All Features articles – Page 162
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FeaturesDot to dot results: December 12
Last week’s competition winner was Paul Sidey of City Architecture Office in Edinburgh, who identified High Point I by Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton.
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FeaturesArchitectural cake challenge
A rash of modernist gingerbread houses has appeared on the internet for the festive season. Among them, BD’s very own Gingerbread Tate Modern, a fine, if wonky replica of the gallery on the banks of the Thames, complete with jelly baby visitors, baked by BD reporter Anna Winston (see recipe ...
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Gingerbread Tate Modern: the recipe
Various gingerbread recipes were experimented with during the building of the Gingerbread Tate Modern, but the one below offered the best combination of structural integrity and taste-bud satisfaction.
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FeaturesTaking stock at Stockley Park
Launched by Stuart Lipton in the mid-1980s, Stockley Park brought the high-quality, US-style landscaped office development to the UK, with buildings by Geoffrey Darke, Norman Foster and Eric Parry among others. Ken Powell explores how it is responding to the needs of contemporary business. Photos by Dennis Gilbert
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FeaturesTecton Super Highway
Elegance and a versatile, easy-to-install electrical distribution system are the key characteristics of Tecton Super Highway lighting specified by AHMM in a south London office block at 160 Tooley Street (pictured).
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FeaturesEyetech
From the Stirling Prize-shortlisted Young Vic Theatre to Sanaa’s acclaimed New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan (pictured), James & Taylor is a forerunner in the use of this unique facade material, a 3D expanded aluminium mesh that is opaque when viewed from one direction, transparent from the other
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FeaturesMX Curtain Walling
The new MX curtain walling system offers an vast range of design options using a single grid system
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FeaturesDoes the big corporate office have a future in the UK?
DEGW’s Frank Duffy, Consilium Technologies’ Gareth Tolerton and Savills’ Jeremy Bates respond
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Features'An architectural edge allows you to sensualise the masterplan’s edges'
Studio Egret West, formed by urban planner David West and architect Christophe Egret in 2004, currently has office projects ranging from regional masterplans to client-specific HQs. Interview Will Hunter
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FeaturesAll the fun of the peer
Brighton’s West Pier is getting a makeover courtesy of Marks Barfield Architects. BD looks back to its 1967 heyday
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FeaturesNo more starry-eyed air travel
With Stansted brought to a standstill by climate change protestors, we have to admit that the great age of aviation architecture is over
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FeaturesBD looks at RIBA Bookshops’ pick of the best books about offices
From the effects of new technology to the rise of corporate branding, here is the RIBA Bookshops’ pick of the best books on offices
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FeaturesElite System 60
Elite System 60, with a half-round profile outer sheet, provides a contemporary cladding option