All Buildings, design and specification articles – Page 48
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News
Heatherwick, LEAP and Alison Brooks among RIBA regional winners for 2022
Building of the year awards for projects including cancer support centre and modern reimagining of an Oxford quad
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News
Green light for first phase of ‘inside out’ estate regeneration
Masterplan drawn up by Levitt Bernstein, Proctor & Matthews Architects and Cullinan Studio aims to reduce antisocial behaviour on 1970s South London development
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Features
EQUITONE’s new texture, as timeless as the beauty of the moon
[Lunara]’s unique surface texture, covered with tiny, silken, irregular elevations and depressions, is reminiscent of the cratered landscape of the Moon. Its random-looking and non-repeating surface is due to a new production process and no two panels are exactly the same. Similar to the rest of the EQUITONE range, [lunara] ...
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Features
A temple to post-covid working culture: designing Google’s global headquarters
Google’s newly completed Bay View campus in Silicon Valley opened to staff last week. Tom Lowe spoke to Heatherwick group leader Eliot Postma about how the concept was developed
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Features
Barbican Centre at 40: how an international arts venue took shape
The pioneering scheme is celebrating its 40th birthday. Former managing director Nicholas Kenyon explains how the initial plans for a residential development evolved
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News
National Gallery unveils revised Selldorf upgrade designs
Latest images of £30m proposals come ahead of planning application submission this summer
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Opinion
Design better, specify better and consume more carefully – that’s my (not so) radical idea
While we should all be taking action in order to preserve our planet, direct action is actually rather less effective than well-placed words if we want to drive real and lasting change, writes Matthew Lloyd
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News
Gove steps in and puts Make’s £400m plan to turn ITV studios into office complex on ice
Communities secretary has issued notice preventing demolition work at 72 Upper Ground site ahead of possible call in
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Queen’s Speech 2022: architects question feasibility of ‘street votes’ policy
Councils will need to have sufficient funding to make the government’s local design code plan work, architects warn
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Review
Review | MoMA’s exhibition illustrates the rich legacy of South Asian modernism
New York museum seeks to put region’s architecture in a post-colonialist context, writes Ben Flatman
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Opinion
Handle with care: retrofits are full of surprises and architects have lots to learn
A standard architectural education does not equip us well for working on historic building fabric. You need a clear understanding of how materials work, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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Features
Why facade engineering excellence is important for contractors
Led by design. Backed by expertise. These two elements are fundamental to Schüco aluminium and steel facade, window and door systems
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News
AHMM scoops three RIBA London Awards
Allies & Morrison, Sheppard Robson and Surman Weston score double victories on 42-strong winners’ list
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Technical
Does the key to cutting carbon lie beneath your feet?
A new system aims to reduce the embodied carbon of a floor slab by up to 75%. But are other solutions already to hand?
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Opinion
Scrapping the S106 agreement would mean better placemaking
The government’s plan to introduce a consolidated infrastructure levy allows placemakers to focus on what’s important – creating schemes of both spatial and social quality, says James Cons
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News
Arup and S&P Architects open UK’s first passivhaus leisure centre
Design accounts for predicted weather and temperature changes over the next 80 years
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Opinion
What’s stopping us taking more risks?
The Victorians built long-lasting structures with limited foundations yet our perception of acceptable risk has changed completely and we are now overdesigning. Anna Beckett wonders if there is a better balance to be struck
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News
Eric Parry and Acanthus Clews land RIBA West Midlands Awards
Family homes by Michael Kendrick, Scott Donald and Intervention Architecture also get gongs