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FeaturesGet your skates on: Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic ice rink
The 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has triggered a flurry of building activity – including this Trout Lake ice rink. Stephen Kennett hurried along for a preview
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓEducation project of the month: Harrow schools
Kier Southern completed sixth-form centres with minimal disturbance to pupils
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FeaturesMedia City, Salford: This is the BBC
Developer Peel Holdings and Bovis Lend Lease enjoy a high level of trust – which is just as well, because when they took on the Beeb’s new studios at MediaCity in Salford, there was a fair degree of risk involved – and getting the project in before the pips was ...
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓSpeirs & Major light up Devonshire Square
Lighting helps Fletcher Priest's transformation of grade II listed business estate near Liverpool Street
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FeaturesTaming the beast: Winchester’s green office refurb
This is the story of how a sixties brutalist eyesore was turned into a building more becoming to the genteel town of Winchester – and made into one of the UK’s greenest offices in the process
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓEternal Seoul: Foster + Partners's South Korea masterplan
Architect wins competition to design sustainable masterplan in South Korea
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FeaturesKfW Banking HQ: Eco de Cologne
The Anglo-German practice Sauerbruch Hutton has released images of its almost completed 38,000m2 extension for the KfW Banking headquarters in Cologne
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FeaturesPenoyre & Prasad’s John Perryn primary school: Start again!
John Perryn primary in east Acton had lost the confidence of parents, staff and Ofsted. So the government stepped in to rebuild it, with a little help from Penoyre & Prasad and Willmott Dixon
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FeaturesHackney-sur-Mer: Levitt Bernstein’s Queensbridge Quarter
Dalston, a less-than-glorious corner of east London, is beginning to look as if it might be able to tempt well-heeled Londoners to give it a go – thanks in part to Levitt Bernstein’s Mediterranean-styled Queensbridge Quarter
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓProject of the month: Birmingham's £2.4bn BSF programme
The achievement of financial close on the Catalyst Lend Lease project shows banks still have an appetite for large-scale BSF
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓSecond time lucky: the Sigma II eco-house
When the Sigma eco-home at the BRE Innovation Park failed to hit the upper bands of the Code for Sustainable Homes, the blame was laid squarely on the building fabric. Now its maker is having another go
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FeaturesGrosvenor Waterside by Make: Don’t tell Charles …
Within spitting distance of the notorious Chelsea Barracks site is this startlingly modern block of flats by Make Architects. Yet, so far, the good burghers of Belgravia haven’t uttered a word against it. And nor has you-know-who. What’s going on?
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FeaturesEducation project of the month: North Road primary school, Darlington
Its sloping green roof makes this innovative new building seem to be emerging from the earth
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FeaturesParty Tricks: Ash Sakula's Luton Carnival Arts Centre
Ash Sakula’s Carnival Arts Centre is Luton’s answer to Notting Hill – buzzing with life and invention and a haven for stiltwalkers and other forms of streetlife
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FeaturesBovis’ Graham Hiley on rescuing the Manchester joint hospitals project
How project director Hiley climbed out of the £400m hole Bovis had got itself into on the hideously complicated joint hospitals scheme
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FeaturesCrazy angles, soaring steel: Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou opera house
As the Chinese city of Guangzhou races to build a new district in time for the 2010 Asian Games, the designs of two British architects enter the spotlight. Thomas Lane charts the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Zaha Hadid’s opera house and Wilkinson Eyre’s West Tower
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓNow even newer: Harlow town centre
Plans for a 1.3 million ft2 addition to Harlow town centre in Essex have been unveiled by Harlow council and developers, Stockland
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FeaturesAmanda Levete's Dublin bridge
Amanda Levete’s first project since she left Future Systems, the firm she ran with her late husband Jan Kaplicky, is a sculptural bridge in Dublin that lays the way for a new direction in her career
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FeaturesTellytubby land: BedZed revisited
Peabody’s BedZed was the housing scheme that first got everyone talking about zero-carbon living. But is it all that it was cracked up to be?Â