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Keep up to dateMirona, launched by Schott, is a decorative glass that switches from transparent to reflective according to the lighting conditions.
Each panel of glass has a coating that looks like a silvery mirror when placed in front of a dark background, but becomes transparent when the background is light or if backlighting is applied.
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Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, 鈥榙ragon-tailed鈥� cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK鈥檚 13th Maggie鈥檚 Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment.
The Maggie鈥檚 Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar, very few were identical.
The former deputy prime minister, whose death was announced this morning, forced construction to realise that things couldn鈥檛 go on as they were
With a focus on innovation and access, the east London studio is leading the charge in the architectural education revolution. Ben Flatman reports on how they are helping a new generation of architects to design the cities of tomorrow
Two architects who have made a film about the child-friendly estate where they live explain what鈥檚 so special about its design
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