Buildings – Page 101
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TechnicalPacked full of material pleasures
James R Payne reviews the first translation of a must-have Swiss manual
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Building StudyWhite rose blooms
Leeds is rising again, a shining example of design-led regeneration. Ken Powell takes a tour of the Yorkshire capital with the man spearheading its renaissance
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 17: 256-266 Glossop Road, Sheffield
How to bring fresh air into new-build apartments while meeting stringent acoustic requirements
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TechnicalRaising the roof
A ceiling that changes to suit the performance answers the need for acoustic flexibility.
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Building StudyIdeas in store
David Adjaye’s flagship Whitechapel Idea Store is a convincing rethink of the traditional library. But will this be enough to answer his critics?
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TechnicalIn Detail 53: Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
A new building for the University of Cambridge’s Gonville & Caius College will provide 75 new student rooms, eight fellow rooms, three teaching rooms, and student recreation and conference facilities.
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Technical
Making better connections
The services in complex projects can be difficult to visualise. Amanda Birch discovers how 3D modelling software is helping
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TechnicalTubes with a twist
A technical breakthrough makes earth tubes a more viable method of heating.
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TechnicalI wish I’d done that...Services project
Randall Thomas on the Autarkic Housing Project’s Autarkic House
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Building StudyDiscovery zone
Lincoln’s new museum is defiantly non-iconic. By rejecting the Bilbao approach, Panter Hudspith has produced a building that is contextual, complex and humane and takes its work to a new level.
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 16: Tree House Nursery, Tulse Hill, London
A nursery school in Tulse Hill wanted to add new baby and toddler facilities to its 1960s London County Council school building.
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Building StudySuburb of the future?
If Britain is to solve its housing crisis, we must learn to love suburbia. Could Maccreanor Lavington in Holland show us how?
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Technical
In detail 52: Des Moines Public Library, Des Moines, Iowa
The entire facade of the new public library in Des Moines is wrapped in an innovative glass skin incorporating a layer of copper mesh that reduces solar gain.
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TechnicalReading in the shade
Copper mesh cladding will stop Chipperfield’s Des Moines Library overheating
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Building StudyRadical restraint
David Chipperfield Architects has dropped the shimmering Figge Art Museum into America’s heartland. Mason White explains why it’s now time to cut the architect loose from the shackles of minimalism
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 15: 15 Sloane Square, London
We were appointed by Cadogan Estates to demolish a Victorian mansion block in Sloane Square and build a new six-storey mixed-use building behind a series of retained facades on a site where the Circle and District Underground line runs diagonally underneath only 2m below ground level.
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TechnicalStairs in their eyes
Architect 5th Studio has given a modern twist to the 16th century hanging staircase.
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Building StudyTectonic soup
Wilkinson Eyre’s National Waterfront Museum in Swansea combines an astonishing range of architectural types. Could Kester Rattenbury make sense of the whole?
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 14: Visa section, German Embassy, Belgrave Square, London
Bernhard Blauel of Blauel Architects explains how cables of high-tensile steel stopped applicants for German visas from throwing things at diplomats
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TechnicalWays to take the sway away
Increasingly severe storms will make damping systems vital in any new tall building