All Case studies articles – Page 7

  • Gatwick airport
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    Gatwick: Ground control

    2015-07-22T07:01:00Z

    BIM is central to the success of Gatwick airport’s massive £1.2bn capital investment programme

  • Bradbury Place, Andover, Hampshire
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    Housing Design Awards 2015: Winners

    2015-07-15T07:01:00Z

    This year’s Housing Design Awards show that the sector’s return to strength has brought with it bold and experimental design, with council housing and housing for older people in particular taking some unexpected forms

  • Last month saw the completion of Crossrail tunnelling
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    Crossrail: Service update

    2015-07-07T13:23:00Z

    As Crossrail celebrates a trio of significant milestones, Ike Ijeh takes a look at the current state of play

  • Crane on the crane
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    BAR yachting HQ: At the rate of knots

    2015-07-03T06:01:00Z

    Ben Ainslie Racing’s Portsmouth HQ embodies the bold spirit of the yacht teams it will house

  • The new block features a translucent facade faced with polycarbonate sheeting
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    Graveney School: Shining example

    2015-06-24T10:28:00Z

    Tooting’s Graveney School teaches architecture to its schoolchildren, invites architects to lecture, and counts architects among its alumni

  • Bond Street 4
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    Action station: Bond street tube station

    2015-06-19T06:00:00Z

    A cramped site 20m underground, below a busy street is not an easy place to conduct the £320m upgrade of Bond Street tube station. Especially when the only access is via two 9m-wide shafts.

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    London Business School: A perfect match

    2015-06-10T10:19:00Z

    Sheppard Robson’s partial conversion of the Westminster Register Office complex includes a glazed link building for the entrance

  • Care Index
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    A care in the world

    2015-06-03T06:00:00Z

    Architype’s £9.6m overhaul of St Michael’s Hospice in Herefordshire is a nuanced balance between residential and institutional functions

  • East end atrium plant box enclosures
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    Francis Crick Institute: Larger than life

    2015-05-29T06:00:00Z

    The awe-inspiring scale, ambition and innovation of the Francis Crick Institute more than matches the pioneering biomedical research that is soon to take place within its walls

  • Enterprise Centre
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    Enterprise Centre: A plan is thatched

    2015-05-20T06:00:00Z

    The £11.6m Enterprise Centre at the University of East Anglia is one of the most innovative green buildings in the UK. But for its prefabricated cladding, it relies on the region’s most traditional building method

  • Believe in Better Building, Sky office
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    ICE 2015 London Engineering Awards

    2015-05-15T06:00:00Z

    This year’s awards showcase the diverse and innovative nature of projects taking place in the UK’s capital

  • Houses of Parliament, London, UK
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    Parliamentary renovations: Houses of cards

    2015-05-06T06:00:00Z

    The Houses of Parliament are in desperate need of repair. With just 20 years of life left within their crumbling walls, proposals for renovation are being drawn up

  • London skyline
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    Architecture in a time of austerity

    2015-04-29T06:00:00Z

    Ike Ijeh assesses the impact the coalition has had on architecture and how design has fared through the years of budget tightening

  • Water
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    Water usage: To the last drop

    2015-04-22T06:00:00Z

    With every person in the UK using an average of 150 litres of water per day, the country’s water usage needs tempering. Ike Ijeh investigates the domestic inventions that could prevent us from running dry

  • Massing options for the East India Dock residential project in Tower Hamlets
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    BIM: Early adopters

    2015-04-14T06:00:00Z

    Ramboll has developed an early stage modelling process that combines the qualitative capabilities of parametric design with BIM’s algorithmic, analytical strengths. Ike Ijeh wonders where this leaves designers

  • Belgravia 1
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    119 Ebury Street: Cleaning up the neighbourhood

    2015-04-08T06:00:00Z

    Belgravia is one of London’s most genteel quarters, but its Georgian homes are among the UK’s least energy efficient. Now, David Morley’s BREEAM ‘outstanding’ renovation of a grade II property has shown that heritage doesn’t have to mean high emissions

  • The ‘floating’ bookstack structure is suspended over the new entrance hall
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    Bodleian library: The new edition

    2015-04-02T06:00:00Z

    As custodian of millions of precious books and manuscripts, Oxford’s Bodleian library needed a much bigger - and safer - building to house its collection. With the new Weston Library, Wilkinson Eyre provided this and much more

  • Maggie's Oxford
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    Preview: Building Awards Small Project of the Year shortlist

    2015-03-25T06:00:00Z

    From swimming pool to school, court to chapel, the architectural gems up for this year’s Building Awards Small Project of the Year prove that size isn’t everything

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    Preview: Building Awards Project of the Year shortlist

    2015-03-18T13:00:00Z

    The schemes in the running to be Building’s Project of the Year are as varied as the purposes for which they were designed. But whether a hockey centre or a special needs school, the teams behind these buildings went the extra mile

  • Bethlem
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    Bethlem Hospital: Altered states

    2015-03-11T06:00:00Z

    Fraser Brown MacKenna’s renovation of Bethlem Hospital’s Museum of the Mind may look from the outside much as it did, but the interior spaces now house art galleries, exhibition spaces and an incomparable archive