All articles by Graham Bizley – Page 3
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TechnicalIn detail 35: Salvation Army Chapel, London
The new headquarters of the Salvation Army is on one of the most significant public routes in London — between the Millennium Bridge over the Thames and St Paul’s Cathedral.
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TechnicalIn detail 34: Sky Ear
Sky Ear is a floating cloud that listens out for electromagnetic radiation in the air.
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TechnicalIn detail 33: Queen’s Road Com
The Queens Road Community Centre provides a Sure Start nursery, a crèche, a lifelong learning and employment training centre for adults, meeting rooms and a multi-purpose hall in a socially deprived area of east London.
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In detail 32: National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff
The roof of the National Assembly for Wales is a six-bay steel structure held up on 12 circular columns.
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TechnicalIn detail 31: National Gallery, East Wing, London
An external courtyard has been covered with an ETFE roof to provide a disabled access route from a new public entrance on Trafalgar Square to the gallery’s central circulation spaces.
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TechnicalFour flats in a flash
Pringle Richards Sharratt proves small projects can benefit from prefab.
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TechnicalIn detail 29: Queen Mary Student Village, University of London
The largest residential block at the Westfield Student Village has an eight-storey concrete frame built with tunnel-form shuttering. Another word for shuttering is formwork, whereby a frame is constructed to provide support as the concrete hardens.
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TechnicalIn detail 28: Alpine House, Kew Gardens
The new glass house at Kew Gardens will use almost entirely passive systems to provide a controlled environment for the Royal Botanic Gardens’ alpine plant collection.
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TechnicalIn detail 27: Gothenburg Museum of World Culture, Sweden
A five-storey glazed atrium rises above the ground floor staircase on the eastern side of the museum.
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TechnicalIn detail 26: Unicorn Theatre for Children
An educational facility and plant room forms the second main volume to the Unicorn Theatre. The steel structure is located on the south side of the main auditorium above the public staircase.
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TechnicalIn detail 25: Imperial War Museum Visitors Centre, Duxford, Oxfordshire
The historic World War I and II airfield at Duxford is home to a large collection of civil and military aircraft. The visitor centre is the beginning and end of a visit to the aviation museum.
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TechnicalIn Detail 24: Royal Festival Hall
The Royal Festival Hall is about to undergo a major refurbishment to improve its acoustic performance. Almost all the surfaces are to be altered to decrease their acoustic absorbency and increase the reverberation time.
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TechnicalIn detail 22: Blackpool Rocks Kinetic Light Sculpture
The sculpture will reflect sunlight through a prism on to seven rocks on the Blackpool promenade each positioned to catch a different colour of the refracted light. The rocks will vary in size and type and will be suspended on steel frames. The prism will be 5m high and 1m ...
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TechnicalIn detail 21: Novy Dvur Monastery
A new monastery has been created for the Cistercian Order from the remains of a derelict Baroque manor house and associated farm buildings.
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TechnicalIn detail 20: Friars Halt Studio, Battle, Sussex
Drawing inspiration from nearby oast houses, the studio comprises a steeply pitched tiled roof over a partially buried brick plinth con-taining a garage. The 5m-high timber roof is distorted towards the north side where a full-height glazed screen opens to the garden.The lower floor has uninsulated load-bearing brick walls ...
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TechnicalIn detail 19: St Paul Old Ford Church, Bow, London
An unused church in Bow has been saved from demolition by the vision of its vicar.
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TechnicalIn detail 18: 2 Plantation Place, London
An 11-storey office building for British Land is the first in the City of London to be approved by building-control officers and insurers using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to determine the extent of fire protection.
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TechnicalIn detail 17: Metropolitan Cathedral campus, Liverpool
A flight of ceremonial steps has been created on the south side of the Metropolitan Cathedral, addressing the Anglican Cathedral at the other end of Hope Street. The public space will be flanked on one side by new offices for hi-tech businesses and by a visitor centre for the cathedral ...
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TechnicalIn detail 16: A13 Artscape Project Pump Control House
The A13 Artscape project aims to improve conditions for residents, workers, pedestrians and drivers along a 6km stretch of the A13 trunk road in east London. Various artworks have been incorporated into road improvements which include two pedestrian subways, two roundabouts and an underpass. The pump control house contains electrical ...
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