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FeaturesHeatherwick salutes an inspirational craftsman and collaborator
Thomas Heatherwick pays tribute to his friend the fabricator Bill Tustin who was instrumental in some of his studio’s key projects
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Inspirations
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
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News
Architects tell government radical changes needed to combustibles ban
Stirling Prize nominees call for structural timber to be excluded, while RIBA argues for more buildings to be covered
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Features
MMC in school design should be treated with openness, not suspicion
Modern methods are nothing for architects to fear and could actually protect design quality, argues Sheppard Robson’s James Jones
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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
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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
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Inspirations
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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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
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Features
‘Architects are rarely at the table when crucial decisions are being made’
Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects discuss hope and fear with Elizabeth Hopkirk
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Inspirations
How No1 Poultry almost lost its stripes
The project architect on Stirling’s masterpiece recounts the extraordinary story behind his luckiest break
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Building Study
The world’s hottest projects in 2020
Ike Ijeh tours the planet to report on this year’s most anticipated completions
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News
PLP wins competition to design 140m timber tower
€160m Tree House project will be Holland’s tallest hybrid structure
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Building Study
Building Study: Auckland Tower, County Durham, by Niall McLaughlin
The architect has given Auckland Castle a timber tower resembling a siege engine – but while it’s a permanent fixture there’s nothing static about it
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Opinion
How to do ornament that’s not a crime
Gillian Darley on the delight of a well-crafted detail
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News
Fletcher Priest wins Hamburg housing competition
Proposals for dockyard regeneration scheme honour legendary piano maker Steinway
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News
Zaha Hadid Architects hired to create duplex lobby in Southbank Tower
Work at former King’s Reach Tower is architect’s first resi refurb scheme
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Technical
Technical Study: Stratford Pavilion by Acme
This substantial structure at the Olympic Park had to be built over a DLR tunnel, setting the team major challenges. Ike Ijeh reports
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News
David Kohn completes historic Berlin office conversion
Collaboration with German architect saw one of city’s ’most expensive’ belle époque homes restored
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News
‘Don’t demonise timber-framed buildings’ - architects react to Worcester Park fire
RIBA’s Jane Duncan says south London blaze exposes inadequacy of government’s building reg reforms
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Technical
Technical Study: North West Cambridge housing by Stanton Williams
The architect’s first affordable housing creates a sense of intimacy while complying with tough daylight regulations, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
