More Architectural Reviews – Page 80
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NewsCouncil creates grand designs to inspire locals
Bradford council renovates two homes and teaches residents how to improve their own
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FeaturesLean machine – Southwark council HQ
So many commercial developers crank out the same old generic office space. But here’s one that dares to be different. Stephen Kennett visits Southwark council’s low-energy headquarters in London – and, no, there’s not a false ceiling anywhere
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FeaturesA lens on 3XN’s new Museum of Liverpool
There is just one thing about 3XN’s Museum of Liverpool on which everyone agrees: it will offer fabulous views of the Mersey. Thomas Lane looks at the construction challenges behind the city’s most controversial new structure.
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NewsHenley Rise eco-homes in South Yorkshire
Timber-framed family home scheme claims to have the largest solar power array in the country
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NewsNikken's design for IGES's HQ in Japan
Consultant and architect cuts 40% in lifecycle CO² at Institute for Global Environmental Strategies headquarters in Kanagawa, Japan
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NewsNew Redcar and Cleveland College building goes green
Nightingale's design incorporates temperature-controlling window and CHP boiler
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FeaturesViñoly turns a corner – the Leicester Curve
Rafael Viñoly’s UK projects have been derided and delayed, but finally, with the Curve in Leicester, he has got one done and dusted. Thomas Lane finds out whether this ‘inside-out’ theatre will answer the critics
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NewsHousing's one stop shops
Meet one of the 12 "trailblazer" housing departments who provide job, health and education advice to their homeless clients
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Waterman designs Workplace6, Sydney's greenest office
The Darling Island masterplan for Sydney Harbour has thrown up a new contender for the title of Australia’s greenest building.
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NewsA Muse boost: Green Sky Studio day at Bere Architecture
Michael Willoughby went to visit Bere Architecture's Muse, a proto-PassivHaus in Newington Green, east London, with his camera
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FeaturesThe wet room
Timber is well suited to the harsh environment of an indoor swimming pool, but at Longwell Green the finish also decided the way the building was constructed, as Stephen Kennett discovered
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NewsBurj Dubai: Top of the world
The designers of the Burj Dubai tell Katie Puckett how they tackled a very tall order
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FeaturesHarnessing the wind: Bahrain World Trade Centre
Bahrain’s World Trade Centre is one of the first buildings to be designed with wind turbines as part of its structure. It sounds simple, but as Thomas Lane discovered, the problems were many and the answers elusive
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NewsPark regeneration: green and pleasant land
How a park in a deprived area of south-east London went from no-go zone to award-winning oasis
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NewsClaffey House aims for BREEAM 'excellent'
Aedas' zero-carbon design includes rooftop photovoltaic array and ground source heat pump
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FeaturesWelcome to the machine: Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation
Of all Le Corbusier’s buildings, perhaps the most influential is Marseille’s Unité d’Habitation. As a major exhibition of the great man’s works opens in Liverpool, Martin Spring visits this communal ‘machine for living in’ to see what lessons it has for us
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Bright sparks: how to give tenants energy advice
Two Midlands schemes show how housing associations can help tenants stay on top of their energy costs
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NewsImages: Songjiang Quarry Hotel
Atkins’ Chinese hotel concept is built on the side of an abandoned water-filled quarry and blends with local nature
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FeaturesBailey’s cream: Strathclyde HQ
When M&E specialist NG Bailey set out to build its new headquarters in Strathclyde, it wanted to show what it could do to a standard spec office. Its control over the project enabled it to bring in a building of the finest green credentials
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FeaturesMake has triplets
Make Architects has just unveiled three pavilions for the University of Nottingham – two in terracotta allude to the city’s geology, the third is even more heavyweight …