Buildings – Page 99
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TechnicalIs the prefab revolution on hold?
They've been heralded as the future of building and the solution to housing shortages, yet prefabs have failed to take off. Elaine Knutt asks whether they still have a future
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Building StudyTony Fretton: A shift in scale
It’s a tricky step for any architect to move from the small to the large scale. Tony Fretton is making the leap with three high-end residential schemes in Amsterdam, but has he has managed the transition?
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Building StudyGood sports
Alvaro Siza's world-class sports centre in Barcelona is a model of urban planning. Can London achieve something similar for 2012? Graham Bizley takes a look. Photos by Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyWreck of ages
Once a place of pilgrimage for the Romantic poets, the ruins of 800-year-old Kirstall Abbey had fallen into neglect. Ken Powell reports on how Purcell Miller Tritton rescued this damsel in distress
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In detail: Kirkstall Abbey Visitor Centre
The 1750s trusses were in a poor state. Bearing ends were rotten and a 20th century laminated, segmental timber arched strengthening scheme cut deeply into the principal rafter and tie members, complicating their removal. It was clear that extensive strengthening repairs would be needed if the barn roof was to ...
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 21: Flood barrier, Gravesend, Kent
Kiran Curtis Associates won a design competition for a mixed-use regeneration site in the Thames Gateway
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Homebuyers have stars in their eyes
New code will target consumers, but does it go far enough?
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Building StudyHolding court
Some might say Porphyrios Associates’ courtyards at Selwyn College, Cambridge, are hopelessly antiquated. Wrong, says Ellis Woodman. They are an astute revival of established languages which put modernist competition to shame
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In detail: Selwyn College, Cambridge
The new development employs load-bearing masonry cavity walls to support pre-cast concrete plank floors and a timber roof. At ground floor, an arcade of six stone arches shelter a covered walkway facing the quadrangle lawn.
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TechnicalTime Test:
Cartwright Pickard director James Pickard returns to Murray Grove in Hackney to assess the performance of the cladding five years on
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TechnicalTop brass comes to Chatham
RMJM’s university project in Kent is the first building in the UK to use brass cladding.
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Art on its sleeve
A patterned aluminium skin provides a public face for Didcot Arts Centre.
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Building StudyTop dogs for 2006
Ellis Woodman looks ahead to the British buildings that promise to be best in class in the year to come
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 20: Mid-terrace Victorian flat, North London
We had been exploring the possibilities of lightweight pre-fabricated buildings — component-driven designs that would be simple and rapid to erect for small-scale offices or schools.
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Building StudyMalmö model is a template for successful regeneration
Malmö airport has witnessed a steady traffic of English officials over the past few months. Everyone from Cabe, the Housing Corporation, English Partnerships, Yorkshire Forward and the ODPM have been flocking to the city in search of the Holy Grail of successful regeneration.
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Building StudyDeath by a thousand cuts
Has Richard Rogers’ Welsh Assembly building finally given Wales a decent piece of architecture? Ellis Woodman discovered an architect’s vision crippled by an ever-shifting brief. Photos by Morley von Sternberg