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Assorted Skills + Talents wins approval for Leeds ‘High Line’ homes
Manchester studio buddies Assorted Skills + Talents (AS+T) and Jeffrey Bell Architects have won approval for the £50 million second phase of the Leeds Monk Bridge scheme featuring a park similar to New York’s High Line
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Dannatt Johnson’s giant ‘cabinet of curiosities’ enlivens Natural History Museum
Named after the 19th-century palaeontologist Mary Anning, the new rooms provide a restaurant, dining rooms, lounge and study for members and patrons
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King’s Cross chief gets a second bite of the cherry at Canada Water
Paul Finch takes a walk around Canada Water with Roger Madelin, who is heading British Land’s 5 million sq ft development there
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Profits dive at 3DReid
3DReid has reported a slump in profits of more than 70 per cent
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13.09.18: Retrofit
The latest AJ features the winners of our 2018 Retrofit Awards, a celebration of creative repurposing covering 13 different building categories; as well as a full building study of the overall winner: Ian Ritchie Architects’ Susie Sainsbury Theatre and Angela Burgess Recital Hall for the Royal Academy of Music in London; and a study of a possible future contender: Featherstone Young’s Tŷ Pawb retrofit arts building ...
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EVIDENCE-BASED DESIGN: THE STORY SO FAR
Environmental evidence-based design research has been gathered in a scientific way only since the 1980s.Roger Ulrich carried out ground-breaking research in the early '80s showing that views of landscape rather than a brick wall had a beneficial effect on surgical patients.He has continued looking into the effects of art on patients, acoustics on communication and so on, and he is working with NHS Estates.Home-grown research by John Welles-Thorpe and Bryan Lawson at Sheffield University ...
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