Architects Journal
Susan Dawson
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Working Detail: The Terrace, Lincoln, by Bauman Lyons Architects
24-Jul-2008
[WORKING DETAIL 24.07.08] Slate rainscreen facade with recessed balconies -
Working Detail: Cotes Farm by Evans Vettori
2-Jul-2008
[WORKING DETAIL 07.02.08] A copper-covered mansard roof with projecting verge -
Working Detail: Conan Doyle Medical Centre, by Richard Murphy Architects
26-Jun-2008
[WORKING DETAIL 26.06.08] A monopitch roof with projecting eaves and a rainwater chain -
Working Detail: Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre by Gareth Hoskins Architects
29-May-2008
[WORKING DETAIL 29.05.08] A wall of local stone with a glass clerestory and larch rainscreen -
A ROOF WITH BANDS OF GLAZING SUPPORTED BY ZINC-CLAD MULLIONS
5-Jul-2007
WORKING DETAILS / PIER ARTS CENTRE -
AN INTERIOR LINED WITH HAN-JI-COVERED WALL PANELS
14-Jun-2007
WORKING DETAILS - POSITIVE PEOPLE INC. -
A CURVED ENTRANCE SCREEN OF ASHLAR BATH STONE BLOCKS
7-Jun-2007
WORKING DETAILS / ALL SAINTS DULWICH -
TWO-STOREY HOUSING WITH BRICK AND RENDERED WALLS
10-May-2007
WORKING DETAILS / NEW ISLINGTON -
A PRECAST-CONCRETE STAIRCASE WITH A STEEL BALUSTRADE
5-Apr-2007
WORKING DETAILS - WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION -
A NEW GLAZED ENCLOSURE TO A HISTORIC LANTERN
15-Mar-2007
WORKING DETAILS - DRESDEN -
A GLAZED LOBBY WITH A GLASS-FRONTED RECEPTION DESK
1-Mar-2007
WORKING DETAILS - UNITY -
SOLID AND TRANSLUCENT ROOF STRUCTURES
15-Feb-2007
WORKING DETAILS - KINTORE WAY -
A HYPERBOLIC PARABOLOID ROOF STRUCTURE
1-Feb-2007
WORKING DETAILS / RAF MUSEUM -
WINDOWS WITH TIMBER SHUTTERS
21-Dec-2006
WORKING DETAILS / RAINHAM MARSHES -
A BUILDING WITH WIND COWLS FOR NATURAL VENTILATION
14-Dec-2006
WORKING DETAILS / JUBILEE WHARF -
A ROOF WITH DOMED ROOFLIGHTS, OVERHANGING A 'TREEHOUSE'
23-Nov-2006
WORKING DETAILS - EASTERHOUSE -
A STONE-CLAD FACADE WITH PROJECTING BAY WINDOWS
9-Nov-2006
WORKING DETAILS / ST ANDREWS -
A TIMBER BUILDING WITH A 'LAYERED' FACADE
19-Oct-2006
WORKING DETAILS - SAWMILLS -
A 'POD' MADE FROM GRP (GLASS-REINFORCED PLASTIC) PANELS
5-Oct-2006
WORKING DETAILS - PALESTRA -
A RECESSED ZINC DETAIL AT VERGE AND EAVES
28-Sep-2006
WORKING DETAILS - UPPINGHAM SCHOOL -
A BUILDING WITH 'GREEN' PLANTED WALLS AND A 'BROWN' ROOF
17-Aug-2006
WORKING DETAILS - PARADISE PARK -
A GALLERY WITH AVAULTED ROOF AND SUSPENDED CEILING PLATFORMS
20-Jul-2006
WORKING DETAILS - PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY -
A CLERESTORY WITH AN OVERHANGING GRIDSHELL ROOF
6-Jul-2006
WORKING DETAILS - SAVILL BUILDING -
A MOVEABLE WALL UNIT HOUSING DISPLAY CABINETS
29-Jun-2006
WORKING DETAILS - STORYTELLING CENTRE -
WORKING DETAILS / NORTHAMPTON ACADEMY
15-Jun-2006
LETTERS -
APARTMENT DESIGN IS IDEALLY SUITED TO PRECAST CONSTRUCTION
1-Jun-2006
CONCRETE QUARTERLY/ SUMMER 06 - HANOVER QUAY -
WINDOWS WITH FIREDCLAY SILLS, LINTELS, JAMBS AND LOUVRES
11-May-2006
WORKING DETAILS - KAMPALA -
A WALL CLAD WITH VERTICAL TIMBER FINS
20-Apr-2006
WORKING DETAILS / CASS FOUNDATION -
A FACADE OF FRAMELESS GLASS PANES ON PROJECTING BRACKETS
6-Apr-2006
WORKING DETAILS - MANCHESTER TRANSPORT INTERCHANGE -
A VIEW TO A SILL
1-Apr-2006
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A SOFA WITH A CARBONFIBRE SHELL
23-Mar-2006
WORKING DETAILS / SNOFA -
CASE STUDY CARBON-FIBRE SNOFA Architect: Snell Associates
23-Mar-2006
TECHNICAL & PRACTICE -
A STEEL-FRAMED GLASSHOUSE
9-Mar-2006
WORKING DETAILS - FOWLESCOMBE -
A SLOPING ROOF WITH CRANKED BEAMS
23-Feb-2006
WORKING DETAILS / LAW DEPARTMENT -
DOORS AND WINDOWS FRAMED BY GALVANISEDSTEEL ANGLES
9-Feb-2006
WORKING DETAILS - PINIONS BARN -
A WALL CLAD IN COPPER SHEET WITH HORIZONTAL STANDING SEAMS
12-Jan-2006
WORKING DETAILS - LEEDS THEATRE -
A WALL CLAD IN COPPER SHEET WITH HORIZONTAL STANDING SEAMS
1-Dec-2005
WORKING DETAILS - UNICORN THEATRE -
A FIREPLACE, BARBECUE AND CHIMNEY
17-Nov-2005
WORKING DETAILS - ATTWOOD HOUSE -
A STEEL-FRAMED GALLERY TO AN AUDITORIUM
10-Nov-2005
WORKING DETAILS - EGG THEATRE -
A MAGICAL OBJECT THAT HARKS BACK TO THE STRANGENESS OF THE TRAVELLING CIRCUS OR THEATRE SHOW
3-Nov-2005
BUILDING STUDY -
A TENT STRUCTURE FOR A MOBILE THEATRE
3-Nov-2005
WORKING DETAILS - HORSE + BAMBOO THEATRE -
SUSTAINABLE TIMBER WALLS TO A SCHOOL BUILDING
20-Oct-2005
WORKING DETAILS / BEDALES SCHOOL -
AN INTIMATE UNDULATING 'FOUR RIBBON' ROOF
29-Sep-2005
WORKING DETAILS - ROBIN HOUSE -
AN ARCHED PREFABRICATED CABIN WITH A PLY RAINSCREEN
22-Sep-2005
WORKING DETAILS - WATER ACTIVITY CENTRE -
A CURVED DOUBLE-SKIN SPACE FRAME STRUCTURE
15-Sep-2005
WORKING DETAILS - FREE UNIVERSITY BERLIN -
A SOLID WALL OF FLINT AND CORBELLED BRICKWORK
8-Sep-2005
WORKING DETAILS - ST EDMUNDSBURY CATHEDRAL -
A SHELTER CLAD WITH PANELS OF WOVEN EUCALYPTUS AND THATCH
1-Sep-2005
WORKING DETAILS - LION ENCLOSURE, WHIPSNADE ZOO -
A CLERESTORY AND GLAZED WALL WITH SLIDING OAK SHUTTERS
21-Jul-2005
WORKING DETAILS - WOMEN'S INSTITUTE -
A GROUP OF VIBRANT CONTEMPORARY STUDIOS HAS BEEN HOUSED WITHIN THE RESTORED EDWARDIAN SHELL
23-Jun-2005
When the Grade II-listed public swimming baths in Blackfriars Road, Salford, was built in 1910 it was a finely detailed structure, with stained-glass windows set in red brick and terracotta walls, and a roof of carved timber trusses on gallows brackets, rising to a clerestory-glazed lantern at the ridge. The baths closed to the public in 1960; the pool was filled in, a new concrete upper floor inserted at the front and it was used as a light industrial warehouse. -
A STEEL STAIRCASE WITH A STEEL-PLATE WALL PANEL
23-Jun-2005
The staircase is set in a well that rises to the restored roof lantern, exposing the original structure and allowing the height and volume of the original space to be seen, while letting daylight into the stairwell and entrance foyer. -
A NEW CURVED ROOF FOR A HISTORIC TOWER
16-Jun-2005
WORKING DETAILS - MARTELLO TOWER -
A light and delicate new school centre
12-May-2005
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The facade of a mews terrace house
5-May-2005
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A housing scheme with external service risers
28-Apr-2005
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An acoustically isolated performance space
21-Apr-2005
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A free-standing glass and steel mezzanine
24-Mar-2005
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A roof with a series of extended eaves details
17-Mar-2005
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A concrete column and slab structure with a glazed facade
3-Mar-2005
