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Building Design+Construction
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Building Design+Construction is a trade publication and web site serving the information needs of designing, building, and owning firms in the non-residential construction industry. Established in 1950, Building Design+Construction is published 12 times per year, in 2010, former owner Reed Business Information sold the magazine to MB Media, who was acquired by SGC Horizon, LLC. BD+Cs editorial focus is on the Building Team—architects, engineers, contractors, monthly departments included News, IT, On the Drawing Board New Projects Portfolio, Interior Solutions, Core and Shell solutions, and Building Technology. BDCuniversity. com is Building Design+Constructions online educational platform dedicated to the education of architects, engineers, contractors, bD+C had won multiple industry awards for its print publication, associated annual white paper on sustainability, and its website. As of June 2011, total BPA circulation was 75,337 subscribers, BPA Worldwide Building Design + Construction website Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc. - Website Building Design + Constructions Continuing Education website
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Architecture
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Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings and other physical structures. Architectural works, in the form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements, Architecture can mean, A general term to describe buildings and other physical structures. The art and science of designing buildings and nonbuilding structures, the style of design and method of construction of buildings and other physical structures. A unifying or coherent form or structure Knowledge of art, science, technology, the design activity of the architect, from the macro-level to the micro-level. The practice of the architect, where architecture means offering or rendering services in connection with the design and construction of buildings. The earliest surviving work on the subject of architecture is De architectura. According to Vitruvius, a building should satisfy the three principles of firmitas, utilitas, venustas, commonly known by the original translation – firmness, commodity. An equivalent in modern English would be, Durability – a building should stand up robustly, utility – it should be suitable for the purposes for which it is used. Beauty – it should be aesthetically pleasing, according to Vitruvius, the architect should strive to fulfill each of these three attributes as well as possible. Leon Battista Alberti, who elaborates on the ideas of Vitruvius in his treatise, De Re Aedificatoria, saw beauty primarily as a matter of proportion, for Alberti, the rules of proportion were those that governed the idealised human figure, the Golden mean. The most important aspect of beauty was, therefore, an inherent part of an object, rather than something applied superficially, Gothic architecture, Pugin believed, was the only true Christian form of architecture. The 19th-century English art critic, John Ruskin, in his Seven Lamps of Architecture, Architecture was the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by men. That the sight of them contributes to his health, power. For Ruskin, the aesthetic was of overriding significance and his work goes on to state that a building is not truly a work of architecture unless it is in some way adorned. For Ruskin, a well-constructed, well-proportioned, functional building needed string courses or rustication, but suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say, This is beautiful, le Corbusiers contemporary Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. The notable 19th-century architect of skyscrapers, Louis Sullivan, promoted an overriding precept to architectural design, function came to be seen as encompassing all criteria of the use, perception and enjoyment of a building, not only practical but also aesthetic, psychological and cultural
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UBM plc
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UBM plc is a global business-to-business events organiser headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It has a history as a multinational media company. UBM is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE250 Index, the history of the companies that now make up UBM stretches back almost two hundred years. UBM businesses still publish many other titles that were launched in the 19th century, including Building magazine, launched in 1843 by Joseph Hansom, the company was founded in 1918 as United Newspapers by David Lloyd George to acquire the Daily Chronicle and Lloyds Weekly Newspaper. In 1929, the merged with Provincial Newspapers, an owner of regional papers in the north. The company continued for decades as a newspaper publisher, making acquisitions such as Yorkshire Post Newspapers in 1969. It acquired PR Newswire in 1982, in 1985, it bought Express Newspapers and continued to publish the Daily Express for some 15 years. It changed its name to United News & Media in 1995, sold its regional papers in 1998, in 2000, it sold the Daily Express to Richard Desmond and adopted the name of United Business Media. It went on to acquire Commonwealth Business Media for $152 million in 2006, in 2008, UBM moved its tax headquarters to Ireland, but in 2012, the company announced its intent to move its tax base back to the United Kingdom. In 2012, PA Group, the parent company of the Press Association, by 2015, UBM had rebranded itself as primarily focused on B2B events. Reflecting this,82 percent of its business in 2016 derived from events, MAI was part of a consortium which bid for the ITV south and south east area, which formed Meridian Broadcasting in 1991. In 1996, MAI merged with United Newspapers to form United News & Media, the resulting company owned the Daily Express newspaper, Meridian, Anglia, and a large shareholding in Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television, the