All Case studies articles – Page 5
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FeaturesWho wins with BIM?
If your firm isn’t using BIM level 2 by Monday, then it can’t be considered for public sector work. So what does the requirement mean for the industry - and who will be the winners and the losers?
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FeaturesHiscox building: Makes you stare
Make Architects’ Hiscox Building in York is a triumphant fusion of heritage and modernity that has at its heart a spectacular foyer of swirling concrete staircases and balconies - oh, and a rocket from the former Soviet arsenal
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FeaturesEU procurement: Drawing lines
Architects have played down the effect that a vote for Britain to leave the EU this summer would have on the profession, but its impact on procurement could make a big difference
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Features7 Air Street: A breath of fresh air
Barr Gazetas’ retrofit of a 1920s office block on Air Street in central London has resulted in the first BREEAM ‘outstanding’ rating for a listed building
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FeaturesPrefab housing: Here’s one we made earlier
A new range of low-cost prefabricated housing solutions is being rolled out across the country with the potential to help tackle Britain’s affordable housing crisis
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FeaturesCycle lanes: On yer bikes
London’s £4bn Roads Modernisation Plan aims to radically redesign the way we travel through the capital’s streets
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FeaturesAlmshouses: Charity begins at home
Renovating an almshouse site in Streatham, south London, meant a balancing act between upgrading outmoded 1930s housing and staying true to the Edwardian aesthetic
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FeaturesHoly Cross School: A class of its own
Cullinan Studio’s prefabricated school in Swindon extracts spatial and architectural delight from a lean, compact template and answers today’s challenge of how we can build more schools for less money, while maintaining design quality
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FeaturesGrande Stade de Lyon: Stadium Franglais
Olympique Lyonnais’ new £340m home, designed by Populous, will host Euro 2016 matches this summer. But is it more typical of English stadium design than its continental counterparts?
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FeaturesUnderground London: Secrets of the deep
Beneath the streets of London lies a little known world of labyrinthine tunnels, disused tube stations, underground rivers and even a Post Office railway
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FeaturesDalston Lane: Tall Timber
At 33m high, a Hackney apartment block is set to become the world’s tallest cross-laminated timber building
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FeaturesFrampton Park Baptist Church
A long way to heaven: A Baptist church in Hackney, east London, has broken with the archetypes of church design to place community facilities, a cafe, creche and offices at the congregational heart of the building - prayers go on up on the third floor
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FeaturesProjects for 2016: Heathrow airport
The wrangling over a third runway is one of the longest-running farces in recent British political history
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FeaturesProjects for 2016: Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall
This £617m Herzog de Meuron project was originally costed at less than £60m and scheduled to complete in 2010
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FeaturesProjects for 2016: Greek National Opera House
With a crippled state apparatus and a national debt standing at almost 180% of GDP, one might be forgiven for thinking that a £500m new opera house might not be uppermost on the Greek government’s mind
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FeaturesProjects for 2016: Abu Dhabi Louvre
While originally scheduled for 2012, the Louvre’s first museum outside of Paris should be worth the wait
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FeaturesProjects for 2016: World Trade Center Transportation Hub
With its original cost nearly doubled to £2.3bn, the almost decade-late World Trade Center Transportation Hub will become the world’s most expensive station
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FeaturesProjects for 2016: Tate Modern extension
Plagued by spiralling delays and ballooning costs, the extension to the world’s most popular modern art museum should finally open this summer
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FeaturesProjects for 2016: Rio Olympics
The sporting spectacle will return in 2016 with some typically impressive architecture
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FeaturesThe projects that shaped 2015
It’s been a bumper year for both major and more modest buildings, from the Walkie Talkie to Vaudeville Court - but are they wonders or blunders?