All Building Study articles – Page 40
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Building StudyPorphyrios Associates' Princeton University Whitman Building
The new Whitman Building at Princeton uses campus gothic to great effect, and even makes modernism look a little wan
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Building StudyFoster's Beijing airport terminal opens
Foster & Partner’s new terminal at Beijing airport has opened ahead of the 2008 Olympics.
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Building StudyPitman Tozer Architects’ lean, green sliver of a house in west London
Architect Luke Tozer did not stint when designing his own house to strict environmental standards on the very narrowest of sites
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Building StudyDavid Walker Architects cuts the mustard at 1 Coleman Street
The design architect, working with Swanke Hayden Connell, has produced a distinctive speculative office development in the City of London
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Building StudyIn detail: One Coleman Street, City of London
Architects: David Walker Architects and Swanke Hayden ConnellStructural Engineer: ArupPrecast concrete subcontractor: Decomo
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Building StudyThe Pines Calyx - curvy carbon-neutral conferencing
The Pines Calyx building in Dover, designed by Helionix Designs, is the most sustainable conference and events venue in the UK. With energy consumption figures attached
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Building StudyEldridge Smerin's Heart of England School, Solihull
The Joined Up Design for Schools programme allowed sixth form students to make the design decisions — and pick chairs by Ron Arad
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Building StudyHistoric buildings brought back from the dead
How can historic ruins be given life and meaning for the 21st century? Ellis Woodman looks at the answers offered in projects by Witherford Watson Mann, Simon Conder and Décosterd-Cotting
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Building StudyJohn McAslan & Partners' Harris Academy in South Norwood
McAslan’s integrates a colourful new-build element with an existing listed building
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Building StudyAround the rugged rock sits O’Donnell & Tuomey’s Killiney house
The latest addition to Killiney village’s roll call of grand residences is a home as rocky and spectacular as the landscape it sits in.
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Building StudyIn detail: Killiney House, Ireland
Architect: O’Donnell & Tuomey ArchitectsStructural engineer: Downes AssociatesThe design of a 500sq m private house near Dublin has been inspired by the granite outcrops on its hillside site. The most distinctive aspect is the concrete roof that folds to follow the underlying topography.The external walls are cavity construction with a ...
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Building StudyDe Paor Architects creates development aid showroom in Dublin
Tom De Paor has remodelled a Dublin shop to serve as an information centre on Irish overseas development assistance. It’s an experiment in transparency both for client and architect, says Ellis Woodman
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Building StudyPrevious work by Tom de Paor
See BD’s previous coverage of work by Tom de Paor, whose Dublin shop is reviewed this week
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Building StudyAsh Sakula's Hackney arts centre is the right side of the tracks
Ash Sakula’s arts trust building makes the most of a challenging site in Hackney, east London, and is an object lesson in thinking positive, reports Tony McIntyre
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Building StudyNew talent in New York
Following the Architecture Foundation’s New York showcase of young UK architects last year, it has now invited four up-and-coming New York practices to speak in London. Will Hunter met them
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Building StudyCaruso St John’s scheme for Escher-Wyss Platz, Zurich
Caruso St John, working with German artist Thomas Demand on two buildings for a public square in Zurich, makes a quietly political point about the human costs of regeneration, based on China’s infamous ’Nail House’
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Building StudyNew York’s architecture goes ‘bling’
New York’s upper class is employing star architects to put its wealth on display, reports Adrian Dannatt
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Building StudyBenson Forsyth’s Nottingham Pod demonstrates a sense of the city
Benson & Forsyth has produced a hotel and retail development in central Nottingham shaped in response to its city setting, reports Ellis Woodman
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Building StudySarah Wigglesworth boxes clever at Cremorne Riverside Centre
The rusting Corten steel-clad boxes of Cremorne Riverside Centre near London’s Battersea Bridge reflect its location — wedged between leisure gardens and post-industrial wasteland. Tony McIntyre reports
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Building StudyTerry Pawson’s Visual Arts Centre engages with Carlow
Rather than offering an icon, Carlow’s Visual Arts Centre complements the town and allows the art to dominate, writes Robert Payne