Materials – Page 5

Technical

Allies & Morrison’s St Andrew’s masterplan

2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

Bricks take centre stage at the £130 million St Andrew’s scheme in east London

Technical

Roll out the Concrete Cloth

2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

Two former industrial design engineering classmates have developed a Concrete Cloth that redefines the material’s uses

Technical

Gateway to education

2009-09-04T08:04:00Z

Irish practice Grafton Architects has created an impressive new faculty building that also acts as a front door to Milan’s Bocconi University

Technical

Concrete proves crucial to Mather’s Ashmolean redevelopment

2009-06-26T00:00:00Z

Rick Mather Architects has doubled the display area at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum of Art Archaeology with a 10,000sq m extension tucked behind the existing 1845 building

Technical

Recycled paper makes riches from rags

2009-05-29T00:00:00Z

A structure made from old copies of the Guardian is the latest achievement of engineer James Thomson’s Paper Project

Technical

Benson & Forsyth’s Nottingham Pod finds its place in past and present

Aluminium proved the versatile solution when it came to integrating this a mixed-use hotel and retail scheme with the city’s medieval layout

Technical

Hudson Architects' Salvation Army HQ at Chelmsford, Essex

2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

Amanda Birch discovers the secrets of cross-laminated panels in timber construction at the Salvation Army’s new building at Chelmsford

Technical

Eldridge Smerin’s stunning glass house at Highgate Cemetery

2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

Eldridge Smerin’s new house in Highgate is the subject of the first in a new BD series on materials in application. Here, Michael Stacey explores the way glass is used inside and out at the house

Technical

Another world unfolds within

2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

Site: The Centre for Film & Visual Media Research, London WC1

Features

‘St Pancras was one of the best contracts we’ve worked on’

2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

Nigel Roberts, managing director, Benbow Group

Building Study

Alison Brooks Architects makes wood work in Wandsworth

2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

Alison Brooks’ twin timber-clad Herringbone Houses set south London shimmering

Technical

Getting a handle on acrylic

2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

New-build house, west London

Technical

Concrete soffit takes the biscuit

2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

160 Tooley Street London SE1

Technical

How to follow the movement

2007-05-18T00:00:00Z

The challenge To detail a seven-storey timber frame apartment block to allow for movement