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Award Winning
A cupboard full of industry awards and commendations is proving that the Dyson Airblade™ hand dryer is more than just a hand dryer. In the words of one of the awards judges, "Dyson Airblade™ is a product that has revolutionized a stagnant category".
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TechnicalHealthcare
The Dyson Airblade™ hand dryer can be found in many Healthcare locations as it is the only hand dryer to have a HEPA filter – drying hands in just 10 seconds using purified air.
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Building StudyCurve your enthusiasm at Page & Park’s Loch Lomond National Park HQ
Dry stone walls and timber have been combined to stunning effect in a sustainable structure. Photos by Renzo Mazzolini
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Building StudyTaking Terminal 5 to another level
HOK and Rogers’ lifts from the Tube station to the departures hall have passengers soaring long before their flight is called — if they can find them. Three months after its troubled opening, BD Magazine sees how Heathrow’s Terminal 5 is faring.
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Building StudyFoster’s urban tusk force at Copenhagen Zoo
Foster & Partners’ elephant house for Copenhagen Zoo shows the practice at its best — designing buildings for a narrowly defined purpose. Photos by Richard Davies
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Building StudyPerrault brings café society to Reigate
David Owen admires Dominique Perrault’s British debut: a café in deepest stockbroker belt at Reigate. Pictures by Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyPerrault demonstrates model behaviour at the Pompidou
Sublime models are the highlight of this retrospective
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TechnicalWestarchitecture's stringerless stair for a mews house in west London
How Westarchitecture devised a modern stringerless stair for a mews house in Notting Hill, west London
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TechnicalTackling the sustainability of our existing building stock is the next step
Reducing carbon emissions of the existing homes will make a real difference, and architects need to be in on the act
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TechnicalCladding designs at the cutting edge
Advances in technology mean that cladding can take on increasingly elaborate decorative forms. Cathy Strongman looks at three of the latest projects to exploit this approach, taking their inspiration from tree branches, flowers and Polish folk-art
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Building StudyMunkenbeck & Partners finds room at the top for the Jerwood Space
Southwark’s Jerwood Space has expanded further with London’s largest dedicated rehearsal space housed in a Corten shed — on its roof. James R Payne appreciates its poetic simplicity
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Building StudyDesign for London picks its framework architects
An exhibition of architects’ ideas to improve London will go on public display this month, but will it change attitudes toward Design for London? Amanda Baillieu introduces a selection of the original 42 entries that took part in the DfL framework competition
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TechnicalHow vertical wall creator Patrick Blanc gets his gardens to grow
Think of living walls, and it’s most likely to be Patrick Blanc’s vertical gardens that spring to mind — most recently the foliage-covered facades for Jean Nouvel’s Musée du Quai Branly in Paris and Herzog & de Meuron’s Caixa Forum in Madrid.
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TechnicalIt’s alive: the growth of living walls
Plants are providing an attractive and sustainable facade for a variety of buildings. Cathy Strongman reports on some of its uses
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TechnicalBath’s Holburne Museum extension, seven years on
Eric Parry describes the seven-year struggle to see his extension to Bath’s Holburne Museum finally achieve planning permission
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Building StudyForm an orderly Kew at Marks Barfield’s Xstrata Treetop Walkway
The historic urge to view Kew Gardens from a great height has found its ultimate expression in a new Treetop Walkway
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Building StudyStanton Williams Architects’ Cranfield University student accommodation blocks, Bedfordshire
Stanton Williams Architects’ student accommodation blocks for Cranfield University are the first step to realising its campus masterplan. Photos by Peter Cook/View
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TechnicalJohn Pardey Architects’ New Forest public toilets
Architect John Pardey on how Louis Kahn and Corb inspired his innovative take on smallest room. Photos by John Pardey