All ºÚ¶´ÉçÇøs articles – Page 90

  • Features

    Westfield at White City: Westway to the world

    2007-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Need any more evidence of Westfield’s massive ambitions? How about these 14 cranes looming over west London, and the huge mall rising around them. Or the fact that it ditched its contractor to take on this monster of a project by itself.

  • South Shields Riverside ariel
    News

    Egret West plans 'giant oyster' for South Shields - images

    2007-06-11T12:16:00Z

    Masterplan for 35ha scheme includes 1300 homes and the UK's first 100% recycled park

  • Features

    Dazzling achievement

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Martin Spring heads to the Wirral to see how Wallasey’s pioneering solar school is holding up, 46 years after it was built. Then, on page 50, find out how the 21st century does solar in the first of a series on renewable technologies

  • Libeskind’s jagged, teetering forms in Toronto’s museum extension were inspired by gems housed its collection
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    Royal Ontario Museum: A legend in his lunchtime

    2007-06-01T00:00:00Z

    No need to play ‘guess the architect’ on this new wing for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. But you’ll never guess how he did it …

  • Hi-tech features will include driverless taxis on overhead monorails and photovoltaic cells in the awnings
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    Masdar: Nice spot for a zero-carbon city...

    2007-06-01T00:00:00Z

    For his next trick, Norman Foster is going to turn a patch of desert in Abu Dhabi into the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city. Martin Spring finds out how

  • Looking up at the dazzling, restored semicircular concert hall
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    Saving St George

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Purcell Miller Tritton’s lavish £22m restoration has returned Liverpool’s grade I-listed St George’s Hall to its glorious past – just with fewer prisoners and hopefully more tourists.

  • This cone-shaped planetarium is tilted so that its central axis points at the North Star
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    Coming to a universe near you

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    The Peter Harrison Planetarium is about to bring the mysteries of the cosmos to Greenwich park

  • More than 7,000 workers built the imposing Beijing stadium.
    News

    The last straws: Herzog & de Meuron's Beijing Olympic building

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    As the structure of Herzog & de Meuron’s awe-inspiring ‘bird’s nest’ stadium nears completion, Catherine Wheatley went to Beijing to find out how the city’s Olympic preparations were progressing

  • Features

    BMW Welt: How’s this for a car showroom?

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Architect Coop Himmelb(l)au’s astonishing Munich creation is the latest blow in the battle between BMW and Mercedes-Benz

  • Features

    Lost in space

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Surface Architects’ conversion of Birkbeck College’s film and media research centre is a complex sculpture that breaks down distinctions between walls, floors and ceilings, opening it up to all manner of interpretations. Martin Spring makes one or two

  • The reception lobby spreads out between a wavy curtain wall and internal murals
    Features

    Find me a famous architect! Gehry's NY building

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    For ask.com’s new HQ there was only one answer: Frank Gehry’s first New York building

  • The building has two types of cladding
    Features

    Dancing with disaster

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Right from the start, Foster + Partners’ Willis building was blown off course by legal problems and higher than expected winds. But much worse was to follow ... Thomas Lane found out how the team behind the City skyscraper fought back

  • Emirates Stadium, north London
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    They are the champions

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    This year, for the first time, the ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Awards included the ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Project of the Year, for the best completed scheme. Martin Spring reviews the five runners-up and the winner, Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium

  • Features

    Recordamos

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Madrid has unveiled a memorial that preserves the experiences of those present at Europe’s worst post-war terrorist attack

  • The steel frame was the main package and its timely delivery was crucial to the project’s success.
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    You only live twice

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    When the huge 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios – birthplace of the James Bond films – was destroyed by fire, it spelled doom for the UK’s film-making mecca. But against all the odds, an elite team has managed to rebuild the space in eight months.

  • Cardington Airfield
    News

    PRP reveals Bedford airfield masterplan

    2007-04-12T11:56:00Z

    Architect submits plans for Cardington Airfield which includes 425 dwellings and a park honouring 48 who died airship crash

  • Liverpool FC
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    Work on Liverpool stadium close to kick off

    2007-04-02T14:11:00Z

    Work on Liverpool FC's new ground will start next month after club was given the go-ahead at the weekend

  • Willmott Dixon mini school
    News

    Willmott Dixon builds model for zero-carbon schools

    2007-03-30T01:00:00Z

    BRE to showcase exemplar as Partnerships for Schools makes pledge to go green

  • The museum’s entrance pavilion stands off to one side of the Italianate villa, behind a green veil of patterned glass
    Features

    Veiled in emeralds: Zürich museum

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    This extension to a Zürich museum is a beguiling marriage of romance and modernism

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    Super-casino plans in disarray after Lords vote

    2007-03-29T09:56:00Z

    Government's considers its options after Peers reject plans for super-casino in Manchester