All Technical articles – Page 2
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FeaturesBack to school: The human touch
OMA’s first science building, Lab City engineering school near Paris, humanises its rational grid structure through a system of streets and squares bathed in natural light.
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FeaturesLondon's High Point: Race to the top
In creating the UK’s tallest build-for-rent development – Highpoint in London’s Elephant and Castle – flexibility, efficiency and speed were key concepts for contractor Mace and structural engineer AKT II
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FeaturesPassivhaus: Economy of scale
When it’s finished, Goldsmith Street in Norwich will be the largest Passivhaus scheme in the UK - but built as a 100% social housing scheme, it had to be delivered for a competitive price. But how is it being achieved?
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FeaturesWild imaginings: Beach huts, Part 2
The humble British beach hut is being reconfigured for the 21st century, as Part 2 of our guide shows
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FeaturesWild imaginings: Beach huts, Part 1
The humble British beach hut is being reconfigured for the 21st century, as Part 1 of our guide shows
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FeaturesTalkin’ bout a revolution
Take some well-tested modern manufacturing techniques, add them to a radical streamlined procurement route that makes the supplier king and you have the beginnings of what could be a revolution in how we build. Ike Ijeh reports on the latest advances in off-site manufacture
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FeaturesBracknell: Talk of the town
Bracknell is the first post-war new town to be comprehensively demolished and rebuilt - to the tune of £750m. Building visited just weeks before completion to see a scheme that hopes to get shoppers and visitors returning in droves
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2017: the winners
It’s good to be reminded of the high quality that characterises much of the new work being produced in housing
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FeaturesV&A extension: Culture shock
Amanda Levete’s £48m expansion of London’s V A connects the museum with the public realm through a superb porcelain-paved courtyard. But it’s the sheer immersive power of its vast subterranean exhibition hall that will make visitors stand and gawp
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FeaturesNational Gallery of Ireland: Windows of opportunity
Heneghan Peng’s £25m refurbishment of the National Gallery of Ireland is a sensitive and sometimes almost invisible intervention into an idiosyncratic building
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FeaturesUnder a cloud
Commercial development in the City has had the shadow of Brexit looming over it for a year now
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FeaturesClose to the edge
Kengo Kuma’s extraordinarily complex design for the V A’s outpost in Dundee would not have been possible without 3D modelling and analysis tools, not to mention complex construction techniques, that have left the city with a building of true grit
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FeaturesBIM: Attention to detail
A Boston restoration project using advanced 3D-modelling and printing technologies could hold the key to a new age of decoration within contemporary design
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FeaturesResidential towers: Through the roof
New York and London are both bristling with new residential towers, a boom driven by demand for housing and skyrocketing prices for luxury flats
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FeaturesBy the people: Columbia University’s new Manhattanville campus
Columbia University’s new Manhattanville campus has championed a policy of inclusiveness not only for its students but also in the construction teams that built it
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FeaturesA stage for three stars: Chester's Storyhouse
The Storyhouse in Chester is a daring construction of opposites, with a theatre, cinema and library brought together in a space that combines new-build and the spirit of the orginal 1930s picture house
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Comment3D printing: Another dimension
3D printing is set to play an ever more important role in the construction process but, with this new technology, new legal safeguards will be needed
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FeaturesBIM: Are you ready for the fourth dimension?
The team behind 22 Bishopsgate has created a complex 4D virtual reality model intended to optimise every aspect of delivery. Is the industry at large prepared for this new reality?
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FeaturesMelody & harmony: Berlin's new concert hall
Frank Gehry’s £28.5m Berlin concert hall is an unusual building for this celebrated creator of the unusual. Ike Ijeh finds that through its sharp contradictions of age, shape and material, it achieves a kind of peace
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FeaturesNotes from a small island: Tristan da Cunha's medical centre
Building a medical centre is all in a day’s work for Galliford Try. But it’s a different matter when the work takes place on a volcanic island 2,000km from the nearest inhabited land. This is a prefab new-build with a difference