More Technical – Page 47
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TechnicalI wish I'd done that...
Surface: Helen Berresford on Peter Zumthor's gneiss stone Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland
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TechnicalTulip goes straight to the heart
Wood panels and creative lighting put warmth and energy at the ‘heart' of office life.
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TechnicalTime Test: Loxley House, Nottingham
John McRae, a director of ORMS Architecture Design, revists the interior surfaces in the atrium of Loxley House in Nottingham, the UK headquarters of Capital One
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What's new in sustainability
Will the mayor's energy targets work? and what can we learn from chilled wine?
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 23: Victorian conversion by Sanya Polescuk Architects
We wanted to bring a sense of space and light to a very narrow Victorian terraced house by opening up the spaces, rationalising the circulation and improving the connection to the garden.
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TechnicalA new era for Europan
The chance of a winning Europan scheme being built in the UK has traditionally been poor. Until now. This year, the government wants to see all three projects to completion, and it just might happen.
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TechnicalI wish I'd done that...
Penny Richards on Giovanni Michelucci's Chiesa dell'Autostrada, Italy
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TechnicalPack up your bubbles
Elaine Knutt reports on a technique of adding hollow plastic balls to concrete to make it lighter and more versatile
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TechnicalUnderground movement
Space constraints mean a school gym is being built in a subterranean concrete box.
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TechnicalClick ‘print' for your building
Is the next step on from rapid prototyping, machines that can make actual buildings?
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 22: Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool
Bluecoat Arts Centre is a part of Liverpool's historic architectural legacy, dating back nearly 300 years. Throughout its history the building has been continually altered and extended.
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TechnicalIs the prefab revolution on hold?
They've been heralded as the future of building and the solution to housing shortages, yet prefabs have failed to take off. Elaine Knutt asks whether they still have a future
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 21: Flood barrier, Gravesend, Kent
Kiran Curtis Associates won a design competition for a mixed-use regeneration site in the Thames Gateway
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Homebuyers have stars in their eyes
New code will target consumers, but does it go far enough?
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TechnicalTime Test:
Cartwright Pickard director James Pickard returns to Murray Grove in Hackney to assess the performance of the cladding five years on