All articles by Amanda Birch – Page 8
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TechnicalAllies & Morrison’s St Paul’s Place car park, Sheffield
Amanda Birch explores the exciting treatment Allies & Morrison has given to the facade of a city centre car park in Sheffield
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TechnicalHawkins Brown on the Parliament Square debacle
Hawkins Brown director Roger Hawkins spent two years leading an £18 million project to pedestrianise London’s Parliament Square, only to see the scheme axed by mayor Boris Johnson
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TechnicalRMJM’s Russian odyssey
Roger Whiteman, principal of RMJM and director of its London office, talks to Amanda Birch about the trials of the practice’s Gazprom HQ scheme, recently renamed the Okhta Centre, in St Petersburg
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Features
Glenn Howells Architects helps Birmingham’s Rotunda come full circle
Startling new cladding has aided the Birmingham landmark’s transformation from a past-its-best office block to stunning residential flats
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TechnicalLessons in zero carbon
White Design’s scheme for the UK’s first zero-carbon school at Dartington in Devon
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TechnicalBath’s Holburne Museum extension, seven years on
Eric Parry describes the seven-year struggle to see his extension to Bath’s Holburne Museum finally achieve planning permission
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TechnicalJohn Pardey Architects’ New Forest public toilets
Architect John Pardey on how Louis Kahn and Corb inspired his innovative take on smallest room. Photos by John Pardey
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TechnicalMonks adopt an earthy approach to insulation at Berkshire’s Douai Abbey
Architect David Richmond & Partners and structural engineer Price & Myers are creating a rammed earth wall using local soil for a new library and archive at Douai Abbey
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TechnicalAvery Associates Architects rides the winds of change at the London Transport Museum
Amanda Birch assesses heating and cooling systems in the six-year, £22m reworking of the listed Victorian structure
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ReviewWhat the restored Cutty Sark will be like
According to the project architect Simon Beames of Youmeheshe, the Cutty Sark will open again to the public in April 2010. Here he explains to Amanda Birch what visitors will be treated to when they enter the fully restored ship
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TechnicalThe clipper stripped bare
Amanda Birch pays a visit to the Cutty Sark in Greenwich where restoration work is resuming after last year’s fire
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TechnicalHow the Cutty Sark rose from the ashes
When Simon Beames, project architect for Grimshaw’s Cutty Sark renovation, left the firm to start Youmeheshe, his fledgling practice received a boost by keeping the project. But, as he tells Amanda Birch, this became a major headache last May after a fire caused serious damage to the ship
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TechnicalBridging the gap at the AA’s Hooke Parke
Architects and AA tutors Valentin Bontjes van Beek and Natalie Rozencwajg’s web-like footbridge uses trees for its main supports
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Building StudyEldridge Smerin's Heart of England School, Solihull
The Joined Up Design for Schools programme allowed sixth form students to make the design decisions — and pick chairs by Ron Arad
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TechnicalFolding into the landscape
Sheppard Robson’s planned car park for Penrith in Cumbria uses CNC cutting technology to create a timber facade that draws inspiration directly from its Lakeland context, reports Amanda Birch
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TechnicalRoll out the barrel vault
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ latest venture in Spain, for a winery in the ancient town of Peñafiel, boasts a remarkable roof, reports Amanda Birch
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TechnicalT5 lounge at the thin end of the prefab wedge
Barker MCT has built karaoke pods and capsule hotels. Now its modular Express Wedges are part of Heathrow’s Terminal 5.
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TechnicalWorking to tight targets
Air leakage tests are now compulsory for many new non-residential buildings, but a huge number are failing. Amanda Birch looked at how four buildings fared
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TechnicalSearching for a design star
The judges for this year’s award are a starry bunch, but they will have their work cut out
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TechnicalTonkin Liu’s Singing Ringing Tree puts panpipes into park panorama
Singing Ringing Tree, the RIBA award-winning public art scheme in the Pennines by architect Tonkin Liu, posed a number of tricky challenges, not least of which was getting the sculpture to live up to its name and make a sound. With a little help from engineer Jane Wernick Associates, it ...