Latest Technical Case Studies – Page 29
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TechnicalReach for the sky
Richard Murphy Architects is masterplanning Edinburgh’s Haymarket and has designed a 17-storey hotel on the site which last week provoked Unesco to call for a halt to construction. Here director Richard Murphy defends the project
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TechnicalBrief - St George's Hall
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dorma UK and What’s new in Building, we’re challenging readers to identify the architecturally significant location the Dorma penguin can be seen visiting in the picture above.
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TechnicalBrief - Everton FC
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dorma UK and What’s new in Building, we’re challenging readers to identify the architecturally significant location the Dorma penguin can be seen visiting in the picture above.
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TechnicalBrief - Evelina Children's Hospital
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dorma UK and What’s new in Building, we’re challenging readers to identify the architecturally significant location the Dorma penguin can be seen visiting in the picture above.
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TechnicalBrief - Eden Project
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dorma UK and What’s new in Building, we’re challenging readers to identify the architecturally significant location the Dorma penguin can be seen visiting in the picture above.
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TechnicalBrief - St Pancras
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dorma UK and What’s new in Building, we’re challenging readers to identify the architecturally significant location the Dorma penguin can be seen visiting in the picture above.
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TechnicalDorma makes space at the Eden Project
DORMA’s versatile HSW-EM sliding wall system was installed at the Eden Project in Cornwall to cope with overwhelming increases in human traffic.
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TechnicalDORMA specified for major installation at Evelina Children’s Hospital
Evelina Children’s Hospital at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust was the first children’s hospital to be built in London in more than 100 years, opening its doors to patients in October 2005.
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TechnicalDORMA aids DDA compliance at Everton Football Club
All entrance and exit points, together with hospitality suites and corporate facilities at Everton FC meet the requirements of the DDA (Disability Discrimination Act).
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TechnicalExtensive use of DORMA automatics and MANET system at new St Pancras
Product specifications are of the most demanding standard throughout the new landmark St Pancras International Station, not least for those items that relate directly to public safety and convenience.
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TechnicalDORMA product chosen for major refurbishment at St George’s Hall, Liverpool
DORMA door controls, automatic door systems, door furniture and floor springs have been installed throughout St George’s Hall in Liverpool, as part of a major 10-year, £23m refurbishment programme.
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TechnicalArchitecture Ensemble remakes St Anne’s Garden, Soho
Catherine Croft discovers how Architecture Ensemble turned a neglected central London churchyard into a thriving, art-filled community resource
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TechnicalSheffield Hallam reveals new energy efficient faculty block
Bond Bryan-designed Furvinal Building powered by ground-source heat pumps and city rubbish
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TechnicalTechniker gets to grips with Jean Prouvé’s historic prefab house
The solution for protecting Prouvé’s antique prefab on its travels to the hurricane-prone southern US involves stripping it to its structural core
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Technical
Offsetting must form part of our carbon-cutting diet
Phil Clark argues the merit of using carbon offset schemes in the quest to reduce global CO2 emissions
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TechnicalEco-refurbishment to pioneer new heat pump technology
Architect Gillard Associates to use Swiss Zehnder low energy system for the first time in the UK on Welsh college
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TechnicalPerformance on the move
Norwegian firm Various Architects has designed the world’s biggest portable performance venue. The 90m by 60m Mobile Performance Venue (MPV) can hold 3,500 people and has a total performance space of 2,000 sqm.
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TechnicalRMJM’s Russian odyssey
Roger Whiteman, principal of RMJM and director of its London office, talks to Amanda Birch about the trials of the practice’s Gazprom HQ scheme, recently renamed the Okhta Centre, in St Petersburg
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TechnicalStudio E’s Woodside Leisure Centre
Cathy Strongman talks to architect Studio E and Max Fordham Consulting Engineers about the sustainable services solutions they choose for Watford’s Woodside Leisure Centre
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TechnicalFresh Flower pavilion
Architect: Tonkin LiuClient: Corus and the London Festival of ArchitectureLocations: Greenwich Peninsula, Bedford Square, Prince’s Gardens and St Paul’s