More Architectural Reviews – Page 65
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NewsIkea unveils 10.5ha mixed-use Stratford scheme
Retail giant’s property arm preparing planning application
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FeaturesUniversity of the Arts: The art of simplicity
The new University of the Arts campus exudes creativity. Ike Ijeh visits the recently converted King’s Cross Granary to find a building that melds old and new, industry and art and provides a home for the next generation of designers
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NewsFinalists unveiled for Aberdeen's £120m City Garden Project
The six designs will be exhibited until 2 November
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NewsSir Richard Branson opens $209m spaceport
Terminal in New Mexico desert will offer public space flights some time after 2012
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FeaturesLaing O'Rourke and Atkins' standardised school: How's this for smart?
Standardised doesn’t have to mean inflexible design - that’s the message from Laing O’Rourke and Atkins with their clever solution to cutting school building costs. Building reports on the surprising versatility of concrete
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NewsMountview Academy of Theatre Arts: Drama in Haringey
Bennetts Associates is converting a London town hall into a theatre
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NewsLondon firm wins Paris residential job
London-based Farshid Moussavi Architecture has won a competition to design a major residential complex in the La Defense district of Paris.
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NewsOlympic media centre legacy plans
The Olympic Park Legacy Company has invited bids from companies interested in taking over the press and broadcast centres after the 2012 Games.
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NewsWelcome to Chobham Manor: Plans revealed for Olympic site
Planning application reveals that 8,000 homes will be built on the site of the 2012 Olympics with the first new homes opening in 2013
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NewsFosters unveils designs for Kuwait International Airport
Design based on Kuwaiti sailing boats aims to achieve ‘gold’ LEED rating
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FeaturesThe ArcelorMittal Orbit: Twist and shout
The ArcelorMittal Orbit in the Olympic park is being built to ‘arouse the curiosity and wonder of Londoners’. And the most curious thing of all is how this spiralling confusion of red steel actually stands up
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NewsWork begins to lift Shard’s spire into place
UK’s tallest crane installed to lift first steel sections today
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FeaturesRafael Viñoly's Firstsite centre: show time
Rafael Viñoly’s latest UK building finally takes centre stage, but why was it nearly undone by delays, overspends and legal spats? Thomas Lane reports, while below Ike Ijeh asks if it was worth all the pain
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Manchester City reveal plans for football village
Youth and first team facilities work will create 160 construction jobs
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FeaturesFreeze frame: the BFI's Master Film Store
The Master Film Store, the world’s largest nitrate storage facility, will hold 450,000 canisters of film heritage. But as a nitrate fire is almost impossible to extinguish, the building had to incorporate some rather extraordinary design features. Ike Ijeh swaps his popcorn for sub-zero temperatures
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FeaturesWestfield Stratford City: Maxing out
Westfield Stratford City in east London - dead handy for the Olympic park - is Europe’s biggest urban shopping centre, a retail behemoth so large it is really a city within a city with more than 300 shops and 2 million ft2 of retail and leisure space. Ike Ijeh goes ...
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FeaturesTall building design: Is it safe?
Ten years ago the world watched two of New York’s most iconic towers come crashing to the ground. Since then the industry has changed the way tall buildings are built in an attempt to make them terror proof. Building takes a look
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NewsBristol City's stadium could face judicial review
Council receives request for judicial review after residents fail in bid to designate land as town green
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FeaturesThe iCon centre: the beginning of something beautiful
These days, ’green building’ is often synonymous with ’ugly architecture’. One project trying to prove otherwise is the iCon Innovation Centre in Northamptonshire. With a carbon footprint of only 12.2kg/m2 and a bold architectural identity, is this a sign of a new era for eco?
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FeaturesTop of the class: Passivhaus school design
A primary school in Exeter won’t win any architectural awards, but is earning gold stars in zero-carbon and Passivhaus design. Thomas Lane swots up on how to deliver a low-energy building on a budget