Technical Feature – Page 21
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TechnicalAdam Khan’s wetlands centre floats between land and water
The design of the Brockholes Wetland Nature Reserve buildings in Lancashire draw inspiration from the villages of Iraq’s Marsh Arabs
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TechnicalTim Ronalds’ Sevenoaks School centre raises the roof
A high pitched roof of honey-coloured Douglas fir on this new performing arts centre meet both visual and acoustic requirements
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TechnicalHow Trinity College’s Berkeley Library launched Niall McLaughlin’s career
Ahrends Burton Koralek’s Berkeley Library in Dublin was the inspiration McLaughlin needed to to spark his interest in architecture
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TechnicalStiff & Trevillion brings stripped-back look to Jamie’s Italian
TV chef adds design ingredients to Guildford restaurant
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TechnicalOak is at the heart of Talk Talk HQ interior
Found Associates has used fumed oak parquet to set the tone for the office
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TechnicalSpan house comes out of woodwork
Using a modular typology of timber and glass, Friend & Company has reinvented an Eric Lyons Span house in south-east London
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TechnicalOutdoor concerts get a helping hand
A newly developed modular acoustic performance shell could vastly improve outdoor classical concerts
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TechnicalNottingham students let the sunshine in
The university team’s solar-powered house will be the UK’s only entry for 2010’s Solar Decathlon in Madrid
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TechnicalThin metal cladding is the shape of things to come
Unveiled recently at the Building Centre, John Gould’s Formtexx has developed a revolutionary process that will enable double curvature metal panels for facades to be produced at a fraction of the cost
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TechnicalComing round the mountain with Sutherland Hussey’s Chinese ski stations
Sutherland Hussey’s cable car stations are taking shape in the Chinese mountains
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TechnicalAberdeen’s winning formula
A vast steel structure and ethereal polycarbonate cladding make Reiach & Hall’s new athletics and fitness complex a sporting contender
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TechnicalBennetts Associates’ Edinburgh rock
Edinburgh University’s Potterrow development draws on the city’s traditional stone building form to provide an airy home for its philosophy, psychology and language science departments
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TechnicalBig entrances, grand views
Our round-up of doors and windows projects includes Rick Mather’s entrance to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and more
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TechnicalLearning by example at the Wise sustainability centre in Wales
The Wales Institute for Sustainable Education not only teaches sustainable building, but will itself be a practical demonstration of techniques.
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TechnicalGerard Maccreanor revisits the Piraeus building in Amsterdam
Maccreanor Lavington had relocated to the Netherlands when Hans Kollhoff and Christian Rapp’s Piraeus Building was being built in the 1990s. Gerard Maccreanor observes its influence on the practice
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TechnicalMany hands make light work
With inventor and magician Adrian Westaway’s Magic Light, you just grab a beam and go
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TechnicalBeacon lights Swansea from dusk till dawn
Lighting artist Peter Freeman has created a 10m tall LED-studded beacon for Swansea Docks
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TechnicalSend in the clouds
Speirs & Major has created a theatre of moving clouds across Abu Dhabi’s Grand Mosque
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TechnicalTo let: serviced desk spaces in shared office in Borough
Open plan office includes meeting space, kitchenette (with cooking facilities), WC (with shower); and use of photocopier, printer, scanner, franking machine
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TechnicalSupporting character
Brickwork plays a starring role in articulating the exterior and interior spaces of Lundgaard & Tranberg’s Royal Danish Playhouse in Copenhagen