All Buildings articles – Page 42
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FeaturesAirports: Flights of fancy
Airports have become air-conditioned nightmares beset by security checks and endless queues. But some designers, intent on reviving the Golden Age of Aviation, have let their imaginations fly. Building looks at five of the newest terminals
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FeaturesZaha Hadid: Softbridge Project, Oxford
The groves of academe have been buzzing with debate about Zaha Hadid’s Softbridge project, now on site at St Anthony’s college, Oxford. But for Bam’s engineering team constructing its cylindrical form in a desperately constrained site was an education in itself
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FeaturesMaking waves: Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Moving-floor technology may seem the stuff of fictional super-villain lairs, but the leading hydrodynamics laboratory at Plymouth University has employed the technology to support one of the largest energy wave test sites in the world
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2014: Addresses to impress
From radical warehouse conversions to art deco elderly care, this year’s Housing Design Awards show an industry emerging from the recession with a spring in its step and unafraid to experiment
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FeaturesRogers Stirk Harbour's British Museum
RSHP’s World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre at the British Museum strives both to harmonise with its neoclassical context and set itself in contrast to it. But does it succeed?
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FeaturesOne Brighton: Five years on
One Brighton, the UK’s largest private car-free development, was built as a model for sustainable living. Now, five years on, Ike Ijeh visits to ask whether it has lived up to its green promises
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FeaturesThe recyclable house
Technology used to build the world’s largest McDonald’s is being adapted to build temporary, highly flexible, 100% recyclable housing in Holland. Could the model be brought here to solve the UK’s affordable housing crisis?
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FeaturesReview of 2014's Serpentine Pavilion
Architect Smiljan Radić’s design is perhaps one of the most whimsical Serpentine Pavilion ever commissioned
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FeaturesSouthmead: The UK's greenest hospital
Carillion’s new £430m super-hospital in Bristol can lay claim to being the greenest hospital in the UK - and it’s all thanks to some fresh thinking on ventilation.
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FeaturesBrazil's World Cup stadiums: Estadio Beira-Rio, Part 12
In the final part of our series on World Cup stadiums in Brazil, we look at the biggest venue in the south of the country, Estadio Beira-Rio
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FeaturesBrazil's World Cup stadiums: Estadio Mineirao, Part 11
We head to the venue of England’s third group match against Costa Rica, Estadio Mineirao
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FeaturesBrazil's World Cup stadiums: Arena da Baixada, Part 10
Building looks at the tournament’s smallest offering, Arena de Baixada
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FeaturesBrazil's World Cup stadiums: Estadio Castelao, Part 8
Building’s World Cup stadium review continues with the recently renovated Estadio Castelao
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FeaturesBrazil's World Cup stadiums: Estadio do Maracana, Part 9
Building’s review of the World Cup stadiums profiles the national stadium, Estadio do Maracana
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FeaturesGrand projects that might have been
Thirty years ago, Prince Charles’ infamous attack on the proposed National Gallery Extension pretty well assigned the project to oblivion. To mark the occasion, here’s a collection of other grand construction projects that, for good or ill, never saw the light of day
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FeaturesBrazil's World Cup stadiums: Arena de Sao Paulo, Part 7
A review of the stadium set to host the tournament’s opening match, Arena de Sao Paulo
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FeaturesBrazil's World Cup stadiums: Arena Pantanal, Part 5
Building focuses on the stadium set to face some of the hottest temperatures of the tournament, Arena Pantanal
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FeaturesBrazil's World Cup stadiums: Estadio Nacional de Brasilia, Part 6
We deconstruct the world’s second most-expensive stadium, Estadio Nacional de Brasilia
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FeaturesBrazil's World Cup stadiums: Arena Fonte Nova, Part 4
This time our review of the 12 stadiums hosting the World Cup in Brazil focuses on the rebuilt Arena Fonte Nova
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FeaturesBrazil's World Cup stadiums: Arena Pernambuco, Part 3
As Building’s review of the 12 stadiums hosting the Brazil World Cup continues, we look at the most environmentally ambitious of the World Cup stadiums, Arena Pernambuco