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Architectural Emporium transforms industrial spaces into a new home for theatre company
The spaces provide Walk the Plank theatre company with a combined office and production facility in Salford
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Hackitt is wrong. We need firm regulation – not ‘guidance’ – to ensure fire safety
The Hackitt review shows that the government urgently needs to fix the Building Regulations with regard to fire safety, writes the RIBA’s Adrian Dobson
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Alison Brooks honoured with AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award
Employees of the AJ100 practices have voted overwhelmingly to recognise an architect who has helped pioneer the position of women in architecture – and whose spirit of optimism shines through her work, says Ruth Slavid. Portraits by Ben Blossom
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12.04.18: Technology in practice
The latest AJ features building studies of Hawkins\Brown’s new facility for University College London on the former Olympics media centre site in east London; factory-built housing for Urban Splash designed by George Clarke and TDO Architecture; and Jamie Fobert’s remodelling of Kettle’s Yard art gallery in Cambridge. PLUS We investigate the procurement process that led to Foster + Partners winning the Upper ...
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AJ Retrofit Awards 2018 open for entry
The AJ is looking to celebrate the most enlightened reuses of existing buildings. Hurry! Early bird entry rate ends 27 April
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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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