All Technical articles – Page 30
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FeaturesClear view
For anyone who’s ever wished that offices could be more transparent, a new frameless glass partitioning system from Austrian furniture company Bene is now available in the UK.
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FeaturesNanna’s chair
Connection Furniture has launched the Kalm loose seating range for the hospi-tality and corporate market.
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TechnicalThe ups and downs of Zaha Hadid’s Glasgow Riverside Museum roof
As Zaha Hadid Architects’ Riverside Museum in Glasgow prepares to go on site, Rory Olcayto hears how the roof design evolved over three years
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TechnicalSt Pancras Station roof is sky blue heaven
Pascall & Watson Architects took the lead in restoring the spectacular roof at St Pancras International, the new Eurostar terminus for London, writes Will Jones
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TechnicalScaling new heights in zero-carbon housing
How practical is lightweight construction as a way of complying with the Code for Sustainable Homes?
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TechnicalHow we cracked the art of colour chemistry
Hawkins Brown creates a contemporary facade that sits comfortably in the historic surroundings of Oxford
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TechnicalWhat we can learn from ‘the good life’
Being sustainable and being happy work surprisingly well in tandem
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TechnicalDelivering a garden space
The challenge for Ash Sakula Architects was to create a garden and media gallery in a tiny space at the back of a central London terrace. What the firm delivered was out of this world
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TechnicalLifting the lid on slate roofing
Slate consultant for Newlyn Art Gallery, Viv Stratton, talks about the traditional technique of scantle slate roofing
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TechnicalAdding biofuel to the fire
The government says biomass could provide a sustainable means of heating UK homes, but is this remotely practical?
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TechnicalTonkin Liu’s Singing Ringing Tree puts panpipes into park panorama
Singing Ringing Tree, the RIBA award-winning public art scheme in the Pennines by architect Tonkin Liu, posed a number of tricky challenges, not least of which was getting the sculpture to live up to its name and make a sound. With a little help from engineer Jane Wernick Associates, it ...
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TechnicalA glimpse of paradise
BDP is determined to preserve city views at Liverpool’s Paradise Street cinema complex by using a new type of steel column
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TechnicalCome back to the fold
Corrugated sheeting has a reputation as utilitarian, but originally it was an experimental material for building wide-span, self-supporting roofs, write Adam Mornement and Pedro Guedes
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FeaturesFamily firm takes the sporting fit-out into a league of its own
Richard Quieros, business development director, LSA Projects