Doors and Windows
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NewsLondon homes to have smaller windows than rest of the UK
Proposals are part of consultation into regulations to control overheating in new homes
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Features
Explainer: Five things you need to know about the Future Homes Standard
The government has published the draft version of Part L which comes into force next year. We outline what it means for the industry
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Technical
Technical Study: Old Admiralty Building, London by BDP
After a £60m refurb, the top-secret former haunt of Churchill and Ian Fleming is back in Her Majesty’s Service, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
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News
Lubetkin’s Sivill House listed after residents’ campaign
Architect’s only freestanding tower saved from damaging alterations
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Opinion
Learning from lockdown: Getting a (door) handle on the spread of disease
Eleanor Jolliffe looks at how the pandemic might change the way we specify
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Building Study
Maggie’s Centre at the Royal Marsden, Sutton, by Ab Rogers Design
For his first building the designer has gone head-to-head with his father – but he was more intimidated by Rem Koolhaas, he tells Elizabeth Hopkirk
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Inspirations
How No1 Poultry almost lost its stripes
The project architect on Stirling’s masterpiece recounts the extraordinary story behind his luckiest break
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Building Study
The world’s hottest projects in 2020
Ike Ijeh tours the planet to report on this year’s most anticipated completions
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Features
How to design well for people with dementia
Architects need to include safe outdoor spaces when they design senior living schemes, writes Robin Callister
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Building Study
Building Study: Auckland Tower, County Durham, by Niall McLaughlin
The architect has given Auckland Castle a timber tower resembling a siege engine – but while it’s a permanent fixture there’s nothing static about it
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Inspirations
Murray Kerr’s inspiration: SESC Pompéia, São Paulo
The Denizen Works director recalls his first visit to the social and cultural centre in a Brazilian barrel factory
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News
Anger over Lubetkin tower refurbishment plans
Residents argue windows upgrade will compromise ‘unique’ design of block
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News
3D-scanned homage to UK chippies opens in China
Anglo-Hong Kong practice plays with notions of copying
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Features
CPD 16 2019: Understanding non-fragile glass in rooflights
This CPD, sponsored by Glazing Vision, examines what constitutes fragility and non-fragility, how glass is tested for fragility, and more
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Features
CPD 4 2019: Performance characteristics of glazing in rooflights
This CPD, sponsored by Glazing Vision, will look at the installation of non-fragile glass in rooflights, including safety testing and assembly specs
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Technical
Technical Study: House in Torhout, Belgium
Marie-José Van Hee has created a refined concrete and timber fronted house above a Flemish dentist using a clever structural solution
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Building Study
Building Study: BBC TV Centre, London, by AHMM
The iconic home of television has been given a new lease of life as housing, offices - and studios. Ike Ijeh tunes in
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Technical
Temperate House, Kew, London, by Donald Insall Associates
The world’s largest Victorian greenhouse is about to emerge from an at times nerve-racking restoration
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Technical
Technical Study: 110 rooms, Barcelona, Spain
MAIO creates flexibility and a Gaudíesque sense of playfulness within the rigid grid of a traditional Barcelona apartment block
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Building Study
Building Study: US Embassy, Battersea, by Kieran Timberlake
Ike Ijeh finds innovation outshines fortification
