All How we cracked it articles
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TechnicalHow we cracked it: Fishbourne Quay by The Manser Practice
The Manser Practice explain how they overcame the challenges of building an industrial site in a flood plain
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TechnicalVarious Architects' temporary performance space for a world tour
How Norway’s Various Architects created a lightweight, demountable performance venue for client Arts Alliance
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TechnicalJulian Harrap Architects' mesh cage for the Monument
How Julian Harrap Architects created a mesh cage to protect the viewing platform at Wren’s newly refurbished Monument in the City of London
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TechnicalGareth Hoskins' Gathering Place at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale
How Gareth Hoskins Architects created its Gathering Place pavilion using laminated veneer sections and a 11.5m cranked beam
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TechnicalMichael Mallinson Architects’ glass staircase for a private house in west London
How Michael Mallinson Architects created a post-tensioned spiral stair for a double-height living space
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TechnicalTechniker gets to grips with Jean Prouvé’s historic prefab house
The solution for protecting Prouvé’s antique prefab on its travels to the hurricane-prone southern US involves stripping it to its structural core
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TechnicalFletcher Priest Architects’ HQ for Rio Tinto at Paddington, west London
How Fletcher Priest designed a single, continuous facade on a curving site for client Rio Tinto
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TechnicalWestarchitecture's stringerless stair for a mews house in west London
How Westarchitecture devised a modern stringerless stair for a mews house in Notting Hill, west London
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TechnicalPaxton Locher Architects' curved roof
How Paxton Locher Architects designed a curved roof with a high U-value and solar heat collection
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TechnicalMake's easy-to-install glazing system for the atrium of a 1950's office renovation
How Make created an easy-to-install glazing system for the seven-storey atrium of a renovated 1950s office
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TechnicalDavid Nossiter Architects' 18th century hayloft conversion
How David Nossiter Architects cracked a knotty ventilation problem in its conversion of an 18th century hayloft at Moulsford, Oxfordshire
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TechnicalHow RMJM does the twist in Russia
A window assembly that accommodates flat glass in a twisting frame is the key to cladding RMJM’s Moscow City Palace tower
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TechnicalArt blasts into the modern store
Stanton Williams on integrating artwork into the facade of a new Bristol department store
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 27: Alnwick Garden, Northumberland
Napper Architects builds a treehouse interpretation centre set on an open-decked area leading to a treetop walkway
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 21: Flood barrier, Gravesend, Kent
Kiran Curtis Associates won a design competition for a mixed-use regeneration site in the Thames Gateway
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 11: Met Building 22 Percy Street, London
Oliver Richards of ORMS explains how his team brought air conditioning into a sixties office building by integrating the services into prefabricated bespoke cladding panels
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 05: Barrel vaulted roof, Doris’s Place, Hackney
Peter Barber has resolved the complex challenge of placing a parabolic roof vault onto tapering party walls