Structures – Page 4
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TechnicalArbor drying hall by Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen
Building is designed as a perforated perimeter with a closed roof
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Landscape Laboratory, Portugal by Cannata & Fernandes Architects
A rich language of materials transforms a derelict textile factory
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Carroll Fletcher Gallery by Allsop Gollings Architects
This recently established practice has created a simple and flexible concrete construction
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Scabal weaves a dynamic web of steel for primary school roof
Exaggerated bow-string truss brings brings structural delight
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Open House in Hamburg by Onix Architekten
This Passivhaus for communal living produces more energy than it uses.
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SBEC sustainability centre finds ways to push the envelope
The Sustainable Building Envelope Centre has been established to harness the building fabric to generate energy. Here is a look at its ambitions and some of the key technologies under development
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Care centre’s fearless symmetry
The unconventional geometry of CZWG’s Maggie’s Nottingham is made up of simple steel elements
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The structural challenge behind Tacita Dean's Film installation
Tacita Dean’s latest visual artwork on show at the Tate Modern uses a vast screen engineered by Ramboll that uses polystyrene in an innovative way.
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Chelsea Open Air Nursery classroom by Friend & Company Architects
A need to provide more classroom space and a stronger connection to the garden has led to the creation of a new “tree house” mezzanine in a children’s nursery in London.
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Boyarsky Murphy's anaerobic digestion plant
Innovative facility in Cambridgeshire will turn food waste into energy
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Tonkin Liu’s Shi Ling Bridge
A new “shell lace” structural technique was used to create a conceptual design of a 120m-long steel pedestrian bridge in China.
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Peter Zumthor
Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion blacks out the noise and smells of London to lead the visitor to a tranquil garden of light.
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A technical look at Bridport House's timber structure
Karakusevic Carson Architects’ cross-laminated timber design lightens the load at a new housing scheme in east London
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LSE New Students’ Centre by O’Donnell & Tuomey
O’Donnell Tuomey’s competition-winning proposal for the London School of Economics’ new Students’ Centre is striking not only for its crumpled form, but its unusual perforated brick facing.
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Maccreanor Lavington’s Ceres apartments
The brown brick of these Netherlands canalside apartment blocks provides a continuity with the industrial buildings they have replaced
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New research will help architects maximise low-carbon design
Target Zero guidance on achieving low-carbon buildings has been launched by the BCSA and Tata Steel. Here are three steel-framed projects featured in the research.
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Steel structure at the heart of Bennetts’ Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford
Steel plays both a functional and aesthetic role in the design Bennetts Associates’ RST auditorium.
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The Mac arts centre by Hackett Hall McKnight
A new in-situ concrete structure for the Metropolitan Arts Centre is emerging within Belfast’s dense and historic Cathedral Quarter.
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Spun concrete columns
Technology once used for drains is now producing concrete columns with the smallest footprint ever.
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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
