All Technical articles – Page 31
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TechnicalArad shows his mettle
Using bronze and mirror-polished steel, Ron Arad’s reworking of Rimini’s Duomo Hotel is a dazzling experience that few guests will forget.
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TechnicalYouth club finds itself in a fix
The challenge To cantilever a sleek, thin canopy off an existing building
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Batting ideas around
The Bat Conservation Trust, artist Jeremy Dellar and the RIBA have joined forces in a design competition so bats can live in comfort
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TechnicalShampoo and set
Inspired by the tedious business of drying her hair, AA student Margaret Dewhurst’s winning pavilion for the school’s summer show is now being built
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TechnicalGridshell glazes over the past
Peter Hulbert Architects’ billowing timber roof structure at Chiddingstone Orangery may recall the Weald & Downland Museum, but it takes the gridshell one step further by creating a system that structurally supports the frameless glazing.
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Technical‘It’s the mass housing market that needs the most inspiration’
Kevin Brennan, national housing manager, Velux
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Building StudyUniversity pioneers low-carbon homes
Nottingham’s built environment faculty to build six demonstration homes on campus
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TechnicalThe shape of homes to come
BRE’s Offsite 2007 show reveals the strides carbon-efficient housing has made.Pictures by Peter White, BRE
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TechnicalBlowing hot and cold
PRP Architects included DuPont Energain in the zero-carbon demonstration house built by timber-frame specialist Stewart Milne at the BRE’s headquarters near Watford.
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TechnicalGlaze of light
In development for years, Serraglaze lamination may be coming into its own as a way of boosting natural daylight and cutting energy use. Roderick Bunn looks at how Hurd Rolland used it at a university science faculty
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TechnicalAstronomy enters the bronze age
Allies & Morrison chose an unusual metal to clad its new planetarium at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
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TechnicalMaking the skylight fantastic
How we cracked it: Softroom creates an intimate airport lounge focused on the sky
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TechnicalLooking for the green light
Lighting is a greedy user of energy, and public projects can be particularly heavy consumers. But many lighting designers are in fact trailblazing the use of low-energy technology
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