All ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓs articles – Page 75
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓPilgrims’ rest: Darb-Al-Khalil in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
This is the corner block of a 5.8ha development known as the Darb-Al-Khalil, that has just started on site just south of the Great Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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FeaturesSunderland university student union: All bar none
There’s no room for slackers at Sunderland university’s dazzling new student union, which packs its impressively generous spaces with sports halls and exercise areas. You can’t even get a pint around here
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓSheffield's tallest tower will take six months to clad
£40m scheme designed by architects Conran & Partners will use around 6,000m2 of Wicona unitised curtain walling
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓEducation project of the month: Newcomen Primary school, Redcar
Atkins’ £3.5m project aims to maximise use of outdoor space
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FeaturesRome improvements: Hadid's Maxxi museum
Zaha Hadid’s long-awaited Maxxi art museum has given the Eternal City a bit of a shake-up
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓBeautiful game: Basra stadium
WSP’s American engineering consultant WSP Flack+Kurtz has revealed ambitious plans for a 65,000-seat football stadium in Basra
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FeaturesAll’s well that ends well: Stratford-upon-Avon theatre
Ripping the guts out of the RSC’s Stratford-upon-Avon theatre and building a new auditorium in the existing one was Bennetts Associates’ bold remedy to the many poetic injustices being done to the Bard
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FeaturesA world awaits us: The Copenhagen conference building boom
A deal on carbon reduction targets in next month’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen could create a boom for UK consultants working overseas
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FeaturesImagine the world in 2020: climate change
The year’s 2020, and, having left ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ for reasons far too shocking to go into here, former assistant editor Thomas Lane talks us through a day in his life as an engineer in a world that’s slowly coming to terms with climate change …
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓHammerson gets green light for Foster's revised Bishops Place scheme
Hackney council approves amended proposals for 1.5m sq ft project on central London site
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FeaturesZaha's Museum of Transport: The battle of the oil can
Zaha Hadid’s Museum of Transport in Glasgow was designed with gothic zinc-clad ridges and 100m-plus roof spans. They looked great on a computer screen, but led to memorable rows with the project team
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FeaturesThe right formula: Abu Dhabi's Yas Hotel
With its dramatic architecture, precise engineering and top-speed construction, the Formula One-themed Yas Hotel has outlapped most of Abu Dhabi’s other buildings
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FeaturesRopemaker or Watermark Place: The big square off
Two big hitters have emerged on the streets of the City: Ropemaker in the red corner (above left), Watermark Place in the blue (above right). But which will take the sustainability title and be crowned ultimate speculative office champ?
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓKitewood gets green light for mixed development
Developer receives planning permission for 460 homes plus retail and leisure facilities in north-west London
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓCoventry street
Developer Friargate Coventry has submitted an outline planning application to Coventry council for a £1.5bn mixed-use redevelopment of a 15ha site opposite the city’s train station
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FeaturesDefence Technical College: building a Welsh town from scratch
A £700m military college the size of a small town, to be built in the next four years. Not so clever now, are we? Capita, you take the training facilities, Brownrigg the living quarters. HLM, you’re with me. Now ’op to it!
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓEducation project of the month: Joseph Chamberlain sixth-form college
Nicholas Hare-designed Birmingham college wins prime minister’s Better Public ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ Award
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓRem Koolhaas theatre opens in Dallas
Wyly Theatre designed by OMA and REX, boasts auditorium visible to passers-by from the outside
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FeaturesStanbrook Abbey: Life and soul
Nuns may not be the most demanding of clients, but apparently they do expect a building to be ‘transcendental’. Dan Stewart took a pilgrimage to Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Stanbrook Abbey in the Yorkshire moors to find out what that means
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Out of the blue: Terry Pawson's Carlow arts centre
This luminous edifice in the south-east Irish town of Carlow is a glowing testament to a growing reputation