All Case studies articles – Page 11

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    How to make an airport fly

    2014-01-30T08:00:00Z

    Boris Johnson’s plan to build an airport from scratch in the Thames Estuary may be no nearer to securing government backing, but it refuses to go away. We look at similar projects from around the world to try to work out if the idea has wings

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    Such stuff as dreams are made on: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

    2014-01-14T10:35:00Z

    Seventeen years after the reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse completes the vision in dazzling style

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    Center Parcs: The place beyond the pines

    2014-01-08T08:12:00Z

    Center Parcs’ £250m resort will cater for 4,000 visitors in a forest in the green belt just outside Milton Keynes. So how do you build a self-sufficient small town in the middle of a wood? And get permission to do it?

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    Projects 2013: Six of the best

    2013-12-20T00:00:00Z

    We pick out the most impressive projects of 2013, from a graceful City tower (that doesn’t melt cars) to the world’s first zero-carbon dairy

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    PwC's London office: Highest BREEAM-rated building ever

    2013-12-06T06:00:00Z

    When PwC decided to refurbish its unloved central London office, it thought it would be doing well to achieve a BREEAM “excellent” rating. Then it realised it could do rather better than that …

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    New Victorians

    2013-11-22T06:00:00Z

    A 19th-century primary school in Dulwich came with the usual set of problems associated with old buildings. To solve them, Edward Cullinan Architects took a pragmatic and piecemeal approach

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    Review: Tate Britain's refurbishment

    2013-11-20T09:14:00Z

    Caruso St John’s redevelopment of Tate Britain contains no dramatic interventions. Rather, it is a masterclass in creating modern, vibrant spaces within the context of a venerable institution

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    Scottish Crime Campus

    2013-11-15T06:00:00Z

    With its DNA-inspired design concept, BMJ and Ryder Architecture’s £82m Scottish Crime Campus provides compelling evidence that police buildings don’t have to be grim high-security compounds.

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    Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre roof, Athens

    2013-11-07T06:00:00Z

    Athens’ vast £500m Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre is being crowned with a 10,000m2 ferrocement canopy, designed by Expedition Engineering. Why did the UK practice settled on this unusual choice of material?

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    WWF HQ: 'Stringent is an understatement'

    2013-10-31T11:46:00Z

    At the World Wildlife Fund’s new HQ in Surrey, Willmott Dixon has taken sustainable construction to new levels of rigour, forensically tracking the carbon content of every single element, and even building an FSC-certified workshop on site. So has the result been worth it?

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    Danish Maritime Museum: Method in the Madness

    2013-10-21T17:15:00Z

    Bjarke Ingels Group Architects’ £34m Danish Maritime Museum has been built entirely underground - in a former dock in Elsinore. The challenge was building underneath the water level without Hamlet’s old castle sinking into oblivion

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    Six stadiums that tell the story of English football

    2013-10-17T06:00:00Z

    The Football Association is 150 years old this week and, to celebrate, Building picks out some of the architectural highpoints of English stadiums

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    The spaces in between

    2013-10-10T06:00:00Z

    As London’s King’s Cross Square opens at last, Ike Ijeh considers the chequered history of the capital’s spaces - and their likely future

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    Foster + Partners' The Hydro

    2013-10-04T06:00:00Z

    With its dazzling state-of-the-art light shows, Foster + Partners’ £125m concert arena on the Clyde could well become the main event itself

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    Christchurch: Rebooting the city

    2013-09-25T06:00:00Z

    Arup’s Sensing City project in New Zealand’s Christchurch

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    The timber trail

    2013-09-20T00:00:00Z

    As the EU cracks down on illegally harvested timber, what are the industry’s responsibilities?

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    The Iceberg, Denmark: Jagged edge

    2013-09-19T06:00:00Z

    The Iceberg - a residential scheme that owes its dramatic profile to the unceasing Scandinavian quest for light

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    The Cheesegrater: One for heavy metal fans

    2013-09-13T00:00:00Z

    How the 224m-tall Leadenhall Building was constructed in the City without disrupting the neighbours

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    Modular assembly forest school

    2013-09-05T06:00:00Z

    Lime Tree Primary School, a modular assembly forest school in Greater Manchester, has a sensitive design concept from standardised elements

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    Library of Birmingham: The borrowers

    2013-08-29T00:02:00Z

    Mecanoo’s £189m Library of Birmingham is a triumph - once you get inside