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TechnicalNHS Nightingale: How we built a hospital in 10 days
As the first patients arrive at London’s coronavirus surge hospital, BDP’s James Hepburn tells Elizabeth Hopkirk how they designed it
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InspirationsRichard Griffiths’ first project: The Old Dispensary, Stratford
The architect recalls putting quality over cost, winning over hostile workmen and an electric shock
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Building StudyMaggie’s Centre at the Royal Marsden, Sutton, by Ab Rogers Design
For his first building the designer has gone head-to-head with his father – but he was more intimidated by Rem Koolhaas, he tells Elizabeth Hopkirk
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Features‘Architects are rarely at the table when crucial decisions are being made’
Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects discuss hope and fear with Elizabeth Hopkirk
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InspirationsHow No1 Poultry almost lost its stripes
The project architect on Stirling’s masterpiece recounts the extraordinary story behind his luckiest break
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Building StudyThe world’s hottest projects in 2020
Ike Ijeh tours the planet to report on this year’s most anticipated completions
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NewsPLP wins competition to design 140m timber tower
€160m Tree House project will be Holland’s tallest hybrid structure
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Auckland Tower, County Durham, by Niall McLaughlin
The architect has given Auckland Castle a timber tower resembling a siege engine – but while it’s a permanent fixture there’s nothing static about it
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NewsFletcher Priest wins Hamburg housing competition
Proposals for dockyard regeneration scheme honour legendary piano maker Steinway
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OpinionHow to do ornament that’s not a crime
Gillian Darley on the delight of a well-crafted detail
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NewsZaha Hadid Architects hired to create duplex lobby in Southbank Tower
Work at former King’s Reach Tower is architect’s first resi refurb scheme
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Stratford Pavilion by Acme
This substantial structure at the Olympic Park had to be built over a DLR tunnel, setting the team major challenges. Ike Ijeh reports
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NewsDavid Kohn completes historic Berlin office conversion
Collaboration with German architect saw one of city’s ’most expensive’ belle époque homes restored
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News‘Don’t demonise timber-framed buildings’ - architects react to Worcester Park fire
RIBA’s Jane Duncan says south London blaze exposes inadequacy of government’s building reg reforms
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TechnicalTechnical Study: North West Cambridge housing by Stanton Williams
The architect’s first affordable housing creates a sense of intimacy while complying with tough daylight regulations, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London
Carl Turner tells Elizabeth Hopkirk how he won the biggest project of his career – and then had to design it a nerve-wracking three times
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NewsArchio gets green light for Lewisham CLT homes
Practice pledges south London infill scheme will be 100% affordable
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OpinionHow to design a beautifully modest building
Two new cultural projects by Feilden Fowles and 6a could teach the likes of Diller Scofidio Renfro a thing or two about ambition
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Windermere Jetty Museum, Cumbria, by Carmody Groarke
Carmody Groarke’s museum joyfully embodies and integrates with the romantic landscape and local vernacular of the Lakes
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Floating church, London
Denizen Works explains how VW Campervans and an organ bellows inspired a highly unusual place of worship