owners of Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees Television. The stake in Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television was sold to Granada, United News and Media later agreed to buy Scottish Televisions 20% stake in HTV and on 28 June 1997, HTV was taken over fully by UNM for £370 million. In 1999, plans emerged of a merger between UNM and rival Carlton, however these failed when it appeared that Meridian would have to be sold off as a condition of the deal. In 2005 UBM re-focused on two businesses, PR Newswire, a global news distribution business, and CMP, an international events, print. It disposed of NOP which was acquired by GfK for £383 million in 2005, in September 2006, NewBay Media acquired CMP Entertainment Media from United Business Media. On 1 July 2008, as part of a reorganisation of the structure of the Group, United Business Media Limited was created as a new holding company. UBML is UK-listed and incorporated in Jersey, in 2010 the principal holding company of the United Business Media group was organised into five operating segments, Events, TD & M, Data Services, Online and Print
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
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International Standard Serial Number
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An International Standard Serial Number is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication. The ISSN is especially helpful in distinguishing between serials with the same title, ISSN are used in ordering, cataloging, interlibrary loans, and other practices in connection with serial literature. The ISSN system was first drafted as an International Organization for Standardization international standard in 1971, ISO subcommittee TC 46/SC9 is responsible for maintaining the standard. When a serial with the content is published in more than one media type. For example, many serials are published both in print and electronic media, the ISSN system refers to these types as print ISSN and electronic ISSN, respectively. The format of the ISSN is an eight digit code, divided by a hyphen into two four-digit numbers, as an integer number, it can be represented by the first seven digits. The last code digit, which may be 0-9 or an X, is a check digit. Formally, the form of the ISSN code can be expressed as follows, NNNN-NNNC where N is in the set, a digit character. The ISSN of the journal Hearing Research, for example, is 0378-5955, where the final 5 is the check digit, for calculations, an upper case X in the check digit position indicates a check digit of 10. To confirm the check digit, calculate the sum of all eight digits of the ISSN multiplied by its position in the number, the modulus 11 of the sum must be 0. There is an online ISSN checker that can validate an ISSN, ISSN codes are assigned by a network of ISSN National Centres, usually located at national libraries and coordinated by the ISSN International Centre based in Paris. The International Centre is an organization created in 1974 through an agreement between UNESCO and the French government. The International Centre maintains a database of all ISSNs assigned worldwide, at the end of 2016, the ISSN Register contained records for 1,943,572 items. ISSN and ISBN codes are similar in concept, where ISBNs are assigned to individual books, an ISBN might be assigned for particular issues of a serial, in addition to the ISSN code for the serial as a whole. An ISSN, unlike the ISBN code, is an identifier associated with a serial title. For this reason a new ISSN is assigned to a serial each time it undergoes a major title change, separate ISSNs are needed for serials in different media. Thus, the print and electronic versions of a serial need separate ISSNs. Also, a CD-ROM version and a web version of a serial require different ISSNs since two different media are involved, however, the same ISSN can be used for different file formats of the same online serial
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High-tech architecture
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High-tech architecture appeared as revamped modernism, an extension of those previous ideas helped by even more technological advances. This category serves as a bridge between modernism and post-modernism, however, there remain gray areas as to one category ends. In the 1980s, high-tech architecture became more difficult to distinguish from post-modern architecture, some of its themes and ideas were later absorbed into the style of Neo-Futurism art and architectural movement. In buildings such as the Pompidou Centre, this idea of revealed structure is taken to the extreme, in this case, the use of structural steel is a stylistic or aesthetic matter. Early high-tech buildings were referred to by historian Reyner Banham as serviced sheds due to their exposure of mechanical services in addition to the structure, most of these early examples used exposed structural steel as their material of choice. As hollow structural sections had become widely available in the early 1970s. Buildings in this style were constructed mainly in North America. It is deeply connected with what is called the Second School of Chicago which emerged after World War II, the main content is that the technological kind of construction, mostly with steel and glass, is expressed in a formal independent way to gain aesthetic qualities from it. The first proper example are the 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments by German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, potter, New York. —found in industrial catalogues and putting these to use in residential settings. The foreword to the book by architect Emilio Ambasz, former curator of design at the Museum of Modern Art, put the trend in historical context. As a result of the publicity and popularity of the book, the style became known as High-Tech. In 1979, the term high-tech appeared for the first time in a New Yorker magazine cartoon showing a woman berating her husband for not being enough, Youre middle-, middle-. But credit should