University of Leicester Engineering Building
The Herculean task of replacing the iconic roof of one the world’s most revered pieces of 20th-century architecture has been captured on the page by the lead designer of the project.
Technical building designs
Technical building designs and architects
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Home shutters, house window coverings
Many homeowners are now installing shutters to their homes. Why? Shutters are becoming more and more popular because of its many benefits. Not only it protects your windows and doors but it adds a personal touch to improve the appearance of your home.
University of Leicester Engineering Department
An ambitious project to replace the diamond-shaped roof of the University of Leicester’s world-famous Engineering Building, with all 2,500 glass panels reconstructed and replaced to exacting standards, is complete.
LUX Virtual Reality Design Tool
A key feature of LUX WALKER by Tenebris Lab, is that it enables multiple people to walk through and interact with each other in the same space, from anywhere in the world. Users are fully immersed in a 3D true-to-life-scale project
Oasis: Silicon Valley Technology Center, Santa Clara
Design: Architects: Form4 Architecture. Conceived as an iconic beacon for innovation and design, with a suspended tropical garden in the midst of futuristic building systems, plus a large expanse of glass.
Tyvek UV façade in Bristol, UK
An elegant open-jointed façade design demands not only high-performance protection but also a discreet subtlety that will not compromise the aesthetic vision.
McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, Surrey
An extension to the £300m McLaren Technology Centre in Woking is being designed by the original architects. The earlier building is roughly semi-circular, the circle being completed by a formal lake, which forms an integral part of the buildings cooling system.
MEMBRANE dialogue: architecture and textile
This project inserts itself in the ancient dialogue between architecture and textile. It develops spatialities between the heavy and the light, the hard and the soft, the specific and the general
Why you should build with steel, structural materials
Why You Should Build With Steel: design discussion – article by Bhushan Avsatthi – steel building, structural materials in architecture: architectural design
Sequential Wall Zurich: Gramazio & Kohler
In the follow-up course the students were challenged to integrate the functional requirements to an external timber wall – for example its loadbearing and insulating behaviour as well as its constructive waterproofing – into their designs systems as generative parameters.
Diagonal Structures, Diagrid Structure – Ian Ritchie
However, I have picked upon one evident theme – engineering and the expressive diagonal line. Sontag’s great book ‘On Photography’ was seminal in my caution in interpreting and critiquing architecture from images alone
Atrium design: property atria design
It started with a wartime kiss and ended in the deaths of 492 people and marks, arguably, the moment when modern fire safety started to get serious. It was 1942 and a young US soldier had taken his date to the Coconut Grove nightclub in downtown Boston.
FIND Site Analysis Tool, England, UK
FIND Site Analysis Tool, Planning Information, Building, Project, News, Property UK Site Analysis Tool Key Development in England, UK, Europe 6 Mar 2009 Site Analysis Tool FIND, the UK’s most advanced site analysis tool launches The UK’s most advanced site analysis tool has been launched. Initially aimed at professionals in the property world, FIND offers … Read more
Scottish Conservation Recording: 3D Visuals
Groundbreaking 3D visual documentation of Scottish historical landmarks including Rosslyn Chapel and Stirling Castle was unveiled today (Wednesday, 22nd April) by Culture Minister Michael Russell MSP at the 2009 Digital Documentation Conference.
Cross Laminated Timber Scottish Buildings
The Centre for Timber Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University is holding a one-day conference on Friday 24 April 2009 in the headquarters of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh.