All Building Study articles – Page 33
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Building StudyStanton Williams’s double decker delight at Cadbury’s Bournville
Two dramatic full-height atriums lie at the heart of Stanton Williams’ remodelling of a 1927 block as the administrative centre of Cadbury’s Bournville chocolate factory
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Building StudyWoolwich gets a kick up the Arsenal
Since the closure of its munitions factories, Woolwich has become one of the most deprived parts of London. But now Witherford Watson Mann’s public realm improvements are leading a major effort to turn the area around
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Building StudySanaa's Serpentine pavilion shows a lightness of touch
If Sanaa’s buildings can be said to share a defining quality it lies in their marriage of a startling economy of means and a gleeful abandon in those means’ deployment — a strategy that imbues their best work with something of the impossible loveliness of a child’s drawing.
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Building StudydRMM’s Clapham Manor Primary extension, London
De Rijke Marsh Morgan’s striking addition to the 19th century Clapham Manor Primary school exemplifies the practice’s love of a technological solution
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Building StudyFog on the Tyne
Successive waves of regeneration have landed Newcastle and Gateshead with a riot of architectural statements — yet an urban spirit born in the 19th century lives on
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Building StudyHawkins Brown's Oxford University’s biochemistry research facilities, Oxford
A two-phased reimagining of Oxford University’s biochemistry research facilities aims to put straight years of damaging piecemeal development
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Building StudyClash Asociates’ dream machine in Cardiff
The Welsh capital’s industrial past and glamorous rail travel of bygone eras put the design of Peter Clash’s Sleeperz hotel on the right track
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Building StudyHudson Architects creates something to believe in for the Salvation Army
Hudson Architects had the tough task of translating the Salvation Army’s changing vision of itself into an architectural form at its new Chelmsford HQ building
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Building StudyScabal’s sports hall for Dunraven secondary school in Streatham, London
Could recycled shipping containers be the future of low-cost, fast-build structures? Scabal’s sports hall for Dunraven secondary school in Streatham, south London, is proving a success
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Building StudyO’Donnell & Tuomey Sean O'Casey centre (video)
Set in a neighbourhood of two-storey brick terraced houses, the corrugated concrete walls and circular windows of the Sean O’Casey Community Centre make a distinctive new landmark in the Dublin district of East Wall.
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Building StudyManchester: Heaven knows it’s miserable now
Manchester is hailed as a flagship for successful regeneration but along the way it has lost all appetite for civic architecture
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins creates a well-tempered quintet at Snape
A cluster of five redundant industrial buildings at Snape Maltings, home of the Aldeburgh Festival, has been turned into performance and rehearsal space. Ellis Woodman is impressed by a sensitive, richly-textured refurb
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Building StudyKeith Williams mixes and matches to create new Athlone gallery
London-based practice Keith Williams Architects has won planning consent for a 600sq m addition and refurbishment of a former town hall on the River Shannon in Ireland
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Building StudyStudio MGM’s deep-green living machine
A modest timber-built housing scheme in Bury St Edmunds eschews hi-tech, high-concept sustainability features in favour of practical and imaginative solutions
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Building StudyArtful arrangements at Sauerbruch Hutton’s Brandhorst Museum
Though Sauerbruch Hutton’s Brandhorst Museum — the latest addition to Munich’s emerging Museum Quarter — suffers from poor masterplanning, as a modern art gallery it is very successful
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Building StudyAlain de Botton’s Living Architecture project
Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project is creating architecturally interesting buildings for short-term lets
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Building StudyNew meets old school at Purcell Miller Tritton's Oxford quad project
Purcell Miller Tritton’s £10m refurbishment of Powell & Moya’s Blue Boar Quad at Oxford’s Christ Church college called for some deft navigation to bring it up to today’s standards
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Building StudySheffield: City of skeletons
Sheffield remains a unique city set in a spectacular landscape, but the gutted form of Park Hill exemplifies the efforts being spent to make it look like everywhere else
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Building StudySurface tension at Hongluo Clubhouse near Beijing
The Hongluo Clubhouse, by Beijing-based MAD Office, uses curved steel sections to create a roof structure that blurs boundaries with the surrounding landscape
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Building StudyTurning yellow at AHMM's new Monsoon headquarters
Its bright cladding gives Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s Yellow Building a distinctive exterior, but as a working environment the interior of this headquarters for clothing retailer Monsoon is a missed opportunity