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Survey reveals average salaries at UK architecture studios

November 1, 2024 Nat Barker 0

London studio Hopkins Architects has topped a leaderboard of the average salaries at UK architecture firms conducted by anonymous group The Pay 100. Architects or architectural designers with less than five years’ experience at the studio, founded by high-tech pioneers Patty and Michael Hopkins, are paid around £54,500 a year on average, according to the

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BIG wraps Copenhagen headquarters with 140-metre-long concrete staircase

October 29, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Danish architecture studio BIG has completed its own concrete headquarters on an industrial harbour in Copenhagen. Situated along a pier in the city’s Nordhavn neighbourhood, the 27-metre-tall BIG HQ is wrapped by a protruding staircase that connects its seven floors. Expansive glazed openings arranged in a checkerboard pattern break up the monolithic form, which is

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First Neom region completes as “luxury island” Sindalah opens in Saudi Arabia

October 28, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Sindalah, an island resort in the Red Sea designed by Italian studio Luca Dini Design and Architecture, has become the first Neom region to be completed in Saudi Arabia. The resort, which is described as a “luxury island destination” located five kilometres off the Neom coastline in the Red Sea, has opened to a number

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Heatherwick’s Vessel reopens with steel safety mesh wrapping its exterior

October 22, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

The Thomas Heatherwick-designed Vessel viewpoint in New York has reopened with steel mesh added to the exterior as a safety measure to prevent people from jumping from its platforms. The reopening of the attraction at Hudson Yards follows a three-year closure after a 14-year-old boy became the fourth person to die of suicide at the viewpoint. Videos and

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Heatherwick’s Vessel reopens with steel safety mesh wrapping its exterior

October 22, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

The Thomas Heatherwick-designed Vessel viewpoint in New York has reopened with steel mesh added to the exterior as a safety measure to prevent people from jumping from its platforms. The reopening of the attraction at Hudson Yards follows a three-year closure after a 14-year-old boy became the fourth person to die of suicide at the viewpoint. Videos and

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Construction starts on world’s largest building in Saudi Arabia

October 22, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Construction has begun on the 400-metre-high, cube-shaped Mukaab supertall skyscraper in Riyadh designed by AtkinsRéalis, which will be the world’s largest building when it completes. Designed as the centrepiece of the 19-square-kilometre New Murabba development in northwest Riyadh, Mukaab is now officially under construction with excavations underway, according to its development company. The developer, named

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Construction starts on world’s largest building in Saudi Arabia

October 22, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Construction has begun on the 400-metre-high, cube-shaped Mukaab supertall skyscraper in Riyadh designed by AtkinsRéalis, which will be the world’s largest building when it completes. Designed as the centrepiece of the 19-square-kilometre New Murabba development in northwest Riyadh, Mukaab is now officially under construction with excavations underway, according to its development company. The developer, named

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“World-leading” architectural historian Joseph Rykwert dies aged 98

October 22, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Architectural historian Joseph Rykwert, a recipient of the prestigious RIBA Royal Gold Medal, has passed away at the age of 98. Rykwert, also a well-known critic and writer known for seminal books such as The Idea of a Town, died on 18 October 2024. Born in Warsaw in 1926, Rykwert began his career as an

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Moody Nolan co-founder Curtis Jerome Moody dies aged 73

October 18, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architect Curtis Jerome Moody, co-founder of the largest African-American-owned architecture firm in the US, has passed away aged 73. Curtis Jerome Moody passed away last week on 13 October, Columbus-based architecture firm Moody Nolan announced on its website. The architect was best known as the co-founder of Moody Nolan, which he established with the late engineer

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