All Buildings articles – Page 90

  • Hi-tech features will include driverless taxis on overhead monorails and photovoltaic cells in the awnings
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    Masdar: Nice spot for a zero-carbon city...

    2007-06-01T00:00:00Z

    For his next trick, Norman Foster is going to turn a patch of desert in Abu Dhabi into the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city. Martin Spring finds out how

  • Looking up at the dazzling, restored semicircular concert hall
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    Saving St George

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Purcell Miller Tritton’s lavish £22m restoration has returned Liverpool’s grade I-listed St George’s Hall to its glorious past – just with fewer prisoners and hopefully more tourists.

  • This cone-shaped planetarium is tilted so that its central axis points at the North Star
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    Coming to a universe near you

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    The Peter Harrison Planetarium is about to bring the mysteries of the cosmos to Greenwich park

  • More than 7,000 workers built the imposing Beijing stadium.
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    The last straws: Herzog & de Meuron's Beijing Olympic building

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    As the structure of Herzog & de Meuron’s awe-inspiring ‘bird’s nest’ stadium nears completion, Catherine Wheatley went to Beijing to find out how the city’s Olympic preparations were progressing

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    BMW Welt: How’s this for a car showroom?

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Architect Coop Himmelb(l)au’s astonishing Munich creation is the latest blow in the battle between BMW and Mercedes-Benz

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    Lost in space

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Surface Architects’ conversion of Birkbeck College’s film and media research centre is a complex sculpture that breaks down distinctions between walls, floors and ceilings, opening it up to all manner of interpretations. Martin Spring makes one or two

  • The reception lobby spreads out between a wavy curtain wall and internal murals
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    Find me a famous architect! Gehry's NY building

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    For ask.com’s new HQ there was only one answer: Frank Gehry’s first New York building

  • The building has two types of cladding
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    Dancing with disaster

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Right from the start, Foster + Partners’ Willis building was blown off course by legal problems and higher than expected winds. But much worse was to follow ... Thomas Lane found out how the team behind the City skyscraper fought back

  • Emirates Stadium, north London
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    They are the champions

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    This year, for the first time, the Building Awards included the Building Project of the Year, for the best completed scheme. Martin Spring reviews the five runners-up and the winner, Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium

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    Recordamos

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Madrid has unveiled a memorial that preserves the experiences of those present at Europe’s worst post-war terrorist attack

  • The steel frame was the main package and its timely delivery was crucial to the project’s success.
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    You only live twice

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    When the huge 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios – birthplace of the James Bond films – was destroyed by fire, it spelled doom for the UK’s film-making mecca. But against all the odds, an elite team has managed to rebuild the space in eight months.

  • Cardington Airfield
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    PRP reveals Bedford airfield masterplan

    2007-04-12T11:56:00Z

    Architect submits plans for Cardington Airfield which includes 425 dwellings and a park honouring 48 who died airship crash

  • Liverpool FC
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    Work on Liverpool stadium close to kick off

    2007-04-02T14:11:00Z

    Work on Liverpool FC's new ground will start next month after club was given the go-ahead at the weekend

  • Willmott Dixon mini school
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    Willmott Dixon builds model for zero-carbon schools

    2007-03-30T01:00:00Z

    BRE to showcase exemplar as Partnerships for Schools makes pledge to go green

  • The museum’s entrance pavilion stands off to one side of the Italianate villa, behind a green veil of patterned glass
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    Veiled in emeralds: Zürich museum

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    This extension to a Zürich museum is a beguiling marriage of romance and modernism

  • casino players
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    Super-casino plans in disarray after Lords vote

    2007-03-29T09:56:00Z

    Government's considers its options after Peers reject plans for super-casino in Manchester

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    Just what is it like to live in an Ecohome?

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Sustainable housebuilding is all well and good, but it means little without sustainability-minded houseowners to back it up. Lydia Stockdale visited three ecohomes to see how the residents have adapted to a greener lifestyle

  • The theatrical new grandstands sit in the gaze of Aintree's famous statue of the Grand National’s only triple winner, Red Rum
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    A different beast

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Aintree’s makeover doesn’t have much in common with the troubled Ascot redevelopment – or any other stadium for that matter. Martin Spring checks out the view from BDP’s flamboyant grandstands

  • The first frame was lifted on to the site on Sunday evening
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    Religious conversion

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Replacing a kiosk at St Paul’s Cathedral demanded an intricate, well-prepared crane operation – wings and prayers didn’t come into it.

  • Future Systems National Library Prague
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    Images: Czech library

    2007-03-09T04:51:00Z

    Future Systems beat 354 entries to design the National Library in Prague