All Case studies articles – Page 8

  • Lincoln Castle
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    Lincoln Castle: Taking liberties

    2015-03-05T06:00:00Z

    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

  • Hong Kong skyline
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    Can tall buildings ever be sustainable?

    2015-02-25T06:00:00Z

    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

  • Thames View East
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    Council housing: Maybe this time…

    2015-02-18T06:00:00Z

    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?

  • Housebuilders building schools
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    Trading places: Housebuilders building schools

    2015-02-11T06:00:00Z

    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

  • SPECIFIC’s first ‘ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV as a power station’ prototype
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    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTVs as power stations

    2015-02-04T06:00:00Z

    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

  • Bristol Life Sceinces
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    Bristol Life Sciences: Split personality

    2015-01-28T06:00:00Z

    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

  • British pavilion, Milan
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    British pavilion, Milan: Get the buzz

    2015-01-21T06:00:00Z

    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

  • Sydney Opera House
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    Not on the money: Over budget projects

    2015-01-14T10:00:00Z

    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? ...

  • COD____Alamy
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    BIM: Visualisation technology

    2015-01-07T09:14:00Z

    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

  • Whitmore Park Primary School
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    Projects 2014 review: part 3

    2014-12-19T06:00:00Z

    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV takes a look back at the completed projects that impressed in 2014

  • Heathrow Airport Queen’s Terminal 2
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    Projects 2014 review: part 2

    2014-12-18T06:00:00Z

    Two more completed projects that impressed in 2014 - the British Museum and Heathrow’s T2

  • Slackwood Farm
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    Slackwood Farmhouse: Ahead of the curve

    2014-12-09T06:00:00Z

    Adjoining a 17th-century Lancastrian farmhouse, Paul Archer Design’s curved-glass pavilion is both strikingly modern and a discreet addition to the landscape

  • 1WTC
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    The rising: World Trade Center

    2014-12-05T06:00:00Z

    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.

  • Magdalen College Library
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    Magdalen College Library: The great unknowns

    2014-11-26T06:00:00Z

    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

  • 2._The_Fondation_Louis_Vuitton______Iwan_Baan
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    BIM architecture: The vision thing

    2014-11-19T06:00:00Z

    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

  • Sea Containers House
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    Sea Containers House: Ahoy there!

    2014-11-12T06:00:00Z

    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?

  • Pheonix Island
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    Horrific architecture: Part 3

    2014-10-31T06:00:00Z

    Continuing our Halloween tribute to the most gruesome building designs around the globe, here’s the third of our three part mini-series

  • JTI ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV
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    Skin deep: SOM's JTI ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV in Geneva

    2014-10-22T06:00:00Z

    SOM’s JTI building in Geneva uses a revolutionary facade that optimises daylight and transparency while meeting tight Swiss regulatory requirements

  • Lydia Eva
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    Designing for dementia

    2014-10-13T11:54:00Z

    A pioneering scheme in Norfolk shows how care homes can be adapted to the complex needs of people with dementia

  • Heathrow Schools
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    Schools under the flight path: A breath of fresh air

    2014-10-10T06:00:00Z

    Hounslow’s £150m school rebuilding programme aims to give children under Heathrow’s flight path quieter classrooms and better ventilation