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AKT II director Charlie Ashton has been appointed to the Steering Committee of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) 2025 International Conference.
Plans for the redevelopment of 99 Bishopsgate have been approved today by the City of London’s Planning Committee.
Kadans Science Partner’s new laboratory and office development at Merlin Place in Cambridge has reached a significant milestone, with construction now advancing to the first floor.
The 2024 AlMusalla Architectural Prize has reached its completion, with the winning structure now officially open as part of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation’s Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah.
Soller Group’s NXQ project has received unanimous approval from Manchester City Council’s planning committee.
Glenbrook has submitted a planning application to Manchester City Council for a 44-storey residential tower at 2-4 Whitworth Street West.
Luton Town Football Club’s proposed 25,000-capacity stadium at Power Court has received planning approval from Luton Borough Council’s planning committee.
AKT II welcomed in the new year with a new Director of Infrastructure, Cameron Paton. Joining us after over 7 years at Waterman Group, Cameron brings a wealth of experience to the role.
AKT II has concluded a successful year of charitable fundraising, with the team coming together raising an impressive £17,971.
The construction of The M Building has reached a major milestone, with the project officially topping out.
Hello North America! After nearly two decades of creativity and award-winning engineering design in North America, we’ve landed.
Launched in October, the studio is led by AKT II director Chris O’Meara and marks an exciting step in our continued growth.
On Wednesday morning, the Diriyah Biennale Foundation and The Ministry of Culture in Saudi Arabia announced the winners of the AlMusalla Prize 2024.
TTP Campus and Norton Folgate have both secured major wins at two industry awards this week, highlighting their contributions as innovative and sustainable building projects in the UK.
At AKT II we pioneered studies into topology optimisation both through digital design tools and practical examples.
The construction of UCB’s new headquarters campus has reached a significant milestone with the topping out of the main building, marking the completion of the structural framework.
Last week, AKT II welcomed students from around London and the South East as part of the Open City Accelerate programme.
Botanic Place is a landmark commercial development that introduces a host of industry-leading green and smart features in addition to a BREEAM Outstanding specification, as part of Cambridge’s vision to become net-zero by 2030.
AKT II’s restoration of the world’s first cast-iron-framed building, in partnership with architect FCB Studios and client Historic England, has now topped the 2023 Brick Awards: receiving the overall Supreme Award, Craftsmanship Award and Sustainability Award.
The transformative regeneration on the Old Street Roundabout – designed by KPF for developer Endurance Land – absorbs an existing mid-rise 1980s structure within the delivery of a multifunctional new high-rise programme that introduces community facilities, pedestrian permeability and streetscape activation.
This landmark 35,000-square-metre scheme – which is designed by architect Stanton Williams, as UCL’s largest single building to date – forms part of the masterplanned East Bank cultural, innovation and learning cluster at London’s world-famous Olympic legacy development zone.
The award is recognised as the London Design Festival’s “highest accolade bestowed upon an individual who has distinguished themselves within the industry and demonstrated consistent design excellence”.
This month, our technical director David Watson and our design director Gerry O’Brien have together appeared in the UK’s Building Magazine to share some of AKT II’s latest carbon thinking.
This new, sculptural footbridge – which is designed by architect Counterspace Studio, with support from the City of Vilvoorde and the local cultural organisation Horst Arts & Music – draws conceptually from the complex relationships of the region’s migrant communities.
This Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) centres on improving the accuracy of physical wind-tunnel testing through the application of novel neural network (AI) technology.
AKT II’s co-founder and design director Albert Williamson-Taylor has been made the inaugural president of Open City: a global educational and built-heritage charity that’s dedicated to making the built environment more open, accessible and equitable.
The 2023 summit – the first to be held in-person in London in four years – encompasses a diverse conference and exhibition programme that responds to this year’s theme of ‘connecting communities’. AKT II has supported it in multiple ways …
Plans for Red Hall have been given the green light with building work set to start in the summer.
Congratulations to architect Shahed Saleem, the V&A museum and the Diriyah Biennale Foundation for installing the inaugural Ramadan Pavilion – in partnership with Ramadan Tent Project – over the weekend.
Albert has been awarded the Institution of Structural Engineers’ 2023 Gold Medal for his unique and outstanding contribution to the advancement of structural engineering.
