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This commercial center— located at the middle of a development zone in Shenzhen—creates a new neighborhood hub that knits the surrounding areas into a unified urban district.  The project sits in the middle of several important centers of life in... View Article

Manchester’s newest school, Chorlton High School South, has appointed BAM Construction to create its new teaching facilities designed by Pozzoni Architecture. BAM Construction, one of the largest contractors in Europe and one of the longest established in the UK, has... View Article

In Aix-en-Provence, Panorama Architecture delivers the extension to the research campus of the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme – MMSH, specialized in the Mediterranean World The architecture of this extension to the existing building of the MMSH has been designed in... View Article

New images have been released showing how the £1bn regeneration of Purfleet-on-Thames will transform the town centre and riverfront, with upgraded transport links sitting alongside new homes, social infrastructure and a 1m sq. ft. creative complex. Purfleet Centre Regeneration Limited... View Article

CHYBIK + KRISTOF Architects & Urban Designers unveil the design for the Senezh Management Lab campus, conceived in response to the associated international invited competition. Located in Solnechnogorsk, a lakeside town on the outskirts of Moscow, the competition invited leading... View Article

Moxon Architects has completed the restoration of two central civic buildings in the major fishing port of Fraserburgh, to form a single unified headquarters building for Aberdeenshire Council. As the flagship scheme of the Fraserburgh 2021 Townscape Heritage and Conservation... View Article

The municipality of Dordrecht in The Netherlands selected Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects to design its new House of the City and Region following an international competition. The 22,000-square-metre civic building will become Dordrecht’s most prominent public hub. The cultural anchor... View Article

Following the international design competition, Zaha Hadid Architects has been selected to build the new Shanghai headquarters of the China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP). CECEP is the country’s leading company initiating and funding projects with a focus... View Article

Architects should take a more considered approach to the origins of the plastic products in their specification, says Jon Chamberlain, Sales Director at Marshall-Tufflex. Here, he looks at the cable management industry in particular and the wider argument for an... View Article

Pembroke has won planning consent for a major project focused on health and wellbeing in the heart of London’s Square Mile, which will see it re-design the public gardens at 25 Cannon Street by creating a stunning new reflection pool... View Article

Light has often been cited as a symbol of hope with the power to unify people. At a time when we’re all searching for ways to be optimistic, London-based architectural lighting consultancy Nulty is encouraging us to look to light... View Article

Within the built environment, our focus is increasingly shifting towards both sustainable developments and staff wellbeing, and rightly so. Integrating green spaces is one of the most effective ways of successfully doing this. The exterior spaces at Stylus, 116 Old... View Article

LIGNA’s organisers, Deutsche Messe and the German Woodworking Machinery Manufacturers’ Association, are extending the show’s exhibitor early-bird discount period by two months. Early-bird discounts for the show (Hannover, Germany, 10–14 May 2020) now close on July 31, 2020. Christian Pfeiffer,... View Article

Like much of the UK, building products manufacturer, Forterra, has many of its colleagues presently working from home. As Britain enters its fifth week of lockdown, the question of how to be creative, as well as productive, outside your normal... View Article

With the steadily increasing incidence of the COVID-19 virus in the UK and beyond, RWC is closely monitoring the situation and evaluating the impact it will have on our employees, customers, operations and supply chain. We are closely following governmental... View Article