More Technical – Page 18
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TechnicalEnvironmental Resource Centre, Ebbw Vale, Wales
A site that was once Europe’s largest steelworks is reclaimed by nature in Design Research Unit Wales’s innovative scheme.
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TechnicalPrice & 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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TechnicalTwilly 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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TechnicalA round-up of the latest education products
Products used in education projects include solar shading and aluminium/timber windows.
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TechnicalCladding 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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TechnicalWarwick Clinical Trials Unit by MJP Architects
This building for Warwick University uses composite timber curtain walling to improve energy performance and create an elegant facade
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TechnicalConstantijn 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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TechnicalAllies & 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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TechnicalInsulation solutions for Flimwell workshops by The Architecture Ensemble
Wood fibre and sheep’s wool insulation have been specified for a set of eight sustainable timber workshops that are being constructed in 20ha of ancient woodland in East Sussex.
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TechnicalBRE’s Victorian Terrace Retrofit project
PRP Architects’ refurbished stable block will be used to demonstrate how sustainable building and insulation products can be used for upgrading the UK’s existing housing stock
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TechnicalA round-up of the latest housing products
Products used in housing projects including CHP boilers and underfloor heating systems
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TechnicalMark Wallinger’s White Horse project, Ebbsfleet
Despite its size and concrete skin, artist Mark Wallinger says his giant White Horse for Ebbsfleet, Kent, must be ‘absolutely accurate’
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TechnicalJohn Christophers’ Zero Carbon House
A home in Birmingham’s Balsall Heath is the first retrofit project to achieve level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes
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TechnicalScotland’s Housing Expo homes previewed
We examine four of the innovative projects under construction for this summer’s long-awaited Housing Expo in Inverness
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TechnicalMilan Furniture Fair — Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010
Volcanic dust may have kept punters in Milan for longer than they planned, but there was a lack of showstoppers to captivate them
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TechnicalRogers Stirk Harbour’s Santa Maria Del Pianto Metro Station, Naples
The practice designed a doubly curved hyperbolic paraboloid canopy roof formed from a lattice of steel plates that tilts back to create the entrance to the metro
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TechnicalJean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum
The museum’s 183m domed roof has taken months of workshops and modelling to achieve its floating structure and intricate perforated pattern
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TechnicalConcrete panels boost thermal mass at Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Woodland Trust HQ
The design team combined the qualities of timber and concrete to maximise this Grantham building’s environmental credentials
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TechnicalWilkinson Eyre’s Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Two sustainably cooled conservatories designed by Wilkinson Eyre and engineer Atelier Ten are part of Singapore’s extensive public gardens project at Marina Bay South