Buildings – Page 100
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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
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TechnicalIn detail 56: Siobhan Davies Dance Centre, Southwark, London
Five twisting ribbons of sky-blue glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) make up the roof of a new dance studio for the Siobhan Davies Dance Company.
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TechnicalRhythm in blue
A GRP roof is making all the right moves for Sarah Wigglesworth’s dance studio, writes Pamela Buxton
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Building StudyZaha’s blinding science
The Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg is the culmination of a career’s experimentation for Zaha Hadid. Was all worth it? Graham Bizley finds out
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 19: Peepul Centre, Leicester
The challenge: To create removable, tiered seating for a flexible performance space
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TechnicalBuilding bamboo’s reputation
A Feilden Clegg Bradley project in India is proving bamboo’s worth as a building material.
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Building StudyChill on the hill
Spiritual retreat meets boutique hotel in Bates Maher’s timber hermitages in County Tipperary. Graham Bizley finds sanctuary
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TechnicalIn Detail 55: Channel Five meeting room, London
Innovative surface materials have been used to remodel the main meeting room in TV channel Five’s headquarters, a converted carriageworks dating from 1833 in London’s Covent Garden.
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TechnicalClassics degree
Clever use of surfaces is key to uniting a Cambridge college’s diverse buildings.
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TechnicalThinking inside the box
Plastic honeycomb walls create a show-stopping boardroom at TV channel Five, writes Damian Arnold
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Building Study
Man and monolith
He is Jacques Herzog’s favourite Swiss architect and a master of the art of construction. Jonathan Woolf explores the work of Valerio Olgiati with an exclusive preview of his latest exquisite creation
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 18: Urban gardens
Green-roofed “Ecospace” studios are a collaboration between Idris-Perrineau Town and technical designers/structural engineers MKAD.
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Building StudyFrontier Land London
High-rise developers are running amok in London. Why isn’t sheriff Ken Livingstone doing more to control them?
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In detail 54: Young Vic Theatre, London
A jumble of old and new elements are being woven together on London’s South Bank to revitalise the Young Vic Theatre.