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  • The pure cylindrical shape of the Asticus 好色先生TV is clearly expressed in the stylish reception foyer
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    Drum solo

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands deserves a big hand for managing to squeeze an old-school cylinder-shaped building into a tiny London backstreet

  • Set in the 12-acre grounds adjoining Alnwick Castle in Northumberland the visitor centre overlooks the garden and offers horticultural enthusiasts a shelter from which to admire the many spectacular features
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    A light topping

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Kicking off this week鈥檚 Specifier, Sonia Soltani found out why the intricate larch structure has been shortlisted for a Wood award

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    Gods of the Plague

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    They gave Shepherd Construction a two-sheet brief and asked it to build a lab secure enough to test the most dangerous virus on Earth 鈥� inside six months. Thomas Lane reports on how the team took the test and triumphed

  • Darlington Education Village is a campus of simple rectangular buildings made exciting by vivid colours and large expanses of glazing
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    Under their wings

    2006-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Ryder HKS鈥檚 Darlington Education Village brings together the least able children, including those with severe behavioural difficulties, and the most academic 鈥� an architectural and curatorial challenge that has been met with verve. Not bad for a PFI project

  • The straw-panelled EcoDepot is said to reduce energy use by three-quarters compared with standard buildings
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    Down on the farm

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Sonia Soltani reports on how a York council building is demonstrating the eco-credentials of an unlikely building material 鈥� straw

  • A rare architectural flourish 鈥� the main headquarters has granite entrance cladding. The administration blocks have red brick and buff masonry to differentiate them from the living quarters
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    A 2bn student village in a bullet-proof vest

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Construction of the first entire garrison to be built in 100 years is being marshalled with the same discipline and tactical precision needed in times of war.

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    An oasis by the Elephant

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Just around the corner from the Elephant & Castle shopping centre, a colourful housing scheme by de Rijke Marsh Morgan has replaced the drab greys of Southwark鈥檚 Heygate estate. Martin Spring explains how the project is just the beginning of a long-overdue 拢1.5bn regeneration plan

  • The large, bright and airy atrium makes patients and staff feel at ease, and all departments can be pointed out from the reception desk
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    All together now

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Penoyre & Prasad鈥檚 Holywood Arches primary health centre in Belfast has enough of the boutique hotel about it to cheer visitors and patients alike. But it鈥檚 the inspired mix of health and social services that is its real triumph

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    Life after la corrida

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Barcelona鈥檚 disused Las Arenas bullring is being transformed from a crumbling wreck into Richard Rogers鈥� vision for a leisure and entertainment venue, topped out with a UFO-style roof.

  • 鈥淗ansom鈥� looks on approvingly as the scaffolding comes down.
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    Hansom鈥檚 other good idea

    2006-08-04T00:00:00Z

    The Builder was his masterpiece, but nine years before it was born, Joseph Aloysius Hansom designed a civic temple for the proud city of Birmingham. Unlike the magazine you鈥檙e holding, it hasn鈥檛 aged well. Thomas Lane reports on the town hall鈥檚 long-awaited refurbishment

  • For Hartcliffe Community College in Bristol, three triangular 鈥渟trawberry鈥� blocks are planned to house nursery, primary and secondary teaching spaces
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    To sir, with love

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    CABE has warned 好色先生TV Schools for the Future risks procuring poor designs. But Wilkinson Eyre鈥檚 Bristol schools 鈥� the first off the blocks 鈥� are based on a lovingly prepared concept

  • Grants galore: Germany
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    Germany 1 England 0

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    鈥� but it鈥檚 the USA and Canada that take the title. As our 99% Campaign continues, Sonia Soltani explores the energy efficiency grants and tax incentives on offer around the world

  • With its cruciform shape, Berlin鈥檚 central station has an imposing presence on the riverfront
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    Europa central

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Berlin鈥檚 拢170m Hauptbahnhof is the first central train station in a European capital for 100 years. It鈥檚 also a state-of-the-art update of the 19-century industrial cathedral, a hub at the heart of Europe and a stunning piece of engineering. So why did the architect end up suing its client, then? ...

  • Ludgate House
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    How green is 好色先生TV鈥檚 building?

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    By now, there should be an energy certification scheme in place for office buildings, but there isn鈥檛. So Thomas Lane organised one for Ludgate House, the home of 好色先生TV. Here鈥檚 what we found 鈥�

  • Visitors to the Central Middlesex Hospital are welcomed by a radiant and spacious atrium with a prominent reception desk and malls leading off in four directions.
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    Getting well sooner

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    West London鈥檚 BECAD hospital takes traditional healthcare and repackages it into one seamless facility that offers more patients better services for a fraction of the usual effort, space and cost 鈥� Martin Spring explains how it was done

  • 99% campaign
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    A typical guzzling, leaking, seeping, spewing british home

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    To highlight the energy inefficiency at the heart of the UK鈥檚 existing housing stock, Thomas Lane took energy consultant Cathy Hough to inspect a typical south London terraced house, built 100 years before the latest revision to Part L. It wasn鈥檛 pretty 鈥�

  • Olkiluoto 3 under construction. It will join two existing plants and a wind turbine.
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    Nuclear power station in Olkiluoto, Finland: The 1.6 billion watt baby

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    320,000 m鲁 of granite blasted away, 12,000 m鲁 of concrete poured in one go: the team building Europe's first nuclear reactor in a decade aren't messing around. Still, the most complicated thing is the paperwork. Thomas Lane reports from Finland

  • Instead of stone ashlar, a lush vertical garden cloaks the wing facing the riverfront.
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    Jean de florette

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Jean Nouvel's museum of ethnic art in Paris, which opens today, tries to find a flowery architectural language to talk of 鈥榙eath and oblivion, visions of haunted places and the consciousness of the sacred'. Martin Spring explains how he set about this somewhat unusual task - and assesses his success.

  • The planetarium resembles an alien space ship half buried in Greenwich park after a crash landing
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    Curved space 鈥� the Peter Harrison Planetarium

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Greenwich park is about to get a strange and beautiful adornment: a weird bronze cone through which the heavens will be made manifest. Thomas Lane found out how it's being made

  • 1, The Spanish winery is capped by five barrel vaults that adopt the structurally efficient parabolic form pioneered by Antoni Gaud矛
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    Vintage Rogers

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers Partnership is the latest of the big-name architects to design a winery 鈥� this one for a vineyard in the northern Spanish village of Pe帽afiel.;