All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 154
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Daylighting and window design: post-occupancy studies in office environments
Successful daylighting design is a complex system integration challenge that requires trade-offs and optimisation between several competing elements.
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Society challenges draft amendments to Part L
The Society of Light and Lighting Technical Committee's detailed response to the DETR's proposals for amending Part L of the Building Regulations states that, as they stand, "some of the proposals are neither understandable nor enforcable."
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E20 Corridor, Hull
As part of Hull Cityvision's desire to regenerate Europe's third largest port city, lighting design practice Pinniger & Partners has committed to providing an urban illumination scheme for the E20 Corridor. Plans are in place for a pioneering 'white light' roadlighting scheme, while landmark buildings will benefit from bespoke architectural ...
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Water works
Bennetts Associates has built on its past experience of green utilities headquarters buildings to produce its most sustainable office to date, and possibly the UK's greenest building.
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The third way
Revit's totally object-oriented approach is redefining the way architects approach designing buildings on computer, and the way software is sold and its users supported. Can it succeed in the UK as it has in the US?
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Those who can, teach
Red tape, bad pay and a shortage of resources are making it increasingly hard for architecture schools to attract the best architects as teachers. The result is a widening division between education and practice, but teaching remains one of the best ways to develop ideas.
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Minority rule
In three years, the Disability Discrimination Act will be upon us. But will demands for access for all simply make architects behave more responsibly, or force them to design buildings which all conform to a rigid set of rules?
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Letters from Sydney
Letters from SydneyMogens Prip-BuusEdition Bløndal£12Some historical debates just refuse to go away. It's no surprise that in the year of the Sydney Olympic Games the issue of why Jørn Utzon was compelled to resign from the Sydney Opera House project in 1966 has come to life again. Did he fall ...
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Healing power
Grime, noise and road rage are the main features of Hammersmith roundabout, but a new surgery by Guy Greenfield Architects turns its back on all that to offer its patients an oasis of calm.
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Foreign office
Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch moved to Berlin ten years ago after winning a competition. Their practice has thrived and their GSW headquarters is the only building outside the UK to appear on this year's Stirling Prize shortlist.
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Ground force
The Centre for Alternative Technology has thrown down the gauntlet of sustainable design. Rammed earth walls, wool insulation and compost toilets its new public building means business.
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Early learning
Many of the progressive ideals of the 1930s, both educational and architectural, are captured in this photograph of Samuel & Harding's Dulwich nursery school.
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Gardens of delight
A glossy but thought-provoking study of the place of the garden in the Modern Movement. Plus, American industrial architecture and newly published letters about the building of the Sydney Opera House.
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Cliffhanger
Perched on the waterfront overlooking Salcombe Estuary, the house that architect Stan Bolt has designed is a welcome change from the area's norm.
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Industry, Architecture and Engineering
Industry, Architecture and EngineeringLouis Bergeron & Maria Teresa Maiullari-Pontois£42Prominent in the long list of photographic icons of America is the rusting carcass of some vast, indecipherable industrial complex. Black and white photography has, perhaps, found no better subject. These mechanically produced images of astonishing clarity and apparent indifference bring ...
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Archive TitlesClear advantage
Advances in facade engineering mean that curtainwalling can be so fine-tuned that even multi-storey glass facades can be supported with single pre-tensioned cables.
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Worth waiting for
Oscar Niemeyer has unveiled what he considers to be the final element of Brasília's main axis, the 'Cultural Sector', adjacent to the Brazilian capital's iconic cathedral also by Niemeyer
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West side story
Budapest's WestEnd City Center, conceived as a suburban-type mall in the inner city, lives off the commuter traffic of one of the city's busiest stations. It repays the city with hectares of roof gardens.
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The missing link
Hertzberger's latest work, an extension to the Vanderveen Department Store in the Dutch city of Assen, unifies sprawling elements behind a Modernist facade, and demonstrates the Structuralist's ability to work in context.