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A Work Of Art: CRL Stone’s Venetian Grande Worktop Takes Centre Stage In This Stunning kitchen Renovation
Galway-based artist Ciara O’Neill’s new kitchen was always going to be something special. With a degree in Interior Design, the contemporary artist has a real eye for colour, which features in many rooms throughout her house. So, when it came to designing her new kitchen, she knew a more muted, neutral palette would provide the perfect balance. “I wanted to create a relaxed neutral space because the other areas of my home have vibrant pops of colour,” Ciara explains. However


ASWS Executes Complex Fenestration Contracts As The Harrison Achieves Energy Targets
As an acknowledged industry expert in the repair and replacement of steel, timber and other fenestration types, Associated Steel Window Services (ASWS) was awarded four separate prestigious packages, as well as being tasked with additional project elements, during the conversion of a former furniture warehouse. The high-spec office spaces now afford the occupants contemporary standards of energy performance and amenity. Pictured is The Harrison (formerly Curtain House), Shore


IG Masonry Support Plays Key Role In Contemporary New Build Family Home
The Glade House is a bespoke five-bedroom home situated in a secluded woodland clearing in Surrey. Designed by award-winning AR Design Studio, this contemporary new-build redefines the family home with a clear architectural intent: to create seamless connections between the built form and the natural landscape through structure, material, and light. Replacing an outdated property that no longer met modern standards, the new home was shaped through close collaboration between


Siderise Champions Collaboration To Deliver Passive Fire Solution For New Birmingham Student Accommodation
Siderise has partnered with Ash & Lacy to provide a tested passive fire protection solution for the NaturAL X Brick Cladding System being installed on Vita Student’s latest accommodation development on the historic Gough Street and Suffolk Street intersection in Birmingham. Vita Student Gough Street has been built to meet the increasing demand for purpose-built student accommodation across Birmingham. Due to complete in summer 2026, it will provide high-quality apartments and


Concave Sliding Door Creates Unique Curved Garage Space In Redevelopment Project
A bespoke curved side sliding timber garage door by Rundum Meir has enabled a unique feature garage to be created as part of the extensive remodelling of a large private dwelling in southern England. A Rundum Original sliding garage door spanning 8m wide and 2.2m high was integrated within the new designs by BWP Architects for a major property renovation, transforming a house which had evolved in an uncoordinated and poorly designed way. The door provides access to a large g


FP McCann Offsite Precast Concrete Structural And Architectural Frame Solution Specified On Distinctive Buckinghamshire Housing Development
FP McCann has completed a unique supply and build project consisting of 64 luxury apartments in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire. The high-end development is set on 200 acres of historic private gated grounds offering new-build houses and apartments next to a grand Grade II listed Georgian era mansion house. Newland Park is a development by London based Comer Homes. The collection of new apartments and houses sits within the modern country estate and is set to become one o


Preserving Steel Heritage: ASWS Delivers Excellence At The Northcliffe
The Steel Window Association (SWA) represents the UK’s leading specialists in the preservation and refurbishment of steel windows and doors – particularly in listed buildings, heritage properties, and conservation areas. Its members, including London-based Associated Steel Window Services (ASWS), are trusted custodians of architectural legacy, combining traditional craftsmanship with modern performance standards. The Northcliffe’s revitalised exterior showcases ASWS’ comp


West Sussex STEM Project Sees SFS JB-D Plus Window Installation Brackets Speed Progress
SFS UK ’s JB‑D Plus pre‑wall window installation brackets have been specified by façade specialist Leay Ltd for the £725 k window‑and‑curtain‑wall package on Chichester College’s new STEM Academy in West Sussex, a choice Leay says streamlines site logistics while guaranteeing the structural integrity of the double‑skinned façade. Established in 1937 and now a nationwide fabricator of Kawneer aluminium systems, the Aylesford‑based company designed, supplied and installed AA1


Quieter Classrooms With Optimise 70
For contractors tasked with classroom refurbishments, Optimise 70 could well be the perfect recommendation. Modern school classrooms are a tough place for any floor, but the IVC Commercial Optimise 70 range might well be the perfect solution. Affordable, tough, easy to maintain and with class-leading impact noise reduction, it upgrades any classroom floor in need of replacement. Made in Europe by IVC, Optimise 70 is a heavy-duty (0.70mm wear layer) heterogeneous vinyl floor


Global Fintech Company Chooses Style For Moveable Walls
UK financial technology company Wise recently moved into new global headquarters in London, expanding its footprint by 40% and providing workspace for more than 1,000 employees. Partitioning experts Style worked with HLW Architects and contractor, Overbury, to add flexibility to the office’s expansive meeting space. Enabling the area to be quickly reconfigured for groups of between 10 to 150 people, Style installed a combination of Dorma Hüppe Variflex solid and glass moveabl


Schlüter Stars In Stunning Bathroom
Schlüter Systems offers more than 10,000 products designed for the long-lasting installation of tiles and natural stone. The portfolios include trims, waterproofing, underfloor heating and shower drainage systems. Worldwide, the products and systems have created the very best in bathroom design in both style and durability. One example is a renovation and extension project which included the refurbishment of the residence’s 4.8m x 2.7m master en-suite. Enlisting the servi


Firefly® Phoenix Curtain Specified To Protect Medway Logistics Warehouse
Part of an international supply chain and logistics business, a vast warehouse in the Medway area of Kent enclosing almost 380,000 sq. ft. of storage space, has had its fire performance upgraded by a regular FIREFLY® customer utilising the manufacturer’s Phoenix barrier material together with the recently launched 180 ablative batt and ancillary products to create a curtain running around the building perimeter. The work at the Noatum Logistics ePort warehouse on the Isle of
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