All Technical articles – Page 10
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TechnicalInsulation solutions for Flimwell workshops by The Architecture Ensemble
Wood fibre and sheep’s wool insulation have been specified for a set of eight sustainable timber workshops that are being constructed in 20ha of ancient woodland in East Sussex.
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TechnicalMark Wallinger’s White Horse project, Ebbsfleet
Despite its size and concrete skin, artist Mark Wallinger says his giant White Horse for Ebbsfleet, Kent, must be ‘absolutely accurate’
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TechnicalScotland’s Housing Expo homes previewed
We examine four of the innovative projects under construction for this summer’s long-awaited Housing Expo in Inverness
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TechnicalJohn Christophers’ Zero Carbon House
A home in Birmingham’s Balsall Heath is the first retrofit project to achieve level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes
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TechnicalRogers Stirk Harbour’s Santa Maria Del Pianto Metro Station, Naples
The practice designed a doubly curved hyperbolic paraboloid canopy roof formed from a lattice of steel plates that tilts back to create the entrance to the metro
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TechnicalJean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum
The museum’s 183m domed roof has taken months of workshops and modelling to achieve its floating structure and intricate perforated pattern
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TechnicalConcrete panels boost thermal mass at Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Woodland Trust HQ
The design team combined the qualities of timber and concrete to maximise this Grantham building’s environmental credentials
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TechnicalWilkinson Eyre’s Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Two sustainably cooled conservatories designed by Wilkinson Eyre and engineer Atelier Ten are part of Singapore’s extensive public gardens project at Marina Bay South
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TechnicalPhotographer Rankin’s Annroy building by Trevor Horne Architects
A series of doors and windows products have been used in Trevor Horne Architects’ refurbishment of a 1960s office block in Kentish Town, which includes a photographer’s studio, private apartments and a penthouse with nearly frameless views over London
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TechnicalJarmund Vignaes Architects creates In-Between House in Suffolk
A holiday house for Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project uses a concrete core to give the impression of a floating building
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TechnicalMJP Architects’ Kendrew Quadrange at St John’s College, Oxford
MJP Architects’ building uses precast concrete to particular effect in its two spiral staircases
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TechnicalWahaca Mexican restaurant
Softroom brings vibrancy and street market chic to three Mexican restaurants
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TechnicalSurface Design Show products
A preview of some of the products that will be exhibited at this month’s Surface Design Show
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TechnicalRoll out the Concrete Cloth
Two former industrial design engineering classmates have developed a Concrete Cloth that redefines the material’s uses
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TechnicalDry installed underfloor heating at St Mary’s Church, West Sussex
Lee Evans Partnership solved the problem of installing underfloor heating at a medieval church without using wet trades
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TechnicalStacks of work at Eastbury Manor
Richard Griffiths Associates has completed its third phase of restoration on the Elizabethan estate’s chimney stacks and east stair turret
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TechnicalJulian Harrap Architects: Royal Society of Chemistry refurbishment project
So many refurbishment projects today involve redressing the work of the 1960s
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TechnicalJean Nouvel’s One New Change is a City chameleon
The facade’s pioneering frit glazing helps it blend into its surroundings
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TechnicalAHMM’s Angel of north London
Allford Hall Monagham Morris’s choice of curtain walling for its Angel building in Islington pays homage to Mies with floor-to-ceiling glazing and monchrome colour scheme
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TechnicalHouse of straw brings a sustainable harvest
White Design’s BaleHaus explores the use of prefabricated straw panels for mass housing