A new partnership between Redrow and Nottingham Trent University will put students in the front row for industry placements and future employment.
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Richard Murphy OBE, the visionary architect, gives rare insight into the creation of CALA Homes’ The Crescent, winner of Gold for Best Luxury Development at the WhatHouse? Awards 2019. He has revealed what he hopes will be the legacy of Scotland’s most upmarket and ambitious new development. In an exclusive video for the housebuilder filmed at his Edinburgh home, the creative mind behind The Crescent in the city’s West End, provided a rare and detailed insight into the creation of the development. The Award-winning site is the flagship development for CALA Homes (East) and its forensically considered design draws direct inspiration from the Scottish capital’s famous Georgian New Town architecture. As part of its new #AskTheArchitect campaign which gives a rare insight
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We speak to Alia Beyg, design director, MD and founder of AQUA Architecture, and London Region RIBA Council member, about her successful career path. When did you first become interested in architecture, and how did that influence you? I think it is fair to say I have always been passionate about art and design. From a very early age I was constantly drawing, pretty much on anything I could find, and whilst at school I would try and implement creativity into everything I did, what started as designing class posters then transgressed into creating graphic novels, and even into designing clothes. When I grew a little older, I decided to try and obtain some work experience in architecture, I felt I needed
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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed its annual summary of trends in the architecture profession and construction sector. The RIBA’s annual Business Benchmarking survey provides data on architects’ profit and turnover, salaries, and identifies global growth areas for the export of UK architecture expertise. Key trends in 2018 (compared to 2017) are: The value of international work has increased to £513m (from £498m); Asia (£140m) has overtaken the Middle East (£104m) as the most profitable source of work for UK-based architects; EU work has increased to £118m (from £108m) – making it the second largest source of international work; Salaries have increased ahead of inflation suggesting practices are working hard to retain their staff. Since the first survey in 2012, the
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We speak to Andrew Mellor, partner at PRP, who tells us about his career in architecture, his commitment to improving the quality of buildings across the construction industry and what he loves most about his role. Andrew, how did you know that architecture was for you? I have had an interest in how things are built for as long as I can remember, so I knew I wanted to be an architect from a young age – well it was that or a policeman, but I think many young boys consider that idea! Can you tell us how you started on your career path? As I already had a clear idea of what I wanted to do, when I reached sixth form
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