All Technical articles – Page 49
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What's new in sustainability
Will the mayor's energy targets work? and what can we learn from chilled wine?
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TechnicalA new era for Europan
The chance of a winning Europan scheme being built in the UK has traditionally been poor. Until now. This year, the government wants to see all three projects to completion, and it just might happen.
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 23: Victorian conversion by Sanya Polescuk Architects
We wanted to bring a sense of space and light to a very narrow Victorian terraced house by opening up the spaces, rationalising the circulation and improving the connection to the garden.
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TechnicalUnderground movement
Space constraints mean a school gym is being built in a subterranean concrete box.
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TechnicalI wish I'd done that...
Penny Richards on Giovanni Michelucci's Chiesa dell'Autostrada, Italy
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TechnicalPack up your bubbles
Elaine Knutt reports on a technique of adding hollow plastic balls to concrete to make it lighter and more versatile
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TechnicalIs the prefab revolution on hold?
They've been heralded as the future of building and the solution to housing shortages, yet prefabs have failed to take off. Elaine Knutt asks whether they still have a future
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TechnicalClick ‘print' for your building
Is the next step on from rapid prototyping, machines that can make actual buildings?
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 22: Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool
Bluecoat Arts Centre is a part of Liverpool's historic architectural legacy, dating back nearly 300 years. Throughout its history the building has been continually altered and extended.
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Homebuyers have stars in their eyes
New code will target consumers, but does it go far enough?
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 21: Flood barrier, Gravesend, Kent
Kiran Curtis Associates won a design competition for a mixed-use regeneration site in the Thames Gateway
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TechnicalTime Test:
Cartwright Pickard director James Pickard returns to Murray Grove in Hackney to assess the performance of the cladding five years on
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TechnicalTop brass comes to Chatham
RMJM’s university project in Kent is the first building in the UK to use brass cladding.
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Art on its sleeve
A patterned aluminium skin provides a public face for Didcot Arts Centre.
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 20: Mid-terrace Victorian flat, North London
We had been exploring the possibilities of lightweight pre-fabricated buildings — component-driven designs that would be simple and rapid to erect for small-scale offices or schools.