A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards 2017

Material Explorations and Material Tectonics Chile’s Atacama Desert and Edinburgh City by Naomi Rubbra

Paschalis Kyrtsopoulis scooped the RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver Medal for best Fifth Year Student for a bold, vigorous and dynamic proposal for a Scottish Youth Parliament and Ministry for Education.

London Festival of Architecture 2017: LFA

London: Design Capital buildings image from LFA

London Festival of Architecture news – the show is over but many events continue. This architectural festival showcases London as a city rich in memories drawn from all over the world. Events include Wolfgang Weileder: Laban Transferred and The Cass Summer Show.

Storefront IS Hong Kong Events

Storefront IS Hong Kong Event

Storefront for Art and Architecture, in partnership with the Hong-Kong based DESIGN TRUST (an initiative of the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design) presents Storefront International Series: Hong Kong (Storefront IS Hong Kong), a three-day series of events that discuss contested issues in contested sites across the city.

Women in Architecture, Construction Gender Equality

Jane Duncan RIBA Women in Architecture event

Time for change was the call at a conference organised by the University of Huddersfield’s School of Art, Design and Architecture. The Women in Architecture conference highlighted difficulties facing women succeeding in architecture and called for equality to be acknowledged and actively encouraged.

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Salk Institute

Design: Louis Kahn Architect. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies building dates from the 1960s. Salk had sought to make a beautiful campus in order to draw the best researchers in the world

The Surface & Materials Show 2017: NEC

The Surface and Materials Show 2017

The must-visit show for specifiers returns to NEC Birmingham, October 10-12 2017. New layout, new Kitchens & Bathrooms zone, dynamic education programme, innovation hub curated by Material Lab

Chartered Institute of Building UK: CIOB News

Coombe Cliff Conservatory Building Restoration

Following growing demand for ‘certified’ conservation specialists the Chartered Institute of Building launches the CIOB Building Conservation Certification Scheme. With 25% of the UK’s building stock pre-1919 most construction professionals will work on historic buildings at some point during their career.

Train and the City Exhibition, OMI Rotterdam event

KCAP Train and the City Exhibition in Rotterdam photo

Rotterdam Architecture Month 2017 offers a varied program. This exhibition takes the visitor on a journey along cities such as Brussels, Zurich, Amsterdam and London. A series of events around the show support this approach even more.

Vision 2017 in London Architecture Event

Vision 2017

On 6 June Vision 2017 will open its doors for the third iteration of the annual built environment exposition. The event promises to gather some of the best architects, designers, researchers, manufacturers and suppliers from across the UK and Europe, for two days of CPD-certified learning and networking.

Scottish Design Awards 2017

Scottish Design Awards 2017

Key winners news – Grand Prix: ORIAM – Scotland’s Performance Centre by Reiach and Hall Architects ; Chairman’s Award: the humble Culardoch Shieling by Moxon Architects ; Practice of the Year: Reiach and Hall Architects

Shenzhen Design Week 2017

Gateway One Shekou in Shenzhen landscape

As the core activity of Shenzhen Design Week, the forum was strongly supported by governments. About 300 Leaders, outstanding design experts, entrepreneurs and media representatives from 14 countries along the Silk Road has participated.

Vision 2017, London Event

Vision 2017 London Event

All-star line-up revealed: UNStudio, Zaha Hadid Architects, Gensler, Foster + Partners. The programme includes some of the biggest names across the built environment industry, alongside the brightest start-ups and world-renowned experts.