Buildings – Page 115
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Goodbye Windy Miller
Why do wind turbines have to spin like windmills? A new concept to be applied between Oxford and Cambridge, suggests they don't.
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Future performanceA key event at this year's Building Performance exhibition, which explores the future of property, will be a two-day Building Performance is Business Performance conference on October 6-7. The conference will draw together speakers including Richard Saxon of BDP, Mark Way of RMJM and Roger Madelin of Argent. The ...
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Building StudyTable manners
Will Alsop has won over Toronto with his raucous flying tabletop addition to the Ontario College of Art & Design.
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Building StudyFirst Look: Education gateway
RMJM this week unveiled designs for the first phase of a £50 million higher education scheme in the heart of the Thames Gateway.
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Building StudyAt home with Feilden Clegg Bradley
David Morley visits two housing projects built around courtyards
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TechnicalIn detail 11: The Public, West Bromwich
A self-supporting envelope encloses a single massive volume. Inside, a splayed tapering steel H-frame supports the roof, a mid-level “table” floor and all the independent forms which populate the space. “Jellybean” windows appear to have been cut out of the facade to reveal the inner space.
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TechnicalFantasy facade
There's nothing shy about Alsop's designs for The Public in West Bromwich. Gareth Gardner reports on this arts centre project
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Facade body A professional body for those interested in facade engineering has been set up by CIBSE to provide architects, engineers and manufacturers with a forum to share information. CIBSE recognises that the Society of Facade Engineering is needed to ensure that all those involved in facades work more closely ...
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TechnicalGlazed over
A new report on facades calls for architects to break the glass habit and consider more environmentally friendly ways to glaze.
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TechnicalTechnicalities: Time to see the light
The current fashion is for full-height glazing. This is an effective demon-stration of cladding technology, but does it deliver in practice? The standard for natural daylight is the average daylight factor — a room’s illumination compared with outdoors on a bright overcast day. The human eye is comfortable ...
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Building StudyThe written world
Architecture Research Unit's scheme for centralising the South Korean publishing industry is emerging from the wetlands near Seoul.
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Building StudyLessons in flexible planning
Rab Bennetts goes back to school with two Islington college schemes
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TechnicalIn detail 10: Youl Hwa Dang Publishing House
The four-storey concrete-framed publishing house headquarters sits on a concrete basement undercroft used as a car park.
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Better buildings bill on horizon
Report backs a single national code for sustainable buildings
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Talking trash How about a rubbish bin that never needs emptying? Swedish company Envac has designed a waste collection system that sucks waste from a bin once it is full. An underground network of pipes is installed 2m deep, and this transports waste by a pressurised vacuum from the specially ...
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Building StudyFirst Look: Light at the end of a tunnel
McDowell & Benedetti is working up detailed designs for a three-storey office building next to London's famous diamond-dealing and jewellery quarter at Hatton Garden in Clerkenwell.
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Building StudyPhantom city
Calm characterises architects' plans to build out the blockbusting King's Cross masterplan. But are these visions just apparitions.
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Building StudyFirst Look: Triangular education in West Bromwich
Edward Cullinan Architects has revealed eye-catching designs for a new college of further education in West Bromwich town centre.
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Arts and craftsmanship
Edward Jones visits museum renovations in London and Cambridge
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Building StudyAngell Town wins its wings
Residents of a Brixton sink estate campaigned to turn its fate around. Zoë Blackler reports on how architect Mode 1 helped its rejuvenation by reworking two of its blocks.