All Features articles – Page 503
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FeaturesIt's just, like, so L.A
A brick housing and commercial scheme in Fulham, west London, is evoking California with its multicoloured, polka-dotted facade and crazy shapes. We explain how architect CZWG is showing us the way to go west
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FeaturesNo place like home
How Brady Mallalieu's award-winning St Catherine's Foyer has used warm brick to create a homely and welcoming place that helps give Dublin's homeless youngsters a better start in life.
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The gain in panes
After seven years in development, the European Window Energy Rating System is ready to roll, and it's intended to be a better test of performance than U-values. We report on a scheme that's coming soon to a glazed area near you
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FeaturesGeometry and form
Captivating new buildings from the four corners of the globe, all of which dare to be bold with brick
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FeaturesStuck in the eighties?
Remember the decade that taste forgot? Dennis Lenard reckons that the construction industry never left it. We ask some key figures if the industry really is frozen in time
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FeaturesBrickwork innovation, Latino-style
The late Uruguayan-born structural engineer Eladio Dieste (1917-2000) achieved world fame with his advances in contemporary structural brickwork, particularly as a medium to compete with concrete.
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FeaturesUnderstanding brick mortars
In the first of a two-part series, Michael Hammett breaks down brickwork mortar, with top tips for the perfect mix depending on what you're building – and where
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FeaturesBeauty is but skin deep
… especially on these iconic buildings, made infamous by latent defects. The question is, why do problem projects keep getting built – and how can the industry learn from its mistakes?
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April's no fool
The April survey from Experian's Business Strategies division reports an increase in the industry's activity levels, with employment prospects and tender prices set to follow in the same direction
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FeaturesPractice made perfect
It's easy to mistake David Morley Architects' clear-glazed NHS walk-in centre for a shop front. And that's the intention. We walked in to check it out, and he didn't even need an appointment …
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Local lowdown: London
Celebrities are searching for quick-thinking, tight-lipped site managers, but they aren't the only clients hiring in London. Robert Smith of Hays Montrose reports
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FeaturesLife on the line
Rats. Diseases. Pitch dark. 130° heat. Airless, confined spaces. No water. Entombed under 30 m of concrete. Endless tunnels. All night, every night. This is not a recurring nightmare, it's a job. We took a journey to the end of the night with the track replacement boys.
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FeaturesGreen and gold
Transforming a dilapidated sliver of suburbia into award-winning, sedum-roofed housing was easy enough on paper. The hard part was pruning the specification to preserve the eco-friendly design – within budget.
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FeaturesCost model: Football stadiums
Developers are in the grip of football fever, building iconic stadiums that will revive out-of-town areas. We look at the challenges in design, security and crowd control and highlights the retail and hospitality potential
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FeaturesBuilding in two dimensions
This year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy was themed – by David Hockney, no less – on drawing, a discipline in which architects excel. We discovered the delights of Gallery VII
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FeaturesThe bigger picture: how eastern european workers
European enlargement has made a huge pool of highly skilled and low paid workers available to British firms, and it has opened the British market to highly skilled and low cost contractors, too. We report on the likely impact of this momentous development