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A house clad in larchboard and Cor-Ten
17-Feb-2005
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A structure of copperclad curved steel ribs
10-Feb-2005
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FÊTE OF TWIST
10-Feb-2005
buildings - Marks Barfield's Spiral Café is both a resting place and a sculpture in Birmingham's regenerated Bullring centre -
Walls clad with acrylic panels and stainless steel mesh
3-Feb-2005
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An extension with a rooflight at the ridge
27-Jan-2005
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Lighting gantry and bridges to auditorium
13-Jan-2005
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A curtain wall facade set in a zinc-clad 'box'
11-Nov-2004
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House with a cob wall and shading overhang
4-Nov-2004
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A house clad with terne-coated steel
21-Oct-2004
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A glazed facade with a stainless steel gutter system
30-Sep-2004
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23-Sep-2004
An oak staircase with a glass balustrade for a house conversion -
A new pair of double-glazed doors for a 1960s house
9-Sep-2004
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A turf-roofed canopy supported by tapered glulam beams and columns
2-Sep-2004
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Sheltered accommodation
2-Sep-2004
working details - Mason Gillibrand Architects had to battle the elements at White Scar Caves in the Yorkshire Dales to design a canopy that protects visitors and provides a unifying link -
A glazed facade with LVL mullions
12-Aug-2004
The Idea Store, containing a library, cafe, spaces for adult education and computer access, is a single-storey, lightweight steel structure, approximately 60m long, built on the roof of a 1960s concrete flat-roofed shopping arcade. At the south end it extends beyond the original building to create a double-height atrium - the main entrance - with access at ground-floor level. -
A staircase of folded steel plate
22-Jul-2004
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A timber cruck frame structure
15-Jul-2004
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Roof terraces with glass balustrades
1-Jul-2004
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Roof terraces with glass balustrades
1-Jul-2004
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Sliding screens to a gallery
10-Jun-2004
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Mews house with glazed walls
27-May-2004
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Prototype for a prefabricated classroom
20-May-2004
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Steel staircase with steel and slate treads
13-May-2004
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A series of freestanding timber 'pods'
25-Mar-2004
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Glazed wall supported by steel portal frame
18-Mar-2004
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A stone ramp with a glass balustrade
11-Mar-2004
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Suspended facade with aluminium windblades
4-Mar-2004
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Library extension with timber-framed walls
26-Feb-2004
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A glass cabinet and linking staircase
12-Feb-2004
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A glazed facade with cedar louvres
5-Feb-2004
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A factory facade with recycled glass panels
29-Jan-2004
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A cantilevered EPDM clad bath enclosure
22-Jan-2004
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A fir-clad, steel-framed public WC building
15-Jan-2004
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A sail structure in the form of a butterfly
18-Dec-2003
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Junction coordination between materials
4-Dec-2003
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A stand with precast units and shear walls
1-Dec-2003
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Ipswich Town on the ball with new stand
1-Dec-2003
Precast concrete was chosen as the only material that could realise the design for a new football stand to a very tight timescale and within the physical constraints of a difficult site -
A retractable glazed roof on mews house
20-Nov-2003
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A glazed bridge joining two historic buildings
13-Nov-2003
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A facade with Portland stone masonry
30-Oct-2003
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working details: An aluminium roof with projecting gutter
23-Oct-2003
Each three-storey teaching block is X-shaped in plan, with a render finish to the gable walls and to the walls that face adjacent buildings.The pitched roof is covered with standing-seam aluminium sheet; it oversails the gable walls, 'wraps down' to act as cladding to the walls that face each other, and extends over the rendered walls in the form of an aluminium gutter set above a strip of attic glazing. -
Army blows up building
16-Oct-2003
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A concrete wall clad with aluminium discs
9-Oct-2003
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All a-board
2-Oct-2003
Cardboard may be an unconventional structural material but to magma architecture it was totally appropriate -
An exhibition structure made of cardboard
2-Oct-2003
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working details: A timber roof with stainless steel shingles
25-Sep-2003
The centre is a single-storey building with a 10m-high tower on the north-west corner next to the main entrance. The tower is LVL (laminated veneer lumber) structure clad with render. The external walls are of conventional cavity brickwork construction; the roof takes the form of a series of semi-folded plates, clad with stainless steel shingles, which oversail the walls, in some cases by almost 3 metres. -
In with the new
18-Sep-2003
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WORKING DETAILS A screen of concrete mullions and louvres
4-Sep-2003
The new building consists of two nine-storey wings of office space fanning out from a central core; the space between forms a curved glass-roofed atrium opening on to Holborn Circus. -
