BBC Four Architecture Season: UK Buildings TV
A pair of documentaries by film-maker Nick Broomfield about two iconic British buildings threatened with demolition, with programmes also by Dan Cruickshank and Jonathan Meades.
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BIM Level 2 Mandate UK 2016: Structures Design
In 2011, the due date was set to deliver and embrace a UK standard for Building Information Modeling (BIM) crosswise over England for UK government offices. The primary drivers for that were several, however; it combined a whole lot of cost cutting in construction business across the UK.
Article 25 Charity Court Case, worker jailed
Article 25 – Built Environment charity news:
Scott Golding, 47, pleaded guilty to stealing £260,000 of funds from the humanitarian charity to pay for designer goods and rent: he has been jailed four years and eight months in prison.
Living Structure Comes From Patterns, Part 2
An environment that embodies living structure allows people to live life more fully, encouraged rather than inhibited by architecture.
Living Structure Comes From Patterns, Wonders
Patterns describe essential relationships among the elements of systems, and provide a unique and useful tool for handling and organizing complexity. This truth, embodied for centuries in the practice of creating human habitation, has in recent years been dissected and catalogued by science.
Green Hotel Building Design Abu Dhabi, UAE
Abu Dhabi’s economy stands on two pillars, first the oil industry and second construction. Now as we talk about the construction industry, this region was once labeled as the world’s biggest per capita contributors to CO emissions
Retail Building Safety, Shopping Center Buildings
Retail building safety, shopping centre architecture – article by Jane Embury – retail safety, shopping center buildings: architectural article, fire design
4D BIM Promotes Onsite Safety: Modeling
According to a recent survey by McGraw Hill Construction, companies using (BIM) Building information modeling are reportedly experiencing higher ROI, faster production, improved safety & less liabilities
Structural Marvels of the World: Major Buildings
It is in human nature to feel awed and inspired from things that have a superlative quality – the most beautiful, the tallest, the smallest or the most ancient of all.
Laser Scanning for BIM, 3D models + Revit design
When laser survey and point cloud modeling first arrived there was a sense of awe and wonder. As built structures were scanned and converted into 3D models so easily.
MEMBRANE dialogue: architecture and textile
This project inserts itself in the ancient dialogue between architecture and textile. It develops spatialities between the heavy and the light, the hard and the soft, the specific and the general
Continental architecture influence in England, UK
Although architects such as Sir Norman Foster have been very successful in bringing contemporary British architecture to the rest of the world, historically, the UK have been on the receiving end of many great architectural movements
Why you should build with steel, structural materials
Why You Should Build With Steel: design discussion – article by Bhushan Avsatthi – steel building, structural materials in architecture: architectural design
Hospital Architecture Designs, Healthcare Buildings
Today, the design of healthcare facilities and hospitals is driven by the need to create an environment of care and also to for the evolving nature of health care services.
Energy modeling & building simulation: VR design
Energy Modeling is the virtual representation of a building’s energy consumption, its utility bills, the lifecycle costs, and use of items related to and including but not limited to – air-conditioning, heating, water heating and ventilation, etc.
Neuroscience Research on Architecture Design
Alan Dunlop has expanded upon insights gleaned from pioneering work at hazelwood school, glasgow, to explore the growing impact of neuroscience research on architecture.
8 Spruce Street in New York City, Rippling Building
Developed by Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC), New York by Gehry at 8 Spruce Street is the first residential tower designed in New York City by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry