A membrane-clad medical campus for the future

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Iain Macdonald Arquitectura Diseno (IMAD) has produced a masterplan for an innovative medical research park in Glasgow, Scotland. The buildings will be constructed as pods with membrane walls and connected by arterial galleries. The development is intended to house university research departments and pharmaceutical companies and will be non-profit making. IMAD's designs for the first pahse are being considered for planning permission and construction may begin in late 1993.

Innovations, Architecture, Membranes (Technology), Research parks

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British practice banks on Hungarian reconstruction: Fitzroy Robinson's first completed project in Hungary is a bold refurbishment of a bank's headquarters building in Budapest

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Fitzroy Robinson's first major completed project in eastern Europe is BKD bank's headquarters building in Budapest, Hungary. The turn of the century building had housed public offices and a fire station and had become run-down. Cellular offices were required with additional accommodation and underground parking. A new fourth floor was created within a new steel roof structure to overcome restrictions on building upwards, and a new atrium was created.

Office buildings

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Turning wasteland into an urban community

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A new mixed-use development in the Kings Cross area of London will bring together a medical centre and 75 homes. This area was extremely run-down, but has a number of attractive features, and the new development will make a valuable contribution to the urban surroundings. It was designed by Avanti Architects, which worked with a number of housing trusts. The housing is due for completion in Jun 1996 and the medical centre in early 1997.

United Kingdom, London, England, Urban renewal

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