All Building Design articles in BD Concrete Quarterly Decemeber 2006
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News
Lincoln museum takes top honours
Panter Hudspith Architects’ museum in Lincoln, the Collection: Art & Archaeology, has been named as the overall winner in the Concrete Society’s 2006 Awards for Excellence in Concrete Construction in the buildings category.
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Building Study
Growing out of lakeside landscape
Etonbury Lake House has been designed to blend perfectly with its setting next to a man-made lake, though its clear, rectilinear forms also provide a vital contrast with nature
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Technical
Designs for green living
Architects are well placed to optimise the passive sustainability capacity of a building in order to reduce both its heating and cooling energy requirements
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Features
The Concrete Centre Events
Concrete Elegance – The Millau Viaduct: A Towering Achievement in Bridge Technology
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Features
MacCormac to lecture on Frank Lloyd Wright’s concrete buildings
Richard MacCormac, senior partner at MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects and former RIBA president, is to present a lecture examining Frank Lloyd Wright as a pioneer of modern concrete architecture drawing on examples such as Unity Temple, Oak Park Midway Gardens and lightweight concrete block houses and public buildings.
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Features
‘Every building tells a story’
Daniel Libeskind believes passionately in an eloquent architecture that tells stories rooted in history. His lecture looked at how several of his projects — in Manchester, Poland, Italy and the US — communicate with the souls of visitors
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Features
Let the concrete football games begin
Furniture designer Martino Gamper has created a concrete table-football game.
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News
Carillion’s PFI campus wins sustainability award
Carillion’s £50 million Queen Margaret University College, PFI campus development in Musselburgh, Scotland, has been chosen as the winner of The Concrete Centre’s Sustainability Award for 2006.
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Technical
Projects showcase concrete’s adaptability
Concrete’s unrivalled versatility is fully demonstrated in this issue of Concrete Quarterly.
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Technical
Abito microflat is boxing clever
Building Design Partnership has created a block of high-tech microflats in Manchester using tunnel form techniques. To save time, prefabricated pods with 95% of key services slot into the centre