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2019-01-30T07:00:00+00:00By Ike Ijeh2 comments

This block for Marlborough College is a perfect compromise between the school’s rarefied idyll and the practice’s trademark contemporary aesthetic

Smart floors: Step-by-step care
2016-08-19T07:00:00+01:00By Amanda Birch
Sensor technology embedded in floors could be about to revolutionise patient monitoring in elderly care and dementia homes
Reinventing the green wall
2016-04-15T08:00:00+01:00By Amanda Birch
A new bio-receptive concrete panelling system could mean urban green walls that don’t need expensive maintenance and provide a better environment for plants too
3D-printed glass: Print me off another Shard
2015-09-18T06:00:00+01:00By Ike Ijeh
Glass has resisted the technological advancements in 3D printing, but now a team from MIT has invented a technique for printing fully transparent glass. The breakthrough, says Ike Ijeh, could revolutionise the way we make windows, cladding and even full facade systems

Technical Study: Bristol Old Vic
2018-07-20T06:00:00+01:00By Amanda Birch
Haworth Tompkins has woven a natural ventilation system through the 250-year-old fabric of this grade I theatre
St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross by Avanti Architects & McGinlay Bell
2017-03-08T08:00:00+00:00By Ike Ijeh
St Peter’s Seminary near Glasgow is a brutalist ruin that is being given new life as an arts venue. What makes the refurb unusual is that the crumbling decay, instead of being covered, will be used as a central feature. Ike Ijeh reports
Institution of Structural Engineering by Hugh Broughton Architects
2015-05-15T06:00:00+01:00By Amanda Birch
Hugh Broughton and Expedition Engineering have turned an awkwardly shaped existing office building in Clerkenwell into a showcase of structural innovation

Interior flooring with a local twist
2015-08-21T06:00:00+01:00By Amanda Birch
Amanda Birch’s study of three distinct examples of interior flooring examines work in London, Zanzibar and India by Amanda Levete, Jestico & Whiles and Project Orange
Light at the museum
2015-02-20T06:00:00+00:00By Amanda Birch
Exposure to natural light can be damaging to the rare and valuable pieces on display at museums. Amanda Birch investigates how three galleries have employed innovative lighting set-ups to keep their displays illuminated, while remaining protected from harmful ultraviolet rays
Will bio-plastic change the face of design?
2012-05-29T08:00:00+01:00By Ben Harrow2 comments
Lighting company unveils first commercial product made of sugar waste

Farmhouse observatory, Carnforth, Lancashire
2014-11-28T06:00:00+00:00By Amanda Birch
Paul Archer Design updates a 17th-century farmhouse in the Red Rose countryside
Baakenhafen Bridge, Hamburg
2014-11-05T10:00:00+00:00By Amanda Birch
Wilkinson Eyre and Buro Happold came up with an ingenious and highly sustainable solution for lifting the central section of their new crossing over a Hamburg dock
The gilded palace of gin
2014-09-25T06:00:00+01:00By Amanda Birch
Heatherwick Studio’s new state-of-the-art Bombay Sapphire Distillery assaults the senses in every way, says Amanda Birch

What Singapore's national stadium can teach the Qatar World Cup
2014-09-24T06:00:00+01:00By Ike Ijeh
The vast steel dome on Arup Associates’ Singapore National Stadium is impressive. But Ike Ijeh discovers that its pioneering cooling system might just come to the rescue of the 2022 Qatar World Cup
Rain pergola for Microsoft Italia HQ
2014-02-13T07:15:00+00:00By Hugh Strange1 comments
Flores & Prats Architects’ steel and glass canopy provides innovative shelter from the elements
Colbost house, Isle of Skye by Dualchas Architects
2014-02-11T07:15:00+00:00By Hugh Strange
Black aluminium roof caps off Scottish holiday home’s simple forms