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William Sutton Prize 2025 launches with larger £125,000 prize pot. Clarion Housing Group has relaunched its ideas contest for radical concepts to transform the lives of social housing residents with a prize fund enlarged to £125,000 to celebrate its 125th anniversary [Deadline: 8 April 2025]

Oct 3, 2024 · Heritage Works for Housing provides detailed guidance on the process of converting a historic building for residential use, and sets out the current development context and priorities for the sector.. The guidance, which was commissioned by Historic England and drafted by Deloitte, includes expert advice on feasibility testing, stakeholder engagement, heritage appraisal, project concept and ...

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Nov 21, 2024 · I agree with you. I have been debating whether or not to renew my RIBA membership and I think that this may have made my mind up. Saudi Arabia has one of the most awful human rights records in the world, and the treatment of these construction workers is just another example.

Mar 13, 2024 · An unveiling event in Osaka last week (8 March) was attended by the UK ambassador to Japan, Julia Longbottom, and Osaka mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama following a £24 million competition launched last June for a pavilion design.. The King’s Cross-based practice says the UK pavilion, designed around the theme ‘Come Build the Future’, will be fully dismantlable following the event.

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Oct 11, 2024 · The project is intended as a ‘rapid, high-quality’ response to improve the museum’s arrival experience which currently involves an open-air queuing system and a series of temporary tent-like structures for security screening.

Introducing RetroFirst: a new AJ campaign championing reuse in the built environment. Amid the escalating climate crisis, Will Hurst introduces the AJ’s campaign to prioritise retrofitting existing buildings over demolition and rebuild