go to a shop on 64th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York, Ad Hoc Housewares, which opened in 1977, for marketing these objects to a residential audience before anyone else. The book went on to be reprinted in England, France, and Japan, high-tech architecture was, in some ways, a response to growing disillusionment with modern architecture. The realization of Le Corbusiers urban development plans led to cities with monotonous, enthusiasm for economic building led to extremely low-quality finishes, with subsequent degradation countering a now-waning aesthetic novelty. High-tech architecture created a new aesthetic in contrast with modern architecture. In High Tech, The Industrial Style and Source Book for The Home, when discussing the high-tech aesthetic and this humour so aptly demonstrates the rebellious attitude. A prime example of this is the Centre Pompidou in Paris and this highlights one of the aims of high-tech architecture, to show the technical elements of the building by externalizing them
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Carbuncle Cup
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The Carbuncle Cup is an architecture prize, given annually by the magazine Building Design to the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months. It is intended to be a response to the prestigious Stirling Prize. The Carbuncle Cup award was launched in 2006, with the first winner being Drake Circus Shopping Centre in Plymouth by Chapman Taylor, a shortlist is announced by Building Design each year, based on nominations from the public, and usually timed to coincide with the Stirling Prize shortlist. Public voting via the website was used to select past winners. Since 2009 a small group of critics has selected the final winners, the award was inspired by the Carbuncle Awards, which the Scottish architecture magazine Urban Realm, formerly Prospect, had been presenting to buildings and areas in Scotland since 2000. The first shortlist was announced in October 2006, and featured ten buildings, seven buildings were shortlisted in 2007. Opal Court, a student housing complex in Leicester, was voted the winner in October, the 2008 shortlist of seven buildings was announced in early October. A longlist of ten buildings was announced in August 2009, grosvenor Group, the developer of One Park West, organised a group hug of the building, following its nomination. The jury in 2010 comprised Jonathan Glancey, Owen Hatherley, Amanda Baillieu, the shortlist of six was announced in July, and the Strata building was announced as the winner in August. The article described the tower as, Decked out with Philishave stylings, the shortlist of six was announced in July. The shortlist of six was announced in July, In August, the shortlist of six was announced in August 2013. The winner was announced later that month as 465 Caledonian Road. The shortlist of six was announced in August 2014, the winner was announced in September 2014 as Woolwich Central, a Sheppard Robson-designed mixed-use scheme in south east London. The winner was announced in September 2015 as 20 Fenchurch Street, the winner was announced in September 2016 as Lincoln Plaza, designed by Hamiltons Architects and delivered by BUJ Architects
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20 Fenchurch Street
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20 Fenchurch Street is a commercial skyscraper in London that takes its name from its address on Fenchurch Street, in the historic City of London financial district. It has been nicknamed The Walkie-Talkie because of its distinctive shape, construction was completed in spring 2014, and the top-floor sky garden was opened in January 2015. The 34-storey building is 160 m tall, making it the sixth-tallest building in the City of London, designed by architect Rafael Viñoly and costing over £200 million,20 Fenchurch Street features a highly distinctive top-heavy form which appears to burst upward and outward. A large viewing deck, bar and restaurants are included on the top three floors, these are, with restrictions, open to the public. The tower was proposed at nearly 200 m tall but its design was scaled down after concerns about its visual impact on the nearby St Pauls Cathedral. It was subsequently approved in 2006 with the revised height, even after the height reduction there were continued concerns from heritage groups about its impact on the surrounding area. The project was consequently the subject of an inquiry, in 2007 this ruled in the developers favour. In 2015 it was awarded the Carbuncle Cup for the worst new building in the UK in the previous 12 months, the previous building at 20 Fenchurch Street was 91 m tall with 25 storeys and was built in 1968 by Land Securities. The architect was William H. Rogers, the building was formerly occupied by Dresdner Kleinwort and was notable for being one of the first tall buildings in the City of London, and for its distinctive roof. It was one of the towers nearest to the River Thames when viewed from the end of London Bridge. In 2007, one of the floors was used in the drama series Party Animals. Demolition of the building was completed in 2008, the new tower at 20 Fenchurch Street was designed by Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly in a postmodern style. The top-heavy design is intended to maximise floor space towards the top of the building. The building utilises double and triple-glazed panelised aluminium cladding on its exterior, the garden spans the top three floors, which are accessible by two express lifts and include a large viewing area, terrace, bar and two restaurants. Fourteen double-deck lifts serve the office floors of the building. The south side of the structure is ventilated externally to improve efficiency and decrease solar gain, there is a southern entrance in addition to the main northern entrance set back from Fenchurch Street. In January 2009, Canary Wharf Contractors began piling on the site of 20 Fenchurch Street, piling and ground works were completed in June 2009. In January 2011, work at the basement level of the tower began, by the end of October 2011, the building was rising above street-level
