Buildings – Page 62
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TechnicalBrief - Manchester Civil Justice Centre
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dorma UK and What’s new in Building, we’re challenging readers to identify the architecturally significant location the Dorma penguin can be seen visiting in the picture above.
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Building StudyRiches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields sustainable housing
Riches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields affordable housing scheme at Elmswell, near Bury St Edmunds, successfully integrates sustainable village living and locally appropriate design
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Building StudyIn detail: Riches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields housing scheme, Elmswell, Suffolk
An affordable housing development in the Suffolk village of Elmswell incorporates sustainable construction technologies to achieve exemplary low levels of embodied energy and carbon emissions.
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TechnicalCartwright Pickard’s modular housing for east Africa
Cartwright Pickard is creating modular homes for east Africa that can be rapidly assembled offsite
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TechnicalIwamoto Scott Architecture’s Voussoir Cloud
Iwamoto Scott’s Voussoir Cloud at the Southern California Institute of Architecture is a temporary installation showcasing the power of building offsite with paper
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Building StudyEric Parry’s St Martin-in-the-Fields makeover
Eric Parry Architects’ refurbishment and reconfiguration of Trafalgar Square’s St Martin-in-the-Fields church demonstrates an impressive singularity of vision.
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TechnicalHow Castleford got ready for its close-up
For five years, the Yorkshire town of Castleford was filmed by Channel 4 for its TV series, Kevin McCloud & the Big Town Plan. BD spoke to Peter Box, leader of the district council, about how the show affected the regeneration process
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Building StudyIn detail: St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
As well as a complete refurbishment of the church itself, the renewal of St Martin-in-the-Fields has included expansion of the crypt and a reordering of the public spaces around it.
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Building StudyPassivhaus design in Sweden
Sustainable design expert Henrietta Lynch reports on the strides made in spreading passiv principles to both new and old buildings alike in Scandinavia
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Building StudyAPA Architects gets established
APA’s showroom and offices for upcoming furniture designer Established & Sons provided it with an opportunity to prove itself beyond its Future Systems background
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Building StudyLow carbon Luton school - images
Biomass and natural ventilation offer key to unlocking BSF cash for plb-designed school
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Building StudyRMJM's University of Bedfordshire, Luton
RMJM’s plans for the £70 million redevelopment of the University of Bedfordshire’s Luton campus have been submitted for planning.
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TechnicalEvent to examine sustainability in a recession
BD columnist Paul Morrell and architects from Sheppard Robson, Zed Factory and Bond Bryan to speak at green conference
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Building StudyCaruso St John’s shades of difference
Caruso St John’s remodelling of Arts Council England’s London office delivers a richly articulated environment on a tight budget. Ellis Woodman applauds its sucess
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TechnicalRichard Griffiths Architects restores the Elizabethan garden at Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire
Richard Griffiths Architects’ £2m restoration of Robert Dudley’s ‘sensual paradise’ at Kenilworth is an exercise in authenticity
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TechnicalTonkin Liu’s Promenade of Light at Old Street
Tonkin Liu has completed the first part of a three-phase project to upgrade the area around Old Street roundabout in central London
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TechnicalArchitect to show Code Level 5 house at Interbuild
Woodward Smith Architects-designed family house on show at Birmingham exhibition next week
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TechnicalA case for Passivhaus
In the first of a series on Passivhaus sustainability expert Henrietta Lynch runs through the basics principles behind what is rapidly growing as a standard for low energy design for all types of buildings on the Continent
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TechnicalBrief - Fort Dunlop
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dorma UK and What’s new in Building, we’re challenging readers to identify the architecturally significant location the Dorma penguin can be seen visiting in the picture above.
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TechnicalDORMA makes the headlines at iconic new Birmingham Post & Mail offices
DORMA glass doors, screens and partitions have been installed at the iconic new Fort Dunlop headquarters of the Birmingham Post & Mail. Trinity Mirror Midlands, owners of the Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd, are relocating after 150 years in Birmingham City centre and have taken the entire top floor of ...