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Visas for architects with ‘exceptional talent’ announced by Home Office
Ministers have launched a new way for highly rated architects from overseas to secure the right to work in the UK
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BUILDING OF THE DAY
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We Made That completes extension to Old Kent Road library
The East Street Exchange has been completed by We Made That as an extension to East Street library, which the practice has also refurbished
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The Coach: ‘Snowflake millennials are undermining my practice’s team spirit’
Careers expert Matthew Turner advises a practice partner who finds his younger employees unduly picky about the projects they work on
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In pictures: UK’s biggest practices celebrate at AJ100 awards
The UK’s biggest architecture practices came out in force yesterday evening to celebrate the winners of the annual AJ100 awards at a ceremony held at the Tower of London
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06.12.18: AJ Architecture Awards
The latest issue features this year’s AJ Architecture Awards with 73 pages of winning and shortlisted schemes. There are also building studies of Witherford Watson Mann’s opera house at Nevill Holt in Leicestershire; and a partially subterranean north London house by Takero Shimazaki Architects. PLUS The era of the super low fee bid is back in a new wave of aggressive fee-cutting; and we meet Emma Dent Coad, ...
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EVIDENCE-BASED DESIGN: THE STORY SO FAR
Environmental evidence-based design research has been gathered in a scientific way only since the 1980s.Roger Ulrich carried out ground-breaking research in the early '80s showing that views of landscape rather than a brick wall had a beneficial effect on surgical patients.He has continued looking into the effects of art on patients, acoustics on communication and so on, and he is working with NHS Estates.Home-grown research by John Welles-Thorpe and Bryan Lawson at Sheffield University ...
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