Buildings – Page 110

  • A view of the courtyard to the newly completed community centre.
    Technical

    In detail 33: Queen’s Road Com

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    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

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    Part L consultation has closed, but architects still have reservations about the changes. We look at the challenges ahead

  • Building Study

    Rock of the bay

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    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

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    The roof of the National Assembly for Wales is a six-bay steel structure held up on 12 circular columns.

  • The model of the completed National Assembly for Wales on Cardiff Bay
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    Waves and means

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    A dramatic roof gives the Wales Assembly presence among its neighbours, writes Pamela Buxton

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    Trouble at the top

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    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

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    We unfold the mystery of Egypt’s new Grand Museum proposal by Heneghan Peng

  • Visualisation of a new canoeing centre, showing the open-sided pavilion, to be used for teaching.
    Building Study

    First Look: Oar-inspiring designs for Chelsea

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    Sarah Wigglesworth Architects has revealed arresting new designs for a £375,000 canoeing centre in Chelsea.

  • The Annenberg Court. The first floor gallery projects out to allow wheelchair access to the lift.
    Building Study

    Making an entrance

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    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.

  • The entrance features an EFTE rooflight and a wall of Noir St Laurent marble.
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    In detail 31: National Gallery, East Wing, London

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    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

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    The practicalities of working with the Disability Discrimination Act

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    Your questions answered

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    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 ...

  • Techbrief
    Technical

    Techbrief

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    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 ...

  • Adam Caruso (left) and Peter St John in the plaster cast court at the V&A, designed by Museum of Childhood architect JW WIld.
    Building Study

    Getting in the decorators

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    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

  • A window section from Gropius's 1912 Fagus factory hangs on the left wall of the new architecture gallery, designed by Gareth Hoskins Architects.
    Building Study

    Something for everyone

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    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

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    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 ...

  • Technical

    In detail 30: Carlisle Lane housing, Waterloo, London

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    Architect: Pringle Richards Sharratt Timber panels & cladding: Eurban and Finnforest Merk

  • The Carlisle Lane housing project is located in the centre of this photo on a tight site in London's Waterloo and is marked out by its timber pitched roof.
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    Four flats in a flash

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    Pringle Richards Sharratt proves small projects can benefit from prefab.

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    Prefab dreams

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    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.

  • A prefabricated concrete basement being constructed in Cambridge for Martin Grant Homes. The terraced housing project used Bolton-based Thermonex's method of basement construction.
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    Bargain basements

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    Adding underground space in new homes can solve some of the UK’s housing woes