Buildings, design and specification – Page 11
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FeaturesIn pictures: Famous observation towers around the world
If the Tulip is ever built, it will enter the rarefied group of high-profile observation towers across the world
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FeaturesProjects: Xiqu Centre Opera House, Hong Kong
The Xiqu Centre for Chinese opera in Hong Kong soars above its constrained site with two theatres suspended above public space, by using some ingenious construction solutions
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FeaturesProjects: London's new £288m Centre for Music
London is set to gain a new world-class symphony hall – but will the planned £288m Centre for Music face the battles and delays that dog so many major cultural projects?
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FeaturesHow Liverpool One is bucking the trend in the retail sector
With the British high street in the doldrums, Ike Ijeh revisits Liverpool One which, 10 years after it first opened, is attracting 30 million visitors each year
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FeaturesProjects: Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Haworth Tompkins’ new project for the Perse School, Cambridge, is part of a trend towards increasingly professional theatre facilities in schools
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FeaturesTimber frames: will we see wooden skyscrapers in the future?
Timber frames, for so long limited to the low-rise residential sector, have begun to break into commercial and higher-rise uses, thanks to technological breakthroughs
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FeaturesAgeing gracefully: restorations which retain historical decay
Instead of making a neglected building look brand-new, why not refurbish it to preserve and showcase the damage worked by fires, damp, squatters and the passage of time?
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Features2019: The completing projects to look out for this year
Ike Ijeh takes a look at 2019’s completing projects, including a brace of international museums and a couple of London tall buildings
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FeaturesBuilding's Projects of the Year 2018 - part 2
Ike Ijeh rounds up the year’s architectural excitements
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FeaturesBuilding's Projects of the Year 2018 - part 1
An embassy, a giant greenhouse, a metropolitan retail redevelopment, a Scottish museum and a totemic tower. Ike Ijeh rounds up the year’s architectural excitements.
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FeaturesCities love to build arts venues to trigger urban regeneration - but it doesn't always work out
It’s called the Bilbao effect: a city engages an architect to build an arts venue in the expectation that urban regeneration will follow. Alas, it doesn’t always turn out this way
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FeaturesProjects: Blackfriars Circus, London
Maccreanor Lavington’s Blackfriars Circus for Barratt Homes does everything a scheme centred on a 27-storey residential tower can do to engage with London’s architectural heritage
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FeaturesProjects: University of Birmingham's Collaborative Teaching Lab
A new teaching laboratory at Birmingham university takes a pioneering approach to design, applying a collaborative working ethos never before tried in a university setting
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FeaturesProjects: Building Awards 2018 Refurbishment winner - Welsh Streets
Welsh Streets is a radical build-to-rent scheme that encourages community and provides a blueprint for developers all around the country to copy.
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FeaturesProjects: Heatherwick’s Coal Drops Yard
Heatherwick Studio’s Coal Drops Yard retail hub in north London revels in the idiosyncrasies of its original Victorian warehouse architecture and uses them in a brazenly theatrical way to upstage all else on Argent’s King’s Cross Central masterplan.
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FeaturesBuilding Awards 2018: Housing Project of the Year nominees
Among the nominees for the Building Award in this category are three impressive schemes for older people and a live-work-eat scheme aimed at trendy, young buyers
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FeaturesThe Gantry: London's new 'home for making'
What might have become a dull business park on the site of London’s 2012 Olympics in Stratford is now a hub for artists and makers
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FeaturesBuilding Awards 2018: Refurbishment of the Year shortlist - part 2
Nominees in this category include the spectacular overhaul of a neoclassical piazza in Yorkshire
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FeaturesBuilding Awards 2018: Refurbishment of the Year shortlist - part 1
Nominees in this category include the spectacular overhaul of a neoclassical piazza in Yorkshire
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FeaturesProjects: Royal Opera House, London
Stanton Williams’ revamp of the Royal Opera House works as an evolution of Dixon Jones’ earlier scheme, further opening up the building to make it more accessible as a public space