All Features articles – Page 253

  • The Beacon Centre in Blackburn
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    First Impressions: DLA's Beacon Centre

    2012-09-20T12:35:00Z

    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV’s student panel from Nottingham Trent share their thoughts on the building in Blackburn

  • The Crystal
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    Case study: Siemens Crystal

    2012-09-19T13:30:00Z

    Royal Victoria Dock plays home to a new exhibition venue with sustainability at its heart, the Siemens Crystal

  • View from my office, Adam Muggleton
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    View from my office: Adam Muggleton

    2012-09-14T12:28:00Z

    The managing director for property consultant CDML overlooks the CN Tower, TIFF building and Hyatt Hotel in Toronto

  • Qatar
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    Careers: Is Qatar your next destination?

    2012-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Qatar is an oil-rich country that plans to spend 40% of its budget improving infrastructure between now and 2016. Can you afford to leave it off your CV?

  • Whole life costs
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    Whole-life carbon: New-build schools

    2012-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Through the careful specification of timber it is possible to reduce the whole-life carbon footprint of a school by over 15%

  • Leeds arena
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    Leeds Arena: Big noise in the city

    2012-09-14T00:00:00Z

    How Bam kept the noise down in the 12,500-seat arena in Leeds city centre

  • signs of life
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    Contractor salary survey 2012: Signs of life

    2012-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Find out the winners and losers in this year’s salary survey with our interactive tables and full analysis

  • Rob Perrins
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    Berkeley's Rob Perrins: Out of the shadows

    2012-09-13T07:00:00Z

    In the three years since he replaced Tony Pidgley as Berkeley’s managing director, Rob Perrins has convinced the City that he is very much his own man

  • news analysis
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    Is localism dead and buried?

    2012-09-12T12:14:00Z

    Last week’s housing and planning reforms suggest the government has given up on localism to build the homes we need

  • Whirl pool
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    Whirl pool

    2012-09-07T09:40:00Z

    From the swirling, curving walls and diving boards to the pools themselves, concrete makes a big splash at Zaha Hadid’s awe-inspiring aquatics centre

  • The walls have been left exposed and uncoated
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    Wall-to-wall coverage

    2012-09-07T09:40:00Z

    The curving concrete walls of the aquatics centre are one of its defining characteristics. They are first seen in the centre’s welcome area and provide a top and tail to the competition pools, as well as a stylish backdrop to television coverage of the diving.

  • The six boards were all based on a single original mould
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    Star jumps: how the diving boards took shape

    2012-09-07T09:40:00Z

    Variously likened to the stamens of an exotic flower, a splash or even poised cobras, the dramatic lines of the aquatics centre’s six diving boards have attracted much interest – not only as a natural centre of attention during the Games, but because they are visually fascinating in themselves.

  • Products
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    Timber windows

    2012-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Windows specified for the Battery Street homeless hostel in Plymouth

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    Tilturn window system

    2012-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Architectural aluminium systems supplier Kawneer widens its window range

  • Schools
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    Should schools be uniform?

    2012-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Will standardised schools herald a school building programme where design quality and educational aspiration are crushed under a monotonous wave of Identikit slabs? Ike Ijeh investigates Photos by Mike Pinches

  • Features

    Timber sliding sash

    2012-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Dale Windows has launched a timber sliding sash, with concealed spring balances

  • Priority schools
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    Are these schools really a priority?

    2012-09-07T00:00:00Z

    After six months of delays the Priority School ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Programme could be accused of failing to live up to its name. So when will the tenders finally be released? And is there a risk the Treasury’s PFI review will hold up some schools still further?

  • Specifier
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    Ray of light

    2012-09-07T00:00:00Z

    The Velux skylight brand is normally associated with the residential sector. But a collaboration with Foster + Partners could soon enable the company to break into commercial and public buildings

  • ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Analysis
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    Education: Space exploration

    2012-09-07T00:00:00Z

    This week the government trumpeted the opening of 55 free schools. But the success of the movement is being stymied by a lack of suitable sites, and with a further 114 schools approved for next year, the problem is set to get worse

  • phoenix comp door
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    Doors and windows: Movers and makers

    2012-09-07T00:00:00Z

    From triple glazed timber windows to door entry systems with picture capture technology, we look at the latest, cutting-edge window and door products