All Technical articles – Page 15
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FeaturesDreadnought’s clay roof tiles
Dreadnought roof tiles are naturally coloured through careful control of the kiln atmosphere and are available in a range of colours, from Staffordshire blue, traditional brindles to plum red and a new range of mixed colour blends.
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FeaturesSandtoft’s Rivius clay roof tiles
With its riven surface and dressed edges, Rivius offers an authentic, natural slate appearance.
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FeaturesEurofox Engineering’s rainscreen cladding
This range of versatile cladding solutions can be installed both vertically and horizontally with concealed- or visible-fix fittings.
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FeaturesHanson Building Products’s Oast House red multibrick
The new Oast House red multibrick is a vibrant, red body brick with brown flashing and a small percentage of black sand accents to bring variation to its face.
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FeaturesJunckers’ Broadway and Boulevard wider oak wide board
Offering its widest dimensions yet, Junckers’ Wider Oak Wide Board, comes in two standard sizes: Broadway and Boulevard.
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FeaturesWienerberger’s Northgate and Eastgate blend Terca facing bricks
The “reclaimed” appearance bricks provide a frost-resistant alternative to genuine reclaimed bricks.
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FeaturesBisazza’s Metron glass wall and floor tiles
Metron glass tiles are the first patterned tiles to feature chip mosaic and inlaid motif. They are designed with the aid of computers allowing for versatility and manufactured using laser-cutting, resulting in a smooth level and seamless surface. Bisazza is working with 15 top designers and artists on several ranges ...
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FeaturesTimorous Beasties’ Bird Branch
Established in 1990, Timorous Beasties became known for its elaborate hand-printed wallpapers, but today it works across a range of media including fabrics, window shades and digital and vinyl wallpapers.
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FeaturesMarley Roofing’s Ashdowne clay roof tiles
Marley Eternit’s traditional hand-crafted clay plain tiles can be used to tile both walls and roofs.
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FeaturesCole & Son’s Dionysus & Ariadne and Baiae
Cole & Son is one of only a handful of wallpaper companies offering hand screen-printing, hand block-printing and hand flock-printing, as well as numerous machine-printed stock collections.
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FeaturesH&R Johnson’ Absolute collection
Part of the new Absolute collection, the Eridanus structured internal wall tile (below) comes in black or white and two sizes, 100 x 100mm and 50 x 50mm.
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TechnicalIwamoto Scott Architecture’s Voussoir Cloud
Iwamoto Scott’s Voussoir Cloud at the Southern California Institute of Architecture is a temporary installation showcasing the power of building offsite with paper
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TechnicalCartwright Pickard’s modular housing for east Africa
Cartwright Pickard is creating modular homes for east Africa that can be rapidly assembled offsite
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TechnicalHow Castleford got ready for its close-up
For five years, the Yorkshire town of Castleford was filmed by Channel 4 for its TV series, Kevin McCloud & the Big Town Plan. BD spoke to Peter Box, leader of the district council, about how the show affected the regeneration process
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FeaturesThat just about wraps it up for the Cellophane House
Michael Stacey looks at the systems behind the pioneering five-storey eco-house by US architect Kieran Timberlake Associates temporarily erected at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this summer
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TechnicalRichard Griffiths Architects restores the Elizabethan garden at Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire
Richard Griffiths Architects’ £2m restoration of Robert Dudley’s ‘sensual paradise’ at Kenilworth is an exercise in authenticity
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TechnicalTonkin Liu’s Promenade of Light at Old Street
Tonkin Liu has completed the first part of a three-phase project to upgrade the area around Old Street roundabout in central London
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FeaturesLouvres and planks by Reglit
Reglit is a cast-glass plank system typically employed as an external glazing system, but at the refurbishment of Imperial College’s Central Library it was used internally for glazed partitions and as a bespoke external louvre type system to the new service tower above the entrance.
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FeaturesLighting by Modular Lighting
Unable to fix lights into the panelled walls, Hût specified Modular’s Nomad Minimal E27 Short – a ceiling-mounted light that could be angled back to illuminate the wall.
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FeaturesWhite and Silver sanitaryware by Ideal Standard
Chromium-plated taps from the Silver range and basins and toilets from the White sanitaryware range were specified.