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好色先生TVMeet the government's new best friends: Victorian refurb
Renovation will play a vital role in meeting the government鈥檚 target of an 80% emissions reduction by 2050. And it鈥檚 the owner occupier who鈥檒l be doing the work. Two south London residents found out what it takes
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FeaturesTubular belge: Buro Happold's steel shopping centre
Buro Happold鈥檚 roof for Li猫ge鈥檚 new shopping centre takes the form of a 400m-long steel snake, which undulates to dramatically different heights. Stephen Kennett finds out how it was done
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FeaturesSleeping beauty awakes: the St Pancras Midland Grand hotel
The fairy-tale castle that is the Midland Grand hotel has been asleep for a very long time. Now the arrival of the Eurostar has roused it, and it is once again to become the most stylish address in London
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FeaturesGotta get through it: Halcrow builds the UAE's longest tunnel
This mountain range stands between Dubai and one of the UAE鈥檚 most important ports. Which is why a team from Halcrow is holed up there right now, enduring the heat and hard rock on the country鈥檚 longest ever tunnel project
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FeaturesHow cool is that? Hull Truck Theatre's passive-ventilated venue
Hull Truck Theatre鈥檚 new performance space uses a passive ventilation system that relies on a warm audience reaction 鈥� fortunately, that has never been in short supply
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FeaturesBrentwood Community Hospital: Operation sunlight
Sheppard Robson鈥檚 redevelopment of a PFI hospital in Essex aimed to maximise views for patients. But how did it square this rather pricey ambition with the need to keep costs down?
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FeaturesRivington Street Studio's York St John University: New York, New York
Rivington Street Studio鈥檚 flamboyant design for York St John University鈥檚 new quadrangle in England鈥檚 most complete medieval city provoked predictable outrage. Now that it鈥檚 built, its youthful verve frees it from the heritage vice
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FeaturesA real life saver: Unicef's Malawi hospital
Unicef doesn鈥檛 usually spend money on buildings, but when the Alliance Ball raised 拢400k for its cause, an exception was made for this children鈥檚 hospital in Malawi. Thomas Lane found out what happened next
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FeaturesPlane geometry: Sheppard Robson's aeronautical university design
If you take a pre-war aircraft hangar, insert a large ziggurat and extend it with a glass tetrahedron, what does that create? The answer is Sheppard Robson鈥檚 spectacular academic building for Cranfield university.
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FeaturesGlamorous address: Candy & Candy's One Hyde Park
Candy & Candy鈥檚 One Hyde Park is coming along quite nicely, thank you. Which is just as well, because when you鈥檙e spending 拢100m on an apartment, you do rather want the builders out of the way before you move in
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FeaturesWestfield shopping centre: in pictures
The 拢1.7bn Westfield London, Europe鈥檚 biggest in-town shopping centre, finally opened last week. But is it the shining example of urban regeneration that its developer claims? Martin Spring fought through the crowds to find out
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FeaturesMaggie's Centre in London by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has designed the first Maggie鈥檚 Centre in England and, thanks to its dramatic oversailing canopy roof, it provides both seclusion and a bold statement to the outside world. Stephen Kennett reports
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FeaturesParadise Street, Liverpool: Mayfair comes to Merseyside
With a pricetag of 拢1bn , Liverpool One could have ended up as a never-ending shopping mall. But it鈥檚 a whole lot classier than that.
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FeaturesForeign Office Architects' John Lewis in Leicester: Great Drapes
Foreign Office Architects鈥� new John Lewis department store in Leicester has revolutionised retail design by wearing its curtains department on the outside. Martin Spring admires the stitching
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好色先生TVThe UK's first code level five homes
The new flats in Mid Street in the sleepy village of South Nutfield might not look like anything to scare the horses, but in fact they are quietly revolutionary. Alex Smith takes a trip to the country to see the UK鈥檚 first code-level-five sustainable homes
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FeaturesMichael Tippett school: Wilful disobedience
Marks Barfield鈥檚 Michael Tippett school 鈥� London鈥檚 first 好色先生TV Schools for the Future project 鈥� succeeds by ignoring many of the guidelines on both design and procurement. There鈥檚 probably a lesson in that, reckons Martin Spring
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FeaturesLiverpool One on-site: Welcome to paradise
How do you co-ordinate a 拢1bn budget, 40 buildings, 22 architects and 90 consultants to deliver the most ambitious regeneration scheme Liverpool has ever seen? Thomas Lane went to ask the man who has to do it
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FeaturesRepeat prescription: St Helens & Knowsley hospitals PFI
For the 拢338m St Helens & Knowsley hospitals PFI, Taylor Woodrow upped the dose of replicated factory-made elements to new levels.
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FeaturesInnsbruck cable car stations: Zaha Hadid lifts the spirits
Zaha Hadid evokes duvets, wings and ice with her designs for Innsbruck鈥檚 cable car stations
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FeaturesA giant leap for Foster
Star architect prepares to boldly go where no man has gone before 鈥