More Technical Case Studies – Page 4
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FeaturesGatwick: Ground control
BIM is central to the success of Gatwick airport’s massive £1.2bn capital investment programme
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2015: Winners
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
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FeaturesCrossrail: Service update
As Crossrail celebrates a trio of significant milestones, Ike Ijeh takes a look at the current state of play
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FeaturesBAR yachting HQ: At the rate of knots
Ben Ainslie Racing’s Portsmouth HQ embodies the bold spirit of the yacht teams it will house
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FeaturesGraveney School: Shining example
Tooting’s Graveney School teaches architecture to its schoolchildren, invites architects to lecture, and counts architects among its alumni
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FeaturesAction station: Bond street tube station
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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FeaturesLondon Business School: A perfect match
Sheppard Robson’s partial conversion of the Westminster Register Office complex includes a glazed link building for the entrance
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FeaturesA care in the world
Architype’s £9.6m overhaul of St Michael’s Hospice in Herefordshire is a nuanced balance between residential and institutional functions
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FeaturesFrancis Crick Institute: Larger than life
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
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FeaturesEnterprise Centre: A plan is thatched
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
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FeaturesICE 2015 London Engineering Awards
This year’s awards showcase the diverse and innovative nature of projects taking place in the UK’s capital
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FeaturesBuildings as power stations
Scientists are working hard to make the built environment principally reliant on renewable energy. But with only 10% of their ideas leading to commercial application, a Swansea-based innovation centre aims to turn theory into practice
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FeaturesBristol Life Sciences: Split personality
Sheppard Robson’s Bristol Life Sciences building comprises a sober street facade that apes Georgian townhouse vernacular; and a dramatic, industrial laboratory elevation that ripples like a giant metallic wave
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FeaturesBritish pavilion, Milan: Get the buzz
Much of the site of this year’s British pavilion in Milan will evoke the spirit of British landscapes. But its crowning achievement will be a gigantic recreation of a beehive
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FeaturesA lesson in geometry: Knauf's UK headquarters
AHMM’s design for the new Knauf HQ is a masterclass in lineal precision, fitting seamlessly into its industrial riverside setting despite its modernist white exterior. Here’s how, with the use of some of the manufacturer’s own materials, the project stacked up to just £1.8m
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FeaturesThe eco-supermarket pioneers
As Sainsbury’s Greenwich, the pioneer of retail sustainability, prepares for possible demolition just 15 years after its opening, we look at how eco-stores have evolved since, with supermarkets attempting to save energy and boost their green credentials
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FeaturesBuilding Awards Small Project of the Year: Maggie's cancer centre, Aberdeen
With its streamlined, organic form enhancing its welcoming ethos, the latest Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre in Aberdeen, designed by Snøhetta, is a worthy winner of this year’s Small Project of the Year Building Award
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FeaturesCreating the Design Museum's new home
The iconic Commonwealth Institute needed a new tenant - and the iconic Design Museum needed a new home. But adapting a fragile and low-spec sixties building to house a visitor attraction meant using some serious technical know-how
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FeaturesParking problems on housing developments
Few things outrage the driver’s innate sense of entitlement more than not being able to find a car parking space near to home. Yet planners and designers are still grappling to reconcile the need to placate the resident with the desire to minimise the impact of the car
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FeaturesSuch stuff as dreams are made on: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Seventeen years after the reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse completes the vision in dazzling style