Buildings – Page 89
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Building StudyMiddlesbrough Art Gallery by Erick van Egeraat
With an extraordinary site and generous budget, Erick van Egeraat’s Middlesbrough art gallery is a wasted opportunity.
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TechnicalI wish I’d done that...Roof
Catherine du Toit on Shigeru Ban and Frei Otto’s Japan Pavilion at Expo 2000 Hanover
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Building StudySocial housing, Liverpool by Biq
Much-vaunted Dutch housing design has come to Merseyside, but the expectations gap yawns wide.
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TechnicalA stage in an Edwardian auditorium
The challenge: To install a stage in an Edwardian auditorium suitable for worship, conferences and concerts
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TechnicalRecycled materials reduce a building's carbon footprint
The high profile of renewable energy is making recycling look green around the gills.
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TechnicalProjects showcase concrete’s adaptability
Concrete’s unrivalled versatility is fully demonstrated in this issue of Concrete Quarterly.
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TechnicalAbito microflat is boxing clever
Building Design Partnership has created a block of high-tech microflats in Manchester using tunnel form techniques. To save time, prefabricated pods with 95% of key services slot into the centre
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Building StudyGrowing out of lakeside landscape
Etonbury Lake House has been designed to blend perfectly with its setting next to a man-made lake, though its clear, rectilinear forms also provide a vital contrast with nature
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TechnicalDesigns for green living
Architects are well placed to optimise the passive sustainability capacity of a building in order to reduce both its heating and cooling energy requirements
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Building StudyTrinity and Darwin College, Cambridge refurbishments by Fifth Studio
Fifth Studio has remodelled two buildings at Cambridge University, subtly substituting 1960s brutalist astringency with something more luxurious.
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TechnicalSurfaces: Jestico and Whiles' attention-grabbing walls for a Croatian hotel
Walls featuring drawings of nudes, and bathrooms with glass walls are two of the enticing features of Jestico & Whiles’ ‘sexy’ refurbished hotel for the Croatian Island of Hvar.
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TechnicalSurfaces: David Chipperfield's innovative internal glazing for an Amsterdam office
Silk screen prints of pencil patterns set in glass partitions give office workers both light and privacy.
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Building StudyHearst tower, New York by Foster and Partners
Foster & Partners’ office tower for magazine publisher the Hearst Corporation is structurally innovative, impressively green and owner of New York’s most dramatic atrium. Naturally, we say: journalists deserve the best.
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Building StudyGeorgian on their minds
John McAslan & Partners has stripped an unlovable 1960s office building back to its frame and remodelled it as a stone obelisk in a nod to its 18th century neighbours
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Building StudyApartments, Auckland by S333
Densification developments are bringing a European feel to Auckland, with urban scale integration central to the theme.
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TechnicalSecuring a new PFI school by design
The challenge: To meet the client’s brief of Secure By Design status for a new build PFI school
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Pressure still rising on CO2
The Stern Review’s economic case against climate change points the way, but much remains to be done
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