All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 169
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Tomorrow’s urban fabric
Four months ago, the world’s most ambitious, most public and largest tensile structure was completed. So will the Millennium Dome prove to be the last word in fabric architecture? Or is it a statement to the world that architects had better get used to it? Dan Fox looks at the ...
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Theatre studies
At Latymer School's new arts centre, van Heyningen and Haward's trademark austere brick facades enclose a theatre of warmth and spirit.
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Station to station
As Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners’ projects – from Waterloo to Paddington – have grown in complexity, so have the demands on, and capacity of, it's modelling software.
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Sign of the times
The Kardomah Café in Manchester demonstrates the power of the neglected art of lettering, in this case by two members of the multi-talented Industrial Design Partnership.
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Power to the people
In contrast to its trademark white architecture, MBLC's latest building, a community centre in Moss Side, is a spreading colourful composition, with huge ambitions.
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A night at the Opera
An extensive £214 million rebuilding programme at London’s famous Royal Opera House culminated in a high profile reopening last December. Energy efficiency and maintainability were high on the agenda for Ove Arup & Partners’ lighting designers.
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A little light relief
Think light-emitting diodes and you picture the green back-light of your mobile phone, or the red light of your car's dashboard. Think again. LEDs have arrived in the architectural lighting arena.
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Street life
The Government's designation of the first trial sites for Home Zones could have a far-reaching impact on Britain's urban landscape, while Philips is experimenting with a project aimed at realising the "city centre of tomorrow".
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Pure Jeanius
Independent consultant Into has developed a flexible lighting solution for jeans giant Levi Strauss that marries pure retail illumination and entertainment lighting – with stunning end results.
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Growing old gracefully
Twenty years can be long time to wait before a building looks ‘just right’. Patination techniques which accelerate the weathering process of different metals help achieve the desired effect in weeks rather than years.
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Net g@ins
Whether you’re talking instant access to project-based information, or trading at the click of a mouse, the Internet is fast reshaping the lighting landscape for manufacturers and designers alike. How are the industry’s big players responding to the challenges being laid down by e-technology?
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The waiting game
January's quiz on extensions of time elicited a flood of faxes to the RIBAJ office, proving that this practice issue is one of the thorniest an architect has to deal with. With adjudication making it easier for an architect's decision to be challenged, it is even more important to get ...
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Hello, old friend
YRM's second office, like its first, was of its own design in the then obscure area of Clerkenwell. When the practice moved out two years ago the owner, a fast-growing fashion business, invited it back, a commission which proved particularly satisfying.
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Hospitals and holistic lighting design
The lit environment in any hospital, where lives may be at risk, has to be first class. Scheme designs must account for general amenity lighting as well as critical visual tasks. In last September's Light & Lighting1, the Building Research Establishment's (BRE) Mike Perry and David Loe outlined the results ...
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Shady dealings
Daylight may provide a constant variation in the intensity, pattern and colour of light in a building, but if a scheme design is ill-conceived then solar glare can be a major problem for end-users. Light & Lighting evaluates the most commonly-used glare control techniques.
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Done deal
London's Sion Hall was once home to the UK's oldest ecclesiastical library. A successful conversion by Fulcrum Consulting has transformed this fabulous listed building into high tech dealer rooms for City traders. Brian Sims talks to Fulcrum's principal designer Maida Hot about a scheme that successfully ...
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Double cream
Allies and Morrison was asked to convert a London house, maintaining a 'dialogue between old and new'. The couple wanted a backdrop for its art collection, rather than an architectural statement, but how much of the original character of the house remains?
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Conversion factors
It’s a nightmare scenario. Fire breaks out in a public building. The power supply fails. Emergency lighting cuts in, and full-scale evacuation begins. People are on the move, but soon enough lux levels drop or fail completely. Why? Sub-standard luminaire conversion.
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Chelsea girl
In the notoriously fickle world of fashion, the relative constancy of architecture holds a real allure. Fashion empire Whistles, known for its canny ability to exploit good design, has enlisted Seth Stein to create a directional new flagship store.
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LEDs: a multi-million colour business
Forget about metal halides and colour filters. Cast aside halogens with colour scrollers, and the wear-and-tear problems that come with them. The light source of tomorrow is the light-emitting diode (LED). Will Jones and Brian Sims go Stateside to check out a potentially groundbreaking LED product range developed by Boston-based ...