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Barts Square: a bold piece of history in the making

2021-01-21T05:00:00+00:00By Thomas Lane

Barts Square is a mixed-use development in the City of London that features modern and traditional styles wholly in keeping with surroundings that date back a thousand years. It is almost as if it has always been there

Architectural reviews

Barts Square: a bold piece of history in the making
2021-01-21T05:00:00+00:00By Thomas Lane
Barts Square is a mixed-use development in the City of London that features modern and traditional styles wholly in keeping with surroundings that date back a thousand years. It is almost as if it has always been there
The Old Admiralty Building: back in Her Majesty’s service
2020-12-14T05:00:00+00:00By Elizabeth Hopkirk
Elizabeth Hopkirk tells the story behind the £60m refurbishment of Whitehall’s Old Admiralty Building
A wing and a prayer: what future for airport terminals?
2020-06-01T05:00:00+01:00By Ike Ijeh
Some of the most iconic architecture of our time has been in the form of airport terminals, but if covid-19’s devastating effect on aviation proves permanent, will these structures become redundant? Ike Ijeh surveys aviation’s architectural gems and ponders their future

Technical case studies

Projects: Outernet London, St Giles Circus
2020-07-27T06:00:00+01:00By Helena Russell
An immersive gallery with a theatrical facade is taking shape in central London on the Outernet site at St Giles Circus, but it is under the ground that the real drama has taken place, with an enormous music venue carved out amid a tangle of tube tunnels, and one historic ...
Specifier: Making 22 Bishopsgate a smart building
2020-04-27T06:00:00+01:00By Helena Russell
The building services at 22 Bishopsgate will be run by an innovative integrated system called Smart Spaces, which maximises energy efficiency as well as enhancing flexibility and security
Projects: Copenhill ski slope and energy-from-waste plant, Copenhagen
2019-10-22T05:00:00+01:00By Ike Ijeh
Bjarke Ingels has combined sustainability with recreation by topping a waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen with a 490m artificial ski slope