All ɫTVs articles – Page 38
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Ballymore launches 400-home London City Island scheme
Ballymore to kick off work after English National Ballet agreed to move to “mini-Manhattan” development
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Manchester University picks contractors for £1bn revamp
Balfour Beatty, Laing O’Rourke and Sir Robert McAlpine named for huge campus masterplan
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Francis 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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Jaguar Land Rover plans major factory development
Jaguar Land Rover to submit planning application for large extension of facilities in West Midlands.
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Crown Estate launches £145m joint venture
The Crown Estate and Oxford Properties agree second joint venture worth £145m
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WWII bomb forces Wembley construction workers evacuation
WWII bomb causes student accommodation development to be evacuated
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Lend Lease secures second occupier for Stratford International Quarter
Land Lease and London Continental Railways have secured their second tenant for The International Quarter
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Enterprise 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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ICE 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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Parliamentary renovations: Houses of cards
The Houses of Parliament are in desperate need of repair. With just 20 years of life left within their crumbling walls, proposals for renovation are being drawn up
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Architecture in a time of austerity
Ike Ijeh assesses the impact the coalition has had on architecture and how design has fared through the years of budget tightening
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Water usage: To the last drop
With every person in the UK using an average of 150 litres of water per day, the country’s water usage needs tempering. Ike Ijeh investigates the domestic inventions that could prevent us from running dry
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BIM: Early adopters
Ramboll has developed an early stage modelling process that combines the qualitative capabilities of parametric design with BIM’s algorithmic, analytical strengths. Ike Ijeh wonders where this leaves designers
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119 Ebury Street: Cleaning up the neighbourhood
Belgravia is one of London’s most genteel quarters, but its Georgian homes are among the UK’s least energy efficient. Now, David Morley’s BREEAM ‘outstanding’ renovation of a grade II property has shown that heritage doesn’t have to mean high emissions
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Bodleian library: The new edition
As custodian of millions of precious books and manuscripts, Oxford’s Bodleian library needed a much bigger - and safer - building to house its collection. With the new Weston Library, Wilkinson Eyre provided this and much more
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Preview: ɫTV Awards Small Project of the Year shortlist
From swimming pool to school, court to chapel, the architectural gems up for this year’s ɫTV Awards Small Project of the Year prove that size isn’t everything
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Preview: ɫTV Awards Project of the Year shortlist
The schemes in the running to be ɫTV’s Project of the Year are as varied as the purposes for which they were designed. But whether a hockey centre or a special needs school, the teams behind these buildings went the extra mile
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Bethlem Hospital: Altered states
Fraser Brown MacKenna’s renovation of Bethlem Hospital’s Museum of the Mind may look from the outside much as it did, but the interior spaces now house art galleries, exhibition spaces and an incomparable archive
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Lincoln Castle: Taking liberties
The £22m restoration of Lincoln Castle involves the painstaking reconstruction of 1,000-year-old walls and the excavation of a Saxon sarcophagus. It also means sticking one of only four copies of the Magna Carta underneath what was once the exercise yard of a Victorian prison
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Can tall buildings ever be sustainable?
With debate still raging over the 230 towers lined up to make the London skyline look more like Hong Kong’s, Ike Ijeh looks at whether tall buildings can ever be sustainable