Buildings – Page 109
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The towering legacy of LPS
As researchers test the remaining large panel systems buildings, Sam Webb maintains the only solution is demolition. Amanda Birch reports
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Building Study
Houston in Euston
Hopkins has given the Wellcome Trust a building with an astonishing interior, but its endless glazing evokes the Texas town and displays an unhappy distaste for its surroundings
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In detail 37: Education Resource Centre, Eden Project, Cornwall
The Education Resource Centre contains children’s classrooms, an exhibition space and a cafe to fulfil the Eden Project’s aim of educating visitors about the importance of plants within our ecosystem.
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I wish Id done that...architectural model
Jonathan Sergison on Herzog & de Meuron’s model of apartments in Basel
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Coates, the comeback kid
Flamboyant in his time, but often underrated today, modern architect Wells Coates is back in the limelight with the restoration of his three signature buildings.
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How we cracked it 01: Lens ceiling, Federal Courthouse, Phoenix, Arizona
Luke Lowings explains an intriguing solution to the perennial problem of attaching glass panels in this ceiling project designed for Richard Meier’s Federal Courthouse
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Scribble theory
Will Alsop’s new visual arts complex for Goldsmiths College succeeds as an urban landmark but fails to live up to its billing as either art or architecture
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In detail 36: BBC Broadcasting House
Architect: MacCormac Jamieson PrichardStructural and facade engineer: WhitbybirdA double-skinned glass facade will link Broadcasting House with two new buildings, bridging varying floor levels and functions to form a unified backdrop to a new entrance piazza and Nash’s All Souls Church.The design team wanted a calm, uncluttered facade. To avoid too ...
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Broadcast in stone
A stone and glass facade brings unity to BBC’s Broadcasting House project
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Techbrief
Set sail Tensile expert Fabric Architecture has created a type of flexible cladding that will give PVC and PTFE a run for their money. Made from silicone glass, the cladding material has been adapted from ventilation duct lining, to create a series of sails that can be fixed to a ...
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I wish Id done that... cladding
Alison Brooks on Atelier One’s cladding at the Singapore Arts Centre
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Glazing over
Foster’s big gesture at Gateshead’s Sage Music Centre — a single unifying membrane-like envelope — isn’t new for the architect. But practice hasn’t made perfect, and while the concert halls succeed, the external form disappoints again and again
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Technical
In detail 35: Salvation Army Chapel, London
The new headquarters of the Salvation Army is on one of the most significant public routes in London — between the Millennium Bridge over the Thames and St Paul’s Cathedral.
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Technical
Looks like rain
Damian Arnold reports on a weather-recording art installation in Exeter by Sutherland Hussey
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In detail 34: Sky Ear
Sky Ear is a floating cloud that listens out for electromagnetic radiation in the air.
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True colours
LEDs were invented in 1962, but we are just starting to understand their magic
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Technicalities: Lighten up
“Space, light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” — Le Corbusier
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Making history
Muf’s one-room pavilion to guard a Roman mosaic in St Albans was five years in the making. Will the practice’s first bona fide building live up to expectations?