All ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTVs articles – Page 39
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Features240 Blackfriars: Welcome to our new home
The designer behind the interiors of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV’s new home explains the thinking behind designing an office for the workforce of the millenials’ generation
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FeaturesCouncil housing: Maybe this time…
After years of decline, council house building looks set to enjoy something of a resurgence. But can the new generation of council homes avoid the stigmas of the past?
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FeaturesTrading places: Housebuilders building schools
With the critical shortage of school places likely to be a hot political topic in the run-up to the general election, Ike Ijeh reports on a growing trend for housebuilders to build the schools themselves
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FeaturesºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTVs 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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FeaturesNot on the money: Over budget projects
When finally completed last autumn, New York’s One World Trade Center clocked in at a total expense of £2.5bn, making it not only the most expensive skyscraper of all time, but also costing eight times its original budget. But is it the most over budget project ever to be built? ...
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTVBroadway Malyan-designed mall opens in Argentina
Carrefour project is design firm’s first commercial build in Americas
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FeaturesBIM: Visualisation technology
Software used in the gaming industry is being integrated within a BIM platform to give enhanced architectural visualisation - offering designers a mind-bending simulation capacity
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FeaturesProjects 2014 review: part 3
ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV takes a look back at the completed projects that impressed in 2014
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FeaturesProjects 2014 review: part 2
Two more completed projects that impressed in 2014 - the British Museum and Heathrow’s T2
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FeaturesProjects 2014 review: part 1
ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV takes a look back at the completed projects that impressed in 2014
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FeaturesSlackwood Farmhouse: Ahead of the curve
Adjoining a 17th-century Lancastrian farmhouse, Paul Archer Design’s curved-glass pavilion is both strikingly modern and a discreet addition to the landscape
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FeaturesThe rising: World Trade Center
The completion of the £2.4bn One World Trader Center is a milestone in the painstaking redevelopment of the former Ground Zero site in New York. But with two towers and Santiago Calatrava’s vast station still under construction, there’s plenty of work yet to be done.
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FeaturesMagdalen College Library: The great unknowns
Refurbishment projects are infamous for their unforeseen difficulties - like the 100 bodies that had to be dug out of the ground before work could begin on the renovation of Magdalen College Library
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FeaturesBIM architecture: The vision thing
BIM isn’t normally seen as a design tool but increasingly it can influence what a building looks like. We explore the possibilities and dangers of BIM-inspired architecture
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTVDavid Chipperfield's design for Beethoven concert hall
UK architect is on shortlist for building to mark composer’s 250th birthday
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FeaturesSea Containers House: Ahoy there!
Chosen as a ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV ‘blunder’ more times than any other building, Sea Containers House has undergone an extensive salvage operation by TP Bennett. So, how successful is it?
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FeaturesCroydon’s capital works programme: Educating Croydon
With one of the fastest growing populations in London, Croydon is set for a flurry of development over the next five years. But will the borough be able to meet demand for school places?
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FeaturesHorrific architecture: Part 3
Continuing our Halloween tribute to the most gruesome building designs around the globe, here’s the third of our three part mini-series