All Buildings articles – Page 74
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FeaturesDistrict heating: The heart of the community
District heating could hold the key for greening the UK’s existing homes. So why, when the technology exists and is used throughout Europe, do we still rely on individual systems?
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NewsThe hospitable: Foster + Partners’ Circle Bath hospital
Foster + Partners intended its first ever healthcare project – the 28-bed Circle Bath – to be as warm and welcoming as a five-star boutique hotel
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NewsBenoy's Hong Kong iSQUARE takes retail to a new level
Vertical shopping centre designed jointly with Rocco Design is 31 storeys high
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NewsViñoly unveils his New Domino riverfront park and housing complex in Brooklyn
Mixed-income New York housing scheme with four acres of public green space and riverfront esplanade goes for public review
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NewsHong Kong opens 1km long cable-stayed bridge
World’s second longest cable-stayed bridge spans the city’s Rambler Channel
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NewsChandlerKBS completes work on £108m Swiss retail village
Alpenrhein Outlet Village sits at the foot of the Alps near the famous St Moritz ski resort
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FeaturesThe new arrival: Balfour Beatty’s Birmingham PFI hospital
Weighing in at £585m, Balfour Beatty’s Birmingham PFI hospital was expected to be a difficult birth. Instead, it has been delivered with few complications, no trips to casualty, and ahead of its due date. Thomas Lane hands round the cigars
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RMJM to masterplan Vladivostok's new gambling zone
Architect wins contract for massive new leisure zone including casino, marina, ski centre and hotels at Russian city
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NewsPilgrims’ rest: Darb-Al-Khalil in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
This is the corner block of a 5.8ha development known as the Darb-Al-Khalil, that has just started on site just south of the Great Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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FeaturesSunderland university student union: All bar none
There’s no room for slackers at Sunderland university’s dazzling new student union, which packs its impressively generous spaces with sports halls and exercise areas. You can’t even get a pint around here
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NewsSheffield's tallest tower will take six months to clad
£40m scheme designed by architects Conran & Partners will use around 6,000m2 of Wicona unitised curtain walling
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NewsEducation project of the month: Newcomen Primary school, Redcar
Atkins’ £3.5m project aims to maximise use of outdoor space
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FeaturesRome improvements: Hadid's Maxxi museum
Zaha Hadid’s long-awaited Maxxi art museum has given the Eternal City a bit of a shake-up
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NewsBeautiful game: Basra stadium
WSP’s American engineering consultant WSP Flack+Kurtz has revealed ambitious plans for a 65,000-seat football stadium in Basra
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FeaturesAll’s well that ends well: Stratford-upon-Avon theatre
Ripping the guts out of the RSC’s Stratford-upon-Avon theatre and building a new auditorium in the existing one was Bennetts Associates’ bold remedy to the many poetic injustices being done to the Bard
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FeaturesA world awaits us: The Copenhagen conference building boom
A deal on carbon reduction targets in next month’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen could create a boom for UK consultants working overseas
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FeaturesImagine the world in 2020: climate change
The year’s 2020, and, having left Building for reasons far too shocking to go into here, former assistant editor Thomas Lane talks us through a day in his life as an engineer in a world that’s slowly coming to terms with climate change …
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NewsHammerson gets green light for Foster's revised Bishops Place scheme
Hackney council approves amended proposals for 1.5m sq ft project on central London site
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FeaturesZaha's Museum of Transport: The battle of the oil can
Zaha Hadid’s Museum of Transport in Glasgow was designed with gothic zinc-clad ridges and 100m-plus roof spans. They looked great on a computer screen, but led to memorable rows with the project team
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FeaturesThe right formula: Abu Dhabi's Yas Hotel
With its dramatic architecture, precise engineering and top-speed construction, the Formula One-themed Yas Hotel has outlapped most of Abu Dhabi’s other buildings