Buildings – Page 95

  • Kitchen and living space, with the west-facing sun deck and views of the river.
    Technical

    How we cracked it 29: North Elmham, Norfolk

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    The challenge: To create a house with dramatic structural openings and large uninterrupted volumes on a low budget

  • The new entrance to Chalk farm Road.
    Building Study

    Theatre in the round

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    John McAslan & Partners' revamp of the Roundhouse retains the building's essential drama as a venue while giving it a new lease of life

  • As the steel door frames were cast directly into the walls, each door’s properties had to be decided earlier than usual.
    Technical

    French lessons

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Elaine Knutt reports on a new school where door frames were cast directly into concrete walls

  • Senior Aluminium Systems’ door at the Fresenius Medical Care Centre.
    Technical

    Techbrief

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    This week: Products from Vetrotech, Cosifloor Pleated Blinds & Senior Aluminium Systems

  • A three light Dwell-Vent window installed at a demonstration project in Norwich.
    Technical

    Nothing wrong with a breath of fresh air

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Supply air windows are an established idea, but Part L's air-tightness requirements could mean their time has come.

  • In the mid 1950s a British architect called John Penn moved to Los Angeles to work with Richard Neutra, famed for his modernist Case Study houses perched on Californian hillsides.
    Technical

    I wish I'd done those... Doors and windows

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Jason Turner on John Penn's Beach House in Suffolk

  • Evans Vettori Architects converted this West Pennines barn into a house by adding a new wing linked by a glazed kitchen area.
    Technical

    Time Test

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Robert Evans of Derbyshire-based Evans Vettori Architects checks for leaks in a private house built in an exceptionally exposed location

  • The new library is entered via the adjacent gallery building, completed by Pringle Richards Sharratt in 2002.
    Building Study

    Oldham's double bill

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Pringle Richards Sharratt's new library and learning centre joins its four-year-old Gallery Oldham in the city's burgeoning cultural quarter. This phase of the project may be PFI, but the architect has triumphed, creating a striking, highly usable space.

  • The trading floor’s “luminous sky” by Zumtobel contributes to its 700 lux light level.
    Technical

    Oil coloured office

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    BP's Canary Wharf offices are lit for productivity, tranquility and the pleasure of passers-by

  • Technical

    A feast of light

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Elaine Knutt reports on the lighting design for Tadao Ando's new Morimoto restaurant in New York

  • Martin Lupton
    Technical

    I wish I'd done that... Lighting

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Martin Lupton on Maurice Bill Lighting Design's Finsbury Avenue Square

  • The Hungerford Bridge lighting scheme is part of a pedestrian route that links the South Bank and the roads leading up to Trafalgar Square.
    Technical

    Time Test

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Claudia Clements, design associate at lighting designer Speirs & Major Associates, reviews the lighting scheme for the pedestrian walkways on London's Hungerford Bridge

  • The Bethnal Green Road elevation showing the new system of louvres and the extra floor added on the roof of the existing buildings.
    Building Study

    Pick and mix

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Penoyre & Prasad's arts centre in Tower Hamlets has been designed as a celebration of the area's multiculturalism, while the rough and ready approach allows ample opportunity for the creativity within. Ellis Woodman pays a visit to see if Rich Mix lives up to its promise.

  • Ben Stagg, DLA Architecture
    Technical

    Winning green hearts

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Is regulation or PR the way to win the sustainability debate? Elaine Knutt was at an Energy Saving Trust round table of architects looking for the answer

  • The team erects the central arch at last year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed.
    Technical

    How we cracked it 28: Unipart Stand at Goodwood Festival of Speed

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    The challenge: To design a truss for a 25m-diameter inflatable dome so the whole structure could fit in a transit van and be erected without specialist equipment

  • The relationship between the library and the Masonic Lodge.
    Building Study

    Des Moines Library by David Chipperfield

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Ellis Woodman explores the enigmatic exteriors and lucid interiors of Chipperfield’s Des Moines Library

  • The finished Rivergreen Business Centre.
    Technical

    Friends of the earth

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Rammed earth is going mainstream as a result of its insulation and sustainability properties

  • Architype’s Sheerness Sure Start Centre is the first Plan-Ziegel building to be completed in the UK.
    Technical

    Faster out of the blocks

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Are Ziegel blocks a quicker and more efficient alternative to cavity walls? David Littlefield finds out

  • Mike Jaggs
    Technical

    Airtightness test

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Mike Jaggs, head of BRE's airtightness testing team, on smoking out leaks in homes and commercial buildings, in line with Part L 2006.

  • Kew Palace, with the new lift shaft on the site of the former privy shaft.
    Building Study

    Palace coup

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Purcell Miller Tritton's refurbishment of Kew Palace is discreet and authentic, even down to the position of the new lift shaft. Now it's access for all, if a bit heavy on the ‘interpretation'