All Buildings articles – Page 92
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NewsWillmott Dixon builds model for zero-carbon schools
BRE to showcase exemplar as Partnerships for Schools makes pledge to go green
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FeaturesVeiled in emeralds: Zürich museum
This extension to a Zürich museum is a beguiling marriage of romance and modernism
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NewsSuper-casino plans in disarray after Lords vote
Government's considers its options after Peers reject plans for super-casino in Manchester
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FeaturesA different beast
Aintree’s makeover doesn’t have much in common with the troubled Ascot redevelopment – or any other stadium for that matter. Martin Spring checks out the view from BDP’s flamboyant grandstands
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FeaturesJust what is it like to live in an Ecohome?
Sustainable housebuilding is all well and good, but it means little without sustainability-minded houseowners to back it up. Lydia Stockdale visited three ecohomes to see how the residents have adapted to a greener lifestyle
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FeaturesReligious conversion
Replacing a kiosk at St Paul’s Cathedral demanded an intricate, well-prepared crane operation – wings and prayers didn’t come into it.
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FeaturesThe digi-box
Want a three-storey extension to a grade II-listed building in less than a day? Or a house that’s been digitally manufactured to be as easy to assemble as an Airfix model? Martin Spring visits two projects that are taking off-site manufacture to the next level
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FeaturesCan you read me? Dutch architect MVRDV
Dutch architect MVRDV has divided its modernism-influenced Barcode House into nine distinct strips, each with its own purpose
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FeaturesDead Sea canal: And the dead shall live
Vikki Miller reports on how a canal became an obsession for architects and engineers around the world, including a chap at Foster + Partners
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FeaturesThe attainment of zero
Housing The industry clearly has a lot of work to do to achieve carbon-free homes by 2016. Jan-Carlos Kucharek looks at four projects that are working out how it can be done
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NewsBlowing in the wind
The Joseph Rowntree Trust’s pioneering development – the pre-fabricated city-centre apartments for single people at affordable rents (CASPAR) housing scheme in Leeds – will be demolished.
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FeaturesThe drive of your life
Breaking the stereotype of multistorey car parks as concrete monstrosities, Wilkinson Eyre’s latest project is as visually exciting as it is functionally efficient.
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FeaturesDoing justice to the law
Michael Wilford’s law academy in the Hague is a judicious mix of the traditional and the avant-garde
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FeaturesMuseum of Scotland: A revisit to the museum
Nine years after it was built, Martin Spring went back to Benson & Forsyth’s Museum of Scotland. He found a striking, intriguing building that is struggling to cope with the Edinburgh weather
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FeaturesDone to a turn
Architect Clague’s curvaceous extension to the Strode Park Foundation brings something that most housing for disabled people has never even heard of – glamour.
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NewsCrest wins key Bath planning battle
Bath and North East Somerset Council vote by five to four to approve Crest's controversial Western Riverside scheme
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NewsHousing for Asian families unveiled in Rochdale
Barratt and Artisan have developed a housing range designed for the needs of large, extended Asian families.
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FeaturesA view from the gods
Looking out over this nondescript part of Leicester, and almost entirely suspended from this roof, will be the UK’s most exciting new theatre – and the first building in this country to be designed by US architect Rafael Viñoly.