HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

''Building'' is one of the
United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and ...
's oldest
business-to-business Business-to-business (B2B or, in some countries, BtoB) is a situation where one business makes a commercial transaction with another. This typically occurs when: * A business is sourcing materials for their production process for output (e.g., a ...
magazines, launched as ''The Builder'' in 1843 by Joseph Aloysius Hansom – architect of
Birmingham Town Hall Birmingham Town Hall is a concert hall and venue for popular assemblies opened in 1834 and situated in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The hall underwent a major renovation between 2002 and 2007. It no ...
and designer of the
Hansom Cab The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York. The vehicle was developed and tested by Hansom in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. Originally called the Hansom safety ca ...
. 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

''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." Godwin apparently wrote most of the content himself, relying on a staff of just five people. His successor,
Henry Heathcote Statham Henry Heathcote Statham (11 January 1839 - 29 May 1924)
, ''Hymntime''. Accessed: 3 September 2015.
was an Engl ...
(1839–1924), edited the journal from 1883 to 1908. Rival publication ''The British Architect and Northern Engineer'', founded as ''The British Architect'' in 1874, merged with ''The Builder'' in 1919, bringing contributions from architectural illustrator
Thomas Raffles Davison Thomas Raffles Davison ARIBA (1853 - 5 May 1937), usually credited as Raffles Davison or T. Raffles Davison, was an English architect, architectural illustrator and journalist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work featured in ''The B ...
(1853–1937). Other contributors to ''The Builder'' over the years have included
architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
s such as
Robert Dennis Chantrell Robert Dennis Chantrell ( Newington, Surrey 14 January 1793 – Norwood, 4 January 1872) was an English church architect, best-known today for designing Leeds Parish Church, now Leeds Minster. Early life Chantrell was born in Newington, So ...
, Henry Clutton (1819–1893), Josiah Conder, James Fergusson, William Curtis Green (1875–1960), John Woody Papworth (1820–1870),
Howard Morley Robertson Sir Howard Morley Robertson MC RA (16 August 1888 – 5 May 1963) was an American-born British architect, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1952 to 1954 and a Royal Academician. In 1949, he was the winner of the Roy ...
(1888–1963) and William White. ODNB They have also included the novelist
Hall Caine Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine (14 May 1853 – 31 August 1931), usually known as Hall Caine, was a British novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Caine's popularity during ...
, the engineer and antiquary
G. T. Clark Colonel George Thomas Clark (26 May 1809 – 31 January 1898) was a British surgeon and engineer. He was particularly associated with the management of the Dowlais Iron Company. He was also an antiquary and historian of Glamorgan. Biography ...
, and the short-lived journalist Charles Chaloner Ogle. Other illustrators have included Arthur Beresford Pite and
Worthington George Smith Worthington George Smith (25 March 1835 – 27 October 1917) was an English cartoonist and illustrator, archaeologist, plant pathologist, and mycologist. Background and career Worthington G. Smith was born in Shoreditch, London, the son of a ...
(1835–1917).


Recent history and ''Building'' today

The magazine was named as the best-edited weekly business magazine by the British Society of Magazine Editors both in 1999 and in 2001. It was the business magazine of the year in 2002. Having acquired the magazine a year earlier from Vivendi Universal, in 2003 Aprovia UK sold ''Building'' to
UBM plc UBM plc was a British business-to-business (B2B) events organiser headquartered in London, England, before its acquisition by Informa in 2018. It had a long history as a multinational media company. Its main focus was on B2B events, but its pr ...
as part of a £79m deal. According to ABC (
Audit Bureau of Circulations An Audit Bureau of Circulations is a private organization that provides industry-agreed standards for media brand measurement of print publications and other media outlets in a given country. The International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circula ...
), the magazine's circulation for the year ending in June 2006, was 25,017, 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), with the decline continuing in 2011 (the 11 November issue had a print circulation of 15,474).Audience Measurement, Building media pack, http://media.building.co.uk/PDF/Building-Media-Pack.pdf (Retrieved: 23 January 2013) ''Buildings 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. 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.


Notes


Further reading

* * London Metropolitan Archives: Information Leaflet No 22 (''George Godwin and The Builder'')


External links


Scans of the first ten volumes (1843–1852)
at the Bodleian Internet Library of Early Journals
Building WebsiteSerial archive listings for The Builder, 1843-1906
- The Online Books Page {{DEFAULTSORT:Builder, The 1843 establishments in the United Kingdom Architecture magazines Business magazines published in the United Kingdom Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom Magazines established in 1843 Professional and trade magazines