Materials – Page 5
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TechnicalMansfield College East Range building, by Rick Mather Architects
This modest two-storey building involves a high level of technical complexity to work round a grade II* listed building and a tricky site in the centre of Oxford
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Features
How we designed a candlelit timber theatre and met 21st-century fire regs
Allies Morrison was lead architect on the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse which opens this week at the Globe. Associate director Oliver Heywood explains how they tackled the fire risk
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St Paul's School, London by Nicholas Hare
Architectural standards were slipping at the 500-year-old St Paul’s School in London, but the elegant exposed interiors and concrete colonnades of Nicholas Hare’s new science building augur well for the future
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News
Post Brutalism and the rise of solid timber construction
Ros Diamond asks if wood can be a bold new alternative to concrete
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Technical
Product spotlight: Brick bird and bat boxes
Bird Brick Houses provide a discreet solution for enhancing a building’s biodiversity
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Product spotlight: Architectural Mesh
Two examples of metallic mesh used in a Munich church and Chipperfield’s Hamburg cocktail bar
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Inspirations
Michael Squire’s inspiration: Grundtvig’s Church, Copenhagen
Michael Squire admires Grundtvig’s Church in Copenhagen for its poetic use of brick and the way the architect interpreted local traditions in a contemporary way
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Technical
Stacking Green, Vietnam by Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Two walls of this house on one of Ho Chi Minh City’s busiest streets are composed entirely of cantilevered concrete planters
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National BMX Centre, Manchester by Ellis Williams Architects
Ellis Williams Architects has used concrete to create two very different effects at the UK’s first indoor BMX arena in Manchester
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News
Hemp construction put to the test
A single-storey building made from hemp-lime has been built at Bath University to test its potential as a building material.
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Technical
Glass staircases in Apple’s Covent Garden store
The two glass stairs in Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s Covent Garden store for Apple are as amazing as the i-gadgets on sale
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Chabot College Community & Student Services Centre by TBP Architecture
A new California college building incorporates electronically tintable glass to shield its atrium from the heat.
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Nunawading station, Melbourne
Grimshaw used prefabricated steel units to provide high-speed construction without disrupting services from a suburban Melbourne station
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Meads Reach footbridge, Bristol
Niall McLaughlin Architects worked with Price Myers and Martin Richman to create an integrated design that lights up the landscape
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Price & Myers’ Hy-Pavilion
Designed for the London Festival of Architecture, Price Myers’ Hy-Pavilion is a clever folding timber structure that can be easily transported and erected.
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Twilly Springs house by Diamond Architects
A new-build green oak frame joins an original 17th century elm timber rafters to create a contemporary house with historic roots
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Cladding Renzo Piano’s Shard
The facade of Piano’s glass tower at London Bridge station is designed to be as transparent and flush as possible
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Constantijn Huygensstraat by Tony Fretton Architects
The robust brick facade of Tony Fretton’s Amsterdam block is designed to last the building’s planned 200-year lifespan
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Allies & Morrison’s St Andrew’s masterplan
Bricks take centre stage at the £130 million St Andrew’s scheme in east London
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Roll out the Concrete Cloth
Two former industrial design engineering classmates have developed a Concrete Cloth that redefines the material’s uses
