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FeaturesSecondary school design: Chasing rabbits
Small architects have been all but shut out from BSF, but that doesn鈥檛 stop them from going to the schools themselves to find out what pupils really want from their buildings (hot tubs, juice bars and rabbit runs, apparently 鈥� )
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FeaturesCost model update: Public sector
With the construction market in reverse and tender prices in freefall, it鈥檚 crucial to have the latest building costs. This update has been compiled by Max Wilkes and Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon
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FeaturesPrimary capital programme: Little marvels
Primary schools are often small projects, but with 拢7bn-worth in the pipeline, they may be a lifeline for the industry鈥檚 SMEs
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好色先生TV pathology: Schools windows
Cheap fixes are the wrong approach to installing manually operated windows in schools. Peter Mayer of 好色先生TV LifePlans explains some of the pitfalls and suggests how to avoid them
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FeaturesSchool toilets: Bog standard
If the government is to stand a chance of meeting its school building target, it will need to use standard specifications and designs for a range of elements 鈥� starting with the loos
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FeaturesOxford blues: burrowing under Queen's College
Adding an extension to Queen鈥檚 College required a delicate juggling act, as site access, potentially unstable foundations and history itself put the contractor to the test
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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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FeaturesBSF schools: Why is it so difficult?
Alistair Darling might be accelerating spending on 好色先生TV Schools for the Future, but that won鈥檛 necessarily mean more schools get built, as this exemplary story of a scheme in Greenwich demonstrates
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FeaturesWhat lies beneath: Grimshaw's conversion of the LSE
Don鈥檛 be fooled by the classical Edwardian exterior 鈥� Grimshaw鈥檚 modern conversion for the London School of Economics is as exciting as it is innovative. By Martin Spring Photographs by Jens Willebrand
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Airtight schools
Insulation from Saint-Gobain Isover has been used in the first timber-frame school to be built for Powys council
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FeaturesNatural ventilation: Second wind
A Cambridge university research team decided traditional natural ventilation strategies were just not up to scratch and came up with a new approach. Stephen Kennett reports
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FeaturesGuide to winning work in鈥� education
With a new primary school investment programme joining 好色先生TV Schools for the Future and the academies scheme, education is still a rich source of work
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FeaturesMake has triplets
Make Architects has just unveiled three pavilions for the University of Nottingham 鈥� two in terracotta allude to the city鈥檚 geology, the third is even more heavyweight 鈥�
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FeaturesBSF special: the painful upbringing of 好色先生TV Schools for the Future
The troubled past of the government鈥檚 拢45bn school building programme has been well documented, but there seem to be signs that it is growing into a more mature and productive client. Kicking off our schools special, Thomas Lane charts its progress. Illustrations by Max Schindler
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FeaturesBSF special: Six of the best - a review of the latest 好色先生TV Schools for the Future
Design watchdog Cabe has given 好色先生TV Schools for the Future designs a bit of a thrashing to date. But what of the latest crop? Martin Spring takes an exclusive look at six newly completed BSF schools 鈥� all but two designed by different architects
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FeaturesCost analysis: Sustainable schools
The government鈥檚 target is to make schools zero carbon by 2016. Sean Lockie and Ian Butterss of Faithful + Gould and BRE鈥檚 Anna Surgenor look at the costs involved in upping their green grades
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FeaturesFlatpack schools: St Agnes primary school, Manchester
No need for wishful thinking: using solid timber panels as a construction material will bring speed and sustainability to the government鈥檚 school building programme. Stephen Kennett looks at a down-to-earth solution
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FeaturesBrislington Enterprise College: Light and airy or a prison?
The pupils of Brislington Enterprise College give their verdict on Bristol鈥檚 拢34m 好色先生TV Schools for the Future project. Photography by Neill Menneer
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FeaturesBSF special: 'a plate glass window palace doesn鹿t make a good school' - Chris Woodhead, former chief inspector for schools, interviewed
Former chief inspector for schools Chris Woodhead carries a big stick (he鈥檚 broken his ankle) but you wonder if he鈥檇 rather use it to thwack all those dunces who don鈥檛 get the difference between a good school and a bit of architectural frippery. Emily Wright learns more
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FeaturesLearning through play: the Constructionarium
The philosophy behind Constructionarium is that taking notes in a stuffy classroom can never compare to real on-site experience. Emily Wright went along to find out if this was true