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.
With the urgent need to retrofit many of our historic properties, Mohannad Altabbal, Customer Success Manager at Graphisoft, outlines how BIM and point cloud technology can help to streamline this process to improve sustainability while respecting heritage buildings.
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 award-winning architecture practice, Hollaway Studio, has designed a sustainable new workshop and museum for world-renowned rocking-horse maker, Stevenson Brothers, replacing a former petrol filling station on a brownfield site in the village of High Halden in Kent.
Comprising a total of 404 new homes, commercial space and public realm spaces, Southmere Village Phase 1B will bring to life an area of former economic deprivation.
Glasgow’s latest redevelopment project, located on Langside Road, is built upon the former site of the city’s Victoria Infirmary and consists of a large housing development that includes 413 flats, offices and retail space.
With water usage on the rise across the nation and architects and specifiers striving to design and produce more water-efficient projects, Methven’s CEO, Martin Walker, talks through some new bathroom technologies that are helping today’s building and architectural professionals to achieve water efficiency targets.