All Buildings articles – Page 84
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FeaturesSolar-powered LED cladding: Great wall of China
Beijing’s ‘media wall’ brings to life Simone Giostra’s concept of a narrative facade. Stephen Kennett looks at how this unique, decade-in-the-making concept merges art and artifice onto one illuminated electronic showstopper
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NewsM&S's sustainable factory in Sri Lanka
Marks and Spencer supplier proves every building can be sustainable, including factories
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NewsThe top 5 American green buildings
The founder of green website Jetson Green picks his five best completed projects in America, from housing schemes to a hotel and an office
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NewsBringing sustainability to the heart of the process
We take a look at how one construction company has brought sustainability to the very heart of how it does business
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FeaturesRelocating Dorset’s Clavell Tower
It was a race against time to save a tiny piece of heritage on the Dorset coastline by painstakingly moving it away from the cliff edge stone by stone.
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NewsSeeing trees for the wood
Government’s eco-report shows it's serious, but what difference could a biomass fuel economy make to the way we heat our homes?
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NewsNetwork Rail plans five new lines
Strategic review will consider options to meet booming train passenger demand to the north and west of London
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FeaturesKøbenhavn cool: Socially sustainable Danish architecture
Danish architecture’s love of light and openness encourages a high level of spatial and social interaction. To mark Architecture Week, Martin Spring looks at four developments that typify the city’s fresh approach to sustainability
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NewsBerkeley Homes utilises Canadian super insulated system
Super E system was adopted in Holborough timber housing project to save energy
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NewsPortsmouth FC reveals Herzog & de Meuron's latest stadium plans
New design unveiled for waterfront mixed-use scheme after MoD scuppers original plans
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NewsCarillion seals £208m deal for Nottingham schools
Contract includes building or refurbishment of eight secondary schools and 25-year facilities management agreement
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NewsRacial segregation: bridging the divide
A housing association in Stoke-on-Trent is taking a new approach to integrating communities
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FeaturesBexley Academy: Qualified success
The open-plan design of Foster + Partners’ Bexley academy was derided when it opened six years ago, and it has since suffered a leaky roof and peeling paint. Still, staff and students all really love it
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NewsPark life: Bromford Group's Cross Street
Thermal insulation, recycling and water conservation are old news, says Chloe Stothart. In the battle for high sustainability ratings, the real game is outside the door…
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NewsMPs appalled at £29m wasted on cancelled asylum centre
Scheme that was never built still cost the Home Office millions due to “startling absence of common sense”, says accounts committee
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NewsEverton wins approval for new football stadium
Local council gives assent but public inquiry could yet be called on £400m Kirkby scheme featuring Tesco and 50,000-seater stadium
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NewsSeeking a miracle
St Matthew's estate in Brixton was drab and crime ridden until architects PRP gave it a makeover. They tell us how they made it a little more divine
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NewsTop marks for university eco-residences
Lancaster University sees its partnership with a private sector property provider pay dividends as its latest phase of student residences are awarded a BREEAM Excellent rating
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FeaturesThe secret square: Bennetts Associates’ New Street Square
It is reached through narrow medieval-style passageways, but could be a blueprint for a sustainable 21st-century City of London