GEZE UK Sponsors Leading Architectural Ironmongery Award

GEZE UK is sponsoring the primary award for a biennial event which celebrates the best of British architectural ironmongery specification. The ‘Winner of Winners’ Award is chosen from all the category winners from the 2019 GAI/RIBA Architectural Ironmongery Specification Awards... View Article

Goldsun HQ in Taipei receives planning approval

Designs for the new headquarters of the Goldsun Group in Taipei have been revealed following a successful Urban Design Approval. Part of the Nangang urban regeneration project, the project seeks to introduce a new mixed-use typology to the area by... View Article

Maxtop launches next generation of its one-of-a-kind worktops

Unique modular quartz surface specialist, Maxtop Quartz, has revealed the next generation of its one-of-a-kind worktops, complete with a seamless finish, stylish 1.5mm bevelled edge and now including marble-effect finishes. Over the last 12 months the company has invested £2m... View Article

Agar Grove wins two gongs at London Planning Awards 2019

Agar Grove Estate scooped the Mayor’s Award for Good Growth and the Mayor’s Award for Sustainable and Environmental Planning at the London Planning Awards 2019. Designed by architects Hawkins Brown and Mae Architects with landscape architecture by Grant Associates, the... View Article

Sarah Wigglesworth Architects Celebrates its 25th Anniversary

In 2019, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects (SWA) celebrates its 25th anniversary with a series of curated events entitled SWA25. Taking place throughout the year they showcase its progressive work to date, and its plans looking ahead. SWA is a pioneering and award-winning architectural... View Article

WW+P appointed to design PRS homes for Merton

Merantun Development Ltd. (MDL) has appointed Weston Williamson + Partners (WW+P) to lead the design, planning and delivery of private rented sector homes for East Merton.  The first phase of development will see the construction of approximately 77 new, high... View Article

Sounding off

There are a lot of advantages to open-plan office environments, but the downsides can outweigh the positives if the acoustics and aesthetics are not spot on. Here, Simon Boocock, Managing Director of C. R Laurence of Europe, discusses how the... View Article

The highs and lows of hospitality seating

Whether it’s enjoying pre-dinner drinks around a high table, relaxing in the hotel foyer, meeting clients, or savouring a latte with friends around the coffee table, high and low seated stools are now increasingly specified throughout all types of hospitality... View Article

Opening the envelope

Simon Wild of Formica group discusses how the application of cladding using traditional building methods has evolved, and explores the modern materials now on offer. Traditionally, housebuilding techniques in the UK relied upon the use of local materials typical of... View Article

Resiblock are celebrating their 15th anniversary

Resiblock and Rialto Homes are celebrating the 15th anniversary of the successful sealing of the Hewetts Quay site in Barking. Barking and Dagenham Council had anticipated that any flooding from the local River Roding would lead to removal of jointing... View Article

Consort Claudgen launches BIM library

Consort Claudgen has launched their first BIM (Building Information Modelling) objects which include panel heaters, fan heaters, recessed ceiling heaters and air curtains. Architects and specifiers can now access the BIM models for their BIM projects from Consort Claudgen’s website... View Article

Kerakoll chosen for eco-friendly Lakes House

Water End House is part of a small collection of dwellings on a family estate surrounded by mature trees with partial views through trees across Derwent Bay towards the opposite woodland. The building replaces an existing dwelling which was damaged... View Article