All Technical articles – Page 31
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TechnicalIt’s alive: the growth of living walls
Plants are providing an attractive and sustainable facade for a variety of buildings. Cathy Strongman reports on some of its uses
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TechnicalBath’s Holburne Museum extension, seven years on
Eric Parry describes the seven-year struggle to see his extension to Bath’s Holburne Museum finally achieve planning permission
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TechnicalJohn Pardey Architects’ New Forest public toilets
Architect John Pardey on how Louis Kahn and Corb inspired his innovative take on smallest room. Photos by John Pardey
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TechnicalArtificial lighting brings flashes of inspiration
Will Hunter examines recent projects at Cardiff Bay, Salford Law School and London’s Natural History Museum where lighting has been used to communicate an architectural concept
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Up on the roof
A solar water heater designed to sit within the roofscape has been launched in the UK.
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How it works
Geometrics: Elements of Form, Structure, Materials and Manufacture exhibits work by structural engineer Price & Myers’ geometrics group...
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TechnicalHome truths
Former accountant Carol Atkinson has built the UK’s first straw-bale holiday home in East Yorkshire, and is now leading courses on how to build with it.
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Finishing touch
Ibstock has launched its Umbra range of textured brickwork in four designs: Wave, Sphere (pictured), Pyramid and Sawtooth.
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TechnicalMaterial detail
Author Sylvia Leydecker, an interior designer and expert in nano surfaces in architecture (pictured), considers the functions and applications of nano materials in her new book.
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TechnicalPaxton Locher Architects' curved roof
How Paxton Locher Architects designed a curved roof with a high U-value and solar heat collection
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TechnicalThink event explores the engineer as architect debate
Is the architectural profession under attack in our supposedly new shiny sustainable world? This debate has been highlighted in the pages of BD, and came to life at a great session at last week’s Think event, chaired by BD editor Amanda Baillieu, on whether engineers are the new architects.
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TechnicalThomas Fairchild Children’s Centre, east London
Haverstock Architects’ Claire Barton on designing a mixed-use children’s play and health centre with an insulating green roof
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TechnicalMonks adopt an earthy approach to insulation at Berkshire’s Douai Abbey
Architect David Richmond & Partners and structural engineer Price & Myers are creating a rammed earth wall using local soil for a new library and archive at Douai Abbey
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TechnicalMargate’s Turner Contemporary undergoes a sea change
Turner Contemporary director Victoria Pomery relives the axing of Snøhetta and Spence’s Margate gallery, and explains the challenges of implementing Chipperfield’s replacement
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TechnicalThinking inside the micro box
Munich university professor Richard Horden’s Micro Compact House
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TechnicalBaleHaus, the ‘carbon bank’ home
Devised by Bristol-based architect White Design and engineer Integral, BaleHaus is a eco-home made of straw
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TechnicalMaccreanor Lavington’s pioneering mixed sustainable housing in Amsterdam
The Luycksterrein community in central Amsterdam is a rich mix of live-work and private-social space