All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 148
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Stroke of genius
In 2002, the FaulknerBrowns-designed Manchester Aquatics Centre will welcome swimmers and high divers from far and wide for the XVII Commonwealth Games.
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$how and $ell
For the first time, the Department of the Environment's Building Regulations Division is proposing the introduction of performance standards for display lighting lamps in the revised edition of Part L. In which direction, then, is this particular strand of design heading?
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Lighting design and its link with human performance: a research overview
Lighting conditions affect human performance through circadian physiology, visibility and 'message'. Of these three variables, the influence of lighting on visibility is the most clearly understood.
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Brought to heal
There is mounting evidence suggesting that poorly-designed lighting schemes merely paying lip service to daylight entrainment are damaging to our health. How, then, might lighting designers improve peoples' well-being the length and breadth of the UK?
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Breakthrough for high-flux LEDs at LumiLeds
LumiLeds Lighting – the joint LED development company created by Philips Lighting and Agilent Technologies – has announced a "major breakthrough" in the development of its high-flux products.
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'Strong dollar' boosts Osram
Lamps manufacturer Osram's sales performance in 2000 was helped along by the weaker Euro and stronger dollar, the latter giving rise to a turnover increase of 18% (to £2.6 billion). Pre-tax profits are up 19% at £249 million.
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Better by design
Energy conservation, the use of daylight and devising schemes for highly flexible built forms are just some of the issues that lighting designers will have to confront in the years ahead. We examine the likely impact of technological advance on the lighting design professional.
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Lighting Architects Group secures Heathrow contract
The Lighting Architects Group – comprising Speirs and Major and Jonathan Speirs and Associates – has been appointed as project-wide lighting architect for the proposed Terminal 5 project at London's Heathrow Airport.
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Geo: amenity solutions at Woodhouse
Take a look around most town centres and the same problem will be all-too-readily apparent. Pavements constructed for pedestrians are cluttered with street furniture, installed by different utilities without any (immediately) apparent regard fot its effect on the space. Too often, cheapness and speed of installation are the overriding concerns.
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Wood work
Visitors to the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in West Sussex expect to find a 17th-century water mill or a Medieval farm house, but the site's latest addition is an innovative contemporary building. This is the first of a six-part series charting the development of the museum's new conservation ...
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The red snail
The Netherlands is undergoing an architectural resurgence. Typical of the country's celebratory attitude to contemporary buildings is Bolles + Wilson's bright red Luxor theatre in Rotterdam's redeveloped docks area.
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Our man at the Ministry
The government's Small Business Service wants to help small architectural firms, but how does that fit with its promotion of PFI and Egan-inspired framework agreements?
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Hallowed ground
As part of a huge redevelopment of some of Peckham's blighted housing estates, Pollard Thomas & Edwards Architects has created a new church hall. The building may be modest in size, but its impact on the community is significant.
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Down on the farm
The less glamorous side of the Internet economy are web farms or data centres – huge power-guzzling sheds containing computer equipment, which are beginning to provide a rich seam of work for engineers and architects.
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A History of Interior Design
Martin Heidegger's insight on the nature of space focused on the perceptual difference between the idea of the enclosure or place as defined by walls, and the competing notion of space as a limitless space, with a range of boundaries.
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Retail Design
Two recent publications on shopping and architecture highlight the intriguing debate between the architectural theorists and practitioners.
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The Curves of Time: the memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer
'I am attracted to free-flowing sensual curves' are the opening words of Oscar Niemeyer's long-awaited memoirs.
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Construction disputes
Keith Pickavance reviews a new book on delay analysis: Causation and Delay in Construction Disputes by Nicholas Carnell.
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Unreal cities
Tate Modern's first major show focuses on nine cities from around the world to survey art and culture in the 20th century. It's a catchy idea, but does it work?
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Caught in the web
Foster and Partners' Great Court at the the British Museum is a tour de force, but architecture is only one part of a complex managerial and engineering exercise that began with an understanding of the museum's chequered past.