All Buildings, design and specification articles – Page 64
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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
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FeaturesEnvironmentally-friendly furniture factory is a big plus in the forests of Norway
Furniture factory, experience centre and 300-acre public park, the colourful manufacturing village is committed to the carbon-neutral fabrication of urban furniture
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FeaturesFull turnkey smoke control system delivery. All in house, from Colt
It’s no accident that Colt are recognised as leaders in smoke and climate control, louvre and service & maintenance
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OpinionSelling off social homes is not the answer to the housing crisis
Instead of building the new social housing we need, Boris Johnson is fixating on populist policies we already know don’t work, writes Ben Derbyshire
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NewsPlans to demolish historic Oxford Street M&S called in
Pilbrow & Partners scheme will be looked at by public inquiry
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Building StudyBuilding study: House in Leconfield Road by vPPR
A private house extension revels in the play of light and materials and reminds us of the power architecture has to lift up our daily lives
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FeaturesCPD 6 2022: Achieving net zero carbon in the built environment
This CPD feature, sponsored by Darren Evans, will look at the challenges facing the construction industry as it seeks to respond to the climate emergency and deliver buildings that will meet net zero criteria.
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NewsGreen light for Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Paradise office
Architect beats three others to land Birmingham job