British magazine
Building
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Editor
| Chloe McCulloch
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Former editors
| Sarah Richardson
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Categories
| Construction
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Frequency
| Monthly
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Circulation
| 15,474 (2011)
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Publisher
| Assemble Media Group
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Founder
| Joseph Hansom
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Founded
| 1843
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Country
| United Kingdom
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Language
| English
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Website
| www
.building
.co
.uk
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Building
is one of the
United Kingdom
's oldest
business-to-business
magazines, launched as
The Builder
in 1843
[1]
by
Joseph Aloysius Hansom
? architect of
Birmingham Town Hall
and designer of the
Hansom Cab
.
[2]
The journal was renamed
Building
in 1966 as it is still known today.
Building
is the only UK title to cover the entire building industry.
History
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]
The Builder's
first two editors, Hansom and
Alfred Bartholomew
(1801?1845), did not last long in the job. The architect
George Godwin
(1813?1888) was editor from 1844 to 1883, and turned
The Builder
"into the most important and successful professional paper of its kind with a readership well beyond the architectural and building world."
[3]
Godwin apparently wrote most of the content himself, relying on a staff of just five people. His successor,
Henry Heathcote Statham
(1839?1924), edited the journal from 1883 to 1908.
[4]
Rival publication
The British Architect and Northern Engineer
, founded as
The British Architect
in 1874, merged with
The Builder
in 1919,
[5]
bringing contributions from architectural illustrator
Thomas Raffles Davison
(1853?1937).
Other contributors to
The Builder
over the years have included
architects
such as
Robert Dennis Chantrell
,
Henry Clutton
(1819?1893),
Josiah Conder
,
James Fergusson
,
William Curtis Green
(1875?1960),
John Woody Papworth
(1820?1870),
Howard Morley Robertson
(1888?1963) and
William White
.
[6]
They have also included the novelist
Hall Caine
, the engineer and antiquary
G. T. Clark
, and the short-lived journalist
Charles Chaloner Ogle
. Other illustrators have included
Arthur Beresford Pite
and
Worthington George Smith
(1835?1917).
[6]
Recent history and
Building
today
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The magazine was named as the best-edited weekly business magazine by the
British Society of Magazine Editors
both in 1999 and in 2001.
[1]
It was the business magazine of the year in 2002.
[1]
Having acquired the magazine a year earlier from
Vivendi Universal
, in 2003 Aprovia UK sold
Building
to
UBM plc
as part of a £79m deal.
[1]
According to ABC (
Audit Bureau of Circulations
), the magazine's circulation for the year ending in June 2006, was 25,017,
[7]
but circulation dropped during the recession of the late 2000s to 21,271 for the year July 2009 ? June 2010 (the last year the title was ABC-certified),
[8]
with the decline continuing in 2011 (the 11 November issue had a print circulation of 15,474).
[9]
Building'
s website features industry news, jobs and an archive of over 80,000 articles. In 2006
Building4jobs.co.uk
was launched focusing on industry jobs and careers.
[
citation needed
]
In January 2018, UBM sold
Building
(plus
Building Design
, a venue directory and various events) to a management team, Assemble Media Group, led by former editor Tom Broughton.
[10]
Notes
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- ^
a
b
c
d
Jennifer Whitehead (21 July 2003).
"United Business Media buys Building title in £79m deal"
.
Campaign
. Retrieved
29 January
2017
.
- ^
Harris, Penelope,
The Architectural Achievement of Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803?1882), Designer of the Hansom Cab, Birmingham Town Hall, and Churches of the Catholic Revival
, The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
- ^
G. B. Smith,
‘Godwin, George (1813?1888)’
, rev. Ruth Richardson and Robert Thorne,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 5 Jan 2008
- ^
Alan Powers,
‘Statham, Henry Heathcote (1839?1924)’
,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 5 Jan 2008
- ^
Architectural Journals
, British Association for Local History ?
http://www.balh.co.uk/lhn/article.php?file=lhn-vol1iss96-4.xml
Archived
20 July 2012 at
archive.today
- ^
a
b
ODNB
- ^
ABC Website
Archived
4 March 2016 at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
ABC average net circulation per issue, 30 June 2010
Archived
4 March 2016 at the
Wayback Machine
, ABC. Retrieved: 3 September 2015.
- ^
Audience Measurement, Building media pack,
http://media.building.co.uk/PDF/Building-Media-Pack.pdf
Archived
3 December 2012 at the
Wayback Machine
(Retrieved: 23 January 2013)
- ^
Withers, Iain (7 January 2018).
"End of an era as UBM sells its final title"
.
Telegraph
. Retrieved
5 February
2018
.
Further reading
[
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]
- Richardson, Ruth; Thorne, Robert (1994).
The Builder: illustrations index 1843?1883
. Gomshall: Builder Group.
ISBN
0907101062
.
- London Metropolitan Archives
: Information Leaflet No 22 (
George Godwin and The Builder
)
External links
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