A flexible, low-key hospice for residents and daycare
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The Lions Hospice, Dartford, Kent, England has been designed to comply with the Macmillan Green concept. Architects Design Partnership has created a small-scale building with wards, daycare facilities and utilities centred on a flexible, communal space. Traditional materials and a high level of finishing make the hospice a welcoming, comfortable place without an institutional atmosphere. Formal and informal gardens complete the concept. While the external works suffer from lack of funds and staff find some aspects of the design impractical, overall the hospice is a success.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 1993
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Powerful match
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The new extension to the library at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, has space for over half a million books. The library was designed by Architect G.G. Scott in the 1930s. It was decided the extension should have a similar look and new architects Harry Faulkner-Brown Howe Partnership were given the task of matching the new with the old design. The brickwork consists of English bonded bricks and mortar beds made with a gritty mortar mix. Much of the new extension has been built underground. The Cambridge university library is a deposit library.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 1999
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Residents stage powerful protest
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The Battersea Power Station Community Group (BPSCG), pressure group, has urged Richard MacCormack, president of the RIBA, and Sir Richard Rogers to back its campaign to save the power station from falling into dereliction. For seven years, the BPSCG has opposed the plans of John Broome, developer, to transform the power station into an indoor leisure centre. Financial problems have meant that work on the leisure centre ceased in March 1989.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 1992
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