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City of London
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The City of London is a city and county within London. It constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st century AD to the Middle Ages, the City is now only a tiny part of the metropolis of London, though it remains a notable part of central London. Administratively, it one of the 33 local authority districts of Greater London, however, the City of London is not a London borough. The City of London is widely referred to simply as the City and is colloquially known as the Square Mile. Both of these terms are often used as metonyms for the United Kingdoms trading and financial services industries. The name London is now used for a far wider area than just the City. London most often denotes the sprawling London metropolis, or the 32 London boroughs and this wider usage of London is documented as far back as 1888, when the County of London was created. The local authority for the City, namely the City of London Corporation, is unique in the UK and has some unusual responsibilities for a local council and it is also unusual in having responsibilities and ownerships beyond its boundaries. The Corporation is headed by the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the current Lord Mayor, as of November 2016, is Andrew Parmley. The City is a business and financial centre. Throughout the 19th century, the City was the primary business centre. London came top in the Worldwide Centres of Commerce Index, published in 2008, the insurance industry is focused around the eastern side of the City, around Lloyds building. A secondary financial district exists outside of the City, at Canary Wharf,2.5 miles to the east, the City has a resident population of about 7,000 but over 300,000 people commute to and work there, mainly in the financial services sector. It used to be held that Londinium was first established by merchants as a trading port on the tidal Thames in around 47 AD. However, this date is only supposition, many historians now believe London was founded some time before the Roman conquest of Britain in 43 AD. They base this notion on evidence provided by both archaeology and Welsh literary legend, archaeologists have claimed that as much as half of the best British Iron Age art and metalwork discovered in Britain has been found in the London area. One of the most prominent examples is the famously horned Waterloo Helmet dredged from the Thames in the early 1860s and now exhibited at the British Museum. Also, according to an ancient Welsh legend, a king named Lud son of Heli substantially enlarged and improved a pre-existing settlement at London which afterwards came to be renamed after him, the same tradition relates how this Lud son of Heli was later buried at Ludgate
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Sheppard Robson
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Sheppard Robson is a British architecture firm, founded in 1938 by Sir Richard Herbert Sheppard, with offices in London, Manchester, Glasgow, and Abu Dhabi. The latter project was cited as exemplifying “a new generation has emerged, the practice has offices in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Abu Dhabi and in the 2000s established an award-winning interior design group, ID, SR Sheppard Robson. The company’s first big success was the Jicwood Bungalow in 1944, by 1950 the company had built a reputation for large modern projects, and Richard Sheppard had a new business partner, Geoffrey Robson, who added his name to the company’s. At first they specialized in schools, building more than 80 in the 1950s, in 1958 the company won a competition to design a science college and memorial to Winston Churchill - Churchill College, Cambridge. Later they branched out into public buildings, and by the 1970s they had built a strong reputation in commercial. Many of these were important landmarks in the development of sustainable architecture, lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, completed in 2010, was the first college or university to win a BREEAM Outstanding rating for sustainability. The Helicon was an early sustainable office/shop building, and MediaCityUK was built as a sustainable community, Sheppard Robson has four offices in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Abu Dhabi, and about three hundred and fifty employees, mostly architects. At the moment, Sheppard Robson is the fourth biggest architectural practice in the UK
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Cutty Sark
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Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. She continued as a ship until purchased in 1922 by retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman. After his death, Cutty Sark was transferred to the Thames Nautical Training College, by 1954, she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London, for public display. Cutty Sark is listed by National Historic Ships as part of the National Historic Fleet, the ship has been damaged by fire twice in recent years, first on 21 May 2007 while undergoing conservation. She was restored and was reopened to the public on 25 April 2012, on 19 October 2014 she was damaged in a smaller fire. Cutty Sark was ordered by shipping magnate John Willis, who operated a company founded by his father. The company had a fleet of clippers and regularly took part in the tea trade from China to Britain. In 1868 the brand new Aberdeen built clipper Thermopylae set a time of 61 days port to port on her maiden voyage from London to Melbourne. It is uncertain how the shape for Cutty Sark was chosen. Willis chose Hercules Linton to design and build the ship but Willis already possessed another ship, The Tweed, which he considered to have exceptional performance. The Tweed was a designed by Oliver Lang based on the lines of an old French frigate. She and a ship were purchased by Willis, who promptly sold the second ship plus engines from The Tweed