Technical Feature – Page 42
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TechnicalAbito microflat is boxing clever
Building Design Partnership has created a block of high-tech microflats in Manchester using tunnel form techniques. To save time, prefabricated pods with 95% of key services slot into the centre
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TechnicalDesigns for green living
Architects are well placed to optimise the passive sustainability capacity of a building in order to reduce both its heating and cooling energy requirements
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TechnicalSurfaces: Jestico and Whiles' attention-grabbing walls for a Croatian hotel
Walls featuring drawings of nudes, and bathrooms with glass walls are two of the enticing features of Jestico & Whiles’ ‘sexy’ refurbished hotel for the Croatian Island of Hvar.
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TechnicalSurfaces: David Chipperfield's innovative internal glazing for an Amsterdam office
Silk screen prints of pencil patterns set in glass partitions give office workers both light and privacy.
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TechnicalSecuring a new PFI school by design
The challenge: To meet the client’s brief of Secure By Design status for a new build PFI school
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Pressure still rising on CO2
The Stern Review’s economic case against climate change points the way, but much remains to be done
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TechnicalOff-site and housing: Architects and manufacturers team up to invent new modular systems
Architects are cross-breeding onsite and offsite construction, write Marguerite Lazell and Elaine Knutt
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Off-site and housing: SmartLIFE project aims to find the best modern construction method
Cambridgeshire research project compares three MMC's to find the best possible way to build a house, writes Marguerite Lazell
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Technical'Moving' buildings become a reality with telematics
Telematics is the art and science of transforming facades with moving images. Elaine Knutt looks into a future world in which buildings communicate and respond to their environments
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TechnicalPart L: the view from Building Control
John Neal, head of building control at Rushcliffe Borough Council, Nottinghamshire, discusses the impact of Part L 2006 on his team
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TechnicalIt’s time you knew the drill
Designers are set to face greater responsibility for assessing fire risk.
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 37: Margate
The challenge: To create a 25m-high sculpture that would collapse in a controlled manner and burn safely
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TechnicalStriking in its steel simplicity
Eric Parry’s Aldermanbury Square office uses ‘shot peened’ stainless steel to create an elegant and bold structure.