Technical Feature – Page 49
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Homebuyers have stars in their eyes
New code will target consumers, but does it go far enough?
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TechnicalTime Test:
Cartwright Pickard director James Pickard returns to Murray Grove in Hackney to assess the performance of the cladding five years on
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TechnicalTop brass comes to Chatham
RMJM’s university project in Kent is the first building in the UK to use brass cladding.
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Art on its sleeve
A patterned aluminium skin provides a public face for Didcot Arts Centre.
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 20: Mid-terrace Victorian flat, North London
We had been exploring the possibilities of lightweight pre-fabricated buildings — component-driven designs that would be simple and rapid to erect for small-scale offices or schools.
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TechnicalIn detail 56: Siobhan Davies Dance Centre, Southwark, London
Five twisting ribbons of sky-blue glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) make up the roof of a new dance studio for the Siobhan Davies Dance Company.
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TechnicalRhythm in blue
A GRP roof is making all the right moves for Sarah Wigglesworth’s dance studio, writes Pamela Buxton
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 19: Peepul Centre, Leicester
The challenge: To create removable, tiered seating for a flexible performance space
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TechnicalBuilding bamboo’s reputation
A Feilden Clegg Bradley project in India is proving bamboo’s worth as a building material.
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TechnicalIn Detail 55: Channel Five meeting room, London
Innovative surface materials have been used to remodel the main meeting room in TV channel Five’s headquarters, a converted carriageworks dating from 1833 in London’s Covent Garden.
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TechnicalClassics degree
Clever use of surfaces is key to uniting a Cambridge college’s diverse buildings.
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TechnicalThinking inside the box
Plastic honeycomb walls create a show-stopping boardroom at TV channel Five, writes Damian Arnold
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 18: Urban gardens
Green-roofed “Ecospace” studios are a collaboration between Idris-Perrineau Town and technical designers/structural engineers MKAD.
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In detail 54: Young Vic Theatre, London
A jumble of old and new elements are being woven together on London’s South Bank to revitalise the Young Vic Theatre.
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TechnicalPacked full of material pleasures
James R Payne reviews the first translation of a must-have Swiss manual