Architects & design Focus – Page 6
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Next stop for Battersea
A century-and-a-half after the first London underground railway opened, Building looks at how the tube’s extension to Battersea could help regenerate the area
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You're hired: the Apprentice architect
Architect Gabrielle Omar tells Building how being ‘the nice one’ on BBC’s The Apprentice helped her practice get work
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Stanton Williams: There’s nothing wrong with buildings that just do their jobs
Fresh from their victory, the Stirling prize winners talk us through 27 years of non-shouty architecture
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The Co-op's HQ: Have you heard the buzz?
3D Reid’s beehive-inspired HQ for the Co-op in Manchester is not simply another new office block with a slightly unusual form. It is the top BREEAM-rated office in the UK and might just have redefined the corporate atrium
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School refurbishment: Shouldn't you be revising?
Erno Goldfinger’s brutalist Haggerston school in north-east London has been sensitively modernised
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Streatham Hub: How to build an ice rink above a swimming pool
Streatham Hub in south London contains not only a supermarket, apartments and a bus station, but a first-floor ice rink above a heated pool
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Glasgow Commonwealth Games
Glasgow’s 2014 Commonwealth Games is being hosted at a fraction of the cost of the London Olympics, but it still has ambitions to leave a legacy for the public. Building assesses the success of the new sporting venues. Photos by Alan McAteer
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Horrific Halloween architecture
Forget pumpkins and witches’ hats - for a real fright this Halloween nothing beats the worst excesses of modern architecture
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Horrible Halloween architecture
The National Fisheries Development Board in India is next on our list of buildings that would make anyone scream
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Halloween horrors: Makkah Clock Royal Tower
Today’s gruesome building is five times bigger than Big Ben and twice the height of the Shard
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Halloween horrors: Piano House
For a real fright this Halloween nothing beats the worst excesses of modern architecture
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Interview: Renzo Piano
The Shard’s architect is back in town and raring to go on his latest project
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Post-Olympic projects outside London
Two weeks ago Building looked at London’s post-Olympic construction projects and now it’s the turn of the rest of the country. Here we highlight some of the major regional projects coming up over the next few years and the construction trends they herald
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National Football Centre: Here we go!
The £100m National Football Centre provides a world class training base in the hope that our boys will cover themselves in World Cup glory one day
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Post-Olympics: London's rolling
The Olympics may be over but the capital still has plenty of exciting projects to fill the void. Here are the main development sectors and key projects
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Next up: Rio's Olympic venues
The Olympic focus has now switched from London to Rio, which has the added pressure of hosting two other international sporting events before the 2016 games
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Case study: Siemens Crystal
Royal Victoria Dock plays home to a new exhibition venue with sustainability at its heart, the Siemens Crystal
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Should schools be uniform?
Will standardised schools herald a school building programme where design quality and educational aspiration are crushed under a monotonous wave of Identikit slabs? Ike Ijeh investigates Photos by Mike Pinches
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The aviation sector: Turbulence ahead
The UK aviation industry is clamouring for an airport hub but opposition makes any location a potential headache for the government. Ike Ijeh navigates a route through the row