working details: Timber louvre shutters to a glazed timber-framed wall
4-Sep-2003
The two-storey house is L-shaped in plan, creating a private courtyard. Although the walls generally comprise a double skin of cast in situ concrete, the two walls that face the courtyard are largely glazed, with windows at first floor level and glazed doors at ground floor level. -
working details: A timber staircase and screen
28-Aug-2003
The staircase gives access to a mezzanine over the living area; together with its slatted screen it divides the kitchen/ dining space from the living space. -
working details: Steel lattice structure clad with aluminium
14-Aug-2003
The centre is a single volume, more than 120m long and 35m wide, with an internal height of 7.5m. The structure is, in essence, a 'post and beam' construction of prismatic trusses. They run along the two side walls and the roof at 1.8m centres and are 2.4m deep, creating a 'double-skin system' which allows service zones, WCs, stores, small kitchen areas and other facilities to be incorporated within this depth. -
Monopitch roof with a zinc gutter and hopper
10-Jul-2003
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3-Jul-2003
The apartment building consists of four split-level storeys, rooftop rooms and a roof terrace. The structure - of cast in situ concrete - has 200mm thick walls, which are clad with aluminiumbonded insulation panels and an outer rainscreen of Eternit Weatherboard fibre cement boards. The product was chosen for its stability and its surface texture, which resembles strongly grained timber-boarded shuttering. Although intended for use in overlapping 'ship-lap' construction, the boards ... -
A spiral staircase and mezzanine gallery
26-Jun-2003
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A glazed facade with 'kipper' trusses
29-May-2003
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A stainless steel conical spire
15-May-2003
The spire is 3m in diameter at its base; it tapers to 150mm in diameter at the tip, which is 120m above ground level. It is fabricated from Grade 316L rolled stainless steel plate with a shot-peened finish. The plate is 20mm thick, except for the lowest 4m of the spire, where it is 35mm thick, and the topmost section, which is 10mm thick. -
Dublin's design pinnacle
15-May-2003
The Spire of Dublin's simple elegance belies the complex design and engineering process behind its construction Dublin has a new monument - a slender spire at the heart of the city which soars 120m above the rooftops. By day, the stainless steel spire reflects the city's changing light and shadow; by night, the base glows gently while the illuminated tip shines out like a beacon over the city. -
Light and ventilation chimneys
1-May-2003
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24-Apr-2003
Office building, Edinburgh Reiach and Hall Architects -
Business school, Anglia Polytechnic University Wilkinson Eyre Architects
17-Apr-2003
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New clinic for Benenden Hospital John McAslan + Partners
10-Apr-2003
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working details: Production centre, Theatre Royal, Plymouth Ian Ritchie Architects
27-Mar-2003
A rainscreeen cladding of phosphor bronze alloy mesh -
working details: The Q Building Buckley Gray
13-Mar-2003
A facade with an external sliding iroko screen -
working details: Hampstead Theatre Bennetts Associates
6-Mar-2003
Curved acoustic screens to theatre seating -
Millennium school and health centre, Greenwich Edward Cullinan Architects
27-Feb-2003
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20-Feb-2003
World Trade Centre, Amsterdam Kohn Pederson Fox Associates -
Apartment building, Timber Wharf, Manchester Glenn Howells Architects
6-Feb-2003
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Office, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania The Manser Practice
30-Jan-2003
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Wolverhampton Civic Hall Penoyre & Prasad Architects
23-Jan-2003
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Office annexe, North Wraxall, Wiltshire Montrésor Partnership working details
16-Jan-2003
Steel roof and wall supporting panels in aluminium frames The shape and roof pitch of the single-storey building were determined by its former use.Three walls are of cavity blockwork.The steel roof and west wall structure is arranged in three primary and four secondary bays. -
TFL International's headquarters, Preston Studio BAAD
9-Jan-2003
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7-Nov-2002
Southampton Magistrates Courts Hampshire County Council -
Jeremy Cockayne (1935-2002)
24-Oct-2002
Jeremy Cockayne, the architectural photographer, died suddenly last week at the age of 67. He was a respected member of Arcaid and had been commissioned by practices such as Eva Jiricna Architects, Studio BAAD, Sheppard Robson and, in Europe, Santiago Calatrava. -
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24-Oct-2002
Woolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow Reiach and Hall Architects -
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17-Oct-2002
Church of Christ the Saviour, Ealing, London PCKO Architects -
The Sage Gateshead Foster and Partners
10-Oct-2002
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10-Oct-2002
A timber roof structure with a glazed lantern -
Master and servant
26-Sep-2002
MetalWorks Little gems -
Swiss Re office building, London Foster and Partners
26-Sep-2002
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working details - One Knightsbridge Green Hurley, Robertson and Associates
19-Sep-2002
A glazed bay shopfront with terracotta cladding -
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5-Sep-2002
Painshill Park visitor centre Feilden Clegg Bradley -
Arthur Road house, Wimbledon Terry Pawson Architects
15-Aug-2002
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working details Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts, Gateshead Ellis Williams Architects
1-Aug-2002
A steel structure supported by steel forked supports -
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25-Jul-2002
Haberdashers' Hall, Smithfield, London Michael Hopkins and Partners -
An inclined facade of triple-glazed and insulated panels
18-Jul-2002
working details - City Hall, South Bank, London Foster and Partners -
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4-Jul-2002
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum Edward Cullinan Architects -
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27-Jun-2002
Plant Science Center Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners -
