All articles by Amanda Birch – Page 6
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TechnicalStacks of work at Eastbury Manor
Richard Griffiths Associates has completed its third phase of restoration on the Elizabethan estate’s chimney stacks and east stair turret
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TechnicalJulian Harrap Architects: Royal Society of Chemistry refurbishment project
So many refurbishment projects today involve redressing the work of the 1960s
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TechnicalJean Nouvel’s One New Change is a City chameleon
The facade’s pioneering frit glazing helps it blend into its surroundings
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TechnicalTim Ronalds’ Sevenoaks School centre raises the roof
A high pitched roof of honey-coloured Douglas fir on this new performing arts centre meet both visual and acoustic requirements
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TechnicalOak is at the heart of Talk Talk HQ interior
Found Associates has used fumed oak parquet to set the tone for the office
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TechnicalStiff & Trevillion brings stripped-back look to Jamie’s Italian
TV chef adds design ingredients to Guildford restaurant
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TechnicalOutdoor concerts get a helping hand
A newly developed modular acoustic performance shell could vastly improve outdoor classical concerts
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TechnicalThin metal cladding is the shape of things to come
Unveiled recently at the Building Centre, John Gould’s Formtexx has developed a revolutionary process that will enable double curvature metal panels for facades to be produced at a fraction of the cost
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TechnicalComing round the mountain with Sutherland Hussey’s Chinese ski stations
Sutherland Hussey’s cable car stations are taking shape in the Chinese mountains
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TechnicalLearning by example at the Wise sustainability centre in Wales
The Wales Institute for Sustainable Education not only teaches sustainable building, but will itself be a practical demonstration of techniques.
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TechnicalBig entrances, grand views
Our round-up of doors and windows projects includes Rick Mather’s entrance to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and more
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TechnicalMany hands make light work
With inventor and magician Adrian Westaway’s Magic Light, you just grab a beam and go
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TechnicalSend in the clouds
Speirs & Major has created a theatre of moving clouds across Abu Dhabi’s Grand Mosque
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TechnicalBeacon lights Swansea from dusk till dawn
Lighting artist Peter Freeman has created a 10m tall LED-studded beacon for Swansea Docks
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TechnicalMUMA raises a glass to the past at the V&A
The transformation of an existing lightwell is at the heart of MUMA’s restoration of the V&A’s Medieval & Renaissance galleries
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TechnicalRestoring the Derby Roundhouse
Maber Architects has retained many original features in its refurbishment of Derby College’s Roundhouse and other railway buildings
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TechnicalAAIS pumps up the drama
An inflatable extension to a German theatre, designed by a team from the AA’s new Interprofessional Studio, had to overcome the attentions of a concerned local authority
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TechnicalHeatherwick’s Paperhouse kiosks open for business in Kensington
Heatherwick Studios’ bronze and steel kiosks for the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea are sturdy, flexible and sculptural
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TechnicalZaha Hadid’s new museum brings Glasgow into the fold
Zaha Hadid Architects’ Glasgow Museum of Transport Riverside project creates a vast internal space thanks to the rigidity of its distinctive pleated steel roof
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