Features
A visionary development scheme is approaching completion on the former site of Kingston Power Station on the banks of the River Thames, 15 years after the land was acquired by NHP Leisure Developments and 20 years after the power station, complete with its twin cooling towers, was demolished.
The winners of the 45th annual Wood Awards were announced at a ceremony held last month at Carpenters’ Hall in London.
Architectural firm, Arches, has recently created a contemporary, eco-friendly villa close to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania and the country’s largest city.
As part of a major project to create an open, inviting and distinctive retail banking branch within the new Santander UK London head office, DuPont Corian has been chosen to enhance both the visual impact and the functional interface with clients.
As local authorities continue to grapple with the issue of handling waste in an environmentally-sound and cost-effective way, waste-to-energy plants are proving to be a solution that offers a win/win/win approach, with lower environmental impact, lower waste management costs and a source of renewable energy.
When your company wins a praiseworthy star in the 2016 Sunday Times ‘Best Companies to Work For’, it’s certainly something to shout about. But at Broadgate Estates’ new central office in London, known colloquially as The Hub, it’s the unseen and the unheard features that are pioneering future workplace development.
The brief from the matriarch of a cosmetics fortune was to create a world-class yet intimate auditorium for the playing of chamber music in a natural setting. The result is a critically-acclaimed music venue that has featured on the big screen and been enjoyed by thousands of music lovers in its first year of operation.
To bring the 100-year-old infrastructure between the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis in line with current requirements, the state of Minnesota implemented the biggest municipal rail throughout its history. To ensure protection from the sun, its transport hub has been provided with large-scale cladding in the form of metal fabrics and additional stainless steel birds.
Developers Simone Kreutzer and Tommy Wesslund have recently completed work on an eco-home in Sweden, clad in Kebony. Villa Circuitus, meaning ‘a going around’ in Latin, is a spacious, circular 175m² passive house containing four bedrooms, an open-plan kitchen and dining area.
Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire has officially opened one of the largest gibbon facilities in Europe in its most ambitious development to date, Gibbon Forest.
