Buildings – Page 66
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TechnicalArchitecture Ensemble remakes St Anne’s Garden, Soho
Catherine Croft discovers how Architecture Ensemble turned a neglected central London churchyard into a thriving, art-filled community resource
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Building StudyIn Detail: Resource Centre, Grizedale, Cumbria
Architect: Sutherland Hussey Architects Structural Engineer: Burgess Roughton
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Building StudySutherland Hussey’s forest fruit
The first phase of Sutherland Hussey’s masterplan for a Forestry Commission-owned site in the Lake District has produced the Yan, a handsome community and education centre, writes Ellis WoodmanPhotos by Morley von Sternberg
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TechnicalSheffield Hallam reveals new energy efficient faculty block
Bond Bryan-designed Furvinal Building powered by ground-source heat pumps and city rubbish
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Building StudyRapp & Rapp’s cutting-edge normality
The solid massiveness of Rapp & Rapp’s mixed-use development for Ypenburg, a new district located on a former Nato airfield near The Hague, sits easily with the area’s suburban life, reports Biq Architects’ Hans van der Heijden
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TechnicalTechniker gets to grips with Jean Prouvé’s historic prefab house
The solution for protecting Prouvé’s antique prefab on its travels to the hurricane-prone southern US involves stripping it to its structural core
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Offsetting must form part of our carbon-cutting diet
Phil Clark argues the merit of using carbon offset schemes in the quest to reduce global CO2 emissions
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TechnicalEco-refurbishment to pioneer new heat pump technology
Architect Gillard Associates to use Swiss Zehnder low energy system for the first time in the UK on Welsh college
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TechnicalPerformance on the move
Norwegian firm Various Architects has designed the world’s biggest portable performance venue. The 90m by 60m Mobile Performance Venue (MPV) can hold 3,500 people and has a total performance space of 2,000 sqm.
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Building StudyBeijing: the architecture of the Games
As the Beijing Olympic Games opens this Friday, Claire Dodd takes a look at the venues that are to house the event – from Herzog & de Meuron's headline National Stadium to the Water Cube and lesser known venues.
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TechnicalRMJM’s Russian odyssey
Roger Whiteman, principal of RMJM and director of its London office, talks to Amanda Birch about the trials of the practice’s Gazprom HQ scheme, recently renamed the Okhta Centre, in St Petersburg
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Building StudyDixon Jones Architects’ perfect pitch at King’s Place
Two new major concert venues live in harmony with The Guardian’s new headquarters at Dixon Jones’ Kings Place building in King’s Cross
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TechnicalStudio E’s Woodside Leisure Centre
Cathy Strongman talks to architect Studio E and Max Fordham Consulting Engineers about the sustainable services solutions they choose for Watford’s Woodside Leisure Centre
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Building StudyWilkinson Eyre’s Liverpool Arena challenges conventions
Lying low in its dockside setting, the sculptural form and transparency of Wilkinson Eyre’s Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre are a clever riposte to its bulky, boxy rivals, says Jan Carlos Kucharek
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Building StudyRHWL’s Brighton Myhotel is the hippy on the square
RHWL’s Myhotel in Brighton’s luxurious interior by New York superstar design Karim Rashid is a riot of funky colour and organic forms, reports Pamela Buxton
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TechnicalFresh Flower pavilion
Architect: Tonkin LiuClient: Corus and the London Festival of ArchitectureLocations: Greenwich Peninsula, Bedford Square, Prince’s Gardens and St Paul’s
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TechnicalMetal guru: Arup’s Chris Caroll on CCTV Headquarters, Beijing
Will Hunter discovers how OMA and Arup used metal structures in the astonishing design for the CCTV HQ in Beijing
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Building StudyLong live Lubetkin’s republic
Tecton’s Spa Green Estate, a legacy of 1930s radical housing policy in north London, has been sensitively restored to pay homage to its original ambitions, reports James R Payne
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Building StudyGrey days are over in Clerkenwell
Wilkinson Eyre's London Festival of Architecture installation aims to be the start of a more permanent arts legacy in Benjamin Street Gardens, Clerkenwell.
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Building StudyGehry's Serpentine Pavilion raises deeper questions
Frank Gehry’s Serpentine Pavilion combines grandeur with history, but Tony McIntyre has issues with its structural honesty