All Buildings articles – Page 77
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FeaturesThe right formula: Abu Dhabi's Yas Hotel
With its dramatic architecture, precise engineering and top-speed construction, the Formula One-themed Yas Hotel has outlapped most of Abu Dhabi’s other buildings
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FeaturesZaha's Museum of Transport: The battle of the oil can
Zaha Hadid’s Museum of Transport in Glasgow was designed with gothic zinc-clad ridges and 100m-plus roof spans. They looked great on a computer screen, but led to memorable rows with the project team
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FeaturesRopemaker or Watermark Place: The big square off
Two big hitters have emerged on the streets of the City: Ropemaker in the red corner (above left), Watermark Place in the blue (above right). But which will take the sustainability title and be crowned ultimate speculative office champ?
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NewsKitewood gets green light for mixed development
Developer receives planning permission for 460 homes plus retail and leisure facilities in north-west London
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FeaturesDefence Technical College: building a Welsh town from scratch
A £700m military college the size of a small town, to be built in the next four years. Not so clever now, are we? Capita, you take the training facilities, Brownrigg the living quarters. HLM, you’re with me. Now ’op to it!
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NewsCoventry street
Developer Friargate Coventry has submitted an outline planning application to Coventry council for a £1.5bn mixed-use redevelopment of a 15ha site opposite the city’s train station
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NewsEducation project of the month: Joseph Chamberlain sixth-form college
Nicholas Hare-designed Birmingham college wins prime minister’s Better Public Building Award
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NewsRem Koolhaas theatre opens in Dallas
Wyly Theatre designed by OMA and REX, boasts auditorium visible to passers-by from the outside
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FeaturesStanbrook Abbey: Life and soul
Nuns may not be the most demanding of clients, but apparently they do expect a building to be ‘transcendental’. Dan Stewart took a pilgrimage to Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Stanbrook Abbey in the Yorkshire moors to find out what that means
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FeaturesGet your skates on: Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic ice rink
The 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has triggered a flurry of building activity – including this Trout Lake ice rink. Stephen Kennett hurried along for a preview
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Out of the blue: Terry Pawson's Carlow arts centre
This luminous edifice in the south-east Irish town of Carlow is a glowing testament to a growing reputation
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NewsEducation project of the month: Harrow schools
Kier Southern completed sixth-form centres with minimal disturbance to pupils
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FeaturesMedia City, Salford: This is the BBC
Developer Peel Holdings and Bovis Lend Lease enjoy a high level of trust – which is just as well, because when they took on the Beeb’s new studios at MediaCity in Salford, there was a fair degree of risk involved – and getting the project in before the pips was ...
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NewsSpeirs & Major light up Devonshire Square
Lighting helps Fletcher Priest's transformation of grade II listed business estate near Liverpool Street
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FeaturesTaming the beast: Winchester’s green office refurb
This is the story of how a sixties brutalist eyesore was turned into a building more becoming to the genteel town of Winchester – and made into one of the UK’s greenest offices in the process
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FeaturesPenoyre & Prasad’s John Perryn primary school: Start again!
John Perryn primary in east Acton had lost the confidence of parents, staff and Ofsted. So the government stepped in to rebuild it, with a little help from Penoyre & Prasad and Willmott Dixon
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FeaturesKfW Banking HQ: Eco de Cologne
The Anglo-German practice Sauerbruch Hutton has released images of its almost completed 38,000m2 extension for the KfW Banking headquarters in Cologne
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NewsEternal Seoul: Foster + Partners's South Korea masterplan
Architect wins competition to design sustainable masterplan in South Korea
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FeaturesHackney-sur-Mer: Levitt Bernstein’s Queensbridge Quarter
Dalston, a less-than-glorious corner of east London, is beginning to look as if it might be able to tempt well-heeled Londoners to give it a go – thanks in part to Levitt Bernstein’s Mediterranean-styled Queensbridge Quarter
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NewsProject of the month: Birmingham's £2.4bn BSF programme
The achievement of financial close on the Catalyst Lend Lease project shows banks still have an appetite for large-scale BSF