Structures – Page 4
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NewsChris Dyson selected to design arts centre
Off-site construction will be speed up delivery of new Harrow Arts Centre
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News
Purcell lodges £305m Manchester Town Hall plans
Huge refurb scheme includes restoration work and facilities upgrades at grade I-listed gothic-style gem
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Building Study
Building Study: Auckland Tower, County Durham, by Niall McLaughlin
The architect has given Auckland Castle a timber tower resembling a siege engine – but while it’s a permanent fixture there’s nothing static about it
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News
Foundation Architecture set for Southwark green light
Third-sector office plans would replace 1930s industrial building with double-sized block
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News
Alan Jones: Why Goldsmith Street is part of a ‘sea-change’
Mikhail Riches’ housing project answers two problems, RIBA president writes in New Statesman
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Inspirations
Murray Kerr’s inspiration: SESC Pompéia, São Paulo
The Denizen Works director recalls his first visit to the social and cultural centre in a Brazilian barrel factory
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News
Grimshaw designs floating modular homes
Stirling Prize finalist teams up with Dutch concrete specialist
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Features
Ted Cullinan: Architect, builder, educator, storyteller
Peter Clegg pays tribute to the visionary architect who eschewed labels and did things his own way
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News
Chipperfield wins contest to design Berlin tower
Architect ‘was unanimous choice’ in 12-strong contest
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Features
Architects should embrace a modular future
The profession ought to be cheering the government’s support for modern methods of construction, not knocking it, argues HTA’s Simon Bayliss
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News
Architects criticise government’s faith in modular future
‘Most modular housing is crude, overscaled and a complete blight’ – Paul Karakusevic
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Technical
Technical Study: Stratford Pavilion by Acme
This substantial structure at the Olympic Park had to be built over a DLR tunnel, setting the team major challenges. Ike Ijeh reports
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News
‘Don’t demonise timber-framed buildings’ - architects react to Worcester Park fire
RIBA’s Jane Duncan says south London blaze exposes inadequacy of government’s building reg reforms
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Technical
Technical Study: Beaconsfield Mews cohousing, London, by Stolon Studio
Architect-developers Robert and Jessica Barker tell Elizabeth Hopkirk how they are turning community-building on backland sites into a business model
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Analysis
Analysis: When will we see wooden skyscrapers?
Timber frames have begun to break into commercial and higher-rise uses thanks to technological breakthroughs. Ike Ijeh speaks to the pioneers
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Technical
Technical Study: The Gantry, Here East, London
Hawkins Brown has created a colourful new hub for artists using the open source WikiHouse construction system
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Technical
Technical Study: Royal Opera House, London
Stanton Williams’ revamp of the Royal Opera House opens up the building to make it more accessible as a public space
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Building Study
Building Study: V&A Dundee, by Kengo Kuma & Associates
The V A Dundee is the museum’s first venue outside London and could have the potential to rejuvenate the city
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Building Study
Building Study: Arhus harbour baths, Denmark, by Bjarke Ingels
BIG repeats its trick of bringing swimming to the heart of the city. Could it work in London?
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