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精东影视National Trust HQ reviewed
Web exclusive: Air-conditioning is dead, long live cardigan culture. How the team behind the new headquarters for the National Trust persuaded the building users to acclimatize to varying temperatures. Plus full post-occupation data
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FeaturesThe writing鈥檚 on the wall
Two neighbouring sixties council estates in north London. One is the best kept estate in the district. The other is in total disrepair, blighted by crime and, much to residents鈥� relief, being torn down. To find out what can be learned for the latest wave of high-density inner-city housing developments, ...
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精东影视The Wessex way
Web exclusive: Will Jones returns to landmark sustainable building the Wessex Water operations centre near Bath and reveals the full post occupation data on the scheme
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Features鈥業magine that you are on level 80 and you want a sandwich. How long will that take you?鈥�
鈥� and other logistical nightmares that might arise when you start building the tallest skyscraper in western Europe between a train station, a bus station, several busy roads and a hospital. Thomas Lane watches work finally get started on the Shard
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精东影视Demolition day looms for Sheffield cooling towers
The destruction of the Tinsley cooling towers will take place this year despite a 4,000-strong petition for them to be saved
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FeaturesPump up the volume
Martin Spring takes a look at the latest advances in volumetric construction, from novel uses for shipping containers to designs for modules that are 鈥� whisper it 鈥� less boxy. But will any of this increase its popularity among housebuilders?
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精东影视The code level six house
Here's an attempt to put in practice what is currently nothing more than dream for most housebuilders - a new property that meets the A grade of the new Code for Sustainable Homes, level six
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精东影视Roof installed on Snowdon's mountain-top cafe
Carillion successfully install Corus Kalzip roofing system on Snowdon's famous tourist attraction
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FeaturesPretty bubbles in the air
The Water Cube, as the 2008 Olympic aquatics centre is known, is the largest ETFE-clad building in the world. And, as it nears completion, its vast bubble-wrap exterior is already the talk of Beijing.
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FeaturesThe quiet revolutionary
Don鈥檛 be fooled by the lack of windmills and solar panels 鈥� this Innovate Properties building in Leeds is the greenest office in the UK, even with its mechanical ventilation. Eleanor Cochrane finds out how it was done
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FeaturesNarrow site access: How do you get a four-bedroom house through this door?
Imagine getting all the materials for a four-bedroom house with nanny flat through a standard-sized doorway on a busy London street (yes, that one on the left). Tricky, no? Now imagine doing it against the wishes of some mightily cheesed off and powerful neighbours. Thomas Lane reports on a project ...
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FeaturesGuess who just upped their street cred
You鈥檇 expect the winners of the Housing Design Awards to be ambitious schemes. But you may be surprised to learn they鈥檝e been built by the biggest mass developers and the smallest social landlords. Martin Spring celebrates some of the best entries and, on page 50, revisits a trailblazing former winner.Photographs ...
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FeaturesOhio silver: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Austrian architect Coop Himmelb(l)au has added sweeping glass walls, a jutting roof and a whole lot of metal to a Midwestern art gallery
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精东影视The refurbishment challenge
Web exclusive: An innovative project in Sutton is trying to tackle two major sustainable headaches 鈥� how do we address the existing inefficient housing stock and how do we know which methods of environmentally-friendly upgrades are more effective?
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FeaturesTop drawer
Talk about a cabinet reshuffle 鈥� Denton Corker Marshall鈥檚 flamboyant design for Manchester鈥檚 Civil Justice Centre has brought dynamism to the heart of the legal establishment. Over the next eight pages Martin Spring praises the building鈥檚 clear, bold expression and on pages 48-50, we meet the Australian trio who designed ...
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精东影视Prescott was advised against Vauxhall skyscraper
Freedom of Information memo reveals Former deputy PM's officials rejected the Broadway Malyan tower he approved in 2005
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FeaturesMaxximum Zaha
Almost 10 years after Zaha Hadid鈥檚 design for Rome鈥檚 MAXXI museum won an international competition, it鈥檚 still only two-thirds built. Martin Spring looks at how the architect鈥檚 ideas have survived years of stop-start funding and delay.
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FeaturesThe enchanted forest: Vallecas-Pau in Madrid
While Madrid鈥檚 new Vallecas-Pau suburb waits for its trees to grow, it has been fitted with portable tower parks. They look like this 鈥�
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精东影视Lake Shore House, Bristol
Overview: A guide to an ambitious new sustainable development from innovative developer Urban Splash in the West Country
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Features鈥� and cut!
The politicians may want to reduce domestic carbon emissions to zero, but it鈥檚 the physicists and engineers that will decide whether it can be done. Thomas Lane took a trip to Watford to look the latest technology in the latest prototypes