All Building Study articles – Page 42
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Building StudyIn detail: Courtyard House, St Albans
Architect Simon Conder AssociatesStructural Engineer Built EngineersGlazing sub-contractor Firman GlassA restricted budget has encouraged expedient use of inexpensive materials to make a new house in a suburban street in St Albans. A covenant restricts the building height to a single storey so light is brought in through courtyards and high-level ...
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Building StudyAdding a human touch
The old industrial swath of Dagenham Dock will soon be home to 16,500 dwellings. Before they arrive, the area is being transformed into a people-friendly, riverside location with a human scale
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Building StudyIn detail: Sanger Building Bryanston School, Dorset
Architect Hopkins ArchitectsStructural Engineer Buro HappoldThe Sanger Building contains classrooms, laboratories and a 120-seat lecture theatre for science and maths teaching at Bryanston, a school for 13 to 18 year olds in Dorset. Red handmade bricks with precast concrete details relate the horseshoe-shaped block to the vast Richard Norman Shaw ...
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Building StudyHopkins’ Bryanston school, Dorset
Bryanston’s new maths and science wing develops the school’s tentative courtyard with a crescent that meets its overbearing context with a human scale.
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Building StudyOff the beaten path
For its first UK project, Belgian architect Robbrecht & Daem has given cyclists, walkers, rowers and birdwatchers a pair of towers in Lincolnshire linked by a riverside path. Ellis Woodman takes in the views as he talks to the team that built them
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Building StudyOlympic village life... needs village people
A month before the first practices are appointed to design the Olympic Village, BD Magazine meets three overseas firms that could offer it international flair
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Building StudyA healthy development
Malcolm Fraser Architects’ transformation of a former Edinburgh hospital site has arguably produced some of the best housing in Scotland
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Building StudyGym’ll fix it
A limited site, bound by listed buildings, meant that when St Marylebone School wanted to expand, the only way was down.
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Building StudyPlastik Archictects enjoy first flush of success with Gravesend toilet
Take an adventurous local authority, an uninspiring site and a practice just starting out, and what do you get? A tiny but essential public building
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Building StudyZumthor’s Cologne modern art museum is beyond time
Peter Zumthor’s remarkable museum of modern art in Cologne meshes ancient and modern to create a timeless and evocative building.
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Building StudyIn Detail: Civil Justice Centre, Manchester
Architect Denton Corker MarshallStructural, mechanical & electrical engineer Mott MacDonaldManchester’s Civil Justice Centre contains 47 court rooms, 75 consultation rooms and is the headquarters for the Ministry of Justice in the North-west. The 16-storey steel-framed building is naturally ventilated, with air taken in through wind scoops in the side of ...
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Building StudyBang to rights: Denton Corker Marshall’s Manchester Civil Justice Centre
Manchester’s new Civil Justice Centre has all the makings of an icon, but is its studied informality at odds with its serious purpose.
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Building StudyWhat girls really, really want
With 70% of the staff women — and with Marie Claire and Chat among its titles — IPC Media’s fit-out of its new headquarters inevitably involved a bias towards female tastes
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Building StudyBox of delights
Jamie Fobert Architects has taken the Gherkin’s Konditor & Cook café to new heights with a hanging mezzanine ceiling
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Building StudyAdjaye’s new building at Rivington Place is an answer to his critics
With an OBE and a place on last year’s Stirling shortlist David Adjaye has a level of fame that could be seen as disproportionate to his achievements. But his latest building, a base for two cultural organisations in east London, should help redress this imbalance.
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Building StudyFoster reveals Spaceport design - images
These futuristic images are Foster and Partners’ designs for the world’s first passenger “spaceport”.
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Building StudySchool in Rudrapur, Bangladesh
German and Austrian architects Anna Heringer and Eike Roswag share the award for this hand-built school with Bangladeshi NGO Dipshikha
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Building StudyOrion Building, Birmingham by BBLB Architects with John Rocha
"I'd like to nominate the Orion Building," writes Deb Adams. "It’s crude, vulgar and does nothing to enhance the city's architectural reputation." Her nomination is seconded by ex-Cabe commissioner Les Sparks who said: “The Orion Development by Crosby Homes in Navigation Street is a massive apartment complex incompetently designed to ...
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Building StudyKX200 by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, London
Reclad office tower for developer First Base to create a mixed apartment block on London’s Pentonville Road. Nominated anonymously: "This building says: ' Hey - I'm so now and hip' just because the architect has had the very unoriginal idea of cladding it in various shades of ...
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Building StudyOpal Court, Leicester by Stephen George and Partners
A student and key worker housing block near Leicester city centre.Richard L posted his support for this anonymous nomination. “It’s symptomatic of the kind of rubbish being built in leicester at the moment, especially around De Montfort. Leicester is quickly developing an idendikit city centre which will be indistinguishable from ...