Wycoller Hall barn Hakes Associates
13-Jun-2002
A display wall and kiosk on a raised timber deck -
working details Open University building Jestico + Whiles
30-May-2002
A corporate meeting room clad with oak battens -
A glulam column and beam structure
16-May-2002
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City of Manchester Stadium Arup Associates
16-May-2002
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2-May-2002
Manor Farm, Haddenham, Buckinghamshire Proctor Matthews -
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25-Apr-2002
Whitby Abbey visitor centre Stanton Williams -
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11-Apr-2002
The Deep, Hull Terry Farrell & Partners A four-storey aquarium building with sloping walls -
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4-Apr-2002
Stirling Tolbooth Arts Centre A seven-storey original building with new foyer, staircase and lift - Richard Murphy Architects -
A facade with an exposed structural steel frame
28-Mar-2002
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A canopy/shutter door to a steel-framed pod - working details
7-Mar-2002
MPV nightclub, Leeds Union North -
A glass bridge and a precast concrete staircase
28-Feb-2002
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21-Feb-2002
Arup Associates Arup Campus, Solihull - A glazed facade and a roof pod for light and ventilation -
Working details - A frameless glass cube with a stone sill
14-Feb-2002
Working details : House for an artist, Roche Court Munkenbeck + Marshall -
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7-Feb-2002
17 Kings Hill Avenue, Kent Richard Partington Architects -
working details - A facade of self-supporting precast panels
24-Jan-2002
Merrill Lynch HQ, City of London Swanke Hayden Connell Architects -
Miesian pavilion, Concord College
17-Jan-2002
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Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London Richard Rogers Partnership
10-Jan-2002
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Footbridge at Princes Dock, Liverpool Centre for Architectural Research and Consultancy Unit
6-Dec-2001
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Walking through hoops
6-Dec-2001
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A concrete and steelframed house with rainscreen and gutter
29-Nov-2001
Working details: James Gorst Architects Two-storey detached house -
An esplanade canopy constructed of aluminium
22-Nov-2001
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8-Nov-2001
An elevated 'pod' acting as porch and lighting control box The main entrance foyer of the building, the piazza, is a 40 x 18m double-height space with a glazed roof. It is the 'front-of-house'area to the auditorium but is also intended for a wider, more general, public use and is large enough to be used for performances. -
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1-Nov-2001
Temple Quay House, Bristol Stride Treglown -
Cedar House, Perthshire Walker Architecture
25-Oct-2001
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The Place, London Allies and Morrison
18-Oct-2001
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Curving away from covention
11-Oct-2001
Cowley Structural Timberwork's imaginative approach has resulted in lightweight frameworks that echo the structural properties of insects A series of imaginative softwood timber structures - vaults, domes, 'pods' and shellgrid roofs - has emerged from the relatively modest workshops of Cowley Structural Timberwork, in the village of Waddington, Lincolnshire. -
A colonnaded screen of green oak framed with steel
4-Oct-2001
WORKING DETAILS: Loch Lomond visitor centre Bennetts Associates -
A curved cedarclad wall and canopy
27-Sep-2001
WORKING DETAILS: Immanuel College, Thackley Halliday Clark -
working details A wall with sliding doors and windows
20-Sep-2001
Maggie's Centre, Edinburgh Richard Murphy Architects -
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13-Sep-2001
Plashet bridge, east London - Birds Portchmouth Russum -
A self-build house, west London Burd Haward Marston
30-Aug-2001
A sustainable steelframed house with rainscreen tile cladding The two-storey house was designed to be energyefficient and built of sustainable materials, by a client with no building experience. A steel structure was chosen to give an accurate framework for the client to work to; steel was also appropriate above the piled foundations. -
Visitor Interpretation Centre, Coventry MacCormac Jamieson Prichard
2-Aug-2001
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Munkenbeck + Marshall Architects Visitor centre, Isle of Bute
26-Jul-2001
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a life in architecture - edward king
19-Jul-2001
Edward King, director of the Lakeland Arts Trust, has a view of Lake Windermere from his new office, a former dressing room at Blackwell, Baillie Scott's magnificent Arts and Crafts house in Cumbria (see pages 26-35). 'The view is framed by leaded lights and the wrought ironwork of the window stays; every stay is slightly different in design, tapering to a curve with a ball-shaped end. And my office door is opened with a leaf-shaped brass door handle mounted on a brass plate. I admire ... -
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12-Jul-2001
THE PARK: Visitor centre, Thames Barrier Park Patel Taylor Architects -
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5-Jul-2001
National Space Centre, Leicester Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners -
A glazed 'street' supported by branched columns
14-Jun-2001
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Walsall Bus Station AHMM
31-May-2001
In plan the bus station roof canopy is an ellipse, supported by a series of tree-like, three-branched steel columns. It is made of cast in-situ concrete, chosen for its ability to act as a plate, allowing the column supports to be positioned at irregular intervals between curved bus lanes. -
Wandle Housing Association PRP Architects in association with pain + phillips
24-May-2001
The curved roof of the new first-floor extension runs beyond the walls of the single-storey office to create more space and rises to overhang the parapet wall of the two-storey office, incorporating a row of clerestory rooflights. It is clad with pre-patinated zinc with standing seams.The west gable wall is clad with prepatinated zinc in diamondshaped 'fish-scale'panels.The south elevation is glazed and set back from the parapet to create a terrace, protected by a glazed balustrade. -
