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Chelsom manufacturing in Britain for both standard and bespoke designs

Hotel Designs

Image credit: Chelsom It reads: “Chelsom has spent decades as a leading supplier of British designed lighting to projects around the world and has worked hard to ensure that the company only offers the very best quality manufacturing. If you are interested in becoming one of our Recommended Suppliers, please email Katy Phillips.

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"Putting architects in control will not solve the building safety crisis"

Deezen

Following the Grenfell Tower inquiry, architects must face up to their responsibility for Britain's building safety crisis instead of blaming contracts that lessen their influence, writes Peter Apps. The logic is that designs are downgraded and materials switched by profit-hungry contractors with an eye on their margin.

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Haworth Tompkins creates "sense of arrival and intrigue" with chainmail theatre entrance pavilion

Deezen

Built across a road that separates two cannon-manufacturing warehouses in Woolwich that will be used as a venue for Punchdrunk's immersive shows, the pavilion was designed to create a street presence for the venue. Contractor: CEH Contracts. Structural engineer: Price & Myers. Service engineer: Skelly & Couch.

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Woodinville Whiskey barrel storage facility by Graham Baba Architects

aasarchitecture

Leveraging the economy of prefabricated metal buildings, the team determined manufactured structures would provide a cost-effective way to create a lot of space while still preserving opportunities for customization. Highly crafted details are strategically located where they count the most—in places where they can be touched and seen.

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Gensler and WOOD-SKIN Breathe New Life into the Ballston Point Office Space

Architizer

We work as an extension of the firm’s team, in this case, the initial concept has been developed by the Gensler Team; WOOD-SKIN participated in the early stage of the design by re-modeling suggestions from the original concept and engineering such suggestions with our bio-mimicry knowledge and software. © WOOD—SKIN. © WOOD—SKIN.

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McGrath Road Housing, East London

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The Royal Fine Art Commission Trust unveiled the winners of its 2022 Building Beauty Awards, an architectural prize to celebrate buildings, engineering structures and urban landscaping schemes that add beauty to Britain’s built environment. Contract value: Confidential. Contractor company name: Mulalley Construction.

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Crisis in the Profession

Architects Tales

Contractor’s specification: Pound to Fit, Paint to Match Annoymous. Second, no third party could have standing to sue the architect because it lacked “privity” of contract and any tort exposure to third party law suit evaporated when the project was completed. Blog Story No. It is hard to say when the crisis began. National U.S.