Buildings – Page 114
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Looking for pastures new
As townies go in search of a rural idyll and pressure to build in the countryside grows, rural architecture needs reinventing. Ellis Woodman looks at new three schemes
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Concretes finer details
Concrete is taken to a new level in Panter Hudspith’s City & County Museum.
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Techbrief
Glassy metal Architects may soon be specifying a new type of steel that borrows the atomic structure of glass to make it stronger, twice as hard and more corrosion-resistant than conventional steel. In a landmark breakthrough, material scientist Zhaoping Lu and his team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee ...
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In detail 15: City & County Museum, Lincoln
Located on a site designated as a scheduled ancient monument on the hill below Lincoln Cathedral, the museum uses self-compacting concrete (SCC) extensively to deal with complex geometries and to achieve a very high quality surface finish. The piled foun-dations reuse the slab and some existing piles of a demolished ...
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Technicalities: Dogma design
In his film The Five Obstructions director Lars von Trier set his mentor, Jorgen Leth, the challenge of remaking Leth’s film the Perfect Human, but with a series of impediments.
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Taking them to the Tower
Stanton Williams has turned the previously neglected spaces around the Tower of London into a lively external foyer.
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First Look: Manchesters chip off the old block
More housing designs for the New Islington housing project in east Manchester have been unveiled by Alsop Architects and Ian Simpson Architects.
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In detail 14: Tower of London environs
Tower Hill, the main approach to the Tower of London has been transformed by a new 200m-long public square. Three pavilions on the western side house visitor facilities. The whole square ramps down towards the river to the south at a 1-in-20 gradient avoiding the need for landings. On the ...
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Techbrief
Hot off the pressA new guide to underfloor heating has been published by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Domestic Building Services Panel. The Underfloor Heating Design & Installation Guide — to enable architects to understand basic principles and design techniques — covers floor structures and finishes, ...
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Cultured club
Squire & Partners' restoration of the former Conservative Club into HSBC offices has brought a new vitality to this classical early Victorian building on London's St James's Street
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First Look: Downhill all the way in Suffolk
The world’s largest indoor ski slope — a landmark structure which would be visible for miles across the flat Suffolk countryside — has been submitted for planning.
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In detail 13: Moggerhanger House Restoration
Restoration work at John Soane’s Moggerhanger House has revealed a two-storey “tribune” which acts as a lobby between the main stair and the rooms on the east side of the house. An opening in the first floor and a roof lantern are being reinstated and this will bring light ...
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Hidden treasure
Research and paint analysis have revealed Soane's Moggerhanger House to be one of his finest works.
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Technicalities: Reversible fortunes
In working with historic buildings we are advised by statutory bodies that alterations should be "reversible". I must admit to having severe difficulties with this advice.
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With paint technology, the walls can talk|
Microscopic paint analysis is a process whereby a section of paintwork is analysed under a microscope and photographed to determine the build up of layers. The resulting image is sufficiently detailed to enable the individual pigments of colour to be identified within each paint layer and there-fore allows a ...
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Class structure
DRMM's refurbishment of Kingsdale in south London gives the post-war school a bright future.
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First Look: Belgian book prize for Sergison Bates
Two out of six isn’t bad. That’s the ratio of competition wins for Sergison Bates since it began competing in the Vlaams province of Belgium. This £4 million project to convert a redundant school into a library in the coastal town of Blankenberge and a scheme for Erasmus University in ...
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Lessons from the old school
The refurbishment of Kingsdale runs counter to thinking about post-war schools, which is moving increasingly towards wholesale demolition. Poor environmental performance, outmoded teaching facilities and disintegrating fabric blight the rash of buildings completed during the 50s and 60s.
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In detail 12: Kingsdale School auditorium
The centrepiece of the new ETFE-covered courtyard at Kingsdale School in south London is a 314-seat auditorium and library. A geodesic timber structure encloses a space for assemblies, screenings, lectures, performances and music events.The auditorium seating has the same bent birch-faced plywood profile as the school's standard 1960s classroom chair ...