All Features articles – Page 366

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    King Sturge

    2008-03-10T00:00:00Z

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    Grosvenor

    2008-03-10T00:00:00Z

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    New Swindon Company

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    Plastering

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Knauf Drywall has launched the MPFinish, a spray on plaster.

  • The budget-priced building’s two boxy entrances are faced in rough-sawn timber
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    A scientific monster

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    This computer centre in Santiago, Chile, may have two heads but then it’s got two skins, too – altogether a bit of a freak

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    Richard Steer on Mipim

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Two years ago Richard Steer wrote in these pages that Mipim was a waste of time, energy and perfectly good booze. This year, he’s quite looking forward to it, thanks for asking. So, what changed?

  • The expanded aluminium creates a textual skin and blurs the building’s edges
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    What a mesh!

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    A Japanese architect and a UK cladding specialist came together to develop the shimmering expanded aluminium veil that has been used to clad the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

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    Mellow yellow

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    The striking shell of the Le Safron festival hall, south-east of Paris, has been clad in the new copper aluminium alloy Tecu Gold.

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    Movers and makers

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    This week

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    Insulated roof and wall panels

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Arcelor Construction has added the Fidelite insulated roof and wall system to its Arval range of systems.

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    Insulated panels

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Kingspan Insulated panels has introduced the FX facade range.

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    Good vibrations

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    How VJ Technologies turned the troublesome vibration regs into a really good business opportunity.

  • Fendor’s SecureLine high security window glazing system at the St Philips Secure Unit in Airdrie
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    Glazing over

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Fendor manufactures and installs performance glazing ranging from standard commercial curtain walls and windows to specialist fire and security glazing systems.

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    Minimalist fittings

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    DR Services is to market Sadev’s range of point fittings and spiders for facades and glass canopies in the UK.

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    life At the sharp end

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Cladding In an explosion, every fragment of glass in a building becomes a potentially lethal missile. Stephen Kennett looks at the best ways to protect ourselves

  • Studio E Architects’ Sacred Heart Primary School in west London is built around a 120-year-old tree
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    Cost model update: Small projects

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon revisits industrial units, primary schools extensions and primary health care centres to investigate how recent changes to legislation, specifications and general price increases have affected building costs

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    Profiled cladding

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Euroclad has added to its Elite range of built-up cladding products with a horizontal wall system that features a half round profile outer sheet.

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    Terracotta rainscreen cladding

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    TI Dynamic Facades has launched a single-skin terracotta rainscreen system that is suitable for both domestic and commercial applications.

  • Birmingham Central Library was built in 1974 and was intended to last 100 years or more. Twenty-five years later, its demolition was being proposed
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    The strange case of the overdue library

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Alright, so it might not win the Man Booker Prize, but the tale of how Birmingham council spent 10 years trying to get its new central library off the drawing board has got the critics gasping.

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    Eating concrete for breakfast

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Colin ‘Dano’ Daniel was a fearsome site manager who used to have ‘a lot of outbursts’. But that was before he worked for his new boss – his son Julian, head of Bovis’ south division.Now they live, eat and breathe construction together, pausing only to watch their beloved Hull City. ...