Technical Feature – Page 58
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TechnicalIn detail 21: Novy Dvur Monastery
A new monastery has been created for the Cistercian Order from the remains of a derelict Baroque manor house and associated farm buildings.
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TechnicalBig top at the Roundhouse
The Camden venue will reopen in 2005 with a new roof that preserves the original.
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TechnicalIn detail 20: Friars Halt Studio, Battle, Sussex
Drawing inspiration from nearby oast houses, the studio comprises a steeply pitched tiled roof over a partially buried brick plinth con-taining a garage. The 5m-high timber roof is distorted towards the north side where a full-height glazed screen opens to the garden.The lower floor has uninsulated load-bearing brick walls ...
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TechnicalPitch perfect
Katherine Pechey looks at the unusual roof structure of Inglis Badrashi’s Sussex garden studio
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TechnicalTechbrief
Chill outSeveral hundred fires every year are caused by hot works, the process of using either a hot air gun, naked flame or a bitumen boiler to fuse water-proofing membranes together in roof construction. In an effort to address this dangerous procedure and reduce the number of fires, Liquid Plastics ...
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Technicalities: The sheltering
Engineers have always had to adapt to the contemporary architectural zeitgeist. A few contribute to the direction things take while most receive and respond to the market forces. The way I think about roofs has changed. I’m unsure if this is insight or if the issues have altered.I used to ...
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TechnicalIn detail 19: St Paul Old Ford Church, Bow, London
An unused church in Bow has been saved from demolition by the vision of its vicar.
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TechnicalIn detail 18: 2 Plantation Place, London
An 11-storey office building for British Land is the first in the City of London to be approved by building-control officers and insurers using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to determine the extent of fire protection.
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Fire watch
The design of buildings, the materials used, the construction and eventual use have always been of prime importance to the fire service. The role of the fire service through statutory consultation and enforcement of primary fire-safety legislation is well documented.
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TechnicalGreen-fingered guardians
Landscape architect BBUK’s partners explain how they are nurturing the broader area beyond the architects’ realm.
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TechnicalIn detail 17: Metropolitan Cathedral campus, Liverpool
A flight of ceremonial steps has been created on the south side of the Metropolitan Cathedral, addressing the Anglican Cathedral at the other end of Hope Street. The public space will be flanked on one side by new offices for hi-tech businesses and by a visitor centre for the cathedral ...
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TechnicalStairway to heaven
Sweeping new steps give Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral its long-awaited public space and the entrance architect Frederick Gibberd always intended.
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Technicalities: Poison privet
The obsession with risk avoidance has now spread to the subject of plant selection. No longer are we safe to specify a plant that is perceived to be a potential health risk, even if the plant is so common to be found in virtually every public garden. On ...
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TechnicalIn detail 16: A13 Artscape Project Pump Control House
The A13 Artscape project aims to improve conditions for residents, workers, pedestrians and drivers along a 6km stretch of the A13 trunk road in east London. Various artworks have been incorporated into road improvements which include two pedestrian subways, two roundabouts and an underpass. The pump control house contains electrical ...
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TechnicalTwisting by the pool
Paddington Basin’s new footbridge is a sculptural beauty, says Amanda Birch. Let’s just hope it works
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TechnicalConcretes finer details
Concrete is taken to a new level in Panter Hudspith’s City & County Museum.
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TechnicalTechbrief
Glassy metal Architects may soon be specifying a new type of steel that borrows the atomic structure of glass to make it stronger, twice as hard and more corrosion-resistant than conventional steel. In a landmark breakthrough, material scientist Zhaoping Lu and his team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee ...
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TechnicalIn detail 15: City & County Museum, Lincoln
Located on a site designated as a scheduled ancient monument on the hill below Lincoln Cathedral, the museum uses self-compacting concrete (SCC) extensively to deal with complex geometries and to achieve a very high quality surface finish. The piled foun-dations reuse the slab and some existing piles of a demolished ...