All Building Design articles in BD Magazine - Offices - December 08
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FeaturesTaking stock at Stockley Park
Launched by Stuart Lipton in the mid-1980s, Stockley Park brought the high-quality, US-style landscaped office development to the UK, with buildings by Geoffrey Darke, Norman Foster and Eric Parry among others. Ken Powell explores how it is responding to the needs of contemporary business. Photos by Dennis Gilbert
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FeaturesTecton Super Highway
Elegance and a versatile, easy-to-install electrical distribution system are the key characteristics of Tecton Super Highway lighting specified by AHMM in a south London office block at 160 Tooley Street (pictured).
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Building StudyMatch made in heaven
Shed KM’s Matchbox building for developer Urban Splash, next to the former Bryant & May match factory in Liverpool, is a striking Miesian office block that links old and new, reports Peter Blundell Jones. Photos by Morley von Sternberg
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FeaturesEyetech
From the Stirling Prize-shortlisted Young Vic Theatre to Sanaa’s acclaimed New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan (pictured), James & Taylor is a forerunner in the use of this unique facade material, a 3D expanded aluminium mesh that is opaque when viewed from one direction, transparent from the other
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FeaturesMX Curtain Walling
The new MX curtain walling system offers an vast range of design options using a single grid system
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FeaturesDoes the big corporate office have a future in the UK?
DEGW’s Frank Duffy, Consilium Technologies’ Gareth Tolerton and Savills’ Jeremy Bates respond
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Features'An architectural edge allows you to sensualise the masterplan’s edges'
Studio Egret West, formed by urban planner David West and architect Christophe Egret in 2004, currently has office projects ranging from regional masterplans to client-specific HQs. Interview Will Hunter
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FeaturesBD looks at RIBA Bookshops’ pick of the best books about offices
From the effects of new technology to the rise of corporate branding, here is the RIBA Bookshops’ pick of the best books on offices
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FeaturesElite System 60
Elite System 60, with a half-round profile outer sheet, provides a contemporary cladding option
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FeaturesCompact 100 Recessed Luminaires
The Compact 100 range provides ambient lighting for administrative and commercial spaces, and offers cost-effective, quality design