Extension to Victorian terraced house, London
17-May-2001
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Mailbox, Birmingham
10-May-2001
The bridge is a vital element in the Mailbox development, providing pedestrian access to it from the Birmingham and Worcester Canal towpath network, including Gas Street Basin and the Convention Centre quarter beyond. -
Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, RADA
3-May-2001
The auditorium, arranged on three levels, including dress and upper circles, around an 8 metre cube, is designed for teaching drama. It can be adapted to form a variety of stage configurations, from 'in the round' to angled proscenium arch. In the latter configuration, the stalls are protected by a balustrade and reached by a pair of steps. For 'in the round'configurations, the seating rostra, balustrade and steps are designed to be removable and the floor, which can be adjusted in ... -
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26-Apr-2001
The galleries are designed to be lit with diffused natural light. They are roofed with a series of precast concrete barrel vaults spanning 15m. -
St Patrick's Church, Kilsyth
12-Apr-2001
St Patrick's Church, completed in 1964 and listed Grade A, was built of brick diaphragm walls surmounted by a strip of clerestory glazing. -
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5-Apr-2001
The Air Pavilion, an aerial exhibition building, is one of three structures in the former steel foundry, a shed 350m long and 30m high to the ridge. -
All change, please
29-Mar-2001
The Rogers Partnership's bus station at Turnpike Lane is a robust, workable addition to Holden's classic design -
Blowing in the wind
29-Mar-2001
An aerofoil design and a unique turntable base allow the slender tower at the Glasgow Science Centre to align itself with the prevailing wind on its riverside site -
The Rogers Partnership
29-Mar-2001
The new bus station consists of an 8m wide canopy supported on each side by stainless steel branched columns and pierced by three circular glass rooflights. -
The rough with the smooth
29-Mar-2001
A new landmark building in Helsinki contrasts the rugged appearance of Cor-Ten with the sleekness of stainless steel -
Manchester International Convention Centre
15-Mar-2001
The Convention Centre houses an auditorium with a raked floor, served by a heavy goods lift. A steelfaced sliding door in the north-west facade gives access to the lift. -
National Wildflower Centre Hodder Associates
8-Mar-2001
The single-storey building is 160m long and 4m wide; it houses an interpretation centre, a cafe and shop, offices and classrooms. The roof, constructed of cast in situ concrete, is flanked with raised parapets with concrete pavers, acting as a 'promenade' for visitors. -
A hexagonal grid structure clad with ETFE cushions
22-Feb-2001
The 'biomes' - two climatecontrolled enclosures of 1.5 and 0.7ha respectively - are roofed with a series of interlocking spherical forms clad with lightweight ETFE cushions. -
An oval copper roof and projecting overflow spout
15-Feb-2001
The single-storey building is divided into three multipurpose spaces by folding sliding doors set within pairs of U-shaped in-situ concrete pockets, each of which supports a concrete portal, in turn supporting the steel roof structure. -
Housing, Greenwich Millennium Village
1-Feb-2001
The housing scheme consists of terraced houses, two storeys high, with monopitched roofs and single-storey flat-roofed lobbies at the road frontage; the spaces between the lobbies form entrance courtyards which act as 'thresholds'. Around each courtyard a steel channel framework at eaves level supports a cedar pergola with a glass canopy over the entrance door. -
Performing arts centre, Frensham Heights School
25-Jan-2001
The performing arts space is a 9 x 9 x 9m double cube in volume; it is enclosed by walls of blockwork laid flat to give 215mm thickness for stability and noise reduction. -
Clear thinking
18-Jan-2001
Michael Wigginton has rethought every architect's favourite answer to the extension - the glass box -
Sound-insulated steelframed structures
11-Jan-2001
The commentary boxes are mounted on the roofs of two staircases which give access to the seats. Each staircase enclosure is formed of rendered brickwork, with one side fully glazed with a steelframed window system. -
Pump up the volume
21-Dec-2000
The new Wilmersdorf pumping station is a delicate glass and steel structure, featuring an interior gallery that overlooks the pump areas and gives visitors an insight into its workings -
Watertight design
21-Dec-2000
For its new operations centre, Wessex Water wanted a green design to reflect its commitment to sustainability.Bennetts Associates delivered an unintrusive, eco-friendly solution -
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21-Dec-2000
The house is rectangular in plan and comprises a basement and ground floor enclosed with battered Sussex sandstone walls and a first-floor piano nobile which projects to form a T-shape, wrapped with a suspended glazed wall framed with Douglas fir. A hipped roof covered with cedar shingles extends up to 1,350mm beyond the glazing line to fulfil planning requirements relating to solar glare; its soffit is lined with Douglas fir boards. -
Wildscreen@Bristol
30-Nov-2000
The development, on the site of a disused leadworks, includes a cinema, a threestorey exhibition space and a botanical house with a roof of inflated ETFE cushions. The exhibition space is a 'black box' environment with cast in-situ waffle-slab floors which are supported internally on a concrete frame and at the perimeter on solid 215mm brickwork walls bonded with hydrated lime/cement mortar. -
Housing, Jaywick Sands, Essex
23-Nov-2000
The scheme is designed on environmentally sustainable principles. Reflecting the timber chalets of the original settlement, the walls of the two-storey houses are clad with untreated western red cedar boards, with sand/cement render on north and east elevations for wind protection and on gable walls for fire protection. -
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16-Nov-2000
The hostel building is four storeys including a basement which, following the traditional street pattern, is set below pavement level on the street side; at the rear it forms the lowest level of the south facade and faces a courtyard and garden. -
A steel and timber composite floor construction
9-Nov-2000