for more than he paid for both. The Tweed was then lengthened and operated as a fast sailing vessel, Willis also commissioned two all-iron clippers with designs based upon The Tweed, Halloween and Blackadder. Linton was taken to view The Tweed in dry dock, Willis considered that The Tweeds bow shape was responsible for its notable performance, and this form seems to have been adopted for Cutty Sark. Linton, however, felt that the stern was too barrel shaped, the broader stern increased the buoyancy of the ships stern, making it lift more in heavy seas so it was less likely that waves would break over the stern, and over the helmsman at the wheel. The square bilge was carried forward through the centre of the ship, in the matter of masts Cutty Sark also followed the design of The Tweed, with similar good rake and with the foremast on both ships being placed further aft than was usual. A contract for Cutty Sarks construction was signed on 1 February 1869 with the firm of Scott & Linton and their shipyard was at Dumbarton on the River Leven on a site previously occupied by shipbuilders William Denny & Brothers. The contract required the ship to be completed six months at a contracted price of £17 per ton
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Grimshaw Architects
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Grimshaw Architects is an architectural firm based in London. Founded in 1980 by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, the firm was one of the pioneers of high-tech architecture, the firm currently has offices in London, Melbourne, Sydney, and New York City. The firm has produced four exhibitions, Structure Space + Skin, Fusion, Equilibrium. The latest exhibition, Equation, Design Inspired by Nature, launched on Wednesday, Equation explores a series of themes that investigate biomimicry, biophilia and ecosystems and their influence on design
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MediaCityUK
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MediaCityUK is a 200-acre mixed-use property development site on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in Salford and Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The project is being developed by Peel Media, and its tenants are media organisations. The land occupied by the development was part of the Port of Manchester and Manchester Docks, the BBC signalled its intention to move jobs to Manchester in 2004, and the Salford Quays site was chosen in 2006. The Peel Group was granted planning permission to develop the site in 2007, based in Quay House, the principal tenant is the BBC, whose move marks a large-scale decentralisation from London. The Studios on Broadway houses seven high-definition studios, claimed to be the largest such facility in Europe, MediaCityUK is to be developed in two phases. The 36-acre first phase was completed in 2011, and the second is dependent on its success, Metrolink, Greater Manchesters light-rail system, was extended to MediaCityUK with the opening of the MediaCityUK tram stop on 20 September 2010 and further extensions are planned. Road access was improved by the construction of Broadway Link Road, the Quays development includes The Lowry Arts Centre and the Imperial War Museum North. A total of 200 acres of land was earmarked for the development of MediaCityUK, the first phase of its development was primarily focused on a 36-acre site at Pier 9 on Salford Quays. In 2010 it was announced that the ITV production centre would be built on Trafford Wharf in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford. In 2003 reports emerged that, as part of the plans for the renewal of its Royal Charter, early discussions involved a plan where the BBC would move to a new media village proposed by Granada Television at its Bonded Warehouse site at Granada Studios in the city. Proposals to relocate 1,800 jobs to Manchester were unveiled by BBC Director General, Mark Thompson, the BBC justified the move as its spending per head was low in northern England where it had low approval ratings and its facilities at New Broadcasting House in Manchester needed replacing. The site at Salford Quays was chosen in June 2006 and the north was conditional on a satisfactory licence fee settlement from the government. In the same month the BBC Trust approved moving five London-based departments to the development, the departments to be moved were Sport, Childrens, Learning, Future Media and Technology and Radio Five Live. Construction started in 2007 with the owner, Peel Group as developer. The media facilities opened in stages from 2007, the first facility being the Pie Factory, which was located in a refurbished bakery. It featured three sound stages suitable for drama productions and commercials. In January 2011 Peel Media received planning permission to convert on-site offices used by Bovis Lend Lease during the construction of the first phase into the Greenhouse, the first trial show took place in November 2010 in Studio HQ2. The half-hour test show featured a power failure and a fire drill, the first programme filmed at MediaCityUK was Dont Scare the Hare in February 2011, and the first to transfer was A Question of Sport, the same month
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WilkinsonEyre
