All Buildings articles – Page 43
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NewsStratford's International Quarter: Living in glass houses
More than 300 homes go on sale in residential development near Olympic park
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FeaturesCenter Parcs: The place beyond the pines
Center Parcs’ £250m resort will cater for 4,000 visitors in a forest in the green belt just outside Milton Keynes. So how do you build a self-sufficient small town in the middle of a wood? And get permission to do it?
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FeaturesInfrastructure project 2013: King's Cross Square
King’s Cross Square represents the progress that has been made towards establishing the area as a hub of commerce and tourism, showing the impact infrastructure can have.
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FeaturesEducation project 2013: Leeds East primary school
Leeds East primary school is the first in the UK to be constructed from an innovative pod system, which comprises a series of structurally independent steel-framed classrooms
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FeaturesCultural project 2013: Tate Britain
In this time of austerity, Caruso St John’s extensively reconfigured Tate Britain is a considerable achievement considering its dependence on public funding.
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FeaturesIndustrial project 2013: Arla foods
Arla Foods has built something incredible: the world’s first zero-carbon dairy near Aylesbury, which was switched on for the first time this year.
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FeaturesCommercial project 2013: Leadenhall
20 Fenchurch Street - or the Walkie Talkie, has somewhat overshadowed the Leadenhall building. A shame, as the Cheesegrater represents some of the best in sensitive design
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FeaturesProjects 2013: Six of the best
We pick out the most impressive projects of 2013, from a graceful City tower (that doesn’t melt cars) to the world’s first zero-carbon dairy
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NewsThe greenest building in China
Architect Feilden Clegg Bradley has been awarded the first BREEAM “outstanding” rating for any building in China
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NewsCIOB picks finalists for Art of Building competition
See the shortlist of 15 built environment photographs from around the world for the CIOB annual Art of Building photography competition
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FeaturesPwC's London office: Highest BREEAM-rated building ever
When PwC decided to refurbish its unloved central London office, it thought it would be doing well to achieve a BREEAM “excellent” rating. Then it realised it could do rather better than that …
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FeaturesNew Victorians
A 19th-century primary school in Dulwich came with the usual set of problems associated with old buildings. To solve them, Edward Cullinan Architects took a pragmatic and piecemeal approach
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FeaturesAl Wakrah stadium: The big heat
Despite pressure to move the 2022 World Cup to the winter, Qatar is soldiering on with plans to hold the games in the summer. So how will the new stadiums cope with the scorching temperatures, and carbon neutral and legacy goals?
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FeaturesReview: Tate Britain's refurbishment
Caruso St John’s redevelopment of Tate Britain contains no dramatic interventions. Rather, it is a masterclass in creating modern, vibrant spaces within the context of a venerable institution
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NewsBetteshanger Sustainable Parks scheme: Park life
Sheppard Robson reveals plans for 121-hectare regeneration scheme in east Kent
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FeaturesScottish Crime Campus
With its DNA-inspired design concept, BMJ and Ryder Architecture’s £82m Scottish Crime Campus provides compelling evidence that police buildings don’t have to be grim high-security compounds.
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NewsBanham relocates
Allies and Morrison secure planning permission to develop brownfield site into new headquarters for security firm
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NewsBristol Old Vic
Architect Haworth Tompkins submits plans for the refurbishment of Bristol’s 1760s theatre
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NewsParkview Green: What a performance
Arup-designed building in Beijing, China, is among projects shortlisted for the 2014 Building Performance Awards
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FeaturesStavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre roof, Athens
Athens’ vast £500m Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre is being crowned with a 10,000m2 ferrocement canopy, designed by Expedition Engineering. Why did the UK practice settled on this unusual choice of material?