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In detail 33: Queen’s Road Com
The Queens Road Community Centre provides a Sure Start nursery, a crèche, a lifelong learning and employment training centre for adults, meeting rooms and a multi-purpose hall in a socially deprived area of east London.
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The cost of conservation
Part L consultation has closed, but architects still have reservations about the changes. We look at the challenges ahead
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Rock of the bay
The Wales Millennium Centre is the jewel in Cardiff Bay’s regeneration, but can it perform?
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In detail 32: National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff
The roof of the National Assembly for Wales is a six-bay steel structure held up on 12 circular columns.
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Waves and means
A dramatic roof gives the Wales Assembly presence among its neighbours, writes Pamela Buxton
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Trouble at the top
Roofs are the site of many a battle between aspiration and the cold reality of a cost plan. There is no designer whose aspirations have not at some point fallen prey to the machinations of the bean counters.
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Pyramid scheme
We unfold the mystery of Egypt’s new Grand Museum proposal by Heneghan Peng
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First Look: Oar-inspiring designs for Chelsea
Sarah Wigglesworth Architects has revealed arresting new designs for a £375,000 canoeing centre in Chelsea.
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Making an entrance
Dixon Jones’s £17 million first phase of the National Gallery’s renovation improves the building’s public face with a new entrance and a public court, says Catherine Croft.
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In detail 31: National Gallery, East Wing, London
An external courtyard has been covered with an ETFE roof to provide a disabled access route from a new public entrance on Trafalgar Square to the gallery’s central circulation spaces.
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Understanding access for all
The practicalities of working with the Disability Discrimination Act
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Your questions answered
The DDA requirements seem to go beyond the stipulations of Part M and British Standard BS 8300 (2001): Design of buildings. The DDA hinges on taking “reasonable” measures. Decisions made on this basis could be hugely subjective and would no doubt open the door to litigation. How can I protect ...
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Techbrief
Making the grade The Building Research Establishment has added Breeam Schools to its portfolio of environmental assessments. Set to begin in January, the scheme will help schools and local education authorities to set environmental targets for new and refurbished buildings. It will also help architects improve the environmental performance of ...
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Getting in the decorators
Caruso St John’s proposal of lace motifs on a new Nottingham project upset some readers. We ask Peter St John to explain why his practice is breaking a final taboo and embracing decoration
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Something for everyone
Anonymous architects rub shoulders with historic heavyweights in the UK’s first permanent architecture gallery, at the V&A. But does it work?
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Quick on the draw
The entrance to the V&A architecture gallery is guarded by a massive isometric projection of the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral (pictured). The drawing, which took five years to complete during the 1920s, illustrates the three themes explored through the gallery — the art of architecture, the function ...
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In detail 30: Carlisle Lane housing, Waterloo, London
Architect: Pringle Richards Sharratt Timber panels & cladding: Eurban and Finnforest Merk
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Four flats in a flash
Pringle Richards Sharratt proves small projects can benefit from prefab.
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Prefab dreams
Over the past five years, we have found much of our housing work has been motivated by the promise of speed, exactitude, economy and perhaps even the hint of perfection — in short, the path of prefabrication.
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Bargain basements
Adding underground space in new homes can solve some of the UK’s housing woes