Technical Feature – Page 56

  • Sky Ear's largest flight took place in September in Greenwich Park.
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    In detail 34: Sky Ear

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    Sky Ear is a floating cloud that listens out for electromagnetic radiation in the air.

  • Blue LEDs are detailed into panels of a new building at 10 Exchange Square in London.
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    True colours

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    LEDs were invented in 1962, but we are just starting to understand their magic

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    Technicalities: Lighten up

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    “Space, light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” — Le Corbusier

  • A view of the courtyard to the newly completed community centre.
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    In detail 33: Queen’s Road Com

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    The Queens Road Community Centre provides a Sure Start nursery, a crèche, a lifelong learning and employment training centre for adults, meeting rooms and a multi-purpose hall in a socially deprived area of east London.

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    The cost of conservation

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    Part L consultation has closed, but architects still have reservations about the changes. We look at the challenges ahead

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    In detail 32: National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff

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    The roof of the National Assembly for Wales is a six-bay steel structure held up on 12 circular columns.

  • The model of the completed National Assembly for Wales on Cardiff Bay
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    Waves and means

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    A dramatic roof gives the Wales Assembly presence among its neighbours, writes Pamela Buxton

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    Trouble at the top

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    Roofs are the site of many a battle between aspiration and the cold reality of a cost plan. There is no designer whose aspirations have not at some point fallen prey to the machinations of the bean counters.

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    Pyramid scheme

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    We unfold the mystery of Egypt’s new Grand Museum proposal by Heneghan Peng

  • The entrance features an EFTE rooflight and a wall of Noir St Laurent marble.
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    In detail 31: National Gallery, East Wing, London

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    An external courtyard has been covered with an ETFE roof to provide a disabled access route from a new public entrance on Trafalgar Square to the gallery’s central circulation spaces.

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    Understanding access for all

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    The practicalities of working with the Disability Discrimination Act

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    Your questions answered

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    The DDA requirements seem to go beyond the stipulations of Part M and British Standard BS 8300 (2001): Design of buildings. The DDA hinges on taking “reasonable” measures. Decisions made on this basis could be hugely subjective and would no doubt open the door to litigation. How can I protect ...

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    Techbrief

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    Making the grade The Building Research Establishment has added Breeam Schools to its portfolio of environmental assessments. Set to begin in January, the scheme will help schools and local education authorities to set environmental targets for new and refurbished buildings. It will also help architects improve the environmental performance of ...

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    In detail 30: Carlisle Lane housing, Waterloo, London

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    Architect: Pringle Richards Sharratt Timber panels & cladding: Eurban and Finnforest Merk

  • The Carlisle Lane housing project is located in the centre of this photo on a tight site in London's Waterloo and is marked out by its timber pitched roof.
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    Four flats in a flash

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    Pringle Richards Sharratt proves small projects can benefit from prefab.

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    Prefab dreams

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    Over the past five years, we have found much of our housing work has been motivated by the promise of speed, exactitude, economy and perhaps even the hint of perfection — in short, the path of prefabrication.

  • A prefabricated concrete basement being constructed in Cambridge for Martin Grant Homes. The terraced housing project used Bolton-based Thermonex's method of basement construction.
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    Bargain basements

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Adding underground space in new homes can solve some of the UK’s housing woes

  • The north elevation is broken up by a series of projecting triangular
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    In detail 29: Queen Mary Student Village, University of London

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The largest residential block at the Westfield Student Village has an eight-storey concrete frame built with tunnel-form shuttering. Another word for shuttering is formwork, whereby a frame is constructed to provide support as the concrete hardens.

  • One of the completed tourist tents, just metres from the beach in Guludo, which uses predominantly local materials in its construction.
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    Virtuous vacations

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Traditional African methods are the star of Cullum & Nightingale’s eco-resort

  • Two parabolic arches form the proposed 8m-high proposed Alpine House at Kew Gardens.
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    In detail 28: Alpine House, Kew Gardens

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    The new glass house at Kew Gardens will use almost entirely passive systems to provide a controlled environment for the Royal Botanic Gardens’ alpine plant collection.