All Case studies articles – Page 6
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FeaturesIntergenerational housing: Side by side
One answer to the question of how to house the rapidly ageing UK population is to use an intergenerational model, that mixes housing for all ages, from young to old
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FeaturesBattersea Power Station: Pigs might fly
Battersea Power Station was a landmark beloved of the public even before it appeared on the cover of Pink Floyd’s Animals album. So the pressure was on when Historic England insisted on replacing the four iconic chimneys with perfect replicas of the originals
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FeaturesHorizontal lifts: A sideways move
ThyssenKrupp has come up with a lift that not only functions without cables, but is also able to move horizontally as well as vertically. So what might this mean for the future of building design?
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FeaturesUniversity of Sussex: The second act
The renovation of the University of Sussex’s arts centre transforms the space beyond an education facility to a fully fledged performance venue
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FeaturesSchool building: Top form
Sheppard Robson and Willmott Dixon have teamed up to create a new model of school that aims to be economic, quick to build and flexible enough to be used for multiple alternative uses. Key to all this is the structurally independent, over-sailing glulam roof
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FeaturesVan Gogh Museum: Going Dutch
Hans van Heeswijk Architects has used pioneering techniques in structural glass to build a new entrance to Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum
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FeaturesRecycling timber: Wasting away
We recycle just one-tenth of our waste wood - the rest ends up in landfill, meaning we lose out on the huge economic and environmental benefits of using the wood again
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FeaturesLos Angeles: That's sprawl, folks
The city is undergoing its biggest construction boom since the 1980s but regeneration has to battle suburban spread, and economic and racial segregation
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FeaturesLos Angeles: Bloc party
The £117m redevelopment known as The Bloc is the largest scheme to tap into LA’s need for mixed-use spaces
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FeaturesBuilding hacking: Who's in control?
As building management systems become a greater part of our daily lives, their susceptibility to cyber attack is ever increasing. How would your building handle getting hacked?
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FeaturesVictoria’s super Nova
The £2.2bn Nova Victoria scheme was always going to be a star project. But, on a hemmed in space, it needed some special solutions to make it shine
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FeaturesBirmingham: New Street cred
It was never going to take a lot to improve on the squalid eyesore of the 1960s incarnation of Birmingham New Street Station. Shame though about the whiff of fakery
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FeaturesLondon City Cruise Port: In at the deep end
Greenwich looks set to be home to a cruise ship terminal big enough to compete with New York’s and Sydney’s and which will be part of a much larger commercial and residential development. But its relatively shallow, narrow river setting makes the project an ambitious undertaking
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Features3D-printed glass: Print me off another Shard
Glass has resisted the technological advancements in 3D printing, but now a team from MIT has invented a technique for printing fully transparent glass. The breakthrough, says Ike Ijeh, could revolutionise the way we make windows, cladding and even full facade systems
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FeaturesTall buildings: Height vs heritage
London’s lack of a coherent tall buildings policy has led to controversial ‘carbuncles’ such as the Walkie Talkie crowding its skyline
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FeaturesThe Plimsoll Building: Close encounters
The incorporation of two schools into a residential building is an example of school designers becoming more responsive to the changing physical and political environment
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FeaturesA day at the office: Your guide to human happiness
How can you use design to actively influence and improve people’s lives? British Land is using its own headquarters as a test bed for incorporating wellbeing principles that it hopes will foster a happier, more productive workforce.
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FeaturesWilmcote House: Thermal vision
The flaws of Portsmouth’s Wilmcote House may have been indicative of 1960s social housing, but now its mass adoption of Passivhaus principles could see it used as a model for sustainable retrofit
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FeaturesHeathrow: Growing Pains
As Heathrow’s controversial third runway tries to chart a route through the political turbulence ahead, does it have anything to learn from its expanded international rivals?
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FeaturesYork Art Gallery: Show time
Architects working on the £8m refurbishment of York Art Gallery have peeled away decades of callously inappropriate interventions to unlock a wonderland of architectural secrets