All ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTVs articles – Page 91

  • The prototype Digital House was erected at the Architecture Foundation’s gallery in four days. It now awaits cladding
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    The digi-box

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Want a three-storey extension to a grade II-listed building in less than a day? Or a house that’s been digitally manufactured to be as easy to assemble as an Airfix model? Martin Spring visits two projects that are taking off-site manufacture to the next level

  • Romford's new PFI hospital is arranged in four drums above a deep-plan podium, with an attached administrative drum
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    In clover

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Romford can’t believe its luck. The Essex town’s new hospital is a 939-bed giant with a state-of-the-art cancer centre and a compact four-leaf clover layout that helps staff to save lives.

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    Dead Sea canal: And the dead shall live

    2007-02-23T00:00:00Z

    Vikki Miller reports on how a canal became an obsession for architects and engineers around the world, including a chap at Foster + Partners

  • The six wider strips enclose living, sleeping, children’s and work rooms; the narrower strips are for stairs, bathrooms and storage
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    Can you read me? Dutch architect MVRDV

    2007-02-23T00:00:00Z

    Dutch architect MVRDV has divided its modernism-influenced Barcode House into nine distinct strips, each with its own purpose

  • Redrow's Debut Homes
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    The attainment of zero

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    Housing The industry clearly has a lot of work to do to achieve carbon-free homes by 2016. Jan-Carlos Kucharek looks at four projects that are working out how it can be done

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    Blowing in the wind

    2007-02-09T00:00:00Z

    The Joseph Rowntree Trust’s pioneering development – the pre-fabricated city-centre apartments for single people at affordable rents (CASPAR) housing scheme in Leeds – will be demolished.

  • Four curvaceous car ramps burst out of the louvred east facade of Grosvenor's multistorey car park in Liverpool.
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    The drive of your life

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Breaking the stereotype of multistorey car parks as concrete monstrosities, Wilkinson Eyre’s latest project is as visually exciting as it is functionally efficient.

  • The formerly windswept entrance drum has gained glass doors and a reception desk
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    Museum of Scotland: A revisit to the museum

    2007-01-26T00:00:00Z

    Nine years after it was built, Martin Spring went back to Benson & Forsyth’s Museum of Scotland. He found a striking, intriguing building that is struggling to cope with the Edinburgh weather

  • The auditorium bulges out towards the neo-gothic Peace Palace
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    Doing justice to the law

    2007-01-26T00:00:00Z

    Michael Wilford’s law academy in the Hague is a judicious mix of the traditional and the avant-garde

  • The new crescent wing houses 15 residents and a quiet room in the monopitched bookend
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    Done to a turn

    2007-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Architect Clague’s curvaceous extension to the Strode Park Foundation brings something that most housing for disabled people has never even heard of – glamour.

  • Western Riverside
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    Crest wins key Bath planning battle

    2007-01-18T10:43:00Z

    Bath and North East Somerset Council vote by five to four to approve Crest's controversial Western Riverside scheme

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    A view from the gods

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Looking out over this nondescript part of Leicester, and almost entirely suspended from this roof, will be the UK’s most exciting new theatre – and the first building in this country to be designed by US architect Rafael Viñoly.

  • Design for new Rochdale homes for the Asian community
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    Housing for Asian families unveiled in Rochdale

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Barratt and Artisan have developed a housing range designed for the needs of large, extended Asian families.

  • Ealing borough council offices image 1
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    Style council

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    OFFICES — Ealing borough council wanted to migrate 2,500 staff from an archipelago of offices into its headquarters, and turn that into a sexy, sustainable civic centre for the good burghers of west London. Sonia Soltani reports on how it did the job, with a little help from Pringle Brandon

  • Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate, When the partition behind the stage is open, the arena and the auditorium can accommodate all 1200 pupils and teachers
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    ‘You could run this building as a traditional school – but it would be a waste’

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Design Partnership’s Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate is like no other school – it has a campus feel, there are no corridors and the students don’t even bunk off.

  • Stubbs Rich has taken a tired old library and reinvented it as a funky learning resource centre
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    The grater good

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Education For the new learning resource centre at Herefordshire College of Technology, the architect will reuse the concrete frame of the original library, but add some very inventive mesh cladding.

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    Dream house Down Under

    2006-11-24T00:00:00Z

    When Paul and Jaki Halliday decided to leave London’s traffic-clogged rat’s maze for the hills of New South Wales, they celebrated by commissioning their ideal home. Martin Spring explains how their compatriot, Alan Higgs, designed it

  • David Cameron
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    ‘I can’t tell you on the hoof what our policy would be’

    2006-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Finding out where David Cameron stands on the big questions is a tricky matter, but at least he is starting by putting his own house in order. Thomas Lane spoke exclusively to the Tory leader, then met the architect and builder who are tackling the green makeover of his family ...

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    Beer, cannabis, glue and a generous helping of lime

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    No, not a recipe for a quiet night in, but rather the ingredients of Adnams’ deep green distribution centre. Thomas Lane went to Suffolk to meet a brewer with a difference

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    This is madness

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    On the average job, contractors happily chuck away enough recyclable material to triple their profit. But not for much longer, if the DTI, environmental responsibility and economic sanity have any bearing on the matter.