Materials – Page 11
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Technical
Technical Study: Bushey Cemetery, London
The rammed earth walls of Waugh Thistleton’s Stirling-shortlisted Jewish cemetery roots it in the timelessness of religious ritual
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Technical
Technical Study: House in Torhout, Belgium
Marie-José Van Hee has created a refined concrete and timber fronted house above a Flemish dentist using a clever structural solution
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Building Study
Building Study: Bourne Estate, London, by Matthew Lloyd Architects
Matthew Lloyd’s clever remodelling of an inner London estate shows the value of high-quality healthy communal space
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Building Study
Building Study: Grange Primary School, London, by Maccreanor Lavington
A tired Victorian primary school is given a new public face and facilities without compromising its original character or surroundings
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Building Study
Building Study: Old Bearhurst, East Sussex, by Carmody Groarke
AYA Gold Award winner Carmody Groarke’s studio and guesthouse wears its split personality with brutal honesty
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Technical
Technical Study: Bretton Country Park, Yorkshire
At the Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s new visitor centre, Feilden Fowles has made innovative use of rammed concrete, says Amanda Birch
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Building Study
Building Study: Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, by Jamie Fobert Architects
Fobert has skillfully untangled the gallery’s warren of Victorian houses and modern extensions, says Ike Ijeh
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Features
Between our two hands: Creating space for the analogue in architectural education
How can architects draw and specify materials they have never worked with?
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Technical
Technical Study: Futurehome Passivhaus, South Gardens, London
Maccreanor Lavington has pushed the boundaries of Passivhaus design by including bay windows on a scheme at Elephant Castle
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Technical
Technical Study: the Cambridge Mosque
One of David Marks’ last projects is a contemplative Cambridge mosque with complex timber geometry
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Building Study
Building Study: Bloomberg HQ, London by Foster & Partners
Bloomberg’s European headquarters breaks with recent City tradition by respecting the architectural context of its surroundings. And it’s all the better for it, says Ike Ijeh
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Technical
Technical Study: Vitsoe factory, Leamington Spa
The firm behind Dieter Rams’ 606 shelving system has created a temple to craftsmanship with its new HQ
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Building Study
Birmingham Conservatoire, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Birmingham’s £57m music college is a quieter building than many of the city’s recent shouty projects. But its very restraint has produced an anonymous facade that conceals the elegant spaces within, says Ike Ijeh
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Building Study
Lab City, Paris by OMA
OMA’s first science building unifies a whole engineering school under a giant ETFE roof. Ike Ijeh assesses the result
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Building Study
Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Oxford by Níall McLaughlin Architects
At Worcester College, Oxford, Níall McLaughlin Architects has created an elegant building that manages to be both proudly contemporary and almost classically formal while moulding into the landscape. Ike Ijeh finds out how the architect managed it
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Technical
Technical study: Larkfield Road, Dublin
Tom de Paor has created an expansive network of interconnected spaces next to an end-of-terrace property in south Dublin, writes Hugh Strange
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Building Study
V&A Exhibition Road Quarter, London by AL_A
Amanda Levete’s £48m expansion of London’s V A connects the museum with the public realm through a superb porcelain-paved courtyard. But it’s the sheer immersive power of its vast subterranean exhibition hall that will make visitors stand and gawp
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Technical
Technical study: Maggie’s Oldham
dRMM’s centre for the cancer care charity hovers above its landscaped garden like a giant treehouse – and represents the practice’s most ambitious use yet of cross-laminated timber.
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Technical
Technical study: Tate St Ives extension, St Ives, Cornwall
Jamie Fobert’s discreet subterranean gallery extension has calmed locals’ concerns about the impact on the town’s skyline and reflects in its design all the elements that make St Ives special
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Building Study
Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin by Gehry Partners
Frank Gehry’s £28.5m Berlin concert hall is an unusual building for this celebrated creator of the unusual. Ike Ijeh finds that through its sharp contradictions of age, shape and material, it achieves a kind of peace