All Case studies articles – Page 7
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FeaturesGatwick: Ground control
BIM is central to the success of Gatwick airport’s massive £1.2bn capital investment programme
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2015: Winners
This year’s Housing Design Awards show that the sector’s return to strength has brought with it bold and experimental design, with council housing and housing for older people in particular taking some unexpected forms
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FeaturesCrossrail: Service update
As Crossrail celebrates a trio of significant milestones, Ike Ijeh takes a look at the current state of play
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FeaturesBAR yachting HQ: At the rate of knots
Ben Ainslie Racing’s Portsmouth HQ embodies the bold spirit of the yacht teams it will house
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FeaturesGraveney School: Shining example
Tooting’s Graveney School teaches architecture to its schoolchildren, invites architects to lecture, and counts architects among its alumni
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FeaturesAction station: Bond street tube station
A cramped site 20m underground, below a busy street is not an easy place to conduct the £320m upgrade of Bond Street tube station. Especially when the only access is via two 9m-wide shafts.
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FeaturesLondon Business School: A perfect match
Sheppard Robson’s partial conversion of the Westminster Register Office complex includes a glazed link building for the entrance
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FeaturesA care in the world
Architype’s £9.6m overhaul of St Michael’s Hospice in Herefordshire is a nuanced balance between residential and institutional functions
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FeaturesFrancis Crick Institute: Larger than life
The awe-inspiring scale, ambition and innovation of the Francis Crick Institute more than matches the pioneering biomedical research that is soon to take place within its walls
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FeaturesEnterprise Centre: A plan is thatched
The £11.6m Enterprise Centre at the University of East Anglia is one of the most innovative green buildings in the UK. But for its prefabricated cladding, it relies on the region’s most traditional building method
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FeaturesICE 2015 London Engineering Awards
This year’s awards showcase the diverse and innovative nature of projects taking place in the UK’s capital
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FeaturesParliamentary renovations: Houses of cards
The Houses of Parliament are in desperate need of repair. With just 20 years of life left within their crumbling walls, proposals for renovation are being drawn up
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FeaturesArchitecture in a time of austerity
Ike Ijeh assesses the impact the coalition has had on architecture and how design has fared through the years of budget tightening
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FeaturesWater usage: To the last drop
With every person in the UK using an average of 150 litres of water per day, the country’s water usage needs tempering. Ike Ijeh investigates the domestic inventions that could prevent us from running dry
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FeaturesBIM: Early adopters
Ramboll has developed an early stage modelling process that combines the qualitative capabilities of parametric design with BIM’s algorithmic, analytical strengths. Ike Ijeh wonders where this leaves designers
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Features119 Ebury Street: Cleaning up the neighbourhood
Belgravia is one of London’s most genteel quarters, but its Georgian homes are among the UK’s least energy efficient. Now, David Morley’s BREEAM ‘outstanding’ renovation of a grade II property has shown that heritage doesn’t have to mean high emissions
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FeaturesBodleian library: The new edition
As custodian of millions of precious books and manuscripts, Oxford’s Bodleian library needed a much bigger - and safer - building to house its collection. With the new Weston Library, Wilkinson Eyre provided this and much more
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FeaturesPreview: Building Awards Small Project of the Year shortlist
From swimming pool to school, court to chapel, the architectural gems up for this year’s Building Awards Small Project of the Year prove that size isn’t everything
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FeaturesPreview: Building Awards Project of the Year shortlist
The schemes in the running to be Building’s Project of the Year are as varied as the purposes for which they were designed. But whether a hockey centre or a special needs school, the teams behind these buildings went the extra mile
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FeaturesBethlem Hospital: Altered states
Fraser Brown MacKenna’s renovation of Bethlem Hospital’s Museum of the Mind may look from the outside much as it did, but the interior spaces now house art galleries, exhibition spaces and an incomparable archive