All Features articles – Page 465
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FeaturesRuncorn’s Guggenheim
Okay, so it’s not Gehry, and this isn’t exactly Bilbao … Nevertheless, Runcorn’s sensational Brindley Arts Centre, designed by John Miller + Partners, could well have comparable regenerative properties – and it looks great.
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FeaturesShould i stay or should I go?
What would you give to live in country with a warm climate, shorter working hours and a choice of beaches for the weekend? How about two-thirds of your current salary and a year spent studying a foreign language? Hmmm … We present the Building/Hays Construction & Property international salary guide ...
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FeaturesGive us shelter
As global warming takes hold, and daytime temperatures start to rise, and air-conditioning becomes ever more controversial and expensive, more and more emphasis will be placed on what buildings are made from
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FeaturesUnder fire
How good is structural steel at resisting fires in high-rise buildings? The destruction of the Windsor Torre skyscraper in Madrid and the latest findings into the collapse of the World Trade Centre throw new light onto this crucial question.
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FeaturesL stands for Elcon
A concrete building system that died a death in Britain in the 1970s, and then proved immensely popular in the rest of the world, is about to be given a second chance
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FeaturesWhole-life costs: Office design
In the second of our series, David Weight of Currie & Brown looks at the differences in whole-life costs between a deep-plan, air-conditioned base office building and a shallow-plan scheme that is naturally ventilated
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FeaturesHousebuilders looking for commitment - The Rake’s Progress
Mercedes’ showcase for its cars at the old Brooklands racing circuit in Surrey copies the stylish slants and angles of its cars – all of which was achieved with £3.5m worth of high-tech insitu casting …
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FeaturesBright young homes
Gone are the grey high-rise flats of old – tenants on the Elmington Estate in south London now enjoy award-winning brick terraced housing designed by a team of top architects
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FeaturesSpecial brew
As work draws to a close on the third and final stage of Barratt’s three-year, £60m Brewery Wharf apartment development in Leeds city centre, Paul Russell examines the challenges that were overcome to create this striking monument to contemporary urban living
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Laing O’Rourke topples Bovis from its throne
Bovis Lend Lease’s rule of annual contractor’s league is usurped by Laing O’Rourke’s £1.4bn contract wins
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FeaturesThe Genius of Botta
A retrospective of the work of architect Mario Botta, whose geometric forms – often expressed in brick – are celebrated across the globe
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FeaturesBond patterns in brickwork
In his second article on brick bonds, Mike Hammett focuses on their decorative potential
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FeaturesBetter yet
The Concrete Centre has welcomed a new standard covering the performance of innovative housing. Particularly so as concrete looks set to match the criteria with ease.
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A building in a bag
Two students at the Royal College of Art have come up with a brilliant idea for erecting durable, lightweight housing in disaster areas using a footpump and a sackful of ‘Concrete Canvas’
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FeaturesThe space age is over
… Long live the age of the brick. At least, that’s what they’re all saying at Stonebridge Estate in north London, where ‘futuristic’ concrete slabs have been demolished in favour of liveable brick-built homes
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FeaturesAlvar Aalto on what a brick is worth
Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) expressed the coarser nature of brick on numerous projects, particularly those in Finland, such as at the Säynätsalo Town Hall (1949-52) (pictured).
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FeaturesThe £30m baby
Bison’s new Derbyshire factory contains (probably) the most advanced hollowcore flooring equipment in the world. So what’s so special about it? And why is this the right time to bring it on stream?
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FeaturesBrad’s career move leaves Jude nonplussed
Jude Law has no interest in becoming the next Brad Pitt, not in the architectural sense anyway.
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FeaturesNo regrets
Nobody knows better than Sir Martin Laing, former chairman of Laing, how a wafer-thin margin can turn into a catastrophic loss. He tells us about how a contract used to be a gentlemen’s agreement and why he wasn’t to blame for that £1 sale.