All Building Design articles in Envelope July 2009
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Harvard architecture students stretch uses of BMW skin to suburban housing
Innovations in car technology often make their way into architecture
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Rubber stamp for McAslan’s London 2012 Energy Centres
Not since Simon Conder Associates’ 2003 Kent Beach House have we seen rubber used to entirely clad a building
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Melbourne arts precinct building too clever by half
In Melbourne’s arts precinct, architect Ashton Raggatt McDougall has delivered a complex of buildings for the Melbourne Recital Centre and the Melbourne Theatre Company
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The envelope gets political
Alejandro Zaera-Polo argues that the building’s skin exemplifies the evolution of political ideologies
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University of Liverpool goes with the glow
Sheppard Robson had to work with existing 1960s buildings to produce its luminous, glass-clad engineering laboratory for the University of Liverpool
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FOA’s peninsula patterns for Ravensbourne College
Foreign Office Architects’ tessellated facade design for Ravensbourne College’s new home on the Greenwich Peninsula pays homage to its arts and crafts heritage
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NBBJ’s box of tricks for Queen Mary, University of London
There is more than meets the eye at NBBJ’s Queen Mary Innovation Centre in east London, which not only unites a variety of uses but also appeases a conservation area