All articles by Ike Ijeh – Page 5
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FeaturesProjects: The Royal Academy
Expanding Burlington House into Burlington Gardens is all about forging a strong link between these two historic buildings, using existing underground vaults and a new connecting bridge
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FeaturesProjects: Grange Primary School, London - top of the class
Maccreanor Lavington has given a tired Victorian school a public face and facilities suitable for modern teaching method, without compromising its original character or surroundings
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FeaturesBring on the robots: the world's first 3D-printed house
It may still be sci-fi for some, but 3D printing is fast breaking down conventional barriers in engineering and architecture and changing the way the construction industry operates
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FeaturesProjects: Villages Nature Paris - tourism au naturel
With its power coming from geothermal energy and its buildings being ecologically sound, could a French water park, nestled next to Disneyland Paris, lead the way in sustainable mass tourism?
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FeaturesInside the machine: the influence of high-tech architecture
Ike Ijeh explores the origins, impact and legacy of one of architecture’s most enduring concepts, as we begin a series reflecting on architectural styles through the ages
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FeaturesProjects: The NHS’ first high-energy proton beam cancer treatment centre
The project to complete the centre, opening this summer at the Christie hospital in Manchester, was filled with a plethora of unusual challenges
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FeaturesProjects: Centre Point - the ugly duckling
Conran and Partners has converted Richard Seifert’s landmark Centre Point into luxury flats, completing the transformation of the central London tower from rejected pariah to paragon of sixties chic
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FeaturesYoung Architect of the Year 2018: Practice makes perfect
The shortlisted entrants for the Young Architect of the Year award have made big strides so far in a challenging profession - BD Online spoke with these talented young designers
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FeaturesHousing density: does it stack up?
High-density housing conjures images of the nightmare slum tenements seen in some other global cities, but can modern design make high density attractive in the UK?
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CommentTrailblazers: The Crystal Palace
What buildings from the last 175 years were futuristic in their time, or marked a change in how the industry built?
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FeaturesSpherical objects!
Spheres have always been seen as a rather fantastical form for a building. Yet the sphere is in a geometric sense the most efficient form there is – and new technical innovations are making it easier to exploit this potential in practice.
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FeaturesWomen in architecture - on a role
Although women still account for barely a fifth of UK architects – and that figure is falling – they are increasingly leaving their mark on the built landscape. Ike Ijeh talks to leading women in the field to find out how they got where they are today
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FeaturesProjects: BBC TV Centre - no place for daleks
The iconic home of television has been given a new lease of life as housing, offices - and broadcast studios. Ike Ijeh tunes in
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FeaturesProjects: Built by gaslight
An eagerly awaited luxury housing development at King’s Cross has an unusual exterior – three Victorian gasholders frame the structures
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FeaturesProjects: Pane management - the restoration of the Temperate House at Kew
The Temperate House at Kew, the world’s largest Victorian greenhouse, is about to emerge from a painstaking – and at times nerve-racking – restoration
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FeaturesProjects: Raiders of the lost car park
Multi-storey car parks may not traditionally have been seen as desirable real estate, but a lucky few are being repurposed as everything from luxury hotels to micro-flats
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FeaturesProjects 2018 preview: Onwards and upwards
Ike Ijeh looks at some of the construction projects that will be making the headlines this year
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FeaturesProjects: US Embassy - Safe house
Architect Kieran Timberlake’s new US Embassy is set to become the centrepiece of Battersea’s Nine Elms regeneration
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NewsUS embassy set to be opened by Trump later this month
All 800 staff will be at their new London base built by McAlpine in three weeks’ time
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FeaturesProjects of the year: 2017 in review
Source: Riverfilm / Martin Richardson PLP Architecture’s 22 Bishopsgate This year’s striking schemes include AL_A at the V A museum, Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg HQ, and Herzog de Meuron’s triumph over chaos in Hamburg