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ArcelorMittal Orbit: the architect’s story
Posted on: 13 August 2012
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The 80m-tall twisted metal viewing tower-cum-sculpture officially called the ArcelorMittal Orbit, dominates the Stratford skyline. This NBS TV programme looks at how UFA melded architecture with art and how the practice worked alongside two such established figures.
Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics Centre versus Michael Hopkins’ Velodrome
Posted on: 3 August 2012
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In this article, two Olympic arenas and two very different design strategies go head-to-head.
Opinions on the Shard
Posted on: 30 July 2012
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The Architectural Review presents a spectrum of views on Renzo Piano’s Shard from key figures in British architecture.
Dezeen Magazine
Posted on: 4 July 2012
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This website aims to highlight a carefully edited selection of the best architecture, design and interiors projects from around the world before anyone else. Dezeen was launched at the end of November 2006 and has grown rapidly to become one of the most popular and influential architecture and design blogs on the internet. Dezeen was included in Time magazine’s Design 100 list of the most influential forces in global design and in Design Week magazine’s Hot 50 list of key figures in design.
Designing Buildings Wiki
Posted on: 4 July 2012
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This free, open-access resource aims to help the construction industry move towards a less fragmented, more open and better informed way of working. The site has recently launched with 350 articles already uploaded, about property, procedures, legislation, design and construction. Because it’s a wiki site, if you don’t see what you want – you can add it, and if you don’t like what you see – you can change it.
2012 Learning Legacy – free online lectures
Posted on: 29 June 2012
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As part of the 2012 Learning Legacy, the Institution of Civil Engineers worked with the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) to deliver a UK-wide lecture programme. The topics covered include: master planning, land treatment, venues, bridges, structures, water use management, and transport. Videos of the following lectures are available:
Launch event: ODA Learning Legacy – Lessons Learned
Launch of the Olympic Delivery Authority’s Learning Legacy and panel discussion on the lessons learned from the London 2012 construction project.
Establishment of the Olympic Project: winning the bid, shaping the vision and master planning
Hear from those that led the complex design and planning process to ensure buildings and infrastructure were designed to meet long-term regeneration ambitions as well as the unique technical requirements for the games.
Engineering the Olympic Park: Contaminated land treatment and invasive species control
Prior to 2005 the Olympic Park site in east London was heavily polluted and divided by pylons and railways. The preparation for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games required environmental improvement on a huge scale.
Delivering London 2012: the Aquatics Centre
The Aquatics Centre London 2012 is an iconic venue designed by acclaimed architect Zaha Hadid.
Engineering the Olympic Park: Water use minimisation and management
The lecture looks at the use of modern techniques to reduce the use of water across the site and successfully manage the resource.
Engineering the Olympic Stadium
Hear from those who led the design and delivery of the Olympic Stadium. An innovative use of permanent and temporary forms was developed to meet the 80,000 Olympic capacity and 25,000 legacy capacity, with the final structuring consisting of a permanent sunken concrete bowl and a removable upper seating tier.
World Architecture Masters
Posted on: 27 June 2012
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World Architecture Masters is an online magazine produced by the International Academy of Architecture. Each issue is devoted to the work of current architects. The architects featured in the 17 issues published so far include: Daniel Libeskind; Tadao Ando; Yuri Platonov; Teodoro Gonzalez-De-Leon; Justus Dahinden; Dominque Perrault; Paul Andrev; Georgi Stoilov; Toyo Ito; Legorreta + Legorreta; Renzo Piano; Mario Botta; Norman Foster; manfredi Nicoletti; Erick Van Egeraat; Zaha Hadid; and Massimiliano Fuksas.
Unstructured Sitelines
Posted on: 12 June 2012
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The green cultural network, Fourth Door, has re-launched its main web-magazine, Unstructured, increasing its web-presence, and with the journal, Sitelines, a specific focus on sustainable architecture and the built environment. Sitelines highlights sustainability and its cultural, social and political implications and contexts, in contrast to the more technical approaches often found across contemporary architectural media. The latest issue also contains a special Passivhaus section.
Healthy design, creative safety: Approaches to health and safety teaching and learning in undergraduate schools of architecture
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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Health and safety teaching should be integrated into design projects to be most effective, rather than taught as an abstract set of rules in isolation, according to new research published into the teaching of health and safety to undergraduate students of architecture. The report was produced on behalf of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) by the University of Sheffield.
A policy on architecture and placemaking for Scotland
Posted on: 30 May 2012
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The Scottish Government has published a paper to underpin a public consultation process which will inform the future shape of policy and help the Scottish Government consider how our architecture and places can help provide a better quality of life and better position Scotland on the world stage. As a starting point for discussion, The paper considers 4 key themes around which the policy could contribute and asks a set of 12 related questions.
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