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Heritage at height: engineering a terracotta tower on Whitworth Street
Sheppard Robson's Paul Crowther and AKT II's Elena Giraldi took one tall, tightly-constrained Manchester residential tower and showed how heritage character and hard acoustic and thermal performance get resolved together...
Manchester
Stadium skins at the scale of a city: why collaboration makes complexity buildable
Simon Barnes uses Kai Tak Sports Park and the Santiago Bernabéu refurbishment to show how stadium façades become manageable only when acoustics, wind, daylight, geometry, fabrication and quality control are treated as on...
Brisbane
Precision by design: keeping faith with the render, all the way to site
Yogesh Tantia walked through four live projects, two rising in Chennai, two in Bangalore, to make a single argument: the distance between a beautiful render and a building that actually gets built is measured in precisio...
Chennai
Conversion feasibility starts at the enclosure
Office-to-residential conversions are often discussed as planning or finance problems, but Amanda Stacy shows that the existing enclosure can determine whether a scheme is technically credible. Condition, structure, wate...
Washington DC
Circular façades need reversible decisions
Jeroen Boersma frames sustainability in the façade industry around long service life, lower-carbon materials and the ability to recover components. Circularity is less about end-of-life recycling claims and more about de...
Rotterdam