The extension is of dry construction. The floor is supported on a grid of 178 x 102mm universal beams at 2.5m centres onto which spans a 100mm deep PMF trapezoidal profiled deck, of the type normally used for roof construction. Each deck trough was fixed to the beam flanges with self-tapping screws to form a rigid connection between deck and framework. The deck troughs were then filled with extruded polystyrene battens formed to precisely match the trough profile, in-filling each trough ... -
Architectural evangelism
9-Nov-2000
This small but dynamic church extension is also a demonstration project for an innovative flooring system -
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2-Nov-2000
The Scottish Seabird Centre, set on a rocky promontory, is a low asymmetrical building; its battered stone and larchboarded walls are sheltered by a dramatic copper roof - a series of curved and overhanging planes which were inspired by the form of a bird's wing. To integrate the building in its natural surroundings, the roof height has been reduced by housing exhibition and auditorium spaces at a lower level. The public spaces on the ground floor - reception/restaurant - are arranged ... -
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26-Oct-2000
Set in the context of Henry T Hare's 1908 university buildings, the psychology building was required by planning to have a 45degrees pitched and slated roof.The three storeys and basement are constructed of concrete columns at 6m centres supporting concrete floors with exposed soffits as ceilings - and a truss roof structure resting on 152 x 152mm steel beams. The three upper floors consist of cellular lecturers' rooms on each side of a central corridor. -
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12-Oct-2000
Power Road Studios De Metz Green -
World of Glass by Geoffrey Reid Associates
5-Oct-2000
Geoffrey Reid Associates’ World of Glass contrasts an industrial aesthetic with glazed construction in a building which celebrates the heritage of Merseyside’s St Helens -
World of Glass, St Helens Geoffrey Reid Associates
5-Oct-2000
The exhibition spaces of the museum are enclosed in brick halls while public and circulation spaces - ticket office, gallery, and restaurant - flow around them in a 'pavilion' of which the walls and perimeter edge of the roof are formed of structurally bolted glass. -
A grand stand for Wales
28-Sep-2000
Cardiff 's 72,500-seat Millennium Stadium, a major new landmark in the city, was constructed from 14,000 tonnes of British steel -
Making a big splash!
28-Sep-2000
The FaulknerBrowns-designed Manchester Aquatics Centre is much more than just a swimming pool -
Spence House, Beaulieu John Pardy
28-Sep-2000
Basil Spence designed the main spiral staircase to the house as a separate element linked to the end wall by a short landing and enclosed in an octagon of black-stained vertical cedar slats. These had deteriorated and when the new extension was added the architect designed a new 16sided enclosure - of glass and vertical cedar fins - around the original staircase. The form is a 'homage' to Spence's slate-finned 'Chapel of Industry' at Coventry Cathedral. -
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21-Sep-2000
Haileybury and Imperial Service College Studio E -
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14-Sep-2000
In plan the glasshouse is an ellipse; it is covered with a 5,000m 2domed glass roof supported by a series of twenty-four arches comprising 150 x 248mm T-sections welded to the tops of 323. 9mm diameter CHS tubes. The longest arch spans 54m and rises to 14m above the main floor. -
A glass curtain wall and glass-bridged pool
7-Sep-2000
Computer Associates' headquarters Blair Associates -
Primal Soup retail kiosk
31-Aug-2000
LONDON bloc -
The Prince's Foundation Mathew Lloyd Architects
17-Aug-2000
The new staircase - a light and elegant steel structure - rises in an enclosed void which extends from the basement to the fourth floor of the foundation, a late nineteenth-century furniture warehouse. The original cast iron columns have been cleaned and painted, the brick walls have been sandblasted and the enclosure has been lined on one side with a dry-lined plasterboard partition to comply with fire regulation standards. -
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3-Aug-2000
The 45 flats are arranged in a three-, four- and five-storey crescent around an open courtyard. They were built by a method known as 'semivolumetric' timber-frame construction; the highly serviced parts of each flat - kitchen, bathroom and lobby - were prefabricated into selfsupporting units and craned into place on site. -
Patrick Harrison's flat working details
27-Jul-2000
A new single-storey extension - living and dining area, kitchen and study - has been formed between two boundary walls at the rear of a Grade A-listed building in Edinburgh's New Town. The kitchen and study are covered with a flat roof; living and dining areas are covered by a curved barrel vault flanked at each side by a pitched rooflight which rests on the higher stone boundary walls. A pair of box gutters, set between the vault and the rooflights, projects beyond the gable and terminates ... -
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13-Jul-2000
Daily Express Building Hurley, Robertson and Associates -
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6-Jul-2000
The Lowry Michael Wilford & Partners -
International Centre for Life
29-Jun-2000
Terry Farrell Partners -
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22-Jun-2000
Armagh Theatre and Arts CentreGlenn Howells Architects -
St David's Cathedral visitor centre by Smith Roberts Associates
15-Jun-2000
How do you design a building for the heritage industry without descending into Disneyesque parody? Smith Roberts Associates’ visitor centre in St David’s, Pembrokeshire, gets the balance right -
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15-Jun-2000
Visitor centre, St David's, PembrokeshireSmith Roberts Associates -
Next stop . . . art
8-Jun-2000
Zoo Architects has transformed Tramway, once home to Glasgow's trams, into an arts centre with an industrial edge -
Zoo Architects
8-Jun-2000
An extension enclosing a historic walkway at first floor level: Tramway, Glasgow -
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1-Jun-2000
The prison visitors centre is a single-storey building with a canted green copper roof and a glazed wall - described by the architect as a 'ripple-wall', which forms the principal part of the north facade. -
Vanishing shades of origami
25-May-2000
Aluminium sunshades by Studio BAAD are crimped into triangulated pleats to screen a curved glazed wall BY SUSAN DAWSON. PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEREMY COCKAYNE -
