All Features articles – Page 15
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What made this project… House at Loch Awe by Denizen Works
Denizen Works’ body of work impressed the judges at this year’s AYAs, as the practice took home three awards, including Individual House Architect of the Year. In this series, we take a look at one of the team’s award-winning projects and ask the firm’s director, Andrew Ingham, to break down ...
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Rooflights designed to help reduce heat loss
Lamilux announces Passivhaus flat roof skylights in a bid to help specifiers achieve higher targets
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Unleash your creativity with Sonify by Zentia
Make your mark with Sonify 3D Studio, a ground-breaking digital first approach to designing an acoustic ceiling system
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What made this project… Floating Church by Denizen Works
Denizen Works’ body of work impressed the judges at this year’s Architect of the Year Awards, as the practice took home three awards, including Small Project Architect of the Year. In this series, we take a look at one of the team’s award-winning projects and ask the firm’s director, Andrew ...
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CPD 14 2022: Incorporating biophilia and biodiversity
This CPD sponsored by TG Escapes Modular Eco-Buildings explains the issues around biodiversity and how buildings can help restore an environmental balance by including biophilic features. Deadline for completion Friday 13 January 2023.
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Net Zero Live 2022: A roundup on specifying for Part L
In this Net Zero Live session, we tackled energy efficiency, the link to Part O on overheating, as well as cost implications and energy shortages from specifying to meet the new regulations
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Why everyone’s getting excited about the new energy efficiency taskforce
Jeremy Hunt has announced plans to set up a team to drive a programme of energy efficiency improvements to the UK’s buildings, with an ambitious new target. After a series of past blunders, could it actually work this time?
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The Keep: A new roof for a coastal home in Kent
BMI Redland works on a roof refurbishment that can withstand extreme winds, while blending with the coastal landscape
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Edge repurposes interior at 80 Cheapside, London
The vacant office space was refurbished to allow for a hybrid organisation in need of a flexible design
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Hydrogen-powered generator trialled on the Preston Western Distributor Road
The first of its kind for Lancashire County Council, the trial shows how moving from diesel to green hydrogen could save up to 11 tonnes of CO2e per month
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Kirrin Cottages: Designing for the Outer Hebrides
Proctor & Matthews’ design for Kirrin Cottages, a set of two-holiday cottages located on the remote Isle of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, is inspired by the surrounding coastal landscape and the island’s early Blackhouse forms. The design builds on the practices’ research undertaken for the Outer Hebrides Design Guide ...
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Modular skylights help create high quality learning spaces
The £6.7 million Glenbrook Primary School specified VELUX Ridgelight and VELUX Longlight solutions from the VELUX Commercial range
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Make your mark with Sonify by Zentia
Make your mark with Sonify by Zentia, a new innovative customisable acoustic ceiling solution
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CPD 13 2022: Designing acoustics for learning environments
This CPD sponsored by ROCKWOOL examines the issues around acoustic performance in schools, sets out the relevant regulations and standards, and explains some of the solutions available. Deadline for completion Friday 30 December 2022.
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What made this project… Britannia Leisure Centre by FaulknerBrowns Architects
FaulknerBrowns’ body of work impressed the judges at this year’s AYAs, as the practice took home the award for Retail and Leisure Architect of the Year. In this series, we take a look at one of the team’s award-winning projects and ask the firm’s partner, Steve McIntyre, to break down ...
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3D U-value calculations make the grade for the University of Salford
When it came to evaluating the thermal performance of the building’s new facade, Knauf Insulation stepped up to the task
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CPD 12 2022: Movement in brickwork
This CPD sponsored by Vandersanden explores the benefits of specifying clay brick, alongside the types and causes of movement in brickwork and how to design to accommodate movement. Deadline for completion Friday 23 December 2022.
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Robotics and AI: The future of designing for assisted living
Designing and manufacturing assisted living technologies, Pressalit were asked to contribute to the work being carried out by the Ambient Assisted Living Lab (AAL) at Heriot-Watt University
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Foster + Partners adopt IES-VE software to close performance-based design gap
The software offers detailed modelling and analysis, allowing the practice to meet increasing requirements for low-carbon designs
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Designing for the desert: how British architects approached the hottest World Cup
For the 2022 World Cup, Zaha Hadid Architects, Foster + Partners and BDP Pattern were given mission impossible: create open-air arenas where players and spectators are protected from temperatures of 40ºC. Tom Lowe reports on how they got on