Buildings – Page 86
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TechnicalTwo clients grabbing sustainability by the horns
A road to Damascus conversion or just greenwash? asks our sustainability blogger Phil Clark
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TechnicalGulf states gear up to go green
Can Dubai shake off its gas-guzzling image to become a global model of sustainable design? David Littlefield visits to discover how the emirates and their Middle Eastern neighbours are embracing energy reduction on a massive scale
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TechnicalGoodbye to the garrett
With its permanent artists’ studios, The Galleria has thrown out the old idea that artists should suffer for their art.
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TechnicalGoing underground
When it opens in September, Howe Dell Primary School in Hatfield will be the first UK building to use an interseasonal heat transfer system to store summer heat for use in winter.
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TechnicalSmall firms lead the way
There is plenty to be excited about at the recent Ecobuild exhibition
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Building StudyMoving to a different beat
Eric Parry Architects’ music building for an independent boys’ school takes its place confidently among the hotchpotch styles of previous eras. Pictures by Hélène Binet
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Building StudyAlsop Finch and Lyall's Riverside Studios
More 1984 photographs from the BD archive of Alsop and Lyall and their Riverside Studios scheme that failed to see the light of day
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TechnicalThe tree stays in the building
The challenge: To maximise living space without destroying a mature willow treeThe solution A minimum dig to erect a deck with a lightweight pavilion structure floated above itArchitect M3 ArchitectsSite Pinner, MiddlesexProject type ResidentialWritten by Ken Hutt1 The briefOur client, a senior partner in a major QS practice and his ...
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TechnicalNavigating the green moral maze
Our crusade for more sustainable buildings must begin at home
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Building StudyThrough the Gateway
Twelve years into the planning project that is the Thames Gateway, a new scheme in Barking offers an early indication of the change to come, says Ellis Woodman. Pictures by Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyGrowing Pains: BD's 2004 review of the masterplan for Almere
In 1967 two new cities were born: Almere in the Netherlands and Milton Keynes. Thirty-seven years later, both are being transformed. Ellis Woodman visits the Almere scheme by OMA, talks to Rem Koolhaas, and discovers some awkward lessons for the UK. Photos by Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyLift and celebrate
In a south-west London suburb, Penoyre & Prasad has negotiated its way through a complex contract and NHS regulations to deliver a striking uplift in design standards
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Building StudyA garden for England
A serene, green courtyard is the at the heart of Steffian Bradley’s Gravesham Community Hospital in Kent
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Building StudySoul searching
Christhope Grafe finds the perfect internal peace of Sanaa’s arts centre in Almere outside Amsterdam leaves the building somehow lifeless.
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TechnicalMaking an entrance
Juggling the competing demands of heating, disabled access and creating an appropriate first impression means that specifying a front door is far from straightforward.
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