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FeaturesBack to school: The human touch
OMA鈥檚 first science building, Lab City engineering school near Paris, humanises its rational grid structure through a system of streets and squares bathed in natural light.
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FeaturesLondon's High Point: Race to the top
In creating the UK鈥檚 tallest build-for-rent development 鈥� Highpoint in London鈥檚 Elephant and Castle 鈥� flexibility, efficiency and speed were key concepts for contractor Mace and structural engineer AKT II
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FeaturesPassivhaus: Economy of scale
When it鈥檚 finished, Goldsmith Street in Norwich will be the largest Passivhaus scheme in the UK - but built as a 100% social housing scheme, it had to be delivered for a competitive price. But how is it being achieved?
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FeaturesWild imaginings: Beach huts, Part 2
The humble British beach hut is being reconfigured for the 21st century, as Part 2 of our guide shows
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FeaturesWild imaginings: Beach huts, Part 1
The humble British beach hut is being reconfigured for the 21st century, as Part 1 of our guide shows
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FeaturesTalkin鈥� bout a revolution
Take some well-tested modern manufacturing techniques, add them to a radical streamlined procurement route that makes the supplier king and you have the beginnings of what could be a revolution in how we build. Ike Ijeh reports on the latest advances in off-site manufacture
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FeaturesBracknell: Talk of the town
Bracknell is the first post-war new town to be comprehensively demolished and rebuilt - to the tune of 拢750m. 黑洞社区 visited just weeks before completion to see a scheme that hopes to get shoppers and visitors returning in droves
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2017: the winners
It鈥檚 good to be reminded of the high quality that characterises much of the new work being produced in housing
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FeaturesV&A extension: Culture shock
Amanda Levete鈥檚 拢48m expansion of London鈥檚 V A connects the museum with the public realm through a superb porcelain-paved courtyard. But it鈥檚 the sheer immersive power of its vast subterranean exhibition hall that will make visitors stand and gawp
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FeaturesNational Gallery of Ireland: Windows of opportunity
Heneghan Peng鈥檚 拢25m refurbishment of the National Gallery of Ireland is a sensitive and sometimes almost invisible intervention into an idiosyncratic building
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FeaturesUnder a cloud
Commercial development in the City has had the shadow of Brexit looming over it for a year now
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FeaturesClose to the edge
Kengo Kuma鈥檚 extraordinarily complex design for the V A鈥檚 outpost in Dundee would not have been possible without 3D modelling and analysis tools, not to mention complex construction techniques, that have left the city with a building of true grit
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FeaturesBIM: Attention to detail
A Boston restoration project using advanced 3D-modelling and printing technologies could hold the key to a new age of decoration within contemporary design
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FeaturesResidential towers: Through the roof
New York and London are both bristling with new residential towers, a boom driven by demand for housing and skyrocketing prices for luxury flats
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FeaturesBy the people: Columbia University鈥檚 new Manhattanville campus
Columbia University鈥檚 new Manhattanville campus has championed a policy of inclusiveness not only for its students but also in the construction teams that built it
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FeaturesA stage for three stars: Chester's Storyhouse
The Storyhouse in Chester is a daring construction of opposites, with a theatre, cinema and library brought together in a space that combines new-build and the spirit of the orginal 1930s picture house
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Comment3D printing: Another dimension
3D printing is set to play an ever more important role in the construction process but, with this new technology, new legal safeguards will be needed
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FeaturesBIM: Are you ready for the fourth dimension?
The team behind 22 Bishopsgate has created a complex 4D virtual reality model intended to optimise every aspect of delivery. Is the industry at large prepared for this new reality?
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FeaturesMelody & harmony: Berlin's new concert hall
Frank Gehry鈥檚 拢28.5m Berlin concert hall is an unusual building for this celebrated creator of the unusual. Ike Ijeh finds that through its sharp contradictions of age, shape and material, it achieves a kind of peace
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FeaturesNotes from a small island: Tristan da Cunha's medical centre
黑洞社区 a medical centre is all in a day鈥檚 work for Galliford Try. But it鈥檚 a different matter when the work takes place on a volcanic island 2,000km from the nearest inhabited land. This is a prefab new-build with a difference