Buildings – Page 73
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TechnicalHas ‘zero carbon’ become meaningless?
The term zero carbon risks becoming a way of hiding a multitude of sins.
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Building StudyJohn McAslan & Partners' Harris Academy in South Norwood
McAslan’s integrates a colourful new-build element with an existing listed building
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Building StudyEldridge Smerin's Heart of England School, Solihull
The Joined Up Design for Schools programme allowed sixth form students to make the design decisions — and pick chairs by Ron Arad
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Building StudyHistoric buildings brought back from the dead
How can historic ruins be given life and meaning for the 21st century? Ellis Woodman looks at the answers offered in projects by Witherford Watson Mann, Simon Conder and Décosterd-Cotting
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Building StudyAround the rugged rock sits O’Donnell & Tuomey’s Killiney house
The latest addition to Killiney village’s roll call of grand residences is a home as rocky and spectacular as the landscape it sits in.
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TechnicalKSP Engel & Zimmermann’s Bergen-Belsen Centre
KSP Engel & Zimmermann Architects used high quality fair-faced concrete on its information centre to memorialise the historic Bergen-Belsen site
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TechnicalTwo unusual concrete wall projects add something new to the mix
Concrete is too often used in predictable forms, but there’s nothing routine about Alan Chandler’s Wall One or Gramazio & Kohler’s Perforated Wall, as Will Hunter explains
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Building StudyIn detail: Killiney House, Ireland
Architect: O’Donnell & Tuomey ArchitectsStructural engineer: Downes AssociatesThe design of a 500sq m private house near Dublin has been inspired by the granite outcrops on its hillside site. The most distinctive aspect is the concrete roof that folds to follow the underlying topography.The external walls are cavity construction with a ...
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Building StudyDe Paor Architects creates development aid showroom in Dublin
Tom De Paor has remodelled a Dublin shop to serve as an information centre on Irish overseas development assistance. It’s an experiment in transparency both for client and architect, says Ellis Woodman
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TechnicalThe challenges of taking over Alsop’s The Public
Flannery & de la Pole took over Will Alsop’s troubled project for a community arts venue in West Bromwich. In the first in a new series on troubleshooters, practice director Julian Flannery talks about the challenges of completing the building on a greatly reduced budget
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Building StudyPrevious work by Tom de Paor
See BD’s previous coverage of work by Tom de Paor, whose Dublin shop is reviewed this week
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Building StudyAsh Sakula's Hackney arts centre is the right side of the tracks
Ash Sakula’s arts trust building makes the most of a challenging site in Hackney, east London, and is an object lesson in thinking positive, reports Tony McIntyre
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TechnicalSafety without sell-out
Greg Lomas of Foster Lomas explains how two residential refurbs integrate fire safety without compromising design
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Building StudyNew talent in New York
Following the Architecture Foundation’s New York showcase of young UK architects last year, it has now invited four up-and-coming New York practices to speak in London. Will Hunter met them
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Building StudyCaruso St John’s scheme for Escher-Wyss Platz, Zurich
Caruso St John, working with German artist Thomas Demand on two buildings for a public square in Zurich, makes a quietly political point about the human costs of regeneration, based on China’s infamous ’Nail House’
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TechnicalAHMM’s ‘refurbishment in extremis’ at 176 in north London
“You find a disused rotten building and you keep as much as possible.” Simon Allford talks to Will Hunter about his firm’s conversion of a former methodist church into a private art gallery
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Building StudyNew York’s architecture goes ‘bling’
New York’s upper class is employing star architects to put its wealth on display, reports Adrian Dannatt
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TechnicalGreen design means fewer drawings, greater trust
By reducing wasteful practices, such as unnecessary drawings, we make better use of time and energy
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TechnicalEco-home success
If you fancy reading about a real success story, Great Bow Yard: Anatomy of an Eco Build is worth dipping into.
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TechnicalArt blasts into the modern store
Stanton Williams on integrating artwork into the facade of a new Bristol department store