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WilkinsonEyre is one of the UKs leading architectural practices, based in London, England. After gaining experience in a number of top UK practices, Chris Wilkinson set up Chris Wilkinson Architects in 1983 and he formed a partnership with Jim Eyre in 1987, with the practice registered as Wilkinson Eyre Architects in 1999. Following an internal restructuring, the company was re-registered under the name in April 2006. Chris Wilkinson is the founder of WilkinsonEyre and he has been an external examiner for the Mackintosh School of Art, Westminster University and the Bartlett School of Architecture and has been a Commissioner of English Heritage. He is Patron of the Civic Trust Awards and currently chairs the Client Committee at the Royal Academy and he is also the author of Supersheds and co-author of Bridging Art & Science, Exploring Boundaries, Tectonics and Works. Jim Eyre is a director of the London-based architecture practice WilkinsonEyre where he has led the design on many of the practice’s cultural, commercial. Jim was awarded an OBE in the 2003 Honours list for services to architecture and was made Honorary Doctor of Laws at Liverpool University in 2009 and he has taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and the Illinois Institute of Technology. His publications include The Architecture of Bridge Design and the practice’s Exploring Boundaries and he has lectured at home and internationally, including at Yale, Berkeley, the Bauhaus, the Soane Museum, the RIBA and at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. In 2015 Jim was awarded The Bodley Medal for his contribution to the transformation of the New Bodleian into a library for special collections. In 2013, they were appointed as architects for the redevelopment of the Battersea Power Station in London, south Quay Footbridge, London Docklands Suzhou-Nantong Crossing Swansea Sail Bridge Tensegrity Bridge, National Building Museum, Washington, D. C
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Strata SE1
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Strata SE1, nicknamed Razor or Electric Razor, is a 148-metre, 43-storey building at Elephant and Castle in the London Borough of Southwark in London. Designed by BFLS, it is one of the tallest residential buildings in London, Strata SE1 is located on the site of Castle House, an early 1960s six-storey office building, which was the first commercial premises at the newly rebuilt Elephant and Castle. When completed, Castle House was warmly received, 25% of the buildings flats have been sold by Family Mosaic Housing Association for shared-ownership sale. Only the open-market flats have access to car-parking, the 39th floor features a Sky Lobby, while the living area is topped by a £2. 5m three-bedroom duplex penthouse. The ground floor comprises two commercial units, a third one is located in the Pavilion, along with a kiosk. The top of the building features three wind turbines, the building has its own extranet site, named inhabit. The one-level basement of the building contains a car park and 437 bicycle storage places. The building features prominently in the novel, Ice Diaries. The current tower was first proposed in 2005, construction began in 2007 and was completed in June 2010, the cost is estimated at £113.5 million. The building was topped out in June 2009, the turbines were installed in May 2010. During the demolition of Castle House to clear land for Strata and he was employed by 777 Demolition and Haulage Company Ltd, which was served with a Prohibition Notice by the Health & Safety Executive. An inquest was due to be held at Inner London South Coroners Court, in November 2015, both companies were fined by the several hundred thousand pounds as a result of their negligence. Strata SE1 is one of the first buildings in the world to incorporate wind turbines as part of its structure, randoll, the engineering consultancy involved with the Bahrain World Trade Center, which also features wind turbines, was involved in the project. The three 9-metre wind turbines at the top of the building are rated at 19 kW each and are anticipated to produce a combined 50MWh of electricity per year. The building exceeds by 13% the current UK regulations relating to sustainability, featured on-site is a combined heat and power system to provide sustainable power generation, with a provision for the collection of rainwater for re-use. The energy costs per flat are envisaged to be up to 40% less than Britains typical housing average, the building is clad in a bespoke high thermal performing facade with an air permeability leakage rate that is apparently 50% better than current building regulations. The judges commented, This building is striking architecturally, a feat of construction on this restricted site. They particularly singled out Strata’s innovative column strategy, the award celebrates outstanding engineering achievement by companies, organisations, and individuals in the capital
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Drake Circus Shopping Centre
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Drake Circus Shopping Centre is a 425,000 square feet covered shopping mall in the centre of Plymouth, England, which opened in October 2006. The new building was designed by London-based architects Chapman Taylor and built by Bovis Lend Lease, situated behind the ruined Charles Church, preserved as the citys civilian war memorial, the building provoked a mixed reception. Just after it opened, the centre won the inaugural Carbuncle Cup for crimes against architecture. In 2007 it won two retail industry national awards, one of which was the Retail Week magazines Shopping Location of the Year, the term circus as used here refers to an open space, usually circular, where a number of roads meet. Drake Circus was originally an oval roundabout built in the early 20th century at the junction of four main roads. The circus survived the Plymouth Blitz of World War II relatively intact, but it was demolished in 1966-7 as part of the Plan for Plymouth, around this time the lower section of the main road to Tavistock off this new roundabout was renamed Drake Circus. A two-level shopping centre with open malls and a large C&A store was built and it opened in 1971 and was also named Drake Circus. Initial proposals to redevelop this mall in the early 1990s failed, the scheme suffered a setback in January 2005 when Allders went into administration. New tenants Next and Primark committed in 2005 and the building opened in October 2006, on 3 February 2005 it was announced that the shopping centre had been sold by P&O Estates to Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund for £55m. On 20 November 2006 it was announced that Kandahar Real Estate had taken a 50 per cent stake in the centre, the centre was bought by British Land for £240 million in January 2011. In 2007, the centres management introduced a code of conduct which, like one the Bluewater centre introduced in 2005, banned hooded tops, official website BBC Devon special feature on Drake Circus
