All Features articles – Page 200

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    Office space - how to make work work

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    An old peoples’ home in Somerset is the venue for the latest research into office design.

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    Hot seats

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Gresham has launched a range of four new office chairs.

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    Tschumi holds his own with Price

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    In this week’s archive photo, Cedric Price, a youthful Bernard Tschumi and an old guy in a painting form an unlikely trinity at Tschumi’s 1985 RIBA talk about his scheme for a major Paris park

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    Milton Gate

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Squire & Partners has completed the refurbishment of one of the first triple-skin ventilated facade buildings in the country, originally designed by Denys Lasdun and Peter Softley in 1988.

  • The atrium of PWC’s new Irish HQ at Spencer Dock, Dublin.
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    How to win the generation game at work

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Research from furniture supplier Steelcase has found that workplaces today contain four generations working side-by-side,but not always in step.

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    Taking the pain out of solar gain

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Solar gain at a new HQ for two shipping agencies in Felixstowe, Suffolk, is controlled by facade design featuring Levolux western red cedar shading louvres.

  • A striking glass and steel staircase curves around the inside of the drum building.
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    Putting safety first

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    James Pickard of Cartwright Pickard goes back to the Health & Safety Executive’s headquarters in Bootle, Merseyside, a £57 million PFI project completed two years ago

  • Glass louvres at Cork County Hall allow natural ventilation.
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    ‘The facade is a regulator of heat, light and ventilation’

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    As a company, we’re probably best known in this country for smoke control systems, and also heating, ventilation and air conditioning.

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    Design Link

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The British Council for Offices launches its post-occupancy evaluation guide at a series of regional events this month.

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    Courting sustainability

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Courtyards and office pavilions complete Arup’s Midlands campus

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    Colour guard

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Following an international colour workshop with UK, French and German architects, Marley Eternit has launched a new range of decorative fibre cement cladding panels.

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    Clever curves

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Kalzip has developed a new generation of roll formers that can manufacture standing-seam roof and cladding systems that realise the complex curves of computer-generated design.

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    Cut-out cities

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Why are modern office buildings cutouts with no past or future?

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    Brew up

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Greenway & Lee Architects is designing a new HQ for Somerset cider brewer Brothers Drinks which will be heated by waste heat generated by the manufacturing process in the adjacent factory.

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    The big question

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Why do so many office projects follow a formula?

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    Best in class

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Showcase office by ORMS for contractor wins top BCO award

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    Banking on success

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Modernised Glaswegian bank welcomes back original tenant

  • Telemetry designed for mobile phones is used to reset door sensors.
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    Putting the automatic into doors

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Geze’s new system adapts GPS for door operation and maintenance

  • Mentor : Roger Stephenson, Stephenson Bell and Architect : Mark Percival, Architecture
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    ‘Give your buildings lots of love and attention’

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    In the regions, practising architecture and pulling in new work is a subtly different challenge to life in London. Manchester firm Architecture:m looks to local legend Stephenson Bell for advice on the city’s office sector

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    Playlist: Music for train journeys

    2007-11-08T17:43:00Z

    Russell Brown has selected a list of songs inspired by his train trips from Norfolk to Hawkins Brown's Clerkenwell studio. Send your own list for the chance to win an iTunes token