All Features articles – Page 90
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Projects: The Compton, Regent's Park
An innovative choice of cladding material – cast aluminium – has created an unusual look for these luxury flats near Regent’s Park
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sky.by.cantifix commissioned for Battersea Power Station’s high-end residential properties
Cantifix’s extensive range of minimally framed rooflights will feature in the three iconic wash towers
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Smart buildings – the case for smart enablement
Smart, intelligent, or integrated buildings have been a topic of conversation in the construction industry for at least the last 30 years. They have often been considered prohibitively expensive, with questionable return on investment due to perceived complexities, brittleness and high ongoing maintenance costs. This article aims to show ...
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From the archive: 2003 - A lot of hot air
A huge range of opinions have been voiced about Battersea Power Station’s redevelopment
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Image of the week: That empty feeling
The European parliament building looking strangely under-occupied this week
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Battersea Power Station: Powering up?
The Battersea Power Station redevelopment has hit the headlines countless times. But how is work progressing now? Building visited the site to find out
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Projects: Exploring ‘the third space’
Three new London commercial schemes explore the ‘in-between’ areas that are neither home nor workplace, neither public nor private
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Hackitt: Where do we go from here?
Two years on from the Grenfell fire and a year after the resulting Hackitt report, the government is at last moving forward on strengthening the regulatory environment for construction. To assess the industry’s progress so far, Building carried out a survey ahead of its upcoming conference
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Cost model: Manchester residential
The city is proving resilient to the UK’s political uncertainty, with a development scene that continues to expand in response to growing demand for housing
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From the archive: 1999 - Raising the Portcullis
Decisions about how to refurbish the Palace of Westminster, one of the world’s most famous buildings, were never going to be easy
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Sketch of the week: The Stones, Kent
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Sonja Karapiperidis, associate at CZWG Architects
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Building podcast: Peter Rees on the future of London; Hackitt review consultation
Listen on our website here or on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or your preferred podcast app
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Image of the week: Sky high
To mark the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, a 7m-wide detailed replica of the moon at 1:500,000 scale has been installed in Ely cathedral, Cambridgeshire
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Projects: Laing O’Rourke on site at Edinburgh St James
The redevelopment of Edinburgh’s St James shopping centre with new apartments, a hotel and retail is on a regal scale – but a very small site
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CPD 8 2019: Understanding the hidden costs of ‘cheap’ insulation
This CPD, sponsored by Kingspan Insulation, looks at different types of insulation products for masonry cavity walls and how energy- and cost-efficient they are
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Palace of Westminster: the mother of all refurbishments
Despite warnings that the Palace of Westminster was at growing risk of a catastrophe, little was done to begin work on its urgently needed refurbishment