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The new visitors centre at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, presented by Fergus Feilden of Feilden Fowles Architects with Greg Nordberg of engineers HRW, and the recent extension to the Templeman Library in the University of Kent presented by Suzi Winstanley of Penoyre & Prasad architects with Andy Toohey of Price & Myers engineers.
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There is a clear frontrunner for concrete lovers on this year’s Stirling prize shortlist. Apparata Architects’ A House for Artists in Barking, Essex is the most overtly concrete building to make the cut since another house for an artist, 6a’s Juergen Teller Studio, in 2017.
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Make’s HQ for Hiscox in York rewrites the rulebook for insurers’ offices, with swaths of sculptural concrete and a Soviet missile in the atrium.
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London studio for artist and photographer Juergen Teller is in texture, form and finish, as rich as an old master.
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Apparata Architects’ affordable housing block in Barking provides 12 spacious, flexible homes – using 20% less embodied carbon than the RIBA 2030 target. Pamela Buxton finds out how it was done
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While not radically different to its predecessor, BREEAM New Construction 2018 does contain some significant changes. These include greater use of Environment Performance Declarations (EPDs) for Life Cycle Analysis in the Materials category. Another is an overhaul of the methodology related to the use of recycled aggregates.
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The Concrete Centre provides material, design and construction guidance through its published work, events, webinars, research and online resources. Take a look at our most popular resources throughout 2018, and see if they can help you too.
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The Concrete Centre’s popular event Cafe Concrete will return on 29th October 2019 at the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, situated on London’s Southbank. This free pop-up event will examine the latest thinking the ways in which visual concrete can reduce materials and cut carbon emissions.
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The projects featured at this Concrete Elegance lecture are described as world-class facilities in their specialist fields of dance and medicine: the new English National Ballet and The Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital.
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Decarbonising concrete has been a focus of the industry for 30 years. MPA UK Concrete, the group representing the UK concrete industry, has developed a framework to help inform the delivery of an ambitious roadmap for the UK concrete and cement sector to deliver net negative emissions by 2050.