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25-May-2000
Simon Jersey headquarters, Altham, Lancashire Studio BAAD -
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18-May-2000
The Emap stand includes four 'nodes'- coloured drumshaped 'enclosure screens' - with white canopies like lotus leaves hovering above them, each supported on a single 454mm diameter CHS column. -
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4-May-2000
National Portrait Gallery -
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20-Apr-2000
Ambulatory and diagnostic centre, Middlesex Hospital -
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13-Apr-2000
Offices of the Environment Agency, Bodmin -
Factory conversion to dwelling Stiff and Trevillion
6-Apr-2000
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6-Apr-2000
Perthcelyn Community Primary School Rhondda Cynon Taff Property Consultancy -
Glass - from planes to tubes
16-Mar-2000
A Pilkington PlanarTM structurally bolted glass facade takes an organic curved form in a new headquarters building -
Glass as structural material
16-Mar-2000
Design data for architects and engineers on the use of structural glass is now available from a single source -
working details
16-Mar-2000
Cellular Operations, Swindon Richard Hywel Evans Architecture and Design -
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9-Mar-2000
Canon headquarters David Richmond + Partners -
Great Eastern Hotel The Manser Practice
2-Mar-2000
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Timber windows in a ventilated cedar rainscreen wall
24-Feb-2000
Working details: Slimbridge Wetlands Conservation Centre ECD Architects -
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16-Feb-2000
Cellular Operations, Swindon Richard Hywel Evans Architecture and Design -
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10-Feb-2000
No 60 Queen Victoria Street Foggo Associates -
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27-Jan-2000
Rooftop conservatory, London Simon Conder Associates -
A timber and glass entrance lobby
20-Jan-2000
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Daiwa Europe headquarters Richard Rogers Partnership
13-Jan-2000
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A helical steel staircase and a glass steel-framed canopy
16-Dec-1999
steel design; Cannon Rubber Factory Ash Sakula Architects -
A projecting bay window and balustrade
16-Dec-1999
working details; Housing at the Canongate, Edinburgh Richard Murphy Architects -
Medieval housing associations
16-Dec-1999
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Steel and glass take flight
16-Dec-1999
steel design -
A steel and oak staircase
2-Dec-1999
working details; Royal Opera House Dixon Jones BDP -
The white stuff for Bluewater
25-Nov-1999
Company profile: Techrete -
Working details
25-Nov-1999
Murray Grove housing Cartwright Pickard -
An acoustic and service sidewall in an auditorium
11-Nov-1999
A programme of radical improvements has revitalised the 825-seat repertory theatre, built in 1971. The seating has been replaced and re- aligned to improve sight-lines and eliminate central aisles; this gave the opportunity to provide a new underfloor fresh-air supply system and to design side-walls which screen new air-supply ducts, improve the acoustics and incorporate speakers, lighting and signage. -
Sustainable construction for a single-storey school
4-Nov-1999
The school is single-storey and triangular in plan, providing generous classroom spaces by rationalising circulation; internal rooms are naturally ventilated by underfloor ducts - and lit with rooflights. -
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28-Oct-1999
Milton Keynes Theatre and Gallery Andrzej Blonski -
working details An entrance porch with a cedar screen
21-Oct-1999
John Eccles House, Oxford Proctor Matthews -
A rotating steel sculpture built into a facade
14-Oct-1999
The sculpture consists of two elements, an outer steel ring fixed to the fabric of the building, and a steel disc which moves inside it. The outer ring is formed of a series of mild steel 180 x 90mm parallel flange channels, mechanically bent on rollers by the manufacturer, Angle Ring. -
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7-Oct-1999
Alexander Graham Bell House, Edinburgh Bennets Associates -
An octagonal steel structure with triple columns
30-Sep-1999
Basildon Bell Tower Buro Happold -
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30-Sep-1999
Paddington Station Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners -
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23-Sep-1999
Services strategy within a historic building; British Museum Foster and Partners -
An extra storey to provide computer and technology classrooms
9-Sep-1999
An extra storey to provide computer and technology classrooms has been added to the single-storey concrete-frame building with brick masonry walls. The structure of the additional storey is a timber frame, clad with cedar and roofed with Kalzip aluminium sheet, a light-weight construction to avoid adding load to the foundations of the original. -
A rainscreen wall of tiles and render
2-Sep-1999
The new swimming pool has a structure of chs roof trusses supported by 254 x 254mm columns lined with blockwork walls. To resist corrosion produced by the harsh internal environment - a pressurised combination of chlorimins and high humidity - the columns are set behind the blockwork inner leaf, both roof and walls are vented on the cold side of the insulation, and internal wall surfaces are sealed with silicone paint or ceramic tiles. -
A glass staircase and wall
29-Jul-1999
working details: Notting Hill Gate house, London Alan Power Architects -
Whitefield School, Walthamstow YRM
22-Jul-1999
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15-Jul-1999
Web of Life building, London Zoo Wharmby Kozdon -
Saga headquarters Michael Hopkins & Partners
8-Jul-1999
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A zinc-clad rooflight/pavilion
24-Jun-1999
Residential development, Shepherdess Walk Buschow Henley -
A sloping roof with an aluminium soffit
17-Jun-1999
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Industrialised low-cost housing in the Netherlands
3-Jun-1999
The industrialisation techniques used for this 70-dwelling project follow the architecture rather than determine it, and are only used where they are cost-effective. Cast-in-situ concrete 'tunnel-forms' are used for the ground floor, first floor and party walls of a dwelling, in this case a 'box' 10m deep and 4.8m wide. Before casting, all services are clipped to the reinforcement and all openings are framed. Three or four dwellings can be cast in one day. Computer- controlled heaters ... -
