All Buildings, Design and Specification articles – Page 42
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Building's Projects of the Year 2018 - part 2
Ike Ijeh rounds up the year’s architectural excitements
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Building's Projects of the Year 2018 - part 1
An embassy, a giant greenhouse, a metropolitan retail redevelopment, a Scottish museum and a totemic tower. Ike Ijeh rounds up the year’s architectural excitements.
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Cities love to build arts venues to trigger urban regeneration - but it doesn't always work out
It’s called the Bilbao effect: a city engages an architect to build an arts venue in the expectation that urban regeneration will follow. Alas, it doesn’t always turn out this way
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Projects: Blackfriars Circus, London
Maccreanor Lavington’s Blackfriars Circus for Barratt Homes does everything a scheme centred on a 27-storey residential tower can do to engage with London’s architectural heritage
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Projects: University of Birmingham's Collaborative Teaching Lab
A new teaching laboratory at Birmingham university takes a pioneering approach to design, applying a collaborative working ethos never before tried in a university setting
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Projects: Building Awards 2018 Refurbishment winner - Welsh Streets
Welsh Streets is a radical build-to-rent scheme that encourages community and provides a blueprint for developers all around the country to copy.
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Projects: Heatherwick’s Coal Drops Yard
Heatherwick Studio’s Coal Drops Yard retail hub in north London revels in the idiosyncrasies of its original Victorian warehouse architecture and uses them in a brazenly theatrical way to upstage all else on Argent’s King’s Cross Central masterplan.
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Building Awards 2018: Housing Project of the Year nominees
Among the nominees for the Building Award in this category are three impressive schemes for older people and a live-work-eat scheme aimed at trendy, young buyers
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The Gantry: London's new 'home for making'
What might have become a dull business park on the site of London’s 2012 Olympics in Stratford is now a hub for artists and makers
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Building Awards 2018: Refurbishment of the Year shortlist - part 2
Nominees in this category include the spectacular overhaul of a neoclassical piazza in Yorkshire
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Building Awards 2018: Refurbishment of the Year shortlist - part 1
Nominees in this category include the spectacular overhaul of a neoclassical piazza in Yorkshire
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Projects: Royal Opera House, London
Stanton Williams’ revamp of the Royal Opera House works as an evolution of Dixon Jones’ earlier scheme, further opening up the building to make it more accessible as a public space
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Projects: V&A Dundee
Kengo Kuma’s V A Dundee, inspired by the cliffs of the north-east Scotland coast, is the museum’s first venue outside of London
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Building Awards 2018: Building magazine's Project of the Year shortlist part 2
With this year’s Building Awards shortlist announced, we take a look at the nominees for Building magazine’s Project of the Year
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Building Awards 2018: Building magazine's Project of the Year shortlist part 1
With this year’s Building Awards shortlist announced, we take a look at the nominees for Building magazine’s Project of the Year
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Building utopia? How Dudley College was built using a new form of procurement
When Dudley College wanted to build a £10m Centre for Advanced Building Technologies, it plumped for a new form of procurement – an insurance model that benefits the whole supply chain and covers cost overruns
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History lessens
After 30 years as a World Heritage Site, the Tower of London faces having its status withdrawn because of the skyscrapers looming over it. It’s not the only site recently threatened with delisting – but is there any consistency in Unesco’s approach, and does freezing a city at a moment ...
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Projects: Spanish acquisition - the restoration of the Spanish City pleasure dome, Whitley Bay
Spanish City pleasure dome in Whitley was once known as the Playground of the North. Has its restoration from a crumbling wreck to a mixed-use leisure venue successfully combined Edwardian glamour with a modern commercial space?
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Sun spots: Some of Britain’s best summer spaces - part two
In the second of our two-part summer series, Ike Ijeh discusses some more of the best UK roof gardens and public spaces to make you think twice about that beach holiday
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Sun spots: Some of Britain’s best summer spaces - part one
In the first of a two-part series, here are some of the best UK roof gardens and public spaces to make you think twice about that beach holiday.