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WEBFrom the ground up: Ackroyd Lowrie on a mission to turn school leavers into architects with real work experience. 27 August 2024By Ben Flatman. With a focus on innovation and access, the east London studio is leading the charge in the architectural education revolution. Ben Flatman reports on how they are helping a new generation of architects ...
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WEBSep 8, 2024 — Welcome to the World Architecture 100, Building Design’s compendium of the world’s biggest practices. Every year Building Design surveys the world’s biggest architecture practices to create a report that is one of the most respected annual publications in the industry. The rankings are compiled from …
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Studio E: Anatomy of the death of a practice - Building Design
WEBStudio E founder Andrzej Kuszell giving evidence at the Grenfell Tower inquiry on 2 March 2020. Studio E has been wound up owing £144,014 to its remaining four staff and other creditors. Documents filed with Companies House show it has just £15,688 to its name. Yet just 12 years ago it employed 45 staff and had assets of £168,048.
BD Film Club: Empire of Light revisited - Building Design
WEBThe fictional cinema scenes in Empire of Light were brought to life by transforming the real-life Dreamland Cinema, where the iconic “DREAMLAND” signage was replaced by the letters “EMPIRE” for the exterior shots.Designed by J.B. Iles, Julian Leathart, and W.F. Granger, the building was erected on the site of a former theatre and completed in 1935, boasting a grand cinema with 2,050 ...
Expectations vs reality: The truth about architecture as a career
WEBJan 22, 2024 — The reality is that a grotesquely oversized architectural education industry has a lot of mouths to feed. The student bed industry is extremely lucrative for developers and the money lending industry has a lot of 'debt slaves' to create. Architects in name only, with a salary to reflect their true worth as CAD draughtsman and email administrators.
RSHP’s proposed British Library extension is like a bull in a china ...
WEBJan 10, 2023 — In February 2021 RSHP published its initial proposals for a British Library extension scheme. These immediately caused great concern, due to the immense bulk of the extension against Colin St John Wilson’s Grade I listed building and the vast imbalance between the provision of space for commercial uses and that for the library itself.
Bond Bryan acquires Manchester’s Fairhursts Design Group
WEBJun 25, 2024 — Historic Manchester-based practice Fairhursts Design Group has been acquired by Bond Bryan after going into administration. Bond Bryan chief executive Matt Hutton, left, and Fairhursts managing director Mark Adey, right. Bond Bryan bought the practice behind some of Manchester’s most famous listed buildings for …
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The Grenfell Inquiry’s final report: what to look out for
WEBAug 30, 2024 — The Grenfell Inquiry will present its conclusions on Wednesday more than seven years after the fire. Here’s a summary of the evidence the inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick has had to unpick. The scene outside the tower in the weeks after the fire. It has been seven years, one month and 27 days since the UK construction industry was ...