Technical Feature – Page 50
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 17: 256-266 Glossop Road, Sheffield
How to bring fresh air into new-build apartments while meeting stringent acoustic requirements
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TechnicalRaising the roof
A ceiling that changes to suit the performance answers the need for acoustic flexibility.
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TechnicalIn Detail 53: Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
A new building for the University of Cambridge’s Gonville & Caius College will provide 75 new student rooms, eight fellow rooms, three teaching rooms, and student recreation and conference facilities.
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Making better connections
The services in complex projects can be difficult to visualise. Amanda Birch discovers how 3D modelling software is helping
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TechnicalTubes with a twist
A technical breakthrough makes earth tubes a more viable method of heating.
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TechnicalI wish I’d done that...Services project
Randall Thomas on the Autarkic Housing Project’s Autarkic House
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 16: Tree House Nursery, Tulse Hill, London
A nursery school in Tulse Hill wanted to add new baby and toddler facilities to its 1960s London County Council school building.
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In detail 52: Des Moines Public Library, Des Moines, Iowa
The entire facade of the new public library in Des Moines is wrapped in an innovative glass skin incorporating a layer of copper mesh that reduces solar gain.
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TechnicalReading in the shade
Copper mesh cladding will stop Chipperfield’s Des Moines Library overheating
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 15: 15 Sloane Square, London
We were appointed by Cadogan Estates to demolish a Victorian mansion block in Sloane Square and build a new six-storey mixed-use building behind a series of retained facades on a site where the Circle and District Underground line runs diagonally underneath only 2m below ground level.
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TechnicalStairs in their eyes
Architect 5th Studio has given a modern twist to the 16th century hanging staircase.
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 14: Visa section, German Embassy, Belgrave Square, London
Bernhard Blauel of Blauel Architects explains how cables of high-tensile steel stopped applicants for German visas from throwing things at diplomats
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TechnicalWays to take the sway away
Increasingly severe storms will make damping systems vital in any new tall building
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TechnicalIn detail 51: Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse, Heathrow Airport, London
Light sculpture: Collaboration between light artist Chris Levine, architect Softroom and the Virgin Atlantic Airways design department
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TechnicalBright lights, brighter people
New research into how we work is helping create more effective office environments.
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 13: Penthouse apartment, Knightsbridge, London
MMM Architects has created a bespoke glass floor with no visible means of support, which still meets fire safety standards. Matthew Ratsma explains the process
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TechnicalWe should all be on a power trip
Make energy use more apparent so we realise the cost of consumption
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