All Features articles – Page 180
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FeaturesDot to dot results: June 27
Last week’s competition winner was Fiona Coutts of Benjamin Tindall Architects, Edinburgh, who identified the New York Guggenheim by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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FeaturesSpaced out
In 1980, BD ran this photo of a happy young couple in their spatially challenged kitchen to accompany a story about starter homes.
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FeaturesThe challenge of accessibility
Buzzwords like ‘accessibility’ and ‘sustainability’ mask a tendency to talk down to a public craving for architecture of substance
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FeaturesDot to dot: June 27
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday July 2 for a chance to win a copy of Public Markets by Helen Tangires.
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FeaturesStudent installation enlivens RIBA awards
This 24-metre long installation – designed by a group of five architecture students – will be on display Friday evening at the London Hilton Hotel at the RIBA’s national and international awards dinner.
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FeaturesGeometric control
3D Reid’s air traffic control tower twists two cones into an elegant form
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Rogers: Mistake was to let Robin Hood Gardens become a sink estate
In a letter published in the Guardian on Friday, Richard Rogers has argued that the real mistake in Robin Hood Gardens was not the design, but allowing it to become a sink estate.
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FeaturesVelfac windows
Velfac designs and supplies composite aluminium/wood window systems, designing ventilation, acoustic and thermal strategies to suit the needs of each project.
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FeaturesRogers in the running for new Oslo terminal
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Parnters fly the flag in the contest to add capacity to Norway’s main airport
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FeaturesUplighters by WE-EF Lighting, Nottingham
These in-ground uplights are made of stainless steel with a silicone rubber gasket and a safety glass lens.
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FeaturesInsulation by Second Nature
Thermafleece uses wool from British hill sheep — a sustainable and renewable resource.
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FeaturesI-Guzzini linear wash light
This fluorescent lighting was installed to wash-light the timber benches, but the 35W modules are also suitable for walls or ceilings.
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FeaturesJoinery by Swift Horsman
The firm built the bars, counters and reception desks in the BA passenger lounges, and also supplied over 400 steel doorsets for BAA throughout the terminal.
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Green Guide
The updated 2008 version of the BRE Green Guide to Specification is now available online.
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FeaturesGlazed screens by Permasteelisa
The interiors division of the Italian curtain-walling and partitions company was responsible for the stainless steel-framed glass screens used extensively in the BA passenger lounges.
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FeaturesGeze Slimdrive SL
Passengers and buses are kept safely on either side of the glass doors at Warrington Interchange by Geze’s induction loop activators.
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FeaturesMesh for gabion walls from Hy Ten
Rather than standard gabion mesh, the design team found a novel use for fence panels usually used by the Home Office for prison walls.