Buildings – Page 48
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TechnicalThe implications of the new Part L regulations on facade design
In the first of a series of videos about facade design, Graham Fairley, head of facade engineering at Aecom, talks to Anthony Gell, CEO at The Business Voice about some of the hot topics in the industry today.
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TechnicalEric Parry Architects’ Holburne Museum in Bath
The blue-green glaze of Eric Parry’s Holburne Museum extension brings new depths to its Bath surroundings.
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TechnicalCottrell & Vermeulen’s Brentwood School
Brick is used to clad a new sixth-form centre and assembly hall for Brentwood School in Essex.
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TechnicalGreat Suffolk Street student housing by Allies & Morrison
Allies & Morrison’s student accommodation buildings in Southwark met the challenge of mixing modular construction with traditional brickwork.
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Building StudyNo 1 Smithery, Chatham Dockyard, by van Heyningen & Haward
Van Heyningen & Haward’s scheme provides an elegant environment for the presentation of a fine collection of ships’ models
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Building StudyChrist & Gantenbein’s Swiss Church
Young Basel practice Christ & Gantenbein’s reworking of the interior of the Swiss Church in London’s Covent Garden puts mirrored glazing and a highly complex plan to dramatic use
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TechnicalNunawading station, Melbourne
Grimshaw used prefabricated steel units to provide high-speed construction without disrupting services from a suburban Melbourne station
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TechnicalMeads Reach footbridge, Bristol
Niall McLaughlin Architects worked with Price & Myers and Martin Richman to create an integrated design that lights up the landscape
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Building StudyRevisiting the BedZed community
BedZed was the ultimate sustainability trailblazer. Nearly a decade on, the Bill Dunster, BioRegional and The Peabody Trust development may be thriving but it remains an anomaly, rather than an exemplar.
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Building StudyWhite Design’s Dartington Primary School
With its individual timber-clad classrooms, Dartington Primary School in Devon by White Design blends into the rural landscape while creating one of the greenest schools in the UK.
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Building StudySouth London Gallery by 6a Architects
6a’s commission to create a café and flat for the South London Gallery evolved into something more ambitious, while still retaining the building’s domestic character.
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TechnicalKentish Town Sports Centre
Max Fordham Engineers has turn Victorian technology to good use in the refurbishment of one of London’s oldest pools.
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Building StudyA womb with a view: the Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion
The fact that Peter Palumbo is chair of the selection panels for both the Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion and the Pritzker prize, perhaps gives some indication as to why the names recognised by both programmes seem so often to be drawn from the same starlit pool.
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TechnicalEnvironmental Resource Centre, Ebbw Vale, Wales
A site that was once Europe’s largest steelworks is reclaimed by nature in Design Research Unit Wales’s innovative scheme.
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins’ London Library
Haworth Tompkins’ ongoing expansion of the London Library has clarified and enhanced its internal spaces while retaining the unique character of this historic literary institution
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Building StudyWaterloo Place charette
As part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture, five practices were invited to devise ideas for Waterloo Place. Here are the results.
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Building StudyCentre for Alternative Technology education building by Pat Borer and David Lea
The Wales Institute for Sustainable Education at the Centre for Alternative Technology is an impressive physical embodiment of the values it champions
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TechnicalPrice & Myers’ Hy-Pavilion
Designed for the London Festival of Architecture, Price & Myers’ Hy-Pavilion is a clever folding timber structure that can be easily transported and erected.
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TechnicalTwilly Springs house by Diamond Architects
A new-build green oak frame joins an original 17th century elm timber rafters to create a contemporary house with historic roots
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Building StudyChiswick House café by Caruso St John
The initial formality of Caruso St John’s café for the newly restored gardens of Chiswick House soon gives way to something more complex and mysterious