All Buildings articles – Page 82
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FeaturesHarnessing the wind: Bahrain World Trade Centre
Bahrain’s World Trade Centre is one of the first buildings to be designed with wind turbines as part of its structure. It sounds simple, but as Thomas Lane discovered, the problems were many and the answers elusive
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NewsBurj Dubai: Top of the world
The designers of the Burj Dubai tell Katie Puckett how they tackled a very tall order
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FeaturesThe wet room
Timber is well suited to the harsh environment of an indoor swimming pool, but at Longwell Green the finish also decided the way the building was constructed, as Stephen Kennett discovered
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NewsPark regeneration: green and pleasant land
How a park in a deprived area of south-east London went from no-go zone to award-winning oasis
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NewsClaffey House aims for BREEAM 'excellent'
Aedas' zero-carbon design includes rooftop photovoltaic array and ground source heat pump
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FeaturesWelcome to the machine: Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation
Of all Le Corbusier’s buildings, perhaps the most influential is Marseille’s Unité d’Habitation. As a major exhibition of the great man’s works opens in Liverpool, Martin Spring visits this communal ‘machine for living in’ to see what lessons it has for us
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Bright sparks: how to give tenants energy advice
Two Midlands schemes show how housing associations can help tenants stay on top of their energy costs
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NewsImages: Songjiang Quarry Hotel
Atkins’ Chinese hotel concept is built on the side of an abandoned water-filled quarry and blends with local nature
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FeaturesBailey’s cream: Strathclyde HQ
When M&E specialist NG Bailey set out to build its new headquarters in Strathclyde, it wanted to show what it could do to a standard spec office. Its control over the project enabled it to bring in a building of the finest green credentials
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FeaturesMake has triplets
Make Architects has just unveiled three pavilions for the University of Nottingham – two in terracotta allude to the city’s geology, the third is even more heavyweight …
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NewsFalmouth school: sustainable child's play
A new school in Cornwall claims to be an eco-triumph borne out of input in the design from the pupils
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FeaturesFlatpack schools: St Agnes primary school, Manchester
No need for wishful thinking: using solid timber panels as a construction material will bring speed and sustainability to the government’s school building programme. Stephen Kennett looks at a down-to-earth solution
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FeaturesBrislington Enterprise College: Light and airy or a prison?
The pupils of Brislington Enterprise College give their verdict on Bristol’s £34m Building Schools for the Future project. Photography by Neill Menneer
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FeaturesBSF special: Six of the best - a review of the latest Building Schools for the Future
Design watchdog Cabe has given Building Schools for the Future designs a bit of a thrashing to date. But what of the latest crop? Martin Spring takes an exclusive look at six newly completed BSF schools – all but two designed by different architects
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FeaturesBSF special: the painful upbringing of Building Schools for the Future
The troubled past of the government’s £45bn school building programme has been well documented, but there seem to be signs that it is growing into a more mature and productive client. Kicking off our schools special, Thomas Lane charts its progress. Illustrations by Max Schindler
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NewsThe Camden Victorian house refurbishment
This leaky Victorian semi looks much like its neighbour – yet it’s now more energy efficient than almost any new build and is set to achieve Code Level Four status
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NewsCambridgeshire: it's inclusion but not as we know it
An award winning development reaches beyond the front door to integrate disabled people into the life of their town
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FeaturesCambridgeshire's trash palace
The Fenland pavilion made out of unwanted doors, windows, gates ... and stained glass windows
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FeaturesOn your marks: Countdown to 2012, London's Olympic stadium
No false starts here. Construction at London’s 80,000-seater Olympic stadium has got off faster than Usain Bolt (well, almost). Martin Spring watches the sprint towards that now famous deadline
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NewsMeet the house made of pallets
Ingenious homes built from shipping pallets could rehouse disaster victims and refugees