Located on Myslym Street in a central district of Tirana, where the old and new converge, the Ndarja Building – designed for residential, hospitality, office and commercial use – adapts to the ongoing transformation of the urban morphology landscape.
Gilles Retsin is a pioneering Architect and Technologist, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of AUAR, a company building an automated construction platform for sustainable housing. Through his research and practical work, he explores how emerging technologies can address the construction industry’s most pressing challenges while promoting sustainability and accessibility in architecture.
London Build 2024 is doubling in size, taking over both Grand and National Halls at Olympia London. Taking place on 20th and 21st November, London Build allows you to gain access to 35,000+ attendees, 700+ incredible speakers across 12 CPD stages, 450+ exhibitors, networking parties, speed networking, meet the buyers, endless entertainment, DJs and live music through the Festival of Construction.
After three years of design development and engagement, St William’s regeneration project proposals for Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks received backing of the London Borough of Newham’s Strategic Development Committee.
The first phase of an impressive masterplan on Folkestone’s historic seafront, Shoreline’s unique contemporary design pays homage to the traditional Edwardian curved terrace. Constructed by Jenner and designed by ACME architectural practice for the Folkestone Harbour & Seafront Development Company, this highly-bespoke, crescent-shaped residential building required collaboration between stakeholders in order to overcome the complexities of a challenging build.
With its one- to three-room, highly-flexible apartments, flats, gallery lofts and rooftop flats, UNStudio and developer Bauwerk‘s recently-completed Van B residential project in Munich not only caters to changing demographics and multiple family constellations, but it also offers indoor-outdoor living, communal spaces, shared facilities and a new highly-flexible plug-in system that can make a 40m2 apartment feel like a 60m2 loft.
Despite repeated failings, the UK Government continues to back modular construction efforts with millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money. Jenny Smith-Andrews, Head of Marketing at H+H UK, questions if this support is misplaced.
The architectural form concept of the Xylopolis Centre for Wood Art and Science stems from a profound contemplation of the human-nature relationship, exploring coexistence, human impact on the natural ecosystem and the ensuing responsibilities.
voestalpine Metsec has become one of the earliest adopters of the Code for Construction Products Information (CCPI), introduced by the Construction Products Association in response to Dame Judith Hackitt’s review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, set up following the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
It’s a well-known statistic that the built environment generates around 40% of our global carbon emissions – a figure that the industry is working hard to reduce. While there are many factors to consider, product durability is a vital part of achieving more sustainable building envelopes.
