All Features articles – Page 487
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FeaturesGoing great guns
What with all the fuss over Wembley, you could be forgiven for forgetting that a certain other north London stadium is under construction. We went to the new Highbury to check the state of play
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Architects face York plaque attack
A York councillor is proposing shaming bad buildings with a plaque of shame.
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International costs: 2005
Gardiner & Theobald’s 13th annual survey looks at how much it’ll cost you to build various buildings around the world, along with labour and inflation rates – plus why China is still the main cost driver
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FeaturesWhat’s their big idea now?
Next week is the fifth anniversary of the London Eye hoisting its first passengers 130 m above the capital. Its designers David Marks and Julia Barfield talk about their battle to ensure the Eye’s future, their next height-defying design and why they are not millionaires … yet.
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FeaturesLofty ideas, hushed tones
In its reinvention of the library as gateway to human knowledge, Bennetts Associates has created a graciously grand yet efficiently low-energy centrepiece to a mixed-use regeneration scheme in Brighton. We took a quiet look around
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Just the job
Tim Johnson trained as a QS but quickly took a career swerve into an emerging sector
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FeaturesJohn Redwood
After three years away from the front bench, the poster boy of the Thatcherite right is keen to demonstrate how a Tory government would make £35bn of efficiency savings – and gladden the hearts of the construction industry.
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FeaturesWe have take-off
On a miniscule site that gives new meaning to the phrase ‘close to the flightpath’, the team building Heathrow’s new air traffic control tower found an ingenious way to hoist the control room 87 m into the air.
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Specifier Products
In our cladding special this week, glass for flush facades or fighting fire, frameless glazing systems, multicoloured render or steel panels and 30 storeys of curtain walling in Liverpool – plus the latest news
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Costs: Stone facades
So do you go for natural or reconstructed stone for your stone facade? Which will offer the best whole-life value? Peter Mayer of the Building Performance Group breaks down the options
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FeaturesCladding: The walls of St Mary’s
This week we’ve got cladding well and truly covered, with an array of impressive products to make your facades beautiful and efficient, a breakdown of the whole-life costs of natural stone vs concrete finishes and eight steps to the perfect specification. But first, how the stainless steel at St Mary’s ...
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FeaturesSweet taste of victory at Junior Open House
Hansel and Gretel style house inspired by Willy Wonka wins school kids' design competition.
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Features20 facts about MIPIM
Stuck for small talk? Elaine Knutt lists 20 things you always wanted to know about MIPIM (if only you’d realised it before)
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FeaturesCost model update, February 2005
In this special cost model update, Davis Langdon looks at 18 building types – including offices, stadiums, theatres, schools, hospitals, housing and supermarkets – and adds the latest figures and current cost drivers
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Features7 uses for a dead business car
You’ll come home with stacks of them, half of which you’ll never look at again. Here are some alternative uses for your unwanted cards
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FeaturesI am fashion
Jonathan Meades used his first column of the year to bemoan the passing of the “traditional” architect – the flamboyantly bow-tied, floppy-haired chap in deafening tweeds and yellow socks who mostly lived in the 19th holes of golf courses on a diet of gin and tonic, occasionally venturing forth to ...
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FeaturesBig in Japan (and China, the USA, Spain, Italy, Germany…)
David Chipperfield has quietly built up a highly exportable architectural practice, with competition wins all over the world. Now, the UK portfolio is belatedly taking shape – if clients can stop project-managing for long enough