Visitor Centre, White Cliffs of Dover van Heyningen & Haward Architects
27-May-1999
Precast columns supporting a turf roof -
Windows set in a stone facade
20-May-1999
working details; Winchester House, City of London Swanke Hayden Connell Architects -
A glazed roof
6-May-1999
working details; Neptune Court, Greenwich Rick Mather Architects and BDP -
assembly details
29-Apr-1999
A semi-monocoque aluminium shell -
Working details
22-Apr-1999
Glazed and copper-clad wall with sliding panels -
A weatherboarded wall with eaves vents
15-Apr-1999
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A wall and roof of frameless glazing
8-Apr-1999
The museum is housed in a six-storey 1960s building which has now been extended and refurbished to include a new gallery along the west side, and a four-storey foyer, glazed on the front facade with a Planar frameless glazing system. -
A brick and glass-block tower
1-Apr-1999
The three-storey car park has five circular towers and an elevated walkway - the 'wallwalk' - which refers to the ancient ramparts. Visitors reach the wallwalk, which gives access to the city, via staircases set in the towers. -
Victoria Hall Levitt Bernstein Associates
18-Mar-1999
A glazed and barrel-vaulted roof -
House on Rutland Waterki
11-Mar-1999
Julian Marsh + Jerzy Grochows -
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4-Mar-1999
Bridge over shallow pool -
Museum of Scotland Benson and Forsyth
25-Feb-1999
Glazed display cases -
Working details A ROOFLIGHT WITH A CONCAVE ROOF SLOPE
18-Feb-1999
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11-Feb-1999
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Working details A SEMI-CIRCULAR BAY WINDOW
4-Feb-1999
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14-Jan-1999
Room for growth Richard Murphy’s extension to an eighteenth-century house incorporates outbuildings to provide room for a growing family -
steel design working detail
17-Dec-1998
A steel grid shell with suspended glass panels -
Working details: A WAVED STEEL ROOF WITH PROJECTING EAVES
3-Dec-1998
BUILDING STUDY -
SHEFFIELD Working details
22-Oct-1998
A FACETED WALL WITHRAINSCREEN CLADDING -
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22-Oct-1998
A FACETED WALL WITH RAINSCREEN CLADDING -
Working details A BAY WINDOW AND BALCONY
15-Oct-1998
BUILDING STUDY; BROOK HOUSE, PARK LANE -
Working details A PROJECTING ROOF SUPPORTED BY A STRUCTURAL DOWNPIPE
1-Oct-1998
BUILDING STUDY; POKESDOWN PRIMARY SCHOOL -
In tune with nature Reclaimed materials exist in harmony with their green-oak frame in Edward Nash's studio for a Bath musician
17-Sep-1998
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Working details A GLASS ROOFLIGHT SET IN A PRECAST CONCRETE WALL
10-Sep-1998
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PHOTONICS CENTRE, ADLERSHOF, BERLIN
3-Sep-1998
BUILDING STUDY -
Working details A SUSPENDED STEEL STAIRCASE AND FABRIC SCREEN
27-Aug-1998
BUILDING STUDY; LORD'S CRICKET GROUND -
Radical intervention
13-Aug-1998
The Image Bank is a world-wide image resource organisation. The uk headquarters on Conway Street, Central London, has an extensive library of transparencies and film footage used by advertising, design and corporate clients. A recent acquisition of archive films has created a need to find space for this extensive film library. -
Working details A GLASS ROOF
23-Jul-1998
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A WALL OF BRICK CLADDING PANELS
16-Jul-1998
BUILDING STUDY; BIRMINGHAM FOYER -
A STEEL STRUCTURE WITH 'TREE' COLUMNS
9-Jul-1998
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AN EXTERNAL WALL WITH AN INSULATED RENDER FINISH
18-Jun-1998
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A STONE FACADE TO STUDENT ROOMS
11-Jun-1998
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Extending inside out
28-May-1998
working details; The clean lines of a kitchen extension to a Twickenham semi link the garden with the living space -
A SWIMMING POOL STRUCTURE
21-May-1998
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A PORCH WITH A CURVED LEAD ROOF
14-May-1998
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A STONE RAINSCREEN WALL
7-May-1998
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A GLASS AND STEEL STAIRCASE
30-Apr-1998
BUILDING STUDY; IKON GALLERY, BIRMINGHAM -
A CURVED METAL ROOF WITH AN EAVES CLERESTORY
16-Apr-1998
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Joint venture
16-Apr-1998
WORKING DETAILS; Paul Collinge’s collaboration with the contractor on turning a chair factory into an office building reduced costs but not quality -
Draught dodger
9-Apr-1998
working details; Manser Associates’ dainty glass barrel-vaulted porch is totally transparent, yet is robust enough to keep out the draughts -
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2-Apr-1998
EXTERNAL SOLAR SHADING SYSTEMS TO A CURTAINWALL -
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19-Mar-1998
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS PROJECTING THROUGH A FACETED CURTAIN WALL -
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12-Mar-1998
A HOUSING SCHEME WITH CURVEDAND CONCAVE ROOFS -
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26-Feb-1998
The three-storey office building is designed to be energy-efficient. The undersides of the cast-in situ floor slabs were cast with coffered ribs and exposed as ceilings to act as heat sinks. -
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19-Feb-1998
The staircase serves three floors, one a lower ground floor, and has semicircular half-landings. Because it acts as a means of escape, it is enclosed in one-hour fire-resistant materials. -
Masterclass in how buildings are made
12-Feb-1998
review -
PRECAST CLADDING TO A CONCRETE FRAME STRUCTURE
12-Feb-1998
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A ROOF WITH VALLEY GUTTERS AND A SUNSCREEN
5-Feb-1998
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Banque Paribas' new London headquarters
29-Jan-1998
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Making a stand
22-Jan-1998
INTERIORS -
School principles
22-Jan-1998
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Working details A ROOFLIGHT LANTERN
15-Jan-1998
JOHN McASLAN & PARTNERS; IMPERIAL COLLEGE LIBRARY EXTENSION -
Working details A PORCH IN A FRAMELESS GLASS WALL
18-Dec-1997
MACCORMAC JAMIESON PRICHARD; RUSKIN LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER
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