Will Ing

London, Oxford

News Editor at Construction News Magazine

Scotland-based journalist

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Articles

Analysis: Should small practices bother with frameworks?

3 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

Some 28 per cent (£3.21 million) of fees paid via A+U in its first two years were for work outside of London.
Expert withdraws criticism of Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard

3 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

Writing in the AJ last month, Sturgis hit out at ‘several serious flaws’ with the standard, which is being tested across 228 pilots and is set to launch later this year. Sturgis said it ‘unintentionally encourages demolition’ by not providing whole-life carbon targets and containing easier embodied carbon targets for new builds than for retrofits.
Levitate wins appeal victory for 29 homes in Surrey green belt

3 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

The scheme involves demolishing redundant agricultural sheds at Perrysfield Farm, near Oxted, to make way for the two-storey houses, including 10 affordable and 10 designed for active older persons. One home will be retrofitted from a former horse engine barn.
‘Check your PI cover’ warning to architects after Supreme Court ruling

4 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing |Greg Pitcher

The judgement, which interprets important elements of the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) and the Defective Premises Act 1972 (DPA), heightens the need for practices to hold ‘comprehensive’ professional indemnity (PI) insurance, according to top lawyers.
Elphick Associates’ ‘labour of love’ wins big at RIBA North East Awards

4 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

The practice’s £10.2 million Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon Museum and Distillery in Wooler, rural Northumbria, landed the region’s Building of the Year award among a raft of other prizes. It also bagged the Sustainability Award and Client of the Year titles, as well as garnering practice founder Richard Elphick the Project Architect of the Year crown at the awards ceremony on Thursday evening (29 May). The 2,958m2 tourist scheme is built with repurposed oak and stone and charred timber.
Architect-designed cycling safety wands make high street debut

1 month ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

The practice won a competition by the London Festival of Architecture in 2021 to reimagine how London could better protect cyclists while improving the built environment. Now the first recycled plastic tulips have been installed along Sussex Gardens near Paddington, separating the cycle lane from vehicular traffic along the busy A road.
John Lewis wins appeal over Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands resi tower

1 month ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

The retail giant submitted plans for 428 build-to-rent homes above a refurbished Waitrose in West Ealing in August 2023 and appealed against Ealing Council’s non-determination of the scheme last summer. Ealing Council leader Peter Mason had previously described the proposal, part of John Lewis's wider expansion in the build-to-rent housing market, as ‘disappointing’, saying it was too tall and did not have enough affordable housing.
Castles, a distillery and Scotland’s newest prison among RIAS award winners

1 month ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

Sheppard Robson received an award for its four-storey Nucleus Building at the University of Edinburgh, while Architype also won for a very different education scheme: its 550-place Riverside Primary School in Perth. Three further winning projects are in Scottish cities, including Collective Architecture’s 130-home Ellengowan Regeneration scheme in Dundee and Stallan Brand Architecture + Design and LDA Design’s £28 million overhaul of Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens.
Haworth Tompkins joins major Liverpool regeneration team

1 month ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

Liverpool City Council has appointed a project team led by LDA Design to draw up a ‘transformational new masterplan’ for the cultural quarter, which encompasses an area from Lime Street Station to William Brown Street. Other companies appointed to the team include multi-disciplinary giant WSP, development consultancy Pegasus, engineering consultant Hatch, community engagement expert PLACED and regeneration specialist Aspinall Verdi.
BGY submits plans for Dalston shopping centre site

1 month ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

The practice is seeking permission to build 252 homes and 46 non-residential units on the site, which is formed of the eastern portion of Kingsland Shopping Centre, currently occupied by Matalan, as well as a large car park. The practice had originally expected to submit plans for the site in 2021 — but underwent three rounds of consultation, during which building heights were reduced from 17 storeys to minimise light loss to nearby Ridley Road Market.