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Robin Hood Gardens
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Robin Hood Gardens is a residential estate in Poplar, London designed in the late 1960s by architects Alison and Peter Smithson and completed in 1972. The landlord is Tower Hamlets Council, the estate comprises two long curved blocks facing each other across a central green space, and in total covers 1.5 hectares. The blocks are of ten and seven storeys, built from precast concrete slabs, in the central green area is a small man-made hill. The flats themselves are a mixture of apartments and two-storey maisonettes. The complex is 200m north of Blackwall DLR station, with its links to the City of London. It is within sight of the nearby Balfron Tower, both are highly visible examples of Brutalist architecture, an earlier attempt, supported by a number of notable architects, to head off redevelopment by getting the estate listed status, was rejected by the government in 2009. However, English Heritage did not back the proposal, with its commissioners overruling the advice of its own advisory committee, a residents own survey, published in Building Design in June 2009, found that 80% of residents wanted it refurbished. In October 2009, opposition councillor Tim Archer accused the Council of ignoring maintenance problems to residents to move out. It plans to provide 1,600 new homes in this area along with improvements to the primary school, in April 2010, Tower Hamlets shortlisted groups of architects, housing associations and developers to undertake the £500 million project. Before the final announcement, the designs for replacement buildings were condemned in The Observer as generic developers fare, with. Swan Housing Association was selected, with a plan to replace the current broader green-lined estate of 252 homes with up to 1,700, of which 700 would be for social housing and shared ownership. It would also open space, community facilities, and better connections to the surrounding area. The demolition plans were passed by Tower Hamlets Council on 15 March 2012, final planning approval for the redevelopment scheme was given in December 2012, however, despite reports that demolition has begun, as at March 2016 no part of the estate had been demolished. Some flats were empty and boarded up, others were still occupied, the project was the subject of a BBC documentary The Smithsons on Housing, made by B. S. Johnson, in which both Smithsons are interviewed. In other places you see doors painted and pot plants outside houses, the arts of occupation. In Robin Hood you dont see this if someone were to put anything out it people will break it. Asked why he felt this was the case, Smithson cited social jealousy, he went on to say, The week it opened, people would shit in the lifts
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Poplar, London
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Poplar is an historical, mainly residential area of East London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is about 5.5 miles east of Charing Cross, historically a hamlet in the parish of Stepney, Middlesex, in 1817 Poplar became a civil parish. In 1855 the Poplar District of the Metropolis was formed, which also included Bromley, the district became the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar in 1900 which was abolished in 1965. The district centre is Chrisp Street Market, Poplar contains notable examples of public housing including the Lansbury Estate and Balfron Tower. Architecturally it is a mixture of 18th and 19th-century terraced houses, st Matthias Old Church is located on Poplar High Street, opposite Tower Hamlets College. It is next to Poplar Town Hall – which has mosaic detail – and Poplar Bowls Club, a recently reopened sports centre called The Workhouse stands on the site of Poplar Workhouse, where local politician Will Crooks spent some of his earliest years. The Metropolitan Borough of Poplar was the location, in 1921, of the Poplar Rates Rebellion, led by the Mayor, George Lansbury, who was later elected as leader of the Labour Party. As part of the 1951 Festival of Britain, a new housing estate was built to the north of the East India Dock Road. This estate includes Chrisp Street Market, which was commended by Lewis Mumford. Other notable buildings in Poplar include Poplar Baths, which reopened in 2016 having finally closed in 1988, during the development of the Isle of Dogs the street signs pointed to the new development, and Poplar was lost for a decade or more. The following year, tenants on further estates voted to remain with the Council, although many people associate wartime bombing with The Blitz during World War II, the first airborne terror campaign in Britain took place during the First World War. Air raids in World War One caused significant damage and took many lives, German raids on Britain, for example, caused 1,413 deaths and 3,409 injuries. Air raids provided a means of striking at resources vital to an enemys war effort. The East End of London was one of the most heavily targeted places, Poplar, in particular, was struck badly by some of the air raids during the First World War. Initially these were at night by Zeppelins which bombed the area indiscriminately, the first daylight bombing attack on London by a fixed-wing aircraft took place on 13 June 1917. Fourteen German Gotha G bombers led by Hauptmann Ernst Brandenberg flew over Essex and it was a hot day and the sky was hazy, nevertheless, onlookers in Londons East End were able to see a dozen or so big aeroplanes scintillating like so many huge silver dragonflies. These three-seater bombers were carrying shrapnel bombs which were dropped just before noon, numerous bombs fell in rapid succession in various districts. In the East End alone 104 people were killed,154 seriously injured and 269 slightly injured, the gravest incident that day was a direct hit on a primary school in Poplar
