All Buildings, Design and Specification articles – Page 47
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FeaturesBuilding 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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FeaturesHistory 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After 30 years as a World Heritage Site, the Tower of London faces having its status withdrawn because of the skyscrapers looming over it.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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FeaturesProjects: 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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FeaturesSun 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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FeaturesSun 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.
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FeaturesProjects: Back for good
The stereotype of back-to-back housing as cramped and poorly lit is overturned by AHMM’s Signal Townhouses, where thoughtful design has maximised natural light and outdoor space
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FeaturesFire safety at 22 Bishopsgate: A race to the bottom
At 22 Bishopsgate, Lipton Rogers has developed the UK’s first lift evacuation strategy
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FeaturesHive mind: Inside LG’s new campus
Spread over a million square metres in Seoul, the HOK-designed complex of laboratories, offices, atriums, parks and social spaces will host 25,000 researchers and engineers
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FeaturesProjects: For a new generation
On a vast regeneration site in London’s Wembley Park, developer Quintain is building what it hopes will be the UK’s largest build-to-rent scheme
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2018: Winners
As the respected awards ceremony turn 70, Ike Ijeh looks at this year’s winners and concludes that, when it comes to innovative new schemes, councils are leading the way
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FeaturesCanary Wharf: Eighties revival
Wood Wharf, the latest development on the Canary Wharf estate, seeks to move away from the original scheme’s anodyne corporate banking aesthetic
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FeaturesAt full tilt: how Manchester velodrome got a new track in record time
When the British national cycling team headed off to Australia in March for the Commonwealth Games, they started a clock back in Manchester for a construction team to replace the wooden track at their velodrome
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FeaturesProjects: A history lesson at Westminster Abbey
How do you design an extension that can live up to the heritage of the coronation place of kings and queens for the last thousand years?