All Features articles – Page 198
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Linoleum by Armstrong
While most linoleum products have a speckled finish, Armstrong offers a range of flat colours — the architect chose black and a pale orange.
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Safeguard by Armstrong
Safeguard is a synthetic vinyl flooring that meets EN 13845, the European standard for safety flooring with enhanced slip resistance.
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Interview — Armando di Finizio
Armando di Finizio, principal at Bristol’s Brunel Academy, the first school to open under Building Schools for the Future
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Apple’s big bite
In the fourth quarter of 2007, computer giant Apple made a profit of $1.58 billion on its $9.6 billion of revenue, significantly higher than the profit it earned in the year-earlier period.
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Johnstone’s launches anti-tagging system
Paint specialist Johnstone’s has launched a protective wall coating that means any grafitti painted on top can be quickly and easily removed with standard solvents.
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Why aren’t all schools turning the old ways on their heads?
Education consultant Stephen Heppell asks why school design still uses Victorian era models
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Alkorplan single-ply roofing
Fully fire tested, Alkorplan is assessed by the British Board of Agrément to have a life expectancy of more than 30 years.
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Adobe promotes Lynch
Kevin Lynch has been promoted to chief technology officer at Adobe Systems.
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Pollard Thomas Edwards on how to act as developer and architect on school projects
Five Architecture wants to build schools in its home town of Glasgow — will the cross-funding model work there?
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Acoustic panels by Decoustic
Decoustics supplied more than 1,700sq m of Solo acoustic panels in a number of paint colours for the main entrance area and the walls of the classroom blocks.
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LSA Projects on its acoustic and plain panel system for schools
LSA projects supplied birch Gustafs panels for a north London academy
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Dot to Dot: February 15
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday for a chance to win Kenneth Powell and Patrick Barclay’s book Wembley Stadium: Venue of Legends
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18th annual Education Show opens at NEC Birmingham, February 28th - March 1st
A weekend with a load of teachers in a hall 10 times bigger than a school sports field might not sound like a great idea, but the Education Show at Birmingham’s NEC Centre could be a good opportunity to do some homework on 21st century schools.
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Erecting our monuments to love
From the to phallic to the fatale, architecture has long been used to express human passion. This Valentine’s Day, bdonline takes a look at the world’s most romantic buildings
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60 seconds with...Tim Knox
Tim Knox, art historian and director of the Soane Museum, stirred controversy earlier this week with some cutting remarks on public sculpture. Just what is it that’s got him so worked up?
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Cullinan: a great humanist for our time
Inspired and original, Edward Cullinan's contribution to architecture has been kaleidoscopic, says admirer and former employee Julyan Wickham
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The sad decline of UK housing
Why are we always in a rush with housing? A basic need, as well the emotional centre of most of our lives, housing is not something you would think we would ever want to hurry into. We simply need to build — warmly, intelligently and well — over the years ...
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