All Technical articles – Page 3
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Features2016: Back to the future - part two
A 1980s office went back to nature and housing went beyond postwar with 21st-century prefabs
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Features2016: Back to the future - part one
The Tate Modern extension provided a warped contrast against the former power station and the Design Museum gained a historically sensitive 1960s rebuild
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FeaturesNew Science Building: Unsolved mysteries
Laboratories are most often architecturally dull affairs but not Sheppard Robson’s New Science Building
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FeaturesBuilding a bridge across the Mersey
Constructing a six-lane road link across the River Mersey involved several challenges
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FeaturesGlasgow College: Tales from the riverbank
Caught between the River Clyde and the notorious Gorbals neighbourhood, Glasgow College’s new Riverside Campus attempts to engage with both as part of a new wave of regeneration across the city
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FeaturesScotland Yard: Crime scene
In converting a 1930s police station into the Metropolitan Police’s new HQ, contractor Bam faced a difficult case. But noise reduction criteria, a cramped site and a high level of security were no match for Bam’s trusty team
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FeaturesBaylis Old School: Brute strength
While many brutalist schools are being knocked down, one in south London is making a virtue of its architectural heritage and converting into housing. Photographs by Edmund Sumner
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FeaturesEurope's first WELL Building
There is now an international standard for measuring how a building impacts on its users’ health and wellbeing. Ike Ijeh looks at how Studio Ben Allen Architects’ One Carter Lane will become the first European project to receive the accreditation
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2016: Winners
This year’s entries reveal some interesting trends in housebuilding in the UK such as a reduction in common space, urban design principles being applied to greenfield sites and the successful use of custom build
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FeaturesStavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre: Hit or myth
Renzo Piano’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre in Athens puts the Ancient Greek concept of an ‘agora’ or meeting place at its heart
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FeaturesV&A: Underground art
The V A’s £49.5m subterranean extension had to be built without closing the main museum and without damaging the listed facades of the surrounding buildings. Building reports on how Arup, AL_A and Wates made it without a wobble
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CommentEngineering the Serpentine Pavilion
Augmented reality helped unzip the designs for this year’s challenging build
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FeaturesPrefab housing: Here’s one we made earlier
A new range of low-cost prefabricated housing solutions is being rolled out across the country with the potential to help tackle Britain’s affordable housing crisis
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FeaturesCycle lanes: On yer bikes
London’s £4bn Roads Modernisation Plan aims to radically redesign the way we travel through the capital’s streets
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FeaturesAlmshouses: Charity begins at home
Renovating an almshouse site in Streatham, south London, meant a balancing act between upgrading outmoded 1930s housing and staying true to the Edwardian aesthetic
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FeaturesHoly Cross School: A class of its own
Cullinan Studio’s prefabricated school in Swindon extracts spatial and architectural delight from a lean, compact template and answers today’s challenge of how we can build more schools for less money, while maintaining design quality
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FeaturesGrande Stade de Lyon: Stadium Franglais
Olympique Lyonnais’ new £340m home, designed by Populous, will host Euro 2016 matches this summer. But is it more typical of English stadium design than its continental counterparts?
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FeaturesUnderground London: Secrets of the deep
Beneath the streets of London lies a little known world of labyrinthine tunnels, disused tube stations, underground rivers and even a Post Office railway
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FeaturesDalston Lane: Tall Timber
At 33m high, a Hackney apartment block is set to become the world’s tallest cross-laminated timber building
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FeaturesFrampton Park Baptist Church
A long way to heaven: A Baptist church in Hackney, east London, has broken with the archetypes of church design to place community facilities, a cafe, creche and offices at the congregational heart of the building - prayers go on up on the third floor