All Features articles – Page 321
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Bpod: Prefab just got fabber
A concrete volumetric system for multistorey buildings with a unique loadbearing structure
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Thermal break modules
Schöck Isokorb thermal break modules have been used in this extraordinary apartment building and crèche in Vienna, designed by Austrian architect Rüdiger Lainer for developer Heimbau and Eisenhof
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Off-white bricks
Brick maker Wienerberger has launched an off-white brick to complement its architectural range
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Cavity closers
Big Blok cavity closers from Cavalok Building Products have been specified on the Minehead Eye youth and community centre for their ability to span a 300mm cavity
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Regime change UK: Our new coalition government
Sarah Richardson and Roxane McMeeken look at the consequences of a Lib–Con coalition
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The tracker: On eggshells
Experian Business Strategies reports on a fragile recovery in the market
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Fire retardant for timber frames
Arch Timber Protection has launched Vacsol FR treatment, a fire protection system for timber frame components during the construction phase
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Ground stabilisation
Tensar International’s TriAx geogrid has been used at one of the stadiums hosting the 2010 World Cup
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Haiti: The road from ruin
Roxane McMeeken reports on the reconstruction effort in Haiti, amid growing fears that the ad hoc approach to rebuilding could be doing as much harm as good
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FeaturesI'm lovin' it: Henry Trickey of McDonald
Companies eager to expand in these famished times won’t be able to resist McDonald’s’ supersize diet of drive-thru restaurants and store makeovers. Emily Wright chews the fat with Henry Trickey, the man who’s serving them up
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Nouvel takes Manhattan
The French architect describes his 23-storey apartment block on the Lower West Side as a ‘vision machine’. Ike Ijeh tries to decipher what that means. Photos by Roland Halbe
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Smart ties
Ancon has developed a wall tie to fix traditional brick cladding to an internal leaf of cellular clay blocks with horizontal bed joints of just 1mm
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FeaturesElection 2010: Dear prime minister...
Sarah Richardson collects the industry’s messages to the new occupant of Number 10 and we reveal the final choices of our panel of floating voters
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FeaturesEarthship: Sustainable building with 900 spare tyres
David Matthews wanted to build his own Earthship – a radically sustainable home built of recycled materials – and live in it forever. Trouble was, he didn’t have a clue how to go about it. So Building sent him on a three-day course to find out
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FeaturesSteven Holl: After Mackintosh
For most people in the UK, Steven Holl is the best architect they’ve never heard of. Now he’s tackling the world-famous Glasgow School of Art, that’s about to change
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FeaturesBankside: Have you met the Tate’s new neighbours?
Once snubbed as the poor relation of the trendy South Bank, Bankside has been transformed over the past decade by ambitious design. Now, finally, the residential sector is moving in
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FeaturesCountry focus: Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is showing tentative signs of recovery after the most difficult year in its brief history. But what are the implications for construction costs? Miroslav Vasko of EC Harris reports
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FeaturesFirst impressions: Inntel hotel near Amsterdam
Architecture students Rachel Harding and Jo Parsons comment on the Norwegian scheme
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FeaturesElection 2010: Invitation to a hanging
On this page Sarah Richardson and Roxane McMeeken look at what would happen to construction if nobody won the election, and overleaf we catch up with our floating voters, receive a letter from David Cameron and meet the former Jarvis man who founded his own political party
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FeaturesThe many lives of Joseph Aloysius Hansom
Talented inventor, kamikaze contractor, prolific architect, hopeless entrepreneur, socialist eagle fancier and of course founder of the magazine in your hands … Nick Jones reviews a biography of one of the Victorian age’s most remarkable characters