All Buildings, Design and Specification articles – Page 51
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FeaturesProjects: Gensler HQ, Wapping, London
Gensler has been designing office buildings since the 1960s, so when it came to drawing up plans for its own HQ, it just came naturally
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FeaturesProjects: Walker’s Court, Soho
The Walker’s Court development, on the site of the famous Raymond Revuebar, could help the neighbourhood rediscover some heart
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FeaturesProjects: Stock Exchange Hotel, Manchester
Ex-Manchester United football stars Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville’s new Stock Exchange Hotel has taken a sensitive and heritage-led approach
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FeaturesProjects: Copenhill ski slope and energy-from-waste plant, Copenhagen
Bjarke Ingels has combined sustainability with recreation by topping a waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen with a 490m artificial ski slope
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FeaturesBuilding Awards 2019: Housing Project of the Year shortlist
The nominees for this category range from entire new villages that are super energy-efficient to high-density schemes ideal for inner-city living
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FeaturesProjects: Royal Albert Dock, London
Digital and offsite techniques have unlocked the latest masterplan on this difficult site
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FeaturesBuilding Awards 2019: Office Refurbishment of the Year shortlist
Ike Ijeh looks at the contenders for Building magazine’s awards for office refurbishment
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FeaturesBuilding Awards 2019: Refurbishment Project of the Year shortlist
Ike Ijeh looks at the contenders for Building magazine’s awards for refurbishment
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FeaturesProjects: Troubadour theatre, White City, London
The Troubadour theatre is based on a tried-and-tested model of pop-up venues on London sites
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FeaturesThe sky’s the limit: See the world’s tallest modular tower in Croydon
But Thomas Lane reckons it won’t be long until 101 George Street’s 135m height record is broken again, as modular becomes increasingly viable
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FeaturesBuilding Awards 2019: Building magazine’s Project of the Year shortlist
This year’s shortlisted schemes are redefining typologies. Ike Ijeh looks at the contenders
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FeaturesSmart building: What makes UCL's Student Centre so special?
University College London’s new Student Centre is innovative, diverse, digitally enabled and focused on sustainability – just like its users.
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FeaturesSingapore Changi airport: The shape of water
Ike Ijeh looks at the challenges of constructing the world’s tallest indoor waterfall
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FeaturesWhat will the Tokyo 2020 Olympic venues look like?
Ike Ijeh discovers that some arenas originally built for the 1964 summer games in Tokyo will be recycled for use in the next Olympiad
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FeaturesLight years away: how close are we to space tourism?
Space tourism still has some giant leaps to make before humankind can take a holiday on the moon. What’s slowing lift-off?
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FeaturesProjects: The story of The Tide, the Greenwich Peninsula High Line
The new part-elevated park in Greenwich Peninsula is remarkable for its use of prefabrication and parametric 3D modelling. But will it wash with the public?
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FeaturesProjects: Mace's 'rising factory' at Victory Plaza, London
Do new processes such as Mace’s ‘rising factories’ help deliver projects more quickly and efficiently?
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2019: The winners
This year’s completed scheme winners and the Housing Design Awards 2019 overall winner
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2019: Uncompleted scheme winners
This year’s winners take a smart approach to densification that shows how to provide quality living space in constrained sites
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FeaturesChanging the DNA: how building using a cement substitute is reducing global carbon emissions
Imperial College London’s £90m biomedical engineering research centre is built from an unusual material. Thomas Lane reports on how the challenges of working with GGBS have been overcome to imposing effect