All Buildings articles – Page 5
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FeaturesExplainer: the proposed Future Buildings Standard in detail
Long-awaited proposals to make non-domestic buildings greener and more efficient are now out for consultation
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FeaturesSpecifier: Covid-safe technology
In the wake of covid-19, it is clear that infection control needs to become integral to buildings – as well as to construction sites. David Ludlow surveys some innovative products that can help protect against virus transmission
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FeaturesBarts Square: a bold piece of history in the making
Barts Square is a mixed-use development in the City of London that features modern and traditional styles wholly in keeping with surroundings that date back a thousand years. It is almost as if it has always been there
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FeaturesThe Old Admiralty Building: back in Her Majesty’s service
Elizabeth Hopkirk tells the story behind the £60m refurbishment of Whitehall’s Old Admiralty Building
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FeaturesHow the Grange University Hospital opened four months early
Using design for manufacture and assembly, Laing O’Rourke has delivered a major new hospital in Wales under budget and four months early – no wonder the government is looking to use it as a model for its hospital building programme. Thomas Lane reports
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FeaturesProjects: Outernet London, St Giles Circus
An immersive gallery with a theatrical facade is taking shape in central London on the Outernet site at St Giles Circus, but it is under the ground that the real drama has taken place, with an enormous music venue carved out amid a tangle of tube tunnels, and one historic ...
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FeaturesGrange University Hospital: How offsite methods helped deliver covid-19 beds and fast-track the whole build
Wales’ biggest ever health infrastructure project, the £350m Grange University Hospital, was planned from the start for rapid delivery, using offsite methods and a collaborative approach – but then covid-19 struck and the client needed beds available even faster. How did the project team do it?
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FeaturesA wing and a prayer: what future for airport terminals?
Some of the most iconic architecture of our time has been in the form of airport terminals, but if covid-19’s devastating effect on aviation proves permanent, will these structures become redundant? Ike Ijeh surveys aviation’s architectural gems and ponders their future
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FeaturesIn pictures: the transformation of Plumstead library
The £16m refurbishment scheme, designed by Hawkins\Brown, reinvents the public library for the 21st century
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FeaturesSpecifier: Making 22 Bishopsgate a smart building
The building services at 22 Bishopsgate will be run by an innovative integrated system called Smart Spaces, which maximises energy efficiency as well as enhancing flexibility and security
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FeaturesProjects: Gare Maritime, Brussels
Creating a new Brussels neighbourhood inside a disused railway station from the 1900s took a lot of problem-solving
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FeaturesProjects: The Beam, Sunderland
Sunderland’s first spec office scheme in 40 years has been built to a tight budget of £20m
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FeaturesProjects: New Broadcasting House, BBC Cymru Wales, Cardiff
By putting a concern for neurodiversity at the heart of its design, the BBC’s headquarters in Wales has taken a radical approach
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FeaturesProjects: Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice, Glasgow
It has got a beauty spa, a wedding reception venue and even a honeymoon suite, but this is not a boutique hotel
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FeaturesProjects: University College Hospital, London
Despite engaging heavily with traditional build techniques the facade of University College Hospital’s latest addition is entirely prefabricated.
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FeaturesProjects: Principal Place, London
Norman Foster’s first residential tower in London sits between the city’s financial centre and its hipster heart
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FeaturesBuilding’s Projects of the Year 2019
A pioneering new breed of council housing, a waste plant that doubles as a ski slope and a super-smart student centre users can learn from
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FeaturesProjects: Porters Edge, London
How did Maccreanor Lavington revitalise an industrial warehouse to create a mixed-use retail and housing complex in south-east London?
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FeaturesProjects: Harris Academy Sutton, London
At the UK’s first Passivhaus secondary school, the key consideration for designers was user comfort through a well-insulated, airtight structure