Buildings – Page 103

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    How we cracked it 11: Met Building 22 Percy Street, London

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Oliver Richards of ORMS explains how his team brought air conditioning into a sixties office building by integrating the services into prefabricated bespoke cladding panels

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    Time to grasp the nettle

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    The more delays over defining Part L, the weaker its influence

  • new accommodation block at Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge
    Technical

    Techbrief

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Open-and-shut caseGreen Building Store has manufactured a range of windows and glazed doors using Forest Stewardship Council 100% certified timber. Designed in conjunction with the Timber Research & Development Association, the Ecoplus System incorporates the latest lamination and finger joint technology to minimise resource use and improve durability. It also ...

  • The south elevation provides a link corridor that serves as an environmental and acoustic buffer zone.
    Building Study

    Fame academy

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    De la Salle School in St Helens wanted a performance space worthy of local icon status. Did John McAslan deliver? Matthew Turner went to find out.

  • The prototype Micro-Compact Home in the grounds of the Austrian factory where it was manufactured.
    Technical

    Smaller, quicker, cheaper

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Forget John Prescott’s £60K house, Richard Horden has plans for a £35,000 home, taking its inspiration from Japanese tea houses and first class air travel to offer hi-tech living.

  • Building Study

    First Look: High-density landmark for Poplar

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Hawkins Brown has revealed this landmark housing development in east London — one of the highest-density schemes ever approved in the capital.

  • Technical

    Techbrief

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    - Green guide The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture is a useful guide for architects wanting to harness the environmental, economic and physiological benefits of living green. Editors Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne have trotted around the globe to bring together 25 contemporary residences that are good examples ...

  • Both additions front onto the playground which sits at the back of the elevated site.
    Building Study

    The art of counterpoint

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Greenhill Jenner and Houlton Architects’ sophisticated new music and art blocks are a sensitive addition to Sydenham’s 1960s Brent Knoll School

  • Unfired clay bricks have been used as a non-structural inner leaf in this home to provide thermal mass, acoustic insulation, moisture regulation and a robust finish.
    Building Study

    In Detail 49: House at Dalguise, Perthshire, Scotland

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Architect: Arc ArchitectsClay-based materials have been used extensively in a new low-cost house in Fife with a strong sustainability agenda. The house has a simple rectangular plan built off a concrete raft foundation. Most of the accommodation is on the ground floor with a bedroom and storage attic concealed in ...

  • Left: The Halley site is 3,000km south of the Falklands, and 20km from the edge of the ice sheet. Hugh Broughton Architects’ aims to strictly limit energy use, but faces the challenge of a nine-month winter of gloom or permanent darkness.
    Technical

    Easy on the ice

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Despite its setting, the Halley VI Antarctic station will have to minimise water use.

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    Bricks come down to earth

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Mud goes modern with unfired clay ‘eco-bricks’

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    I wish Id done that...sustainable building

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Harald Rostvik’s media centre in Sri Lanka

  • Looking across the entrance court of the hotel to the three stand-alone dining rooms.
    Building Study

    Holiday campo

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    With a strong list of celebrated architects signed up, the Corte Velho holiday development in the Algarve is breaking the mould of Portugal’s conventional resorts.

  • Technical

    How we cracked it 10: Flat-pack staircase, Islington apartment, London

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    To squeeze in a new staircase in a compact space, Lisa Harmey draws on the flat-pack system to create an innovative folding stair that can be used easily on domestic projects

  • The housing scheme will feature high levels of insulation and well-positioned windows to reduce energy consumption.
    Building Study

    First Look: Modernism captures the castle

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    A striking residential development surrounding a turn-of-the-century castle in Swansea has been revealed by Holder Mathias Architects.

  • The nearly complete Edinburgh airport control tower.
    Technical

    Skirting the runway

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Amanda Birch gets under the skin of Reid’s new air traffic control tower

  • The roof is supported on seven triangular trusses sitting on slender circular columns braced by I-section portals.
    Building Study

    Slice of urban

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Assertive yet portable, Southwark’s new public face offers a taster for the Olympics

  • Technical

    In detail 47: Social housing in Vallecas, Madrid

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Architect Feilden Clegg BradleyM&E engineer: Max FordhamEnvironmental engineer: EMMA SL

  • Four six-storey blocks will be constructed to create a square providing 139 apartments with a car park below.
    Technical

    Housing’s heat wave

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    A Madrid project by Feilden Clegg Bradley holds solutions for global warming

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    I wish I'd done that... Housing project

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Ben Derbyshire on Herzog & de Meuron’s apartment building in Paris