All Technical articles – Page 37
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TechnicalUltimate architecture: Cern's partical detector
To celebrate today's success of the 'Big Bang' experiment at Cern, read again Charles Jencks' look at the the world’s most powerful particle detector.
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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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The numbers game
£300,000 could be the difference in value of a pension pot built up by the owner of a PassivHaus and the buyer of a conventional new-build.
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TechnicalSoftware opens up residents’ role in design
What could be more sustainable than a sustainable community co-designed by the owner-occupiers and tenants who will live there? That’s the premise behind a multi-disciplinary project launching next month that aims to bring self-procured housing to a wider section of the population.
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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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TechnicalWisteria Lane, Bury St Edmunds
What’s green, hairy and incorporates its own air filtration system?
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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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TechnicalIn detail: Emmaus joint denominational primary school, Sheffield
Architect: DSDHAStructural engineer: Price & MyersOn a windy hillside above Sheffield, rooflights have been used extensively to give a new primary school a high quality of light on a tiny budget. Two two-storey blocks containing classrooms, administration and a hall have been splayed apart to make a central circulation space ...
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TechnicalIn detail: Bedford School Music School, Bedford
Architect: Eric Parry ArchitectsStructural engineer: Adams Kara TaylorAcoustic consultant: Paul Gillieron Acoustic DesignThe music school consists of three distinct elements, a teaching block, a practice block and a recital hall arranged around a common “street” space. The recital hall has a flat floor and stackable seating for up to 140 ...
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TechnicalIn detail: Cherry Orchard School, Dublin
Architect: O'Donnell & TuomeyStructural engineer: PH McCarthy & PartnersCurved concrete roof vaults give the school a distinctive identity while hardwood windows and red brick walls provide colour and warmth.Five structural concrete gutters run the length of each wing, spanning between in-situ concrete columns. The columns supporting the central gutter are ...