All articles by Gemma Carroll

Californian state utility plant achieves LEED Platinum certification

The Department of General Services' (DGS) new state utility plant in California, US, has secured LEED Platinum certification from the…
Broadway Malyan-designed shopping centre opens in China

Bailian Ivanhoe Shopping Center, a 60/40 joint venture between Bailian Group and Ivanhoé Cambridge has opened a shopping centre, La…
Northrop Grumman opens new green headquarters in US

Northrop Grumman has opened its new corporate headquarters building at 2,980 Fairview Park Drive in Falls Church, Virginia, US, which…
Vinci to build Brakes Group distribution centre in UK

Vinci Construction UK has won a £19m contract from Standard Life Investment to build a new temperature-controlled distribution centre and…
Rem Koolhaas: preservation, politics and progress

New York's Festival of Ideas for the New City (4-8 May 2011) was too multivalent to have a centre of…

In-key construction: acoustic design

The transparent calcite known as Iceland spar exerts a double-refraction effect on light passing through it, creating two separate polarised…
Shady character: Seville’s Metropol Parasol

In 1248, King Fernando III of Castile retook the city of Seville after five centuries of Moorish rule. Already the…
A rediscovered tradition: the Trinity Long Room Hub

In 1987, Niall McCullough and Valerie Mulvin published A Lost Tradition: the nature of architecture in Ireland. This beautiful, trail-blazing…
Practice makes perfect: Qatar stadium architecture

In November 2010, at a ceremony in Zürich, FIFA president Sepp Blatter revealed that the host of the 2022 Football…
Ideas take flight: airport design

"Airports are ugly," Douglas Adams once observed. "Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only…