All Building Study articles – Page 24
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Building StudyEdinburgh: A planning tradition that is the opposing force to grands projets
A process of ’conservative surgery’ has helped create an impressive city - making its low points all the less forgivable
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Building StudyEast London's Greenway by Adams & Sutherland Architects
Adams & Sutherland’s sensitive approach has seen east London’s Greenway updated for its new Olympic role, without losing its sense of place.
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Building StudyLondon 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects
The smoothly undulating surface of Zaha Hadid’s stingray-like Aquatics Centre belies its structural complexity. But does the last Olympic Venue to arrive at the party live up to its promise?
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Building StudyMuseum of Liverpool, by 3XN and AEW
After seven years of legal battles, cost-cutting and a change of architects, the £72 million Museum of Liverpool proves a spectacular botch-up completely divorced from its context
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Building StudyFirst look: Enterarchitecture expands on a building at Kentish Town’s heart
Enterarchitecture has unveiled images of a new rooftop extension to and remodelling of the Kentish Town Community Centre in London.
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Building StudyWardroper House by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects and Arch Street by S333, Elephant & Castle, south London
Financial constraints and local politics have created an uphill struggle for S333 and Sarah Wigglesworth Architects to build decent homes for former tenants of Elephant & Castle’s Heygate Estate.
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Building StudyThe Valleys: some of the saddest sights in Britain
The south Wales Valleys bear the architectural scars of their brutal history
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Building StudySerie Architects’ Chinese calligraphy museum rewrites the traditional garden
Serie Architects has unveiled designs for a new calligraphy museum in Linyi, in China’s north-eastern Shandong province.
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Building StudyIn defence of the Sainsbury Wing
From the BD archive: Denise Scott Brown wrote this essay when the project opened, but she chose not to publish it for 20 years to avoid ruffling feathers
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Building StudyCaruso St John creates a ‘room for the city’ in central Bremen
Sited in the city’s historic temple district, next to the town hall and cathedral, the €33 million, 23,300sq m project will complete the north-western edge of the Domshof central square.The seven-storey building is arranged around an oval-shaped courtyard, conceived as a “room for the city”, open to the sky and ...
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Building StudySouth Norwood Hill Children’s Centre by Erect Architecture
Erect Architecture’s joyful reinvention of a nursery building in South Norwood, London, has a lot to teach us about working with existing buildings and systems, says Oliver Wainwright
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Building StudyJonathan Tuckey’s remodelled school reflects local industrial influences
Jonathan Tuckey Design has revealed plans for Wilberforce Primary School in north Westminster, London.
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Building StudyUnison headquarters, London, by Squire & Partners
Unison’s new headquarters is an enclave of sobriety that draws on the imagery of corporate rebranding to reflect the changing language of the union movement
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Building StudyBenson & Forsyth provides west London with urban punctuation
Benson & Forsyth has submitted a planning application for a major mixed-use development fronting onto London’s Cromwell Road.
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Building StudySainsbury Laboratory at Cambridge University, by Stanton Williams
This laboratory in the University of Cambridge’s Botanic Gardens is the ideal habitat for botanists
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Building StudyPeter Zumthor's Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion
Zumthor’s tranquil retreat was undermined by the frenzy of the opening press conference
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Building StudyPlymouth: the architecture is palpably the work of men in their dotage
The modernised classicism of the rebuilt city centre was already tired by the 1940s, but Plymouth has other surprises
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Building StudyFirst look: Lynch Architects proposes ‘modern palazzo’ opposite Victoria Station
Lynch Architects has submitted a planning application for a mixed-use development opposite Victoria Station in London.
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Building StudyZaha Hadid Architects’ Riverside museum in Glasgow
City icon it may be, but Zaha Hadid’s Riverside transport museum is as removed from its Glasgow context as the cars and trains housed within its zinc-clad walls, says Steve Parnell
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Building StudyMcAslan’s masterplan for Lancaster University
Over the years since 1963 Lancaster University’s rigorous design vision had become diluted and its core seemed bleak and lifeless. Now John McAslan & Partners is showing it a new way forward.