More Technical – Page 35
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TechnicalHow architects Squire & Partners, Greenhill Jenner and Caruso St John create impact with unusual facades
A striking facade is one of the most immediate ways to give a building impact, but creating something new and unusual can be hard work, discovers Pamela Buxton. Three architects reveal how they did it
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TechnicalMore than skin deep
As climate change drives facade specification to ever-greater complexity, three specialists see what changes these high-performance solutions will bring
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TechnicalRafael Viñoly and cladding manufacturer KME give Colchester’s new arts centre a golden glow
Rafael Viñoly and German facade manufacturer KME are giving Colchester’s visual arts centre a golden glow, and it looks like the ancient city is taking a shine to its new neighbour. Photos by Morley von Sternberg
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TechnicalCome back to the fold
Corrugated sheeting has a reputation as utilitarian, but originally it was an experimental material for building wide-span, self-supporting roofs, write Adam Mornement and Pedro Guedes
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TechnicalWhere are the environment’s new heroes?
We must inspire 6th formers if we are to get the skilled people we need
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TechnicalUltimate architecture: Cern's partical detector
To celebrate today's success of the 'Big Bang' experiment at Cern, read again Charles Jencks' look at the the world’s most powerful particle detector.
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TechnicalArad shows his mettle
Using bronze and mirror-polished steel, Ron Arad’s reworking of Rimini’s Duomo Hotel is a dazzling experience that few guests will forget.
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TechnicalYouth club finds itself in a fix
The challenge To cantilever a sleek, thin canopy off an existing building
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Batting ideas around
The Bat Conservation Trust, artist Jeremy Dellar and the RIBA have joined forces in a design competition so bats can live in comfort
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TechnicalShampoo and set
Inspired by the tedious business of drying her hair, AA student Margaret Dewhurst’s winning pavilion for the school’s summer show is now being built
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TechnicalGridshell glazes over the past
Peter Hulbert Architects’ billowing timber roof structure at Chiddingstone Orangery may recall the Weald & Downland Museum, but it takes the gridshell one step further by creating a system that structurally supports the frameless glazing.
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TechnicalSoftware opens up residents’ role in design
What could be more sustainable than a sustainable community co-designed by the owner-occupiers and tenants who will live there? That’s the premise behind a multi-disciplinary project launching next month that aims to bring self-procured housing to a wider section of the population.
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The numbers game
£300,000 could be the difference in value of a pension pot built up by the owner of a PassivHaus and the buyer of a conventional new-build.
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TechnicalWisteria Lane, Bury St Edmunds
What’s green, hairy and incorporates its own air filtration system?
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Technical‘It’s the mass housing market that needs the most inspiration’
Kevin Brennan, national housing manager, Velux