All Archive Titles articles – Page 184
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Immaculate contraption
Richard Horden Associates has designed a patient bed lift at Hammersmith Hospital.
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All white on the night
Metal halide lamps have been around in one form or another for the last 30 years or so. A follow-up to the basic mercury vapour lamp, metal halides found favour because they were potentially twice as efficient as the mercury product, and up to four times more efficient than tungsten ...
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Adaptation: responding to change
Preadaptation plays a central role in people's perceptions of the lit environment. Indeed, this is a very important issue because the design of circulation spaces can influence the lighting energy use in rooms leading off them. Occupants entering a room from a bright atrium space or a gloomy corridor, for ...
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On the waterfront
Sir Rocco Forte wanted Patrick Davies to design him a luxury hotel that would put him and Cardiff Bay on the map.
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Save our skins
At cladding testing centres you can see what your building's facade will look like for the first time, but more importantly you can eliminate problems that could cost a fortune later on.
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Learningcurve
At its second nursery for the Jigsaw group, Walters and Cohen has persuaded its client that children can thrive in a building that's guaranteed not to remind them of home.
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Kitchen zinc
Meeting building requirements without compromising space and aesthetics requires ingenuity. A secret passageway in this west London flat is not the extravagant whim of architect Buschow Henley, but instead a rational response to strict planning requirements.
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The Sprinboard in the Pond
The Springboard in the Pond - An Intimate History of the Swimming PoolThomas AP van LeeuwenMIT Press£24.95This book sets out the cultural, architectural, philosophical and social history of the swimming pool. Lightly peppered with anecdotes, it was the perfect book to review over Christmas. For while the pool might inspire ...
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A Masterful performance
Undoubtedly, the lighting designer's first priority is to improve the quality of the lit environment. In these environmentally-aware times, though, the energy efficiency equation is equally important.
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Making light work
Improved materials and better know-how have enabled fibre optic lighting technology to move out of interiors into the big outdoors.
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Home from home
Having completed his first extension to a postwar Glasgow semi, architect Christopher Platt was invited to design another addition to these otherwise undistinguished houses.
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Highly polished
Coexistence, one of the most familiar names in contemporary furniture, has opened a third showroom in Islington.
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Green house
The Integer Millennium House boasts a wealth of intelligent and environmentally-friendly features but is it a workable blueprint for the Eco dwellings of tomorrow, or just another technological playground?
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Material differences
Lighting consultants' and architects' scheme designs can only be realised if the lamp and luminaire manufacturers constantly strive to improve on performance levels.
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Designing with fibre optic lighting
Light transmission by fibre optics is becoming an increasingly important area for the specialist lighting designer, appearing as it does on more and more project documents. In recent years, major advances in the technology employed have helped produce stunning lighting effects that could not be achieved by any conventional means, ...
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Daylighting and lighting controls
Automatic lighting controls have a major part to play in reducing building energy consumption, but control system performance will depend on certain design aspects of the space being lit. Here, the Building Research Establishment's (BRE) Liam Roche reports on a study aimed at determining the effect of different controls on ...
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Quality control
Quality indices like the CSP Index devised by Bean and Bell have generally met with scepticism when applied to aspects of lighting and lighting system design. Can the latest index for defining office luminaire quality change the industry's views?
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Lighting changes direction
'Innovative' and 'quality solution-driven' are phrases that spring to mind when assessing some of the new developments in the lamp and luminaire markets these past few years. Richard Forster outlines the path towards visually-efficient scheme designs.
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Optical illuminations at Manchester's Trafford Centre
Manchester's £600 million Trafford Centre, which opened to the public at the tail end of last year, is the UK's first truly integrated retail and leisure scheme. The vast development was designed by architect Chapman Taylor & Partners, and comprises a 750 m-long, two-storey mall which packs in 280 retail ...