All Buildings, design and specification articles – Page 64
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FeaturesA temple to post-covid working culture: designing Google’s global headquarters
Google’s newly completed Bay View campus in Silicon Valley opened to staff last week. Tom Lowe spoke to Heatherwick group leader Eliot Postma about how the concept was developed
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FeaturesBarbican Centre at 40: how an international arts venue took shape
The pioneering scheme is celebrating its 40th birthday. Former managing director Nicholas Kenyon explains how the initial plans for a residential development evolved
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NewsNational Gallery unveils revised Selldorf upgrade designs
Latest images of £30m proposals come ahead of planning application submission this summer
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OpinionDesign better, specify better and consume more carefully – that’s my (not so) radical idea
While we should all be taking action in order to preserve our planet, direct action is actually rather less effective than well-placed words if we want to drive real and lasting change, writes Matthew Lloyd
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NewsGove steps in and puts Make’s £400m plan to turn ITV studios into office complex on ice
Communities secretary has issued notice preventing demolition work at 72 Upper Ground site ahead of possible call in
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NewsQueen’s Speech 2022: architects question feasibility of ‘street votes’ policy
Councils will need to have sufficient funding to make the government’s local design code plan work, architects warn
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ReviewReview | MoMA’s exhibition illustrates the rich legacy of South Asian modernism
New York museum seeks to put region’s architecture in a post-colonialist context, writes Ben Flatman
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OpinionHandle with care: retrofits are full of surprises and architects have lots to learn
A standard architectural education does not equip us well for working on historic building fabric. You need a clear understanding of how materials work, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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FeaturesWhy facade engineering excellence is important for contractors
Led by design. Backed by expertise. These two elements are fundamental to Schüco aluminium and steel facade, window and door systems
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NewsAHMM scoops three RIBA London Awards
Allies & Morrison, Sheppard Robson and Surman Weston score double victories on 42-strong winners’ list
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TechnicalDoes the key to cutting carbon lie beneath your feet?
A new system aims to reduce the embodied carbon of a floor slab by up to 75%. But are other solutions already to hand?
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OpinionScrapping the S106 agreement would mean better placemaking
The government’s plan to introduce a consolidated infrastructure levy allows placemakers to focus on what’s important – creating schemes of both spatial and social quality, says James Cons
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NewsArup and S&P Architects open UK’s first passivhaus leisure centre
Design accounts for predicted weather and temperature changes over the next 80 years
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us taking more risks?
The Victorians built long-lasting structures with limited foundations yet our perception of acceptable risk has changed completely and we are now overdesigning. Anna Beckett wonders if there is a better balance to be struck
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NewsEric Parry and Acanthus Clews land RIBA West Midlands Awards
Family homes by Michael Kendrick, Scott Donald and Intervention Architecture also get gongs
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NewsGreen light for Acme’s Aldgate office block
Tweaked proposals add four levels, new terraces and target higher sustainability rating
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FeaturesCPD 5 2022: Sustainable steelwork specification
This Steel for Life sponsored CPD introduces the first edition of a new Sustainability Specification for structural steelwork and sets out requirements and practices for achieving environmentally sustainable steelwork building construction, including maximal efficiency and minimal waste.
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NewsAcme’s boosted Aldgate plans set for green light
Tweaked proposals add four levels, new terraces and target higher sustainability rating