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    Qatar's zero carbon stadium: 96 degrees in the shade

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Qatar wants to host the 2022 World Cup. But first it has to convince FIFA that the game can even be played in a Qatari summer. So it got Arup Associates to create a micro-climate inside a 500-seat test stadium. Cool.

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    Sikh place of worship: The gurus of Gravesend

    2010-10-29T12:48:00Z

    A cash-strapped project to build a Sikh place of worship in Gravesend procured the large marble domes, arched windows and highly ornate stonework from India - and saved more than £2m along the way

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    Laboratory of Molecular Biology: Master of science

    2010-10-29T00:00:00Z

    The Medical Research Council’s new chromosome-shaped lab in Cambridge is an example of how attention to detail and planning can deliver complex buildings on time and to budget

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    The use of force: ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø information modelling

    2010-10-22T00:00:00Z

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø information modelling may make everything better, but most firms don’t want to use it. But that might change now the government plans to make it compulsory on all public projects. Stephen Kennett reports

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    Arena Stage, Washington by Bing Thom: Through a glass darkly

    2010-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Peer closely and you’ll make out not one theatre behind that glass facade, but three. It’s Bing Thom Architects’ audacious response to the need to make artistic and architectural sense of two dysfunctional theatres in a deprived area of Washington DC. Ike Ijeh was wowed

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    Gilt trip: Refurbishing the Savoy hotel

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    The refurbished Savoy hotel looks a million dollars - which is just as well because it cost more than £200m to do up. Happily nobody was to blame for the cost and time overruns - except possibly the owner’s insatiably lavish tastes

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    The future looks rosy: Sheffield's Park Hill estate

    2010-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Urban Splash’s refurb of a listed sixties council estate is turning one of the republic of South Yorkshire’s biggest problems into an aspirational address

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    Senseless acts of beauty

    2010-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Foreign Office’s art college in north Greenwich is a beguiling mix of randomness, order and commercial astuteness

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    Cost of school refurbishment: case study

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    They might not have the glamour of new-build, but refurbishments, such as this one at Castle Hill school in Kent, have their wow factor too - nowhere more so than on price. Ike Ijeh sums it up

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    Empire State ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø window refurb: The empire strikes back

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Manhattan’s Empire State ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø is leaking air and carbon by the tonne. But a project to reduce heat loss and solar gain from its 6,514 windows has raised its green credentials - and drastically lowered its energy bill

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    Maglev high-speed trains: London to manchester in 55 minutes

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Magnetically levitating trains are faster and quieter than high-speed trains, use less energy and take up a lot less space. So why is this technology still waiting on the platform?

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    Rehousing animals: First catch your vole

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    The London Gateway port will handle 3.5 million containers a year and is a huge construction undertaking. But an added complication is the relocation of thousands of animals that inhabit the area - at a cost of £50m

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    Brockholes floating visitor centre: Tread lightly

    2010-08-13T00:00:00Z

    The designers of a new visitor centre for Brockholes wetland nature reserve plan to float the facilities in the middle of a lake - while ruffling as few feathers as possible

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    Insulation retrofit: Sealing the house

    2010-08-06T00:00:00Z

    So how do you get a leaky Edwardian building to be so airtight that it can be heated with a single towel rail? Robert Prewett, the architect behind the retrofit, takes us through the project’s first steps …

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    Terry Farrell's Regent's Place: Regent’s spark

    2010-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Sir Terry Farrell’s Regent’s Place is the fruition of a vision that should kick-start the regeneration of one of London’s more grisly thoroughfares. Ike Ijeh reports

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    Chatham Dockyard's salvage operation

    2010-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Returning a wrecked building to public use is tough enough at the best of times, but when your main contractor goes under, the pressure piles on. Stephen Kennett hears how Chatham Dockyard overcame adversity to open its new cultural hub for the summer tourist season

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    Kazakhstan: ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø the world's largest tent

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    In the capital of Kazakhstan, Buro Happold, Foster + Partners and developer Sembol have built the world’s largest tent. And their heroic attempts to heave that 90m mast upright are enough to make fair-weather campers weep

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    2012 countdown: The aquatics centre

    2010-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Since the aquatics centre’s 160m-long roof was lowered into place last year, work on the Zaha Hadid-designed venue has continued to power ahead

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    2012 countdown: The temporary basketball venue

    2010-07-02T00:00:00Z

    The Olympics may need a basketball venue the size of an aeroplane hanger, but London can probably get by without one after they’re over. So they’ve made the whole thing demountable

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    2012 countdown: Infrastructure

    2010-07-02T00:00:00Z

    The Olympics isn’t just about show-stopping stadiums. In fact, the budget for venues is £700m less than the cost of the no-frills enabling works, roads and utilities