Latest Technical Case Studies – Page 33
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TechnicalDoors and windows at David Archer Architects’ Print Room restaurant in Bournemouth
Will Hunter takes a look at the transformation of this grade II art deco building
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TechnicalThe clipper stripped bare
Amanda Birch pays a visit to the Cutty Sark in Greenwich where restoration work is resuming after last year’s fire
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TechnicalHow the Cutty Sark rose from the ashes
When Simon Beames, project architect for Grimshaw’s Cutty Sark renovation, left the firm to start Youmeheshe, his fledgling practice received a boost by keeping the project. But, as he tells Amanda Birch, this became a major headache last May after a fire caused serious damage to the ship
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TechnicalBridging the gap at the AA’s Hooke Parke
Architects and AA tutors Valentin Bontjes van Beek and Natalie Rozencwajg’s web-like footbridge uses trees for its main supports
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TechnicalBD previews next month’s Surface Design Show
Anthony Ellis looks at some of the best surface treatments on offer at next month’s 2008 show
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Flooring products
A new series where we look at a top of the range product and a more cost-effective alternative for projects on a tight budget
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TechnicalIn the swim at Serie’s Blue Frog Acoustic Lounge, Mumbai
Architect Serie has transformed a disused warehouse into a cutting-edge music venue in India’s entertainment capital
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TechnicalHow RMJM does the twist in Russia
A window assembly that accommodates flat glass in a twisting frame is the key to cladding RMJM’s Moscow City Palace tower
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TechnicalHas ‘zero carbon’ become meaningless?
The term zero carbon risks becoming a way of hiding a multitude of sins.
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TechnicalKSP Engel & Zimmermann’s Bergen-Belsen Centre
KSP Engel & Zimmermann Architects used high quality fair-faced concrete on its information centre to memorialise the historic Bergen-Belsen site
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TechnicalTwo unusual concrete wall projects add something new to the mix
Concrete is too often used in predictable forms, but there’s nothing routine about Alan Chandler’s Wall One or Gramazio & Kohler’s Perforated Wall, as Will Hunter explains
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TechnicalThe challenges of taking over Alsop’s The Public
Flannery & de la Pole took over Will Alsop’s troubled project for a community arts venue in West Bromwich. In the first in a new series on troubleshooters, practice director Julian Flannery talks about the challenges of completing the building on a greatly reduced budget
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TechnicalSafety without sell-out
Greg Lomas of Foster Lomas explains how two residential refurbs integrate fire safety without compromising design
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TechnicalAHMM’s ‘refurbishment in extremis’ at 176 in north London
“You find a disused rotten building and you keep as much as possible.” Simon Allford talks to Will Hunter about his firm’s conversion of a former methodist church into a private art gallery
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TechnicalGreen design means fewer drawings, greater trust
By reducing wasteful practices, such as unnecessary drawings, we make better use of time and energy
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TechnicalEco-home success
If you fancy reading about a real success story, Great Bow Yard: Anatomy of an Eco Build is worth dipping into.
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TechnicalArt blasts into the modern store
Stanton Williams on integrating artwork into the facade of a new Bristol department store
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Conserving mansonry
A three-day workshop on the principles and techniques of masonry building conservation will be held on February 4-6 at Charlestown Workshops, Charlestown, Fife.
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Cost-effective steel frame insulation
Natural Building Technologies has launched two new steel frame Pavaclad and Diffutherm systems to its wood fibreboard insulation range.
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TechnicalFolding into the landscape
Sheppard Robson’s planned car park for Penrith in Cumbria uses CNC cutting technology to create a timber facade that draws inspiration directly from its Lakeland context, reports Amanda Birch