys the boldness of Gianni Botsford Architects’ response to one of Norman Foster’s early projects at Reciprocal House in north London. · Graham Bizley (Prewett Bizley Architects) visits Farmworker’s House, where Hugh Strange has combined domestic and agricultural typologies to produce a carefully considered courtyard house that complements its setting on the north #Cornish coast. · We publish the winning projects in the Schüco UK Limited Excellence Awards including projects by Grafton Architects, Levitt Bernstein and TODD Architects Ltd.. · A look behind the scenes at Piercy&Company, where Matti Lampila, Cathrin Wakczyk and Sofia Steffanoni explain the practice’s approach to technology, #specification, #materials and #craft. · Lauma Balina, Principal Engineer at Max Fordham LLP, answers readers’ questions on heritage building and #PartL compliance. · Laura Carrara-Cagni explains why #Genova in Italy is her kind of town. Read about all this – and more – in the link below! https://lnkd.in/eVMgJJFr