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Details of the week: doors and windows
For the first time since the early 2000s, the AJ has brought back Working Details, featuring a round-up of details published in AJ Specification case studies over the past five years
Tag: doors and windows
Case study: 106 Lilford Road by studio HANDS
The house replaces an existing two-storey home in Camberwell, south London, built on an awkward triangular site. Photography by Peter Molloy
New white paper provides a guide to calculating embodied carbon
Reynaers Aluminium UK has released a white paper providing an in-depth guide to calculating the levels of embodied carbon in aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling systems
Case study: Highgate House by Beasley Dickson Architects
A timber-framed garden room extends an Edwardian house, uniting kitchen and dining, and echoing the split-level configuration of the main building’s eight part-floors. Photography by Henry Woide
Case study: Fohlenweg by O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects
A two-storey house extension on the edge of Grunewald Forest in Berlin recalls Charles Moore’s theories of ‘aedicular’ houses in 1960s California. Photography by Ståle Eriksen
Case study: Radley College Chapel by Purcell
Purcell’s expansion of Radley College’s Grade II*-listed chapel includes a new sanctuary with an octagonal plan form and roof lantern formed of self-supporting curved structural glass
In practice: Will we soon see the end of the sash window?
Increasing regulation on thermal efficiency means a radical change is on the way for the traditional sliding sash window, says Robert Adam
Case study: Forest Houses by Dallas-Pierce-Quintero
The project has developed an awkward site, creating three two and three-bed homes as well as refurbishing a former end-of-terrace shop to create another home
Case study: Urbanest City by Apt
Urbanest City's silhouette features inset terraces sheltered by an oversailing barrel vault roof constructed using a bespoke inclined cladding system developed with an integrated framework of solar shading louvres
AJ Specification Awards 2020 shortlist revealed
We are delighted to announce the shortlisted architecture practices and product suppliers in the forthcoming AJ Specification Awards