All Case studies articles – Page 14

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Streatham Hub: How to build an ice rink above a swimming pool

2012-11-09T00:00:00Z

Streatham Hub in south London contains not only a supermarket, apartments and a bus station, but a first-floor ice rink above a heated pool
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Glasgow Commonwealth Games

2012-11-02T00:00:00Z

Glasgow’s 2014 Commonwealth Games is being hosted at a fraction of the cost of the London Olympics, but it still has ambitions to leave a legacy for the public. Building assesses the success of the new sporting venues. Photos by Alan McAteer
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Horrific Halloween architecture

2012-10-26T00:00:00Z

Forget pumpkins and witches’ hats - for a real fright this Halloween nothing beats the worst excesses of modern architecture
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Post-Olympic projects outside London

2012-10-19T00:00:00Z

Two weeks ago Building looked at London’s post-Olympic construction projects and now it’s the turn of the rest of the country. Here we highlight some of the major regional projects coming up over the next few years and the construction trends they herald
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National Football Centre: Here we go!

2012-10-11T00:00:00Z

The £100m National Football Centre provides a world class training base in the hope that our boys will cover themselves in World Cup glory one day
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Post-Olympics: London's rolling

2012-10-04T07:05:00Z

The Olympics may be over but the capital still has plenty of exciting projects to fill the void. Here are the main development sectors and key projects
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Next up: Rio's Olympic venues

2012-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Olympic focus has now switched from London to Rio, which has the added pressure of hosting two other international sporting events before the 2016 games
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Case study: Siemens Crystal

2012-09-19T13:30:00Z

Royal Victoria Dock plays home to a new exhibition venue with sustainability at its heart, the Siemens Crystal
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Leeds Arena: Big noise in the city

2012-09-14T00:00:00Z

How Bam kept the noise down in the 12,500-seat arena in Leeds city centre
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Should schools be uniform?

2012-09-07T00:00:00Z

Will standardised schools herald a school building programme where design quality and educational aspiration are crushed under a monotonous wave of Identikit slabs? Ike Ijeh investigates Photos by Mike Pinches
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Southend Pier Cultural Centre: Out on a limb

2012-08-31T00:00:00Z

How do you carry out a construction project more than a mile out to sea during one of the wettest, windiest summers on record? Well, Kier’s approach to the £3m Southend Pier Cultural Centre job was to build it somewhere else
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The aviation sector: Turbulence ahead

2012-08-24T00:00:00Z

The UK aviation industry is clamouring for an airport hub but opposition makes any location a potential headache for the government. Ike Ijeh navigates a route through the row
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Coastal attractions

2012-08-10T00:00:00Z

Bored of the beach? Ike Ijeh recommends some buildings to check out on those idle seaside afternoons this summer
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Aylesbury Estate: Taking back the streets

2012-08-03T00:00:00Z

How phase 1 of a two decade redevelopment has brought back the traditional grain of the streets to London’s deprived Aylesbury Estate
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Gardens by the Bay, Singapore

2012-07-27T00:00:00Z

How Wilkinson Eyre found a sustainable way of cooling two vast glass conservatories in one of the hottest climates on Earth
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BIM: The inside story one year on

2012-07-20T00:00:00Z

Building caught up with the team on the Manchester library refurb project to see if BIM was everything they hoped it would be
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Wuxi Grand Theatre: Wings of desire

2012-07-13T00:00:00Z

Chinese symbolism and glacial Finnish design work in glorious harmony at PES Architects’ butterfly-roofed opera house in China
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Stedelijk Museum: Bathing beauty

2012-07-06T00:00:00Z

Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum has a new addition with a seamless facade that is deliberately un-Dutch in its showiness
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Total football: Brasilia's National Stadium

2012-06-15T00:00:00Z

Brasilia’s seventies National Stadium has been rebuilt to the tune of £258m to become arguably the greenest arena in the world. It will be a key venue at the 2016 Olympics but, unlike its London counterpart, its real purpose is crystal clear: it’s all about the beautiful game. By Ike ...
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Rope trick: Thames cable car

2012-06-08T00:00:00Z

An ambitious plan to build a cable car over the Thames was up against some seriously tough technical challenges, not to mention the dreaded jinx of the Greenwich peninsula. Building finds out whether they pulled it off. Photography by Tim Crocker