All Building Design articles in BD Magazine - Offices - November 2007

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  • Features

    Winning windows

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    3D Reid’s eco-office in Edgbaston balances daylight and insulation

  • Features

    Top table

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Collaboration is key in creative offices, so Sedus is offering a furniture range for meeting rooms that allows rapid reconfiguration.

  • 1970s: Gesika
    Features

    Retrospect

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Office News and products from the archive

  • Features

    The speed read

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Future Office, Chris Grech & David Walters, Taylor & Francis, £37.50

  • Alex Lifschutz, left, and Paul Sandilands: “Just being here has completely galvanised our business.”
    Features

    Raising the rafters

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has found a new rhythm since moving into the former home of Island Records. Now, the BD Office Architect of the Year is offering its laid-back, loose-fit design to its own tenants, as well as to office developer clients

  • The facade is deliberately understated, but the entrance is surprisingly undersignalled.
    Building Study

    Platform soul

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    In the new HQ for BBC Scotland, David Chipperfield Architects has blended a simple idea and complex programme to stunning effect

  • The shared reception area features a leather-clad desk, slate tiles and marble surfaces.
    Features

    No tenants, only office owner-occupiers

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Manchester developer Nikal and HKR Architects are close to completing a pilot project for an innovative new office type that turns tenants into owner-occupiers.

  • Features

    Interview

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Paul King ‘Our members have signed up to Radical change’

  • Features

    Office space - how to make work work

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    An old peoples’ home in Somerset is the venue for the latest research into office design.

  • Features

    Hot seats

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Gresham has launched a range of four new office chairs.

  • Features

    Milton Gate

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Squire & Partners has completed the refurbishment of one of the first triple-skin ventilated facade buildings in the country, originally designed by Denys Lasdun and Peter Softley in 1988.

  • The atrium of PWC’s new Irish HQ at Spencer Dock, Dublin.
    Features

    How to win the generation game at work

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Research from furniture supplier Steelcase has found that workplaces today contain four generations working side-by-side,but not always in step.

  • Features

    Taking the pain out of solar gain

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Solar gain at a new HQ for two shipping agencies in Felixstowe, Suffolk, is controlled by facade design featuring Levolux western red cedar shading louvres.

  • A striking glass and steel staircase curves around the inside of the drum building.
    Features

    Putting safety first

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    James Pickard of Cartwright Pickard goes back to the Health & Safety Executive’s headquarters in Bootle, Merseyside, a £57 million PFI project completed two years ago

  • Glass louvres at Cork County Hall allow natural ventilation.
    Features

    ‘The facade is a regulator of heat, light and ventilation’

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    As a company, we’re probably best known in this country for smoke control systems, and also heating, ventilation and air conditioning.

  • Features

    Design Link

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The British Council for Offices launches its post-occupancy evaluation guide at a series of regional events this month.

  • Features

    Courting sustainability

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Courtyards and office pavilions complete Arup’s Midlands campus

  • Features

    Colour guard

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Following an international colour workshop with UK, French and German architects, Marley Eternit has launched a new range of decorative fibre cement cladding panels.

  • Features

    Clever curves

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Kalzip has developed a new generation of roll formers that can manufacture standing-seam roof and cladding systems that realise the complex curves of computer-generated design.

  • Visitors are met with an airy double-height reception with a Italian travertine tile floor.
    Building Study

    Moved up to club class

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    When planning consultant DP9 wanted to transform a tired building in London’s Pall Mall it turned to architect de Metz Forbes Knight for something a little different