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Listed building
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A listed building or listed structure, in the United Kingdom, is one that has been placed on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. The statutory bodies maintaining the list are Historic England in England, Cadw in Wales, Historic Scotland in Scotland, however, the preferred term in Ireland is protected structure. In England and Wales, an amenity society must be notified of any work to a listed building which involves any element of demolition. Owners of listed buildings are, in circumstances, compelled to repair and maintain them. When alterations are permitted, or when listed buildings are repaired or maintained, slightly different systems operate in each area of the United Kingdom, though the basic principles of the listing remain the same. It was the damage to caused by German bombing during World War II that prompted the first listing of buildings that were deemed to be of particular architectural merit. The listings were used as a means of determining whether a building should be rebuilt if it was damaged by bombing. Listing was first introduced into Northern Ireland under the Planning Order 1972, the listing process has since developed slightly differently in each part of the UK. In the UK, the process of protecting the historic environment is called ‘designation’. A heritage asset is a part of the environment that is valued because of its historic. Only some of these are judged to be important enough to have legal protection through designation. However, buildings that are not formally listed but still judged as being of heritage interest are still regarded as being a consideration in the planning process. Almost anything can be listed – it does not have to be a building, Buildings and structures of special historic interest come in a wide variety of forms and types, ranging from telephone boxes and road signs, to castles. Historic England has created twenty broad categories of structures, and published selection guides for each one to aid with assessing buildings and these include historical overviews and describe the special considerations for listing each category. Both Historic Scotland and Cadw produce guidance for owners, in England, to have a building considered for listing or delisting, the process is to apply to the secretary of state, this can be done by submitting an application form online to Historic England. The applicant does not need to be the owner of the building to apply for it to be listed, full information including application form guidance notes are on the Historic England website. Historic England assesses buildings put forward for listing or delisting and provides advice to the Secretary of State on the architectural, the Secretary of State, who may seek additional advice from others, then decides whether or not to list or delist the building. In England and Wales the authority for listing is granted to the Secretary of State by the Planning Act 1990, Listed buildings in danger of decay are listed on the Historic England Heritage at Risk Register
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Andrew Gilligan
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Andrew Paul Gilligan is a British journalist, currently senior correspondent of The Sunday Times and head of the Capital City Foundation at Policy Exchange. Between 2013 and 2016 he also worked as cycling commissioner for London and he is best known for a 2003 report on BBC Radio 4s The Today Programme in which he described a British government briefing paper on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction as sexed up. He has also been a nominee for the Paul Foot Award, the Orwell Prize and he was also a member of Cambridge Universities Labour Club. In 1994, he joined the Cambridge Evening News, then in 1995 he moved to The Sunday Telegraph where he became a specialist reporter on defence. In 1999, he was recruited by the editor of BBC Radio 4s Today programme, Rod Liddle, as Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent. In May 2003, Gilligan made a broadcast in which he claimed that the British Government had sexed up a report in order to exaggerate the WMD capabilities of Saddam Hussein. Gilligan resigned from the BBC in 2004, in the wake of the Hutton Inquiry, Gilligan described the BBC collectively as the victim of a grave injustice. After resigning from the BBC in early 2004, Gilligan was offered a job at The Spectator by its editor, Boris Johnson, later that year Gilligan joined the London Evening Standard. He was named Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2008 for his work on the London Mayoral elections, in 2009 Gilligan became London editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. He has also been a presenter for LBC radio. On 22 November 2011, Gilligan criticised the Leveson Inquiry in an appearance before the House of Lords communications committee, in January 2013, Gilligan was appointed as the Cycling Commissioner for London by the Mayor, Boris Johnson. Accusations of cronyism were made following the appointment as Gilligan was considered instrumental in toppling the Mayors main rival Ken Livingstone and he helped deliver Londons first segregated cycle superhighways and was subsequently given an award by the London Cycling Campaign for his outstanding contribution to cycling. In May 2016, the Telegraph had to apologise and pay damages for defamation due to false claims made by Gilligan in a series of articles. Gilligans career with the Telegraph ended soon after and he joined the Sunday Times in August 2016. Between 2007 and 2009 Gilligan presented a programme for Press TV. Rod Liddle challenged Gilligan in July 2009 about working for an international channel run by the Iranian government. Gilligan stopped his show in December 2009, though he appeared twice more on the network just before the UKs May 2010 general election. Gilligan attributed his decision to leave to the politics of Iran that was inconsistent with my opposition to Islamism, I have not worked for Press TV since
