Look at the walls of most modern buildings. Sleek. Smooth. Sometimes glossy, sometimes matte. That’s not regular paint or plaster. Most of the time, it’s aluminium cladding panels. These panels are ...

All eight buildings were deemed a high fire risk, with an investigation pointing to "poor workmanship" RESIDENTS living in eight London tower blocks – once branded “unsafe” by Sir Keir Starmer – have ...

The small Bavarian city of Regensburg, like other urban areas in southern Germany, engaged in a postwar building boom, which continued into the 1960s, to house the city’s growing industrial workforce.

Cladding is an essential element in architecture, combining functionality, technology, and aesthetics to protect and enhance buildings. Among the various materials available, such as stone, wood, and ...

The AJ’s Architects’ Working Details were first published in 1953. Originally written by Colin Boyne, they ran to a series of 15 classic black-bound volumes. After a long lull, the series was revived ...

29 Nov 24 The final report of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, published in September, concluded that the product suppliers were greedy liars and everyone else involved was just incompetent.

Employees of firms involved in fitting deadly flammable cladding to the Grenfell Tower joked in sickening messages about ignoring fire safety and ripping off customers. The public inquiry into the ...

It was a tragedy that took the lives of 72 people in a London tower block - but it turned lives upside down in Greater Manchester too. Seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire, survivors of the ...