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SIMON SAINSBURY CENTRE, CAMBRIDGE Carving out Open Student Spaces on a Tight City Site ADF08 Cover Layout 1 26/07/2018 15:54 Page 2 ADF08 Cover_Layout 1 26/07/2018 15:54 Page 1 08.18 RATHBONE SQUARE, FITZROVIA Make Architects takes the chance to create an urban green oasis in this central London mixed use scheme SIMON SAINSBURY CENTRE, CAMBRIDGE Carving out open student spaces on a tight city site ADF08 Cover_Layout 1 26/07/2018 15:54 Page 2 ADF08_2018 03-20_ADF Flatplan 31/07/2018 13:38 Page 3 CONTENTS 08.18 NEWS, VIEWS & INSIGHTS PRODUCTS 04 Industry news & events 54 Planning & design 16 View Point: Nigel Ostime of 55 Groundworks & drainage Hawkins\Brown Architects 56 Structural elements 21 Practice Profile: Weston 57 External envelope 28 Williamson + Partners 69 Insulation 24 International Focus 69 Heating, ventilation & services 27 CPD Focus 70 Interiors 43 Bathrooms, Washrooms, Kitchens 71 Safety & security & Catering Supplement 73 Landscaping & external works 53 Appointments & news 75 Classified & directory PROJECT REPORTS 28 Extracting the maximum from close study James Parker found out how the new extension to the Cambridge Judge Business School provides the space for modern teaching methods by extracting the greatest potential from a challenging city centre site 37 Down the garden path On a choice site in London’s Fitzrovia, a mixed-use scheme offers high-end flats, office space including the UK home of Facebook, and public green space, all within a design that beds into its context. Sébastien Reed reports FEATURES 55 GROUNDWORKS: RAINWATER HARVESTING Water water (isn’t) everywhere Lisa Farnsworth of Stormsaver discusses water scarcity in the UK and how rainwater harvesting will be critical to the design of future buildings 59 EXTERNAL ENVELOPE: ENTRANCE SYSTEMS & EXTERNAL DOOR TECHNOLOGY Form follows function Making an entrance better by design is a process of consideration and elimination, 37 GEZE UK’s National Specification Manager Richard Richardson- Derry explains 65 EXTERNAL ENVELOPE: ROOF GLAZING & ROOFLIGHTS Let there be light In-patients leave hospital quicker when they are on wards with high levels of daylight. Here, Scott Leeder of Velux Modular Skylights, looks at how these health and wellbeing benefits are easily transferable to other sectors 71 SAFETY & SECURITY: ANTI-TERRORISM SOLUTIONS The first line of defence Mark Stone of Securiscape explains how designers are using street furniture and planters as defence mechanisms and how they can mount a stern defence incorporating Building Projects magazine, architectsdatafile.co.uk and @architectsDF 65 adfa ADF08_2018 03-20_ADF Flatplan 31/07/2018 13:39 Page 4 4 NEWS Managing Editor James Parker [email protected] Advertisement Manager/ Joint Publisher FROM Anthony Parker [email protected] Assistant Editor Sébastien Reed THE EDITOR Editorial Co-ordinator Shelley Collyer Editorial Assistants here is no escaping it, even during the summer months – Brexit remains the topic of conversation on Roseanne Field Jack Wooler everyone’s lips, partly due to the fact that it affects everyone’s lives in the UK. 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While some may see this as a No part of this publication may be rebalancing of inflated property prices, any prolonged downturn has to be a cause for concern. reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, including photocopying, recording or stored in any information Will the realities of Brexit turn the ideals of taking back control expressed by many into instead having to accept retrieval system without the express prior written consent of the publisher. some humble pie – that it was too damaging to our economy over the long-term to have been worth the Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy and reliability of perceived political gains? I can’t help clinging on to a faint hope that we won’t have to find out. material published in Architects Datafile, the publisher can accept no responsibility for the claims or James Parker opinions made by contributors, 08.18 manufacturers or advertisers. Editor ON THE COVER... Editorial contributors to this journal may have made a payment towards the reproduction costs of material Make Architects’ mixed use Rathbone Square scheme used to illustrate their products. The manufacturer of the paper used in London’s Fitzrovia leads visitors to urban green within our publication is a Chain-of- spaces via tunnels lined with green ceramic tiles Custody certified supplier operating within environmental systems certified to both ISO 14001 and RATHBONE SQUARE, FITZROVIA For the full report on this project, go to page 37 Make Architects takes the chance to create an urban EMAS in order to ensure sustainable green oasis in this central London mixed use scheme SIMON SAINSBURY CENTRE, CAMBRIDGE production. Carving out open student spaces on a tight city site Cover Image © Make Architects Printed in England WWW.ARCHITECTSDATAFILE.CO.UK ADF AUGUST 2018 ADF08_2018 03-20_ADF Flatplan 31/07/2018 13:39 Page 5 NEWS 5 TRANSPORT London Bridge station design team celebrates completion Images © Paul Rafery London Bridge station, redesigned by employed including off-site construction, Another key architectural concept was Grimshaw, was recently re-opened by the station was open to the public to design with construction in mind; Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, throughout the redevelopment. London Bridge is a major interchange and marking the end of a £1bn redevelopment London Bridge station has been only two platforms at a time could be project, which has transformed the designed to regenerate Southwark with a removed. Grimshaw designed the scheme station. “permeable” design linking the station to to be modular and constructed off-site The architects commented on the the public realm at multiple points. Two wherever possible, and this can be seen station’s “ambitious” redevelopment, new entrances on Tooley Street and St in the development of the roof as a series saying that “as well as “catalysing the Thomas Street provide “a modern of ribbons, which comprise 1,200 London Bridge Quarter, it connects response to nearby Victorian arches, pre-fabricated cassettes. The canopies are millions more passengers to the capital’s seamlessly marrying the old with the new designed to be “read as one structure, with transport network”. and demonstrating the station’s status as a unifying roof lights in the concourse to It has been a collaborative effort quintessential London building”. signal the importance of the space”. between engineers Arcadis and WSP, who Two key architectural concepts Engineered elements including bridge partnered within a joint venture, as well comprise the new station.
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