Architectural Social Media: Architecture Online

The Hampshire Observatory

Architectural Social Media: e-architect have revitalised their instagram feed after a few year’s of absence! we also are on facebook, twitter, google+, linkedin and pinterest: new building articles, architectural information + discussion for and about architects across the globe

Open-plan living design questions

Open-plan Living

Just moved home or about to renovate your living and kitchen space? The trend for opening up a property – removing walls to get that amazing feeling of space, as well as making your mark on your home or a new house – continues to grow.

pentahotels Experience: Accommodation Design

pentahotels Experience: Design

Original, unconventional, relaxed and stylish – these properties describe the unique overall experience of pentahotels. With its unmistakable pentastyle, the young, dynamic hotel brand is one of the first to have made its mark and established itself as a pioneer in the lifestyle hotel segment.

Ageing Roads & Bridges Technology: BIM

Ageing Roads, Highways & Bridges Technology

Better use of technology including GIS, LiDAR, GPR, GDC – Geospatial Data Collaboration & 3D Engineered Models is the key to address challenges of ageing infrastructure. Using these innovations and software like AutoCAD, Revit, ArchiCAD, Blender, 3D Max, governments or PPPs can yield significant savings in time, money, and materials.

Architectural Energy Depletion Architecture

60 Social Housing Apartments

The construction of a house in the UK is inherently depleting in terms of environment, energy, and resources. Construction of houses should be limited or prevented to allow adaptation to the effects of the current context of a century of climate change, depleting fossil fuel use and depleting energy, resource and environment humans are having to adapt to.

Architecture on TV Season at BFI Southbank

BFI IMAX London

This June the BFI Southbank will host a season exploring TV’s role in British architecture, with special screenings of rarely seen material and Q&As with experts and commentators; part of London Festival of Architecture 2016.

BIM Level 2 Mandate UK 2016: Structures Design

BIM level 2 Mandate UK 2016

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 Community engagement in construction in Pakistan

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, Wonders

Living Structure Comes From Patterns Capital Gate

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

Green Hotel Building Design Abu Dhabi

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

4D BIM Promotes Onsite Safety: Modeling

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