Buildings – Page 75
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Building StudySanaa's New Museum in NYC
Sanaa’s New Museum is a startling tower of boxes in the heart of New York’s Bowery district, but the inside doesn’t live up to the outside, reports Adrian Dannatt
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Building StudyEarthy delights
Six practices were shortlisted in the Architecture Foundation/BD competition to create a new exhibition space inside the Museum of Garden History. Ellis Woodman surveys the winning entry and the runners-up
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Building StudyIt’s all in the details
Graham Bizley has been producing working details for BD since 2004. He has covered more than 90 buildings, and 40 are now included in his new book, Architecture in Detail. Here Graham explains why detailing is such an important part of the architectural process
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Extracting a building’s essence
For BD working details, I try to develop a drawing that conveys depth of technical information while also containing an essence of what the whole building is about.
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TechnicalDesigning by numbers
Marks Barfield drew inspiration from the ancient Fibonacci number sequence to design and build a treetop walkway for Kew Gardens, writes Rory Olcayto
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TechnicalProducts focus: Westminster Academy
Details of four key products used by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris at the newly-opened Westminster Academy
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Building StudyAllford Hall Monaghan Morris' Westminister Academy, Central London
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s Naim Dangoor Centre, for the Westminster Academy in central London, is a potential Stirling winner, says Ellis Woodman
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TechnicalDancing on the ceiling
An architect and a designer are reviving the lost art of ceiling decoration
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TechnicalThe sound of silencing
For buildings such as schools where noise is an issue, acoustic panels are a godsend, writes Victoria Madine
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Building StudyFreewheeling in Beijing
It’s not only the 2008 Olympics that are transforming Beijing’s skyline. Architecture is being used to express China’s phenomenal economic growth. Ellis Woodman went to take a look
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Building StudyAlison Brooks Architects makes wood work in Wandsworth
Alison Brooks’ twin timber-clad Herringbone Houses set south London shimmering
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TechnicalEco-towns: pornography for planners
The concept isn’t radical enough to deal with the problems we face
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Building StudyIn Detail: Herringbone Houses, Wandsworth
Architect: Alison Brooks ArchitectsStructural engineer : Price & Myers
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Building StudyPlatform soul
In the new HQ for BBC Scotland, David Chipperfield Architects has blended a simple idea and complex programme to stunning effect
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Building StudyMoved up to club class
When planning consultant DP9 wanted to transform a tired building in London’s Pall Mall it turned to architect de Metz Forbes Knight for something a little different
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Building StudyMacGabhann Architects' cultural centre in County Donegal turns up the volume
Local practice MacGabhann's second building in the little town of Letterkenny is a metal-clad tour de force in gold and silver, reports Charles Rattray
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TechnicalT5 lounge at the thin end of the prefab wedge
Barker MCT has built karaoke pods and capsule hotels. Now its modular Express Wedges are part of Heathrow’s Terminal 5.