Technical Feature – Page 29
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TechnicalSheffield Hallam reveals new energy efficient faculty block
Bond Bryan-designed Furvinal Building powered by ground-source heat pumps and city rubbish
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TechnicalTechniker gets to grips with Jean Prouvé’s historic prefab house
The solution for protecting Prouvé’s antique prefab on its travels to the hurricane-prone southern US involves stripping it to its structural core
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Offsetting must form part of our carbon-cutting diet
Phil Clark argues the merit of using carbon offset schemes in the quest to reduce global CO2 emissions
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TechnicalEco-refurbishment to pioneer new heat pump technology
Architect Gillard Associates to use Swiss Zehnder low energy system for the first time in the UK on Welsh college
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TechnicalPerformance on the move
Norwegian firm Various Architects has designed the world’s biggest portable performance venue. The 90m by 60m Mobile Performance Venue (MPV) can hold 3,500 people and has a total performance space of 2,000 sqm.
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TechnicalRMJM’s Russian odyssey
Roger Whiteman, principal of RMJM and director of its London office, talks to Amanda Birch about the trials of the practice’s Gazprom HQ scheme, recently renamed the Okhta Centre, in St Petersburg
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TechnicalStudio E’s Woodside Leisure Centre
Cathy Strongman talks to architect Studio E and Max Fordham Consulting Engineers about the sustainable services solutions they choose for Watford’s Woodside Leisure Centre
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TechnicalFresh Flower pavilion
Architect: Tonkin LiuClient: Corus and the London Festival of ArchitectureLocations: Greenwich Peninsula, Bedford Square, Prince’s Gardens and St Paul’s
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TechnicalMetal guru: Arup’s Chris Caroll on CCTV Headquarters, Beijing
Will Hunter discovers how OMA and Arup used metal structures in the astonishing design for the CCTV HQ in Beijing
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Let there be light — but keep us cool, too
For a cladding novice, the experience of editing BD’s special supplement has been something of an eye-opener.
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TechnicalArchitects draw the line at Eisenman’s comments
Peter Eisenman’s criticism of computer-aided design, published in BD in May, attracted a sharp response. Here three devotees of parametric design in cladding give their views
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TechnicalCladding testing feels the heat
A series of high-profile fires has sparked a debate on fire resistance in composite panels
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TechnicalFletcher Priest Architects’ HQ for Rio Tinto at Paddington, west London
How Fletcher Priest designed a single, continuous facade on a curving site for client Rio Tinto
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TechnicalTim Foster Architects’ International School Theatre
Cathy Strongman visits a dramatic concrete-clad theatre space by Tim Foster Architects
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TechnicalTimber-concrete composite floor construction builds on shared strengths
Cathy Strongman checks out a composite flooring system that lets large open-plan buildings benefit from the qualities of timber frame
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TechnicalJacobsen’s embassy showcases the best of Danish sustainability
A modernist gem and visions of sustainability jostle for attention at the sust-DANE-able exhibition, part of the London Festival of Architecture
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Technical'Working with Stonehenge is like rolling a rock uphill'
As English Heritage announces new plans to appoint an architect for a temporary visitor centre at Stonehenge, Denton Corker Marshall director Stephen Quinlan recalls his firm’s part in the long-running saga
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Technical'Swoosh' pavilion swoops into view at the AA
The AA’s 2008 summer pavilion lands in Bedford SquarePhotos by Sue Barr and AA students
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TechnicalLessons in zero carbon
White Design’s scheme for the UK’s first zero-carbon school at Dartington in Devon