Buildings – Page 72
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Building StudyPractice makes perfect at Haworth Tompkins' National Theatre studio refurb
Haworth Tompkins’ painstaking refurbishment of a 1950s brutalist masterpiece ensures its future as the NT’s secret ideas laboratory, discovers Ellis Woodman
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Building StudySheffield hospital’s new medical ward is a picture of health
Sheppard Robson brings colour and clarity to NHS design.
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TechnicalMore panes, more gains
As thermal performance rises up the agenda, Will Hunter trawled the recent Ecobuild show at Earls Court to find the windows with the best U-values
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Rich man, poor man: door knobs
Globe turning door handles and Smooth round glass door knobs
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Building StudyUnderground forest
Sky views for Ansell & Bailey’s basement radiography suite at the Royal Marsden
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Building StudyHarley Street consultation
Warm materials and cool design for Sonnemann Toon cancer clinic
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Building StudyPhotographing memory lane
Ippolito Fleitz uses photos as personal and cultural reference points for care home
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Doors and windows at Hawkins Brown’s Yavneh College, Borehamwood, Herts
Will Hunter talks to Roger Hawkins about ins and outs at the practice’s recently completed school refurb
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TechnicalDoors and windows at David Archer Architects’ Print Room restaurant in Bournemouth
Will Hunter takes a look at the transformation of this grade II art deco building
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Building StudySinging the blues at Liverpool’s Bluecoat arts centre
The famous Liverpool arts centre has been extended and refurbished by Netherlands practice BIQ Architecten
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TechnicalThe clipper stripped bare
Amanda Birch pays a visit to the Cutty Sark in Greenwich where restoration work is resuming after last year’s fire
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TechnicalHow the Cutty Sark rose from the ashes
When Simon Beames, project architect for Grimshaw’s Cutty Sark renovation, left the firm to start Youmeheshe, his fledgling practice received a boost by keeping the project. But, as he tells Amanda Birch, this became a major headache last May after a fire caused serious damage to the ship
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Building StudyMole Architects' Cambridge University department of architecture
Mole Architects, working with Freeland Rees Roberts, has designed a sustainable extension to Cambridge’s architecture faculty
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TechnicalBridging the gap at the AA’s Hooke Parke
Architects and AA tutors Valentin Bontjes van Beek and Natalie Rozencwajg’s web-like footbridge uses trees for its main supports
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Building StudyPorphyrios Associates' Princeton University Whitman Building
The new Whitman Building at Princeton uses campus gothic to great effect, and even makes modernism look a little wan
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Building StudyFoster's Beijing airport terminal opens
Foster & Partner’s new terminal at Beijing airport has opened ahead of the 2008 Olympics.
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Building StudyPitman Tozer Architects’ lean, green sliver of a house in west London
Architect Luke Tozer did not stint when designing his own house to strict environmental standards on the very narrowest of sites
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Building StudyDavid Walker Architects cuts the mustard at 1 Coleman Street
The design architect, working with Swanke Hayden Connell, has produced a distinctive speculative office development in the City of London
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TechnicalBD previews next month’s Surface Design Show
Anthony Ellis looks at some of the best surface treatments on offer at next month’s 2008 show
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Flooring products
A new series where we look at a top of the range product and a more cost-effective alternative for projects on a tight budget