All articles by Amanda Birch – Page 10

  • Technical

    The only way is up

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    With a shortage of central London sites, air-rights developments appear to be making a resurgence

  • The prototype Micro-Compact Home in the grounds of the Austrian factory where it was manufactured.
    Technical

    Smaller, quicker, cheaper

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Forget John Prescott’s £60K house, Richard Horden has plans for a £35,000 home, taking its inspiration from Japanese tea houses and first class air travel to offer hi-tech living.

  • Technical

    Bricks come down to earth

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Mud goes modern with unfired clay ‘eco-bricks’

  • Four six-storey blocks will be constructed to create a square providing 139 apartments with a car park below.
    Technical

    Housing’s heat wave

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    A Madrid project by Feilden Clegg Bradley holds solutions for global warming

  • Part of Gormley’s Another Place installation on Crosby Beach, expected to bring in £5 million to the area during its 18-month life.
    Review

    Regenerationist? Moi?

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Sculptor Antony Gormley seems unwilling to recognise the reason much of his work is commissioned

  • Technical

    Modern stars of the silver screen

    2005-07-08T00:00:00Z

    Umu’s clever combination of innovative surface materials makes it a place to linger, says Amanda Birch

  • Flood, by UK designers Michael Cross and Julie Mathias.
    Review

    A thin slice of Europe

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Use of new technology proves the highlight of a show on European design

  • Gordon Cowley at DRMM’s Kingsdale School, which makes use of his Cowley Connector in the auditorium and lamella roofs.
    Technical

    Meet the masterminds

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    They are the who’s who of technical innovation — the 10 leading minds whose breakthroughs have transformed British architecture. Amanda Birch and Vikki Miller lured them out of their workshops and into the spotlight for BD’s six-page Innovators special

  • Their glass and steel Outhouse sculpture-cum-pavilion, which opens in Liverpool next Friday.
    Review

    Don’t throw stones

    2005-05-06T00:00:00Z

    A glass depiction of a Liverpool terraced house has been created by Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier

  • Technical

    On the right track

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    A Swiss hospital is pioneering a revolutionary A&E room that speeds treatment.

  • Technical

    Power politics

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    The government’s chief scientific adviser wants Tony Blair to go further on sustainable buildings

  • A means of escape was required from the newly formed habitable room being formed in the loft of New Hall Barn in Lancashire’s Scarisbrick. By installing a sprinkler system, the open plan arrangement of the interior could be retained.
    Technical

    Sprinklers finally soak in

    2005-04-08T00:00:00Z

    No longer ugly extras, residential sprinklers are growing in popularity

  • Technical

    Twisting by Blackpool

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    The latest artistic adornment to the northern resort

  • Litracon concrete
    Technical

    Material world

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Amanda Birch uncovers four cutting-edge materials set to revolutionise buildings of the future and, opposite, investigates how practices discover and apply scientific innovations

  • Technical

    Surfs up

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    McDowell & Benedetti create a floating roof for a new type of managed workspace

  • The world’s first frameless structural glass dome was constructed at the University of Stuttgart and uses epoxy glue to connect the double-curved glass panels.
    Technical

    Making it stick

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    An engineer hopes his process of gluing glass will enable more daring structures

  • The glass and aluminium cases house objects such as the skeletons of Charles Byrne who was 7 foot 7 and Mr Jeffs who had a disease where his muscle turned into bone.
    Technical

    Skeletons out of the closet

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Walls of glass give the Hunterian Museum room to display its eerie exhibits

  • News

    Steeling the show

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Amanda Birch meets architect Amin Tah, whose practice’s new block of flats clad in Corten steel is making a bold statement in Clerkenwell

  • The stadium that inspired Passacaglia for Frei Otto composed by Julian Milone.
    Review

    Stadium music

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Frei Otto has inspired composer Julian Milone

  • Technical

    The towering legacy of LPS

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    As researchers test the remaining large panel systems buildings, Sam Webb maintains the only solution is demolition. Amanda Birch reports