Technical Feature – Page 30
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Award Winning
A cupboard full of industry awards and commendations is proving that the Dyson Airblade™ hand dryer is more than just a hand dryer. In the words of one of the awards judges, "Dyson Airblade™ is a product that has revolutionized a stagnant category".
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TechnicalHealthcare
The Dyson Airblade™ hand dryer can be found in many Healthcare locations as it is the only hand dryer to have a HEPA filter – drying hands in just 10 seconds using purified air.
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TechnicalWestarchitecture's stringerless stair for a mews house in west London
How Westarchitecture devised a modern stringerless stair for a mews house in Notting Hill, west London
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TechnicalTackling the sustainability of our existing building stock is the next step
Reducing carbon emissions of the existing homes will make a real difference, and architects need to be in on the act
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TechnicalCladding designs at the cutting edge
Advances in technology mean that cladding can take on increasingly elaborate decorative forms. Cathy Strongman looks at three of the latest projects to exploit this approach, taking their inspiration from tree branches, flowers and Polish folk-art
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TechnicalHow vertical wall creator Patrick Blanc gets his gardens to grow
Think of living walls, and it’s most likely to be Patrick Blanc’s vertical gardens that spring to mind — most recently the foliage-covered facades for Jean Nouvel’s Musée du Quai Branly in Paris and Herzog & de Meuron’s Caixa Forum in Madrid.
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TechnicalIt’s alive: the growth of living walls
Plants are providing an attractive and sustainable facade for a variety of buildings. Cathy Strongman reports on some of its uses
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TechnicalBath’s Holburne Museum extension, seven years on
Eric Parry describes the seven-year struggle to see his extension to Bath’s Holburne Museum finally achieve planning permission
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TechnicalJohn Pardey Architects’ New Forest public toilets
Architect John Pardey on how Louis Kahn and Corb inspired his innovative take on smallest room. Photos by John Pardey
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TechnicalArtificial lighting brings flashes of inspiration
Will Hunter examines recent projects at Cardiff Bay, Salford Law School and London’s Natural History Museum where lighting has been used to communicate an architectural concept
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TechnicalPaxton Locher Architects' curved roof
How Paxton Locher Architects designed a curved roof with a high U-value and solar heat collection
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TechnicalThink event explores the engineer as architect debate
Is the architectural profession under attack in our supposedly new shiny sustainable world? This debate has been highlighted in the pages of BD, and came to life at a great session at last week’s Think event, chaired by BD editor Amanda Baillieu, on whether engineers are the new architects.
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TechnicalMaterial detail
Author Sylvia Leydecker, an interior designer and expert in nano surfaces in architecture (pictured), considers the functions and applications of nano materials in her new book.
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TechnicalHome truths
Former accountant Carol Atkinson has built the UK’s first straw-bale holiday home in East Yorkshire, and is now leading courses on how to build with it.
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How it works
Geometrics: Elements of Form, Structure, Materials and Manufacture exhibits work by structural engineer Price & Myers’ geometrics group...
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Finishing touch
Ibstock has launched its Umbra range of textured brickwork in four designs: Wave, Sphere (pictured), Pyramid and Sawtooth.