Following a high standard and large volume of entrants into the RICS Renaissance Awards 2008, it has been announced that Walkergate Park Hospital has been short listed in the Community Benefit and the Sustainability category.
The category winners and overall Project of the Year winner will be announced on 18 April 2008.
Homes will require an EPC on construction or such conversion from 6 April 2008. Some commercial buildings will require an EPC on construction or such conversion from this date. More information on Energy Performance Certificates for the construction of a home and the timetable for phasing in EPC measures is available on the Communities and Local Government (CLG) website.
Tim Soar, photographer to the very best in architecture, was commissioned by the AJ to photograph 52 significant practices, with photos appearing each week in the AJ over a year and the shot you see above is P+HS in Stokesley. The series later included the 40 under 40 Corus/AJ winners. The photos initially appeared at an exhibition in London a little while ago.
He’s now widened that to around 100 to add major practices and these are featured in an enlarged exhibition currently on show at the RIBA, and each practice also has a display board illustrating the work of the practices. The Guardian recently published a review of the exhibition, which you can find here.
The exhibition is STILL on until FEBRUARY 29th at the RIBA - go an have a look if you can [CJP's going on Wed 27th].
With thanks to Lorna Soar for help, corrections and kind words!
Wk 26 of the Contract and work is being completed to the flat roofs and purlins, prior to the kingspan panels arrival on site. The facing brick is nearly complete, with blockwork continuing from first floor to eaves, this will provide a substrate for the timber cladding to the first floor.
The formwork for the central flat roof at Royston. to the centre are the upstands which will eventually support the Xtralite triple skin barrel vault skylights.
The formwork for the cast in-situ hopper room at Royston, which will gravity feed the biomass boiler on the ground floor below. The fuel are pellets which are pumped up from ground level from the delivery truck via a 300mm dia pipe that runs up the outside of the building
One Royston site workers innovative approach to reduce his and his mates Carbon footprint by car sharing.
My first post! I just rediscovered this old set of photos taken by CantikFotos of a derelict development in Taiwan. Unfortunately there’s not much explanation to go with the pictures, perhaps it’s just the abandoned set of a Taiwanese sci-fi film! In other photographs each of the saucers are brightly coloured, but these black and white photos are the most surreal.
Here’s the link to the full set on flickr
The MIMA in Middlesbrough’s Bauhaus exhibition closes on 17 Feb, for those who haven’t been there yet…check the site
