Technical Feature – Page 51
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TechnicalDome of rediscovery
One roof is not enough for the Millennium Dome now a new arena is being installed
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In detail 50: Spencer Street Station, Melbourne, Australia
A billowing roof of shimmering zinc-coated aluminium has been unfurled across the platforms of Spencer Street Station. The undulating profile is designed to passively extract diesel fumes without the need for a costly mechanical system.
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TechnicalI wish I’d done that...
Charlie Sutherland on Sverre Fehn’s shelter for the Venice Biennale
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 12: Baby Blue bar, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Miles Falkingham of Union North explains how bespoke curved glass-reinforced concrete wall panels became the solution for subdividing a geometrically complex listed structure
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TechnicalThe only way is up
With a shortage of central London sites, air-rights developments appear to be making a resurgence
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 11: Met Building 22 Percy Street, London
Oliver Richards of ORMS explains how his team brought air conditioning into a sixties office building by integrating the services into prefabricated bespoke cladding panels
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TechnicalTechbrief
Open-and-shut caseGreen Building Store has manufactured a range of windows and glazed doors using Forest Stewardship Council 100% certified timber. Designed in conjunction with the Timber Research & Development Association, the Ecoplus System incorporates the latest lamination and finger joint technology to minimise resource use and improve durability. It also ...
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TechnicalSmaller, quicker, cheaper
Forget John Prescott’s £60K house, Richard Horden has plans for a £35,000 home, taking its inspiration from Japanese tea houses and first class air travel to offer hi-tech living.
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Techbrief
- Green guide The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture is a useful guide for architects wanting to harness the environmental, economic and physiological benefits of living green. Editors Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne have trotted around the globe to bring together 25 contemporary residences that are good examples ...
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TechnicalEasy on the ice
Despite its setting, the Halley VI Antarctic station will have to minimise water use.
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How we cracked it 10: Flat-pack staircase, Islington apartment, London
To squeeze in a new staircase in a compact space, Lisa Harmey draws on the flat-pack system to create an innovative folding stair that can be used easily on domestic projects
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TechnicalSkirting the runway
Amanda Birch gets under the skin of Reid’s new air traffic control tower
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In detail 47: Social housing in Vallecas, Madrid
Architect Feilden Clegg BradleyM&E engineer: Max FordhamEnvironmental engineer: EMMA SL
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TechnicalHousing’s heat wave
A Madrid project by Feilden Clegg Bradley holds solutions for global warming
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TechnicalI wish I'd done that... Housing project
Ben Derbyshire on Herzog & de Meuron’s apartment building in Paris
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TechnicalGetting more Zeds in
Following BedZed’s success, Bill Dunster reveals how he is refining the concept to create cheaper and greener eco-homes en masse