Buildings – Page 102
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Building StudyFirst Look: How this garden grows in Cambridge
Cambridge practice 5th Studio has unveiled designs for an innovative timber house in the back garden of an existing Victorian home.
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Building StudyThe 600-year-old time machine
Interiors from the 1950s jostle with Victorian details in Stuart Page Architects’ painstaking restoration of Ightham Mote in Kent — the National Trust’s biggest restoration project of its type, which preserves architecture styles as far back at the Middle Ages
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TechnicalIn detail 51: Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse, Heathrow Airport, London
Light sculpture: Collaboration between light artist Chris Levine, architect Softroom and the Virgin Atlantic Airways design department
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TechnicalBright lights, brighter people
New research into how we work is helping create more effective office environments.
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Building StudyLight industry
On the week of its founding partner’s memorial BD visits Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Bennet’s Courtyard in Merton and finds housing for the future inspired by the industrial past
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 13: Penthouse apartment, Knightsbridge, London
MMM Architects has created a bespoke glass floor with no visible means of support, which still meets fire safety standards. Matthew Ratsma explains the process
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TechnicalWe should all be on a power trip
Make energy use more apparent so we realise the cost of consumption
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TechnicalDome of rediscovery
One roof is not enough for the Millennium Dome now a new arena is being installed
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In detail 50: Spencer Street Station, Melbourne, Australia
A billowing roof of shimmering zinc-coated aluminium has been unfurled across the platforms of Spencer Street Station. The undulating profile is designed to passively extract diesel fumes without the need for a costly mechanical system.
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TechnicalI wish I’d done that...
Charlie Sutherland on Sverre Fehn’s shelter for the Venice Biennale
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Building StudyWish you were here?
Just as England’s cricketers are finally teaching the Australians a thing or two, our architects are doing the same, with our very own hi-tech “barmy army” making a splash down under. But why aren’t more of us going?
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Building StudyWinning style
Haworth Tompkins’ student housing in north London is an example of what should be up for the Stirling
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 12: Baby Blue bar, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Miles Falkingham of Union North explains how bespoke curved glass-reinforced concrete wall panels became the solution for subdividing a geometrically complex listed structure
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TechnicalThe only way is up
With a shortage of central London sites, air-rights developments appear to be making a resurgence
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Building StudyFirst Look: Wood’s good for Brooks homes
These two timber-clad homes have been designed by Alison Brooks Architects for a scheme in Wandsworth, London. The £1.6 million project for developer Lyford Investments is currently on site.Project architect Michael Woodford said the client had been inspired by the practice’s award-winning VXO House in Hampstead.“The developer is very interested ...
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Building StudyDigging de Paor
The career of 2003 YAYA winner Tom de Paor has taken off in the last 18 months. BD visits a pair of Dublin houses and finds them suffused with subtlety and sexuality