Architects & design Focus – Page 4

  • Young Architect of the Year nominees 2016
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    Young Architects of the Year: On sustainability

    2016-03-08T06:00:00Z

    Built from the beginning in a context of eco-awareness, the work of these Young Architect of the Year nominees has been green-tinted from the start. But what do they think of the state of sustainability today?

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    In pics: London 2145

    2015-11-27T06:00:00Z

    What will the London skyline look like in the year 2145?

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    School building: Top form

    2015-11-13T06:00:00Z

    Sheppard Robson and Willmott Dixon have teamed up to create a new model of school that aims to be economic, quick to build and flexible enough to be used for multiple alternative uses. Key to all this is the structurally independent, over-sailing glulam roof

  • Top 150 consultants
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    Top 150 Consultants 2015: Architects

    2015-09-16T10:53:00Z

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø’s full Top 150 consultants 2015 survey is out on Friday, but we’re releasing the results showing the top 50 architects online today

  • Construction professions
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    Professions: Now you see them, now you don’t

    2015-05-21T06:00:00Z

    Construction’s professions could effectively disappear within a decade, according to the author of a challenging report

  • PRP Architects
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    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Award Winners: Architectural Practice of the Year

    2015-04-29T06:00:00Z

    The sheer energy at play at PRP this year - developing a range of innovative typologies for housing, sharing its knowledge of housing with the rest of the industry, and pushing for design quality - makes it a worthy winner

  • London skyline
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    Architecture in a time of austerity

    2015-04-29T06:00:00Z

    Ike Ijeh assesses the impact the coalition has had on architecture and how design has fared through the years of budget tightening

  • The Farrell Review
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    The Farrell Review: Into the long grass?

    2015-04-02T06:00:00Z

    One year on from the publication of Terry Farrell’s review of architecture and the built environment, it’s time to see whether the government is prepared to support good design - or whether it will favour continued procrastination

  • 240 Blackfriars interior
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    240 Blackfriars: Welcome to our new home

    2015-02-20T00:00:00Z

    The designer behind the interiors of ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø’s new home explains the thinking behind designing an office for the workforce of the millenials’ generation

  • Architects
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    Architecture: The diversity problem

    2015-02-13T06:00:00Z

    An architectural education will last seven years and leave you with debts in excess of £50,000. So is it becoming a pastime exclusively for the rich?

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    BIM architecture: The vision thing

    2014-11-19T06:00:00Z

    BIM isn’t normally seen as a design tool but increasingly it can influence what a building looks like. We explore the possibilities and dangers of BIM-inspired architecture

  • Pheonix Island
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    Horrific architecture: Part 3

    2014-10-31T06:00:00Z

    Continuing our Halloween tribute to the most gruesome building designs around the globe, here’s the third of our three part mini-series

  • Wanda Cultural City Tourism & Exhibition Centre
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    Horrific architecture: Part 2

    2014-10-30T06:00:00Z

    Continuing our Halloween tribute to the most gruesome building designs around the globe, here’s the second of our three part mini-series

  • White Sails Hospital, Tunisia
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    Horrific architecture: Part 1

    2014-10-29T06:00:00Z

    Dim the lights and get ready to hide behind the sofa. It’s the return of ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø’s Halloween tribute to the most gruesome building designs around the globe

  • LVMH Foundation
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    LVMH Foundation for Creation by Frank Gehry

    2014-10-27T11:32:00Z

    Frank Gehry brings his futuristic architecture to suburban Paris with a privately funded art gallery

  • 1934 - Lawn Road Flats, London by Wells Coates. Nominated by Elizabeth Darling
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    Housing that defined the 20th Century

    2014-10-27T11:00:00Z

    The Twentieth Century Society’s 100 ºÚ¶´ÉçÇøs 100 Years project provides a fascinating overview of the history of housing

  • Royal College of Physicians
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    Review: Denys Lasdun exhibition

    2014-09-10T09:00:00Z

    Visitors to the new Lasdun exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians will envy the relationship between client and architect

  • H.O.U.S.E 1
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    Our H.O.U.S.E

    2014-09-04T06:00:00Z

    Combining the benefits of high enviromental efficiency and prefabricated design and assembly, the student-designed H.O.U.S.E is setting the benchmark for regulation friendly housing

  • Shenzen International Airport
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    Airports: Flights of fancy

    2014-08-08T06:00:00Z

    Airports have become air-conditioned nightmares beset by security checks and endless queues. But some designers, intent on reviving the Golden Age of Aviation, have let their imaginations fly. ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø looks at five of the newest terminals

  • Zaha Hadid Softbridge project
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    Zaha Hadid: Softbridge Project, Oxford

    2014-07-30T09:48:00Z

    The groves of academe have been buzzing with debate about Zaha Hadid’s Softbridge project, now on site at St Anthony’s college, Oxford. But for Bam’s engineering team constructing its cylindrical form in a desperately constrained site was an education in itself