All Technical articles – Page 20
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Constantijn Huygensstraat by Tony Fretton Architects
The robust brick facade of Tony Fretton’s Amsterdam block is designed to last the building’s planned 200-year lifespan
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Allies & Morrison’s St Andrew’s masterplan
Bricks take centre stage at the £130 million St Andrew’s scheme in east London
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A round-up of the latest housing products
Products used in housing projects including CHP boilers and underfloor heating systems
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BRE’s Victorian Terrace Retrofit project
PRP Architects’ refurbished stable block will be used to demonstrate how sustainable building and insulation products can be used for upgrading the UK’s existing housing stock
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Insulation 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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Mark 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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Scotland’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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John 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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Milan Furniture Fair — Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010
Volcanic dust may have kept punters in Milan for longer than they planned, but there was a lack of showstoppers to captivate them
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Rogers 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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Jean 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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Concrete 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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Wilkinson 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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Photographer 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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External Application for Tiles
ASCER, the ceramic tile manufacturers’ association of Spain, represents over 150 member companies under the collective brand Tile of Spain
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QUICK FIX TILES FOR LONG LASTING APPLICATIONS
The history of Spanish tiles, which combines remarkable artistic endeavor with intensive technical innovation, is a great legacy to world architecture
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Cevisama showcases new developments in urban design and architecture
This year’s Cevisama saw some exciting new developments in urban and architectural tiling
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SPAIN GOES SLIM
One of the most influential trends on display at this year’s CEVISAMA exhibition was ultra slim, elegant tiling
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TEXTURE BEATS COLOUR AT CEVISAMA 2010
A new found confidence was in evidence through the halls at this year’s Cevisama