All Case studies articles – Page 14

  • Streatham Ice Rink
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    Streatham Hub: How to build an ice rink above a swimming pool

    2012-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Streatham Hub in south London contains not only a supermarket, apartments and a bus station, but a first-floor ice rink above a heated pool

  • Commonwealth Arena
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    Glasgow Commonwealth Games

    2012-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Glasgow’s 2014 Commonwealth Games is being hosted at a fraction of the cost of the London Olympics, but it still has ambitions to leave a legacy for the public. Building assesses the success of the new sporting venues. Photos by Alan McAteer

  • Piano House, China
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    Horrific Halloween architecture

    2012-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Forget pumpkins and witches’ hats - for a real fright this Halloween nothing beats the worst excesses of modern architecture

  • Projects
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    Post-Olympic projects outside London

    2012-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Two weeks ago Building looked at London’s post-Olympic construction projects and now it’s the turn of the rest of the country. Here we highlight some of the major regional projects coming up over the next few years and the construction trends they herald

  • Football stadium
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    National Football Centre: Here we go!

    2012-10-11T00:00:00Z

    The £100m National Football Centre provides a world class training base in the hope that our boys will cover themselves in World Cup glory one day

  • Projects
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    Post-Olympics: London's rolling

    2012-10-04T07:05:00Z

    The Olympics may be over but the capital still has plenty of exciting projects to fill the void. Here are the main development sectors and key projects

  • Rio
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    Next up: Rio's Olympic venues

    2012-09-28T00:00:00Z

    The Olympic focus has now switched from London to Rio, which has the added pressure of hosting two other international sporting events before the 2016 games

  • The Crystal
    Features

    Case study: Siemens Crystal

    2012-09-19T13:30:00Z

    Royal Victoria Dock plays home to a new exhibition venue with sustainability at its heart, the Siemens Crystal

  • Leeds arena
    Features

    Leeds Arena: Big noise in the city

    2012-09-14T00:00:00Z

    How Bam kept the noise down in the 12,500-seat arena in Leeds city centre

  • Schools
    Features

    Should schools be uniform?

    2012-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Will standardised schools herald a school building programme where design quality and educational aspiration are crushed under a monotonous wave of Identikit slabs? Ike Ijeh investigates Photos by Mike Pinches

  • Southend Pier Cultural Centre
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    Southend Pier Cultural Centre: Out on a limb

    2012-08-31T00:00:00Z

    How do you carry out a construction project more than a mile out to sea during one of the wettest, windiest summers on record? Well, Kier’s approach to the £3m Southend Pier Cultural Centre job was to build it somewhere else

  • Projects
    Features

    The aviation sector: Turbulence ahead

    2012-08-24T00:00:00Z

    The UK aviation industry is clamouring for an airport hub but opposition makes any location a potential headache for the government. Ike Ijeh navigates a route through the row

  • Coastal attractions
    Features

    Coastal attractions

    2012-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Bored of the beach? Ike Ijeh recommends some buildings to check out on those idle seaside afternoons this summer

  • projects
    Features

    Aylesbury Estate: Taking back the streets

    2012-08-03T00:00:00Z

    How phase 1 of a two decade redevelopment has brought back the traditional grain of the streets to London’s deprived Aylesbury Estate

  • Gardens by the bay
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    Gardens by the Bay, Singapore

    2012-07-27T00:00:00Z

    How Wilkinson Eyre found a sustainable way of cooling two vast glass conservatories in one of the hottest climates on Earth

  • BIM
    Features

    BIM: The inside story one year on

    2012-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Building caught up with the team on the Manchester library refurb project to see if BIM was everything they hoped it would be

  • Wuxi Grand Theatre, China
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    Wuxi Grand Theatre: Wings of desire

    2012-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Chinese symbolism and glacial Finnish design work in glorious harmony at PES Architects’ butterfly-roofed opera house in China

  • Amsterdam
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    Stedelijk Museum: Bathing beauty

    2012-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum has a new addition with a seamless facade that is deliberately un-Dutch in its showiness

  • Brazil football
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    Total football: Brasilia's National Stadium

    2012-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Brasilia’s seventies National Stadium has been rebuilt to the tune of £258m to become arguably the greenest arena in the world. It will be a key venue at the 2016 Olympics but, unlike its London counterpart, its real purpose is crystal clear: it’s all about the beautiful game. By Ike ...

  • Cable car
    Features

    Rope trick: Thames cable car

    2012-06-08T00:00:00Z

    An ambitious plan to build a cable car over the Thames was up against some seriously tough technical challenges, not to mention the dreaded jinx of the Greenwich peninsula. Building finds out whether they pulled it off. Photography by Tim Crocker