All Building Design articles in BD Concrete Quarterly Decemeber 2006

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  • News

    Lincoln museum takes top honours

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Building Study

    Growing out of lakeside landscape

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Technical

    Designs for green living

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Architects are well placed to optimise the passive sustainability capacity of a building in order to reduce both its heating and cooling energy requirements

  • Features

    The Concrete Centre Events

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Concrete Elegance – The Millau Viaduct: A Towering Achievement in Bridge Technology

  • Features

    MacCormac to lecture on Frank Lloyd Wright’s concrete buildings

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Features

    ‘Every building tells a story’

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Features

    Let the concrete football games begin

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Furniture designer Martino Gamper has created a concrete table-football game.

  • News

    Carillion’s PFI campus wins sustainability award

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Ian Cox
    Technical

    Projects showcase concrete’s adaptability

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Concrete’s unrivalled versatility is fully demonstrated in this issue of Concrete Quarterly.

  • Technical

    Abito microflat is boxing clever

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    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