Doors and Windows
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Building StudyTechnical Study: Cutting 75% of emissions from Powell & Moya’s Wolfson College, Oxford
Embarrassed by being one of the worst carbon culprits in the region, the college set out to be net zero by 2030. Retrofitting 763 windows was just the start of it, finds Thomas Lane
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Features
In pictures: Thirty years of Lacaton & Vassal
Gallery: Half a dozen of the Pritzker Prize-winners’ best projects
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News
Lacaton and Vassal win 2021 Pritzker Prize
French architects have built a reputation for imaginative reuse
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News
London 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
