Buildings – Page 79
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TechnicalCall for entries for Cool Wall contest in September
The BD/100% Detail Cool Wall contest will be taking place during the show in September. Enter your residential project for the chance to win top billing.
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins’ school theatre is a scene stealer
An innovative performance complex for St Edward’s School, Oxford, is designed to serve both the school and surrounding community.
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Building StudyIn Detail: North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford
Architect Haworth TompkinsStructural engineer Price & MyersGlazing subcontractor Fineline AluminiumA Victorian swimming pool has been converted for use as a theatre in the grounds of a school in Oxford. A foyer, gallery, drama studio and dance studio are housed in an adjacent new two-storey building.The new building sits on concrete ...
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TechnicalTonkin Liu’s Singing Ringing Tree puts panpipes into park panorama
Singing Ringing Tree, the RIBA award-winning public art scheme in the Pennines by architect Tonkin Liu, posed a number of tricky challenges, not least of which was getting the sculpture to live up to its name and make a sound. With a little help from engineer Jane Wernick Associates, it ...
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Building StudyNorman Foster's Beanhill
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit Norman Foster's run-down Beanhill housing scheme
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Building StudyNetherfield by Jeremy Dixon, Edward Jones, Michael Gold and Chris Cross
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit Netherfield designed by Jeremy Dixon, Edward Jones, Michael Gold and Chris Cross
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TechnicalA glimpse of paradise
BDP is determined to preserve city views at Liverpool’s Paradise Street cinema complex by using a new type of steel column
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TechnicalThe facade is now an art form
Architects don’t need a rock concert to remind them of climate change. It’s omnipresent in their work.
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TechnicalCharred timber at DSDHA’s Parkside kiosk near London’s City Hall links the area’s past and present
The charred wood cladding of DSDHA’s kiosk by the Thames in London stands out from the corporate developments around it and acts as a pointer to the area’s past. Will Jones finds out how it came about. Photos by Morley von Sternberg
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TechnicalHow architects Squire & Partners, Greenhill Jenner and Caruso St John create impact with unusual facades
A striking facade is one of the most immediate ways to give a building impact, but creating something new and unusual can be hard work, discovers Pamela Buxton. Three architects reveal how they did it
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TechnicalMore than skin deep
As climate change drives facade specification to ever-greater complexity, three specialists see what changes these high-performance solutions will bring
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Building StudyBeyond Babel: the work of Swiss architect Peter Märkli
After two decades spent designing houses, Peter Märkli is at last building at a substantial scale. Ellis Woodman reports on why the Swiss architect is currently one of the most vital voices in Europe
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TechnicalRafael Viñoly and cladding manufacturer KME give Colchester’s new arts centre a golden glow
Rafael Viñoly and German facade manufacturer KME are giving Colchester’s visual arts centre a golden glow, and it looks like the ancient city is taking a shine to its new neighbour. Photos by Morley von Sternberg
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TechnicalCome back to the fold
Corrugated sheeting has a reputation as utilitarian, but originally it was an experimental material for building wide-span, self-supporting roofs, write Adam Mornement and Pedro Guedes
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Building StudySkydec apartments, London by Edward Potter Associates
Alan Riley has nominated Edward Potter Associates’ Skydec apartments in south west London, a development of 14 flats in a conservation area of two storey Victorian housing.
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Building StudyHoliday Inn Express, Westhill Aberdeen by Peter Redhead Architects
“It is the most hideous building, totally out of scale and massing with it’s location, with scant heed to local architecture or materials,” writes nominator Marie-Louise Dunk. Dunk names another Aberdeen shocker: a new housing estate by Betts on the A944 into the city. “We’ve watched with horror ...
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Building StudyFluid Architects’ Maryland daycare centre is a lesson in colouring in
Faced with a tiny budget and an uninspiring east London site, the architect’s imaginative approach soon saw this daycare project snowball. Pictures by Morley von Sternberg
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TechnicalWhere are the environment’s new heroes?
We must inspire 6th formers if we are to get the skilled people we need