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In an effort to keep AIA dues affordable, the AIA UK board of directors voted to reduce the 2021 chapter dues by the same amount the National dues are increasing. This means member dues for 2021 will be the same as 2020 (and the same as 2019), despite the increase in National dues.
Following on from the successful launch of its “Virtual Building Tours” in July 2020, which replace live building tours currently curtailed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the AIA UK Chapter held the second in its series on 13 Aug 2020. Paul Monaghan, a founding director of the RIBA Stirling Prize winning architecture practice Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM), led an informative and stimulating virtual tour of the recently completed 1 Finsbury Avenue, a Grade II listed building by Arup Associates (Peter Foggo, 1984). Paul was joined by Tom Wells, Senior Architect at AHMM and Morag Myerscough of STUDIO MYERSCOUGH, an artist and designer who was part of the overall design team.
The Arup Associates’ designed office block was built from 1982 to 1984 and is one of the 14 post-war office buildings to be given Grade II listed status by Historic England earlier this year. Paul Monaghan credited Arup Associates and 1 Finsbury Avenue as “having set the exemplar for future commercial architecture in the UK, introducing major innovations in construction methods and materials from the US and adopting a whole new approach to the design and planning of an office block.” The tour highlighted how AHMM’s signature retrofit of adapting a high-tech, high-finance icon to attract a younger, less corporate tenant mix. The refurbishment and restoration project highlighted an elegant transformation of a “corporate,” office environment into physical and virtual shared spaces and office services for entrepreneurs and companies.
1 Finsbury Avenue may be one of the most highly regarded office buildings within the City of London creating a new destination with an exciting mix of flexible workspaces, cinema, retail and restaurants. The refurbishment is part of the on-going reinvention of British Land’s Broadgate estate that will also include AHMM’s 1 Broadgate. British Land’s Broadgate development re-establishes the public route through 1 Finsbury Avenue as an important element in activating its ground floor and connecting the building with Finsbury Avenue Square and the broader Broadgate campus.
Delivering ‘Atoll’ - a new 7.5m tall mosaic tiled installation designed in collaboration with artist Morag Myerscough – to the centre of the lower atrium played an important part in the project’s place making. The installation is an inspiration, offering insight on how this architecturally important and flexible office building has been reimagined. No 1 Finsbury Avenue is setting a new aesthetic standard for a modern breed of speculative office buildings. Its repurposed, open, well-lit atrium is a rare element, providing the building with a series of internal facades and bringing life to its reinvented internal street.
The AIA UK Chapter will continue to host virtual buildings tours throughout the year offering architects the opportunity to visit notable buildings that have particular design interests in the UK and abroad.
Written by Gregory Fonseca, AIA
Solicitor Will Buckby and Ian Masser of Beale & Co warn consultants that they should avoid Form EWS1 - designed to provide assurance that a high rise building is fire safety compliant - which imposes unlimited liability on them. Professional indemnity insurance could be compromised by its use, they advise.This article was first published in Construction Law. To read the full article, please click on the link below.
Form EWS1 - A better solution needs to be found
Written by Will Buckby and Ian Masser
From 12 – 20 September, London Design Festival 2020 will take place across London and online and will be the first major design festival to take place since the coronavirus pandemic swept the world.
Returning for the 18th year, this year's festival will have a strong focus on London’s design scene and local designers. Freelancers in particular have been impacted by the pandemic, and the Festival wants to support this community by providing a voice to new talent and freelancers.
Read more and register here.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) can be defined and implemented to guide you toward both professional and personal success. If you can’t measure it, you can’t track it, and you won’t know how to improve it. This fast-paced session will share with you the KPIs that reflect your progress and guide your future for these six essential components of every successful firm:
Strategic planning
Human resources
Business development and marketing
Architectural deliverables
Operational and financial systems
Work/life balance
As managing partners of their respective firms, both presenters have deep experience, understanding, and respect for culture, structure, discipline, data, and technology that are crucial in order for firms to remain competitive and profitable.
Date: September 23, 2020 at 12 PM EDT.
To Register, click here.
This course presents the results of a study conducted with front line COVID-19 healthcare providers and subject matter experts in emergency medicine, intensive care, anesthesia, infection control, hospital operations, virology and research-based design. New design guidance for health care facilities was developed by translating input from clinician interviews and current literature that reveal urgent and essential adaptations to healthcare settings in order to reduce the risk of transmission to care providers, staff, patients, and visitors. The results are summarized in a checklist of design considerations and solutions that may be applied in a myriad of healthcare \and built settings. The value of translating subject matter expertise is clear as it supports informed decision making in response to the unique challenges of the novel coronavirus.
Date: September 22, 3:00pm EDT
To Register, click here
It is clear from recent elections that every vote is important in political elections! If you are an American citizen and live outside of the United States, you can still vote in US elections.
Voting from abroad is an easy 3-step process. You need to:
Request an absentee ballot (you can register as a new voter at the same time)
Receive your ballot (Your state will send out ballots at least 45 days before the election)
Return your ballot before the deadline. Deadlines vary by state.
Go to votefromabroad.org and follow the instructions to get started
As President Obama reminded us at John Lewis' recent funeral - "If you don’t do everything you can to change things, then they will remain the same. You only pass this way once. You have to give it all you have....We cannot treat voting as an errand to run if we have some time. We have to treat it as the most important action we can take on behalf of democracy. "