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Technical Study: Cutting 75% of emissions from Powell & Moya’s Wolfson College, Oxford
Museum of the Home, Hoxton by Wright & Wright Architects
Barony Campus by Sheppard Robson: Scotland’s new super school
Building Study: 22 Handyside Street, King’s Cross, by Coffey Architects
Building Study: Barts Square, London, by Sheppard Robson
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Technical Study: Restoring Birmingham Selfridges’ cladding
Technical Study: Kingston Cycle Hub, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
Antarctica: Designing for the planet’s most hostile continent
One Triton Square by Arup: a refurbishment with a difference
Let’s be honest, achieving true net-zero is still a huge challenge
Technical: Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, restored by David Chipperfield Architects
Technical Study: Park Crescent, Regent’s Park, by PDP London
Technical Study: Old Admiralty Building, London by BDP
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Technical
Technical Study: Restoring Birmingham Selfridges’ cladding
Future Systems’ Selfridges has donned temporary garb of greater gaudiness while faults are fixed in the glittering blue chainmail below. Thomas Lane explains the technical challenges. Photography by Oliver Lane
Building Study
Technical Study: Cutting 75% of emissions from Powell & Moya’s Wolfson College, Oxford
Embarrassed by being one of the worst carbon culprits in the region, the college set out to be net zero by 2030. Retrofitting 763 windows was just the start of it, finds Thomas Lane
Technical
Technical Study: Kingston Cycle Hub, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
Kingston council has spent £32m upgrading the borough’s cycle facilities, including a storage hub beside the station that is no ordinary bike shed, finds Thomas Lane
Technical
Antarctica: Designing for the planet’s most hostile continent
A £100m Antarctic infrastructure programme presents some unique design challenges – like deflecting snow and elephant seals. Elizabeth Hopkirk hears about the hardships and rewards of building at the bottom of the world
Technical
One Triton Square by Arup: a refurbishment with a difference
A 20-year old office block increased its net area by 57% but still saved 40,000 tonnes of carbon. How did the project team do it?
Technical
Let’s be honest, achieving true net-zero is still a huge challenge
Even with a highly motivated team, RIBA’s 2030 target is little more than an aspiration with less than a decade to go, as Robin Turner demonstrates with this live project
Building Study
Museum of the Home, Hoxton by Wright & Wright Architects
After the planning hoo-ha that saw Chipperfield’s original proposals dropped, Wright & Wright has delivered a major expansion that visitors may not even notice, writes Richard Gatti
Technical
Technical: Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, restored by David Chipperfield Architects
‘Surgical’ €100m, decade-long project had to tackle flaws in Mies’ original design
Technical
Technical Study: Park Crescent, Regent’s Park, by PDP London
Amanda Birch talks to the architects who demolished and rebuilt a grade I-listed Nash crescent – for a second time
Building Study
Barony Campus by Sheppard Robson: Scotland’s new super school
It has been described as the most innovative, ambitious and inclusive learning facility in the country. Thomas Lane hears how the client ditched framework procurement for a bespoke design
Building Study
Building Study: 22 Handyside Street, King’s Cross, by Coffey Architects
The YAYA winner’s shimmering King’s Cross office more than justifies the developer’s decision to put its faith in emerging talent, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
Building Study
Building Study: Barts Square, London, by Sheppard Robson
The architect worked with other practices to bring a richness to this new development which is surrounded by some of London’s oldest fabric
Technical
Technical Study: Old Admiralty Building, London by BDP
After a £60m refurb, the top-secret former haunt of Churchill and Ian Fleming is back in Her Majesty’s Service, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
Building Study
Floating church, Olympic Park, by Denizen Works
In pictures: The congregation will literally be able to raise the roof thanks to a bellows-like innovation
Building Study
Brixton Windmill Centre, London, by Squire & Partners
Gallery: Architect completes education and community centre to support grade II* landmark
Technical
‘You don’t get involved in a project like this for the glory or the money’
Keppie was working on an extension at Glasgow’s SEC events centre when the brief changed dramatically. Elizabeth Hopkirk hears from the architects
Building Study
Building Study: Plumstead Centre, London, by Hawkins Brown
The architect reckons it has found the solution to saving libraries from extinction. Ike Ijeh assesses the end result
Technical
NHS Nightingale: How we built a hospital in 10 days
As the first patients arrive at London’s coronavirus surge hospital, BDP’s James Hepburn tells Elizabeth Hopkirk how they designed it
Technical
Coming soon – 3D printed components for the masses
3D printing has the potential to produce complex structural components quickly and cheaply if the technology were commercially available. Now Fosters has done just that.
Building Study
Maggie’s Centre at the Royal Marsden, Sutton, by Ab Rogers Design
For his first building the designer has gone head-to-head with his father – but he was more intimidated by Rem Koolhaas, he tells Elizabeth Hopkirk
Inspirations
Sam Jacob’s inspiration: Avebury stone circle
Wiltshire’s other mysterious Neolithic circle is architecture in its purest form and would give Mies a run for his money, says the FAT co-founder
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Edmund Fowles’ inspiration: Roosenberg Abbey, Flanders
The Feilden Fowles director on a remote Belgian monastery designed by a monk who devised his own version of the golden ratio
Richard Griffiths’ first project: The Old Dispensary, Stratford
The architect recalls putting quality over cost, winning over hostile workmen and an electric shock
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How No1 Poultry almost lost its stripes
The project architect on Stirling’s masterpiece recounts the extraordinary story behind his luckiest break
Jane Kennedy’s inspiration: Manchester Town Hall
The Purcell partner on a building that had a guiding influence at the start of her career and has continued to delight ever since
Murray Kerr’s inspiration: SESC Pompéia, São Paulo
The Denizen Works director recalls his first visit to the social and cultural centre in a Brazilian barrel factory
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