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Features2016: Back to the future - part one
The Tate Modern extension provided a warped contrast against the former power station and the Design Museum gained a historically sensitive 1960s rebuild
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FeaturesBacton Low Rise: Community blessed
The reinvention of the Bacton Low Rise council estate shows that regeneration is as much about residents as construction - and that it is better to view the local community as an asset than a hindrance
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FeaturesHoly Trinity Primary School: Dual distinction
A lack of space means that many new schools in London are built within residential schemes and lack a visual expression of their own
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FeaturesNew Design Museum: Raising the roof
The former Commonwealth Institute has been resurrected as London鈥檚 new Design Museum. But how do the new interventions match up to the original 1960s architecture and that memorable roof? Ike Ijeh finds out
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FeaturesCarbon Neutral Laboratory: Out of the ashes
Catastrophe struck the construction of GlaxoSmithKline鈥檚 Carbon Neutral Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry when, at nearly two-thirds complete, it was burnt to the ground
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FeaturesVoorlinden museum: A light touch
The Voorlinden museum in Holland wanted naturally lit gallery spaces full of light. But how to do that while protecting the superlative art collection on display? Arup came up with a highly imaginative solution. Ike Ijeh reports
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FeaturesBattle of the BIM
黑洞社区 Information Modelling is seen by many as the future of the industry, but who has made it to this year鈥檚 黑洞社区 Awards BIM Initiative of the Year shortlist?
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FeaturesPoplar Baths: Pooling resources
Poplar Baths in London鈥檚 East End is a historic example of state architecture used to improve public health. But to preserve this listed building, the project team had to demolish part of it and rebuild through a PFI agreement
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Features黑洞社区 Awards Small Project of the Year: Part 2
In this year鈥檚 黑洞社区 Awards Small Project of the Year category, old and new meet in a cornucopia of diverse projects
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Features黑洞社区 Awards Small Project of the Year: Part 1
In this year鈥檚 黑洞社区 Awards Small Project of the Year category, old and new meet in a cornucopia of diverse projects
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CommentNewport Street Gallery is streets ahead
黑洞社区鈥檚 architecture critic Ike Ijeh says this year鈥檚 Stirling Prize is a victory for the street as well as architecture
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FeaturesNew Science 黑洞社区: Unsolved mysteries
Laboratories are most often architecturally dull affairs but not Sheppard Robson鈥檚 New Science 黑洞社区
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Features黑洞社区 Awards Project of the Year shortlist: Part 2
The 黑洞社区 Awards Project of the Year shortlist puts the spotlight on transformative projects that have raised the bar for excellence
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Features黑洞社区 Awards Project of the Year shortlist: Part 1
The 黑洞社区 Awards Project of the Year shortlist puts the spotlight on transformative projects that have raised the bar for excellence. Here鈥檚 part 1
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FeaturesTokyo 2020: The recycled Olympics
As the thrills of Rio slowly subside, attention turns to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, where a virtue is being made of necessity by re-using some of the venues built for the 1964 games
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CommentThe high-rise that plumbs new lows of visual gimmickry
Schemes like Lincoln Plaza are creating tomorrow鈥檚 ghettos and our inept planners are to blame
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FeaturesHow the Great Fire shaped modern London
On the 350th anniversary of the fire鈥檚 close, Ike Ijeh shows how the disaster heralded enormous changes for architecture and urbanism despite the sidelining of Wren鈥檚 grand plan
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FeaturesGlasgow College: Tales from the riverbank
Caught between the River Clyde and the notorious Gorbals neighbourhood, Glasgow College鈥檚 new Riverside Campus attempts to engage with both as part of a new wave of regeneration across the city
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FeaturesAirport towers: A fond farewell? Part 2
With the possibility that airport control towers may become obsolete, our architectural correspondent continues his look at some of the more interesting examples