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Projects: Smith's Dock, North Shields
Urban Splash and Places for People’s £140m regeneration of a North Shields dockyard at Smith’s Dock includes a high proportion of modular homes manufactured offsite
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Projects: London Screen Academy, Islington, London
Turning a former radio factory into a sixth-form film and television school proved a structural challenge for the project team
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Projects: Cambridge Mosque
When Marks Barfield Architects was asked to design Cambridge’s first purpose-built mosque, it turned for inspiration to the Garden of Paradise
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Projects: Bloomsbury Theatre, London
Nicholas Hare Architects was faced with an unusual set of challenges in its refurbishment of UCL’s Bloomsbury Theatre, which is wrapped around by a variety of other university facilities that had to remain open during works.
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The Tulip: a point of contention
In the forest of tall and quirky structures that is the City of London, it’s beginning to seem that nothing is too bizarre to get built. So why has Fosters’ proposed Tulip prompted such a barrage of opposition? And will it nevertheless gain approval?
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In pictures: Famous observation towers around the world
If the Tulip is ever built, it will enter the rarefied group of high-profile observation towers across the world
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Projects: Xiqu Centre Opera House, Hong Kong
The Xiqu Centre for Chinese opera in Hong Kong soars above its constrained site with two theatres suspended above public space, by using some ingenious construction solutions
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Projects: London's new £288m Centre for Music
London is set to gain a new world-class symphony hall – but will the planned £288m Centre for Music face the battles and delays that dog so many major cultural projects?
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How Liverpool One is bucking the trend in the retail sector
With the British high street in the doldrums, Ike Ijeh revisits Liverpool One which, 10 years after it first opened, is attracting 30 million visitors each year
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Projects: Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Haworth Tompkins’ new project for the Perse School, Cambridge, is part of a trend towards increasingly professional theatre facilities in schools
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Timber frames: will we see wooden skyscrapers in the future?
Timber frames, for so long limited to the low-rise residential sector, have begun to break into commercial and higher-rise uses, thanks to technological breakthroughs
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Ageing gracefully: restorations which retain historical decay
Instead of making a neglected building look brand-new, why not refurbish it to preserve and showcase the damage worked by fires, damp, squatters and the passage of time?
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