Sensitive additin to a campus: John Miller + Partners' Elizabeth Fry Building at the University of East Anglia, which includes 37 different kinds of accommodation, is energy efficient enough to need no central heating

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A new building at the University of East Anglia was designed by architect John Miller & Partners, to house lecture and seminar facilities, offices and serviced dining rooms. The building features a shallow curved projecting entrance bay forming an oval shaped element which is also expressed internally. The approach to the low energy brief concentrates on low pressure drop mechanical ventilation with heat recovery and opening windows. A Swedish system was used to make better use of the available storage mass. A cost summary is listed and working details of the glazed canopy is described.

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Cambridge precedent: Sir Norman Foster and Partners' Faculty of law building, for the University of Cambridge, is a bold, powerful and technically sophisticated design which is a striking addition to its famous architectural neighbours

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Sir Norman Foster and Partners were selected as architects for the new Faculty of Law building at the University of Cambridge. The North facade of the building uses curved structural silicon glazing, progressing into a stainless steel roof. Internally there are coluumn free spaces and the building is designed to be energy efficient using the thermal mass of the exposed internal concrete structure.

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The Free University still embodies the social and architectural dynamic of the 1960s

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The architecture of the Free University in Berlin, the first building in Germany after the Second World War to use industrialized processes, is examined. Some of the features of the building include a Cor-ten steel external finish and the entire structure was based on prefabrication and flexibility, in order to help make quick changes in the departmental layout.

Germany, Colleges and universities, Free University of Berlin

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