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    Projects: Hackney town hall

    2017-11-23T11:06:00Z

    It’s taken 12 years to restore Hackney town hall after 80 years of neglect. Ike Ijeh assesses the results

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    Projects: the Cambridge Mosque

    2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

    One of David Marks’ last projects is a contemplative Cambridge mosque with complex timber geometry

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    Projects: Bloomberg HQ, London

    2017-10-30T06:00:00Z

    Foster + Partners’ HQ for Bloomberg breaks with tradition for City of London buildings by respecting the architectural context of its surroundings

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    An architectural side note

    2017-09-13T00:18:00Z

    The £57m Birmingham Conservatoire’s quiet restraint has produced an anonymous facade that conceals rather than celebrates the elegant music spaces within

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    Back to school: The human touch

    2017-09-06T09:39:00Z

    OMA’s first science building, Lab City engineering school near Paris, humanises its rational grid structure through a system of streets and squares bathed in natural light.

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    London's High Point: Race to the top

    2017-08-30T11:10:00Z

    In creating the UK’s tallest build-for-rent development – Highpoint in London’s Elephant and Castle – flexibility, efficiency and speed were key concepts for contractor Mace and structural engineer AKT II

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    Passivhaus: Economy of scale

    2017-08-23T15:21:00Z

    When it’s finished, Goldsmith Street in Norwich will be the largest Passivhaus scheme in the UK - but built as a 100% social housing scheme, it had to be delivered for a competitive price. But how is it being achieved?

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    Wild imaginings: Beach huts, Part 2

    2017-08-14T06:30:00Z

    The humble British beach hut is being reconfigured for the 21st century, as Part 2 of our guide shows

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    Wild imaginings: Beach huts, Part 1

    2017-08-11T06:00:00Z

    The humble British beach hut is being reconfigured for the 21st century, as Part 1 of our guide shows

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    Housing Project of the Year shortlist

    2017-08-02T07:00:00Z

    A Victorian chapel, rooftop houses, and a playground in the sky are just some of the innovations that feature in this year’s Building Awards housing shortlist, showcasing the country’s best residential projects

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    Talkin’ bout a revolution

    2017-07-27T06:00:00Z

    Take some well-tested modern manufacturing techniques, add them to a radical streamlined procurement route that makes the supplier king and you have the beginnings of what could be a revolution in how we build. Ike Ijeh reports on the latest advances in off-site manufacture

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    Bracknell: Talk of the town

    2017-07-19T06:00:00Z

    Bracknell is the first post-war new town to be comprehensively demolished and rebuilt - to the tune of £750m. Building visited just weeks before completion to see a scheme that hopes to get shoppers and visitors returning in droves

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    Housing Design Awards 2017: the winners

    2017-07-11T00:01:00Z

    It’s good to be reminded of the high quality that characterises much of the new work being produced in housing

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    V&A extension: Culture shock

    2017-07-04T06:00:00Z

    Amanda Levete’s £48m expansion of London’s V A connects the museum with the public realm through a superb porcelain-paved courtyard. But it’s the sheer immersive power of its vast subterranean exhibition hall that will make visitors stand and gawp

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    National Gallery of Ireland: Windows of opportunity

    2017-06-28T06:00:00Z

    Heneghan Peng’s £25m refurbishment of the National Gallery of Ireland is a sensitive and sometimes almost invisible intervention into an idiosyncratic building

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    Under a cloud

    2017-06-21T06:00:00Z

    Commercial development in the City has had the shadow of Brexit looming over it for a year now

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    Close to the edge

    2017-06-16T06:00:00Z

    Kengo Kuma’s extraordinarily complex design for the V A’s outpost in Dundee would not have been possible without 3D modelling and analysis tools, not to mention complex construction techniques, that have left the city with a building of true grit

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    BIM: Attention to detail

    2017-06-07T10:31:00Z

    A Boston restoration project using advanced 3D-modelling and printing technologies could hold the key to a new age of decoration within contemporary design

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    Residential towers: Through the roof

    2017-05-31T06:00:00Z

    New York and London are both bristling with new residential towers, a boom driven by demand for housing and skyrocketing prices for luxury flats

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    By the people: Columbia University’s new Manhattanville campus

    2017-05-24T06:00:00Z

    Columbia University’s new Manhattanville campus has championed a policy of inclusiveness not only for its students but also in the construction teams that built it