All articles by Will Hunter – Page 8
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TechnicalWinning green hearts
Is regulation or PR the way to win the sustainability debate? Elaine Knutt was at an Energy Saving Trust round table of architects looking for the answer
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TechnicalBranching out
For years the AA has been using the Serpentine pavilion as a teaching tool, but this summer a group of its students will build their own structure out of timber and construct it outside the school in Bedford Square. Elaine Knutt looks at the winning scheme and the runners-up
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TechnicalWorking with the grain
DRMM is pioneering a structural timber system for its latest school building
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NewsOlympic design squeeze
Delivery authority indicates that design-and-build will be adopted for stadiums and budgets will be cut
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TechnicalFire protection gets smart
Fire protection now looks at the whole building rather than individual parts - in contrast to fire codes
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TechnicalSafe design is good design
Making health and safety issues integral to architecture needn't cramp your style
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Running on good vibrations
Electricity harvested from train vibrations or even shoppers' footsteps promises a revolutionary clean energy source. Elaine Knutt discovers the vision being realised in the Facility's railway arch conversion.
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TechnicalCutting the green wash
By not monitoring actual energy use of buildings, the construction industry is failing to substantiate its green claims.
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TechnicalEast London project is full of bright ideas
As part of its integration with the next-door gallery, the Whitechapel Library is getting a new top-floor studio and gallery.
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TechnicalGeometry answer
A floating platform will turn a grand Georgian hall into a modern family space.
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TechnicalTulip goes straight to the heart
Wood panels and creative lighting put warmth and energy at the ‘heart' of office life.
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NewsThe lightness of being Ito
RIBA Gold Medal winner Toyo Ito is architecture's impossible dreamer who takes every project in a new direction.
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TechnicalClick ‘print' for your building
Is the next step on from rapid prototyping, machines that can make actual buildings?
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Robots to build homes
Transatlantic race to research freeform construction will deliver first building in months
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TechnicalTop brass comes to Chatham
RMJM’s university project in Kent is the first building in the UK to use brass cladding.
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Art on its sleeve
A patterned aluminium skin provides a public face for Didcot Arts Centre.
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TechnicalBuilding bamboo’s reputation
A Feilden Clegg Bradley project in India is proving bamboo’s worth as a building material.
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TechnicalClassics degree
Clever use of surfaces is key to uniting a Cambridge college’s diverse buildings.