All Buildings, design and specification articles – Page 59
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FeaturesAccess all areas with Profab’s fire rated access panels
Profab’s innovative range of access panels provide the highest standards of accessibility to services without compromising on aesthetics
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Building StudyBuilding study: West Hub by Jestico + Whiles
A new hybrid building in Cambridge mixes academia with enterprise and hospitality to reimagine what a university should be in the 21st century, writes Ben Flatman
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FeaturesBuilt to be wild: Monarto Safari Park's new Visitor Centre
Two ancient cultures merge at the Monarto Visitor Centre, designed in a joint venture by Intro and studio-gram
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NewsOptimised Environments win landscape architect role on £55m railway museums upgrade
Practice beats five rival bidders to win £250,000 job
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OpinionThe joy of designing and building appropriately
”Sustainability” is too vague a concept when it comes to the environmental crisis that we are facing. We need to think in terms of “appropriate design” and embrace new procurement models, writes Felix Holland
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FeaturesMEDITE SMARTPLY defines the standard of innovative wood-based panels
Europe’s most recognised brand of MDF, MEDITE are seen as the benchmark for quality, consistency and performance in the MDF market
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NewsNotre Dame to get 400m riverside park under new redevelopment plans
Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets named as winner of competition three years after cathedral lost its roof in devastating blaze
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us from designing more holistically?
Architects and engineers need to work together more closely to realise the opportunities for efficiency, and beauty, says Anna Beckett
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FeaturesFrom gas plant to office space: Foster + Partners’ latest reuse project
Foster + Partners designs a demountable timber structure for a disused gas plant in Madrid, Spain, creating a natural, flexible workspace
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FeaturesBIG-designed refugee museum opens in Denmark
The practice has adapted and extended one of the refugee camp’s few remaining structures - a hospital building - into a 1,600 m2 museum dedicated to displaced humans
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FeaturesAttractive, versatile and non-combustible rainscreen options by Tata Steel
Offering an alternative to a flat faced facade, the Trisobuild range increases the aesthetic options available for building designs whilst also delivering peace of mind
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NewsAecom releases time-lapse film of Serpentine pavilion under construction
Watch Theaster Gates’s pavilion rise from the ground in Kensington Gardens
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NewsGreen light for Design Engine’s robotics school at Stowe
School building in grounds of grade I-listed house is practice’s second approval within a week
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NewsGreen light for Design Engine’s contested Oxford Uni student resi scheme
Plans stirred controversy for their setting next to the grade I-listed Christ Church Meadow
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NewsRSHP appointed to transform Lloyd’s Building into hotel or event space
Chinese owner reportedly seeking contingency plan if insurance giant decides to leave grade I-listed building
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NewsWilkinson Eyre unveils designs for Buckinghamshire film studio
Practice submits plans for 170,000sq m Marlow Film Studios
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FeaturesThe Insulation Solution for Rainscreen and Masonry Facades
Poltern Max Plus is a non-combustable stone wool insulation offering both thermal and acoustic benefits
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NewsRed tape cuts left officials “unable” to escalate fire safety warnings in years before Grenfell, government admits
But housing department lawyer tells inquiry that “competent professionals” would not have signed off dangerous materials
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FeaturesVectorworks Architect: Your all-in-one design solution
Sketch, draw, and model in a fully integrated BIM workflow
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NewsRIBA reveals National Award winners for 2022
Tim Ronalds and Niall McLaughlin score double entries on 29-strong list of the UK’s best new buildings