All Technical articles – Page 29

  • Technical

    Channel 4’s tricky number

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    When Channel 4 picked a characteristically bold gesture to celebrate 25 years of broadcasting, it didn’t foresee how complex it would be, discovers Amanda Birch

  • Features

    Walk softly

    2007-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Minimising sound transmission from footfall is always a priority when designing apartment blocks.

  • Hawa at the Objekt apartments.
    Technical

    New solutions

    2007-10-12T00:00:00Z

    This week

  • Features

    Eco-bricks

    2007-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Baggeridge’s newest bricks are on very friendly terms with the environment.

  • Brion-Vega: obsessive detail.
    Technical

    I wish I’d done that

    2007-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Stewart Dodd, Brion-Vega Cemetery, San Vito d’Altivole, Italy

  • Features

    Dirt buster

    2007-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Ingrained dirt on work surfaces would be a thing of the past in a kitchen fitted with a new range of quartz worktops incorporating Microban anti-bacterial protection.

  • Features

    Board stuff

    2007-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Houses designed with a “room in the roof” can now utilise a new ceiling lining board specially developed to combine high thermal insulation with 30-minute fire resistance.

  • Technical

    A window onto a warming world

    2007-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Architect Justin Bere is so determined to be part of the solution to climate change that he’s set up his own glazing business

  • Learning Dutch
    Technical

    New solutions

    2007-10-05T00:00:00Z

    This week

  • Holes sunk into concrete behind the retained facade wait for the bathroom pods to be inserted. The steelwork is for the balconies.
    Technical

    A ready-made bathing beauty

    2007-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Chimney Pot Park, Salford

  • The warriors in situ under the dome of the Reading Room.
    Technical

    Emperor’s new court: transforming the British Museum to house the terracotta army

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    An innovative space has been devised to display the Chinese Terracotta Army at the British Museum’s new blockbuster exhibition

  • Light reading: Bennetts Associates’ Brighton’s Jubilee Library is one of eight case studies.
    Technical

    Learning from the readers’ views

    2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

    A Cambridge University project is exploring the impact of the quality of daylight in libraries. Mary Anne Steane and Koen Steemers explain

  • The Barcelona Pavilion shows how to define space through light.
    Technical

    I wish i’d done that

    2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Chris Jackson — Barcelona Pavilion, Spain

  • The Burble balloon sculpture floats above London’s Holland Park last weekend.
    Technical

    Burble ballooning spectacular marks London Fashion week

    2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Haque Design & Research’s colourful interactive lighting project made its UK debut at this month’s London Fashion Week

  • Features

    Past present

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    British furniture company Ercol, founded in 1920 as an inheritor of the arts & crafts ethos of practical design, is launching new ranges by designers Matthew Hilton, Sean Dare and James Ryan.

  • Features

    Vision panels

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Customers and office workers can see clearly now that North 4 Design has launched its updated range of vision panels for doors and walls, including new longer length door panels.

  • Features

    True nature

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Walls, ceiling and partitions can now be built from grass, rose petals or tea leaves — or indeed any substance that can be embedded between two layers of 3form’s eco-resin sheets.

  • Features

    Olympic gold

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Abet clearly has high hopes for a new addition to its range of Oberflex wood veneer high-pressure laminates, christening the collection Olympics.

  • Features

    Hot desk

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Office furniture supplier Steelcase has launched a cost-effective, carbon-conscious work-station that can be customised to each user’s requirements.

  • Antibacterial tiles
    Technical

    Searching for a design star

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    The judges for this year’s award are a starry bunch, but they will have their work cut out