All Buildings articles – Page 79
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FeaturesPlane geometry: Sheppard Robson's aeronautical university design
If you take a pre-war aircraft hangar, insert a large ziggurat and extend it with a glass tetrahedron, what does that create? The answer is Sheppard Robson’s spectacular academic building for Cranfield university.
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FeaturesEco-terraces: Urban jungle
Eco-terraces are the next big thing in rooftop developments – but, says Stephen Kennett, it pays to have green fingers. Where’s Alan Titchmarsh when you need him?
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FeaturesBig ambitions: Defra's Alnwick HQ
When designers began working on Defra’s offices in Alnwick, they thought a BREEAM ‘excellent’ rating an exciting enough challenge. But then BRE went and introduced ‘outstanding’…
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FeaturesGlamorous address: Candy & Candy's One Hyde Park
Candy & Candy’s One Hyde Park is coming along quite nicely, thank you. Which is just as well, because when you’re spending £100m on an apartment, you do rather want the builders out of the way before you move in
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Micro CHP: Home made
Micro combined heat and power units that generate free electricity while heating your house are due to hit the UK market next year. But are they too good to be true?
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FeaturesHawkins\Brown¹s New Art Exchange: cubism reimagined
HawkinsBrown’s New Art Exchange for the deprived community of Hyson Green in Nottingham is a black box on the outside, a blank canvas for artists inside.
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NewsJapanese knotweed: tackling a green menace
A housebuilder in Cornwall explains why it spent £2m getting the stubborn weed off its site
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FeaturesNatural ventilation: Second wind
A Cambridge university research team decided traditional natural ventilation strategies were just not up to scratch and came up with a new approach. Stephen Kennett reports
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FeaturesWhat lies beneath: Grimshaw's conversion of the LSE
Don’t be fooled by the classical Edwardian exterior – Grimshaw’s modern conversion for the London School of Economics is as exciting as it is innovative. By Martin Spring Photographs by Jens Willebrand
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NewsEastender: New development in east London
The mayor of London has approved a new 27-storey development in east London
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FeaturesHot wheels: Abu Dhabi's Ferrari theme park
The Ferrari theme park in Abu Dhabi has all the sleek lines, smooth curves and visual impact of the Italian super car, just on a mind-boggling scale.
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NewsOundle SciTec uses eco features as educational tools
Architect Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios' design for a innovative technology, art and aesthetics school incorporates onsite renewables
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NewsFour education sector schemes by FCB Studios
Architect designs North Devon College, Samworth Academy, Manchester Metropolitan business school and Oundle SciTec
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NewsWestminster Academy by AHMM
Architect Allford Hall Monaghan Morris' design for the new secondary school encourages team work
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NewsThames Gateway and flooding: going with the flow
An architect tells the Thames Gateway Forum how to live with flooding
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NewsKing’s College Dubai by Penoyre and Prasad
20,000m2 building complex features passive and active design measures to minimise energy consumption
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FeaturesOf a different stripe: Nottingham's new science park
The sub-industrial grey box we normally associate with science parks is nowhere to be seen in HawkinsBrown and Studio Egret West’s park, camouflaged as it is by floating bulrushes and giant timber lily pads.
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NewsBuilding the Tottenham stadium: What Arsenal can teach Spurs
Spurs fans won't like trailing Arsenal, but the construction plan for their new ground was driven by the project team's experience building their rival's Emirates stadium
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NewsSustainability Champion of the Year and Sustainable Contractor of the Year: Wates Group - video
Not content with scooping a double award, Wates Group's Rachel Wooliscroft wanted to tell us what was she was up to next. Wates Group - Rachel Wooliscroft
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NewsFitzpatrick builds for its green future
Winner of the Building Sustainability Award large project of the year the new Fitzpatrick HQ building is an exemplar of green development. It achieved a BREEAM ‘excellent’ rating thanks to an inspired design, dual power supplies, dimmable external lighting and pine scented air