More Technical Case Studies

  • Birmingham conservatoire 24
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    An architectural side note

    2017-09-13T00:18:00Z

    The £57m Birmingham Conservatoire’s quiet restraint has produced an anonymous facade that conceals rather than celebrates the elegant music spaces within

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    Back to school: The human touch

    2017-09-06T09:39:00Z

    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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    London's High Point: Race to the top

    2017-08-30T11:10:00Z

    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

  • Goldsmith Street 11
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    Passivhaus: Economy of scale

    2017-08-23T15:21:00Z

    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?

  • Black-stained House
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    Wild imaginings: Beach huts, Part 2

    2017-08-14T06:30:00Z

    The humble British beach hut is being reconfigured for the 21st century, as Part 2 of our guide shows

  • Mirrored beach hut
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    Wild imaginings: Beach huts, Part 1

    2017-08-11T06:00:00Z

    The humble British beach hut is being reconfigured for the 21st century, as Part 1 of our guide shows

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    Talkin’ bout a revolution

    2017-07-27T06:00:00Z

    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

  • Bracknell Regeneration birdseye view
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    Bracknell: Talk of the town

    2017-07-19T06:00:00Z

    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

  • New Ground Cohousing
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    Housing Design Awards 2017: the winners

    2017-07-11T00:01:00Z

    It’s good to be reminded of the high quality that characterises much of the new work being produced in housing

  • The Sackler Courtyard
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    V&A extension: Culture shock

    2017-07-04T06:00:00Z

    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

  • National Gallery of Ireland
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    National Gallery of Ireland: Windows of opportunity

    2017-06-28T06:00:00Z

    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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    Under a cloud

    2017-06-21T06:00:00Z

    Commercial development in the City has had the shadow of Brexit looming over it for a year now

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    Close to the edge

    2017-06-16T06:00:00Z

    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

  • Emerson College Little Building
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    BIM: Attention to detail

    2017-06-07T10:31:00Z

    A Boston restoration project using advanced 3D-modelling and printing technologies could hold the key to a new age of decoration within contemporary design

  • 432 Park Avenue
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    Residential towers: Through the roof

    2017-05-31T06:00:00Z

    New York and London are both bristling with new residential towers, a boom driven by demand for housing and skyrocketing prices for luxury flats

  • Jerome L. Green Science Centre
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    By the people: Columbia University’s new Manhattanville campus

    2017-05-24T06:00:00Z

    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

  • Storyhouse
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    A stage for three stars: Chester's Storyhouse

    2017-05-15T06:00:00Z

    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

  • 22 Bishopsgate from the Thames
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    BIM: Are you ready for the fourth dimension?

    2017-05-11T06:00:00Z

    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?

  • Berlin concert hall
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    Melody & harmony: Berlin's new concert hall

    2017-05-05T06:00:00Z

    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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    Notes from a small island: Tristan da Cunha's medical centre

    2017-04-27T06:00:00Z

    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