All Building Study articles – Page 47
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Building StudyDreaming spas, inspiring teens
Young vocational students at RMJM’s Lifestyle Academy in Newcastle learn in inspiring teaching spaces which rival the professional pamperers. And the locals can luxuriate in the facilities too. But does it work for both?
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Building StudyWalters & Cohen’s Redbrook Hayes Community Primary School, Staffordshire
Walters & Cohen’s Staffordshire primary school resuscitates 1970s open-plan design to give young minds maximum exposure to living and learning.
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Building StudyReturn of the saint
It has taken half a century and much compromise but Le Corbusier’s St Pierre church is a triumph.
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Building StudySint Lucas Art Academy, Netherlands by Fat
Kester Rattenbury enjoys Fat’s reworking of a Dutch art school, but wonders whether the practice’s quirkiness is a cover for something more serious.
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Building StudyChance Street houses by Stephen Taylor Architects
Cheap studio space made Bethnal Green a favourite with artists. But now others are moving into this part of east London. Ellis Woodman looks at how Stephen Taylor Architects’ new residential project copes with a tight street layout that is a legacy of the area’s less affluent past. Photos by ...
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Building StudyInstitute of Contemporary Art, Boston by Diller Scofidio & Renfro
Despite a challenging site, Diller Scofidio & Renfro has created an ambitious new arts centre in Boston. But is it good enough to be the catalyst for the US port’s revitalisation.
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Building StudyMiddlesbrough Art Gallery by Erick van Egeraat
With an extraordinary site and generous budget, Erick van Egeraat’s Middlesbrough art gallery is a wasted opportunity.
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Building StudyGrowing out of lakeside landscape
Etonbury Lake House has been designed to blend perfectly with its setting next to a man-made lake, though its clear, rectilinear forms also provide a vital contrast with nature
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Building StudySocial housing, Liverpool by Biq
Much-vaunted Dutch housing design has come to Merseyside, but the expectations gap yawns wide.
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Building StudyGeorgian on their minds
John McAslan & Partners has stripped an unlovable 1960s office building back to its frame and remodelled it as a stone obelisk in a nod to its 18th century neighbours
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Building StudyHearst tower, New York by Foster and Partners
Foster & Partners’ office tower for magazine publisher the Hearst Corporation is structurally innovative, impressively green and owner of New York’s most dramatic atrium. Naturally, we say: journalists deserve the best.
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Building StudyTrinity and Darwin College, Cambridge refurbishments by Fifth Studio
Fifth Studio has remodelled two buildings at Cambridge University, subtly substituting 1960s brutalist astringency with something more luxurious.
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Building StudyApartments, Auckland by S333
Densification developments are bringing a European feel to Auckland, with urban scale integration central to the theme.
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Bankside Urban Park by Witherford Watson Mann
Witherford Watson Mann’s proposal for Bankside Urban Park shows a love of a gritty, charming but vanishing London, says Kester Rattenbury
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Building StudyFocus House, London by Bere Architects
In tune with last month’s Stern Review, a house squeezed between Victorian terraces in north London takes its own action to combat climate change, observes Graham Bizley
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Building StudyMaggies Centre, Kirkcaldy by Zaha Hadid
A Maggie’s cancer care centre in the grounds of a Kirkcaldy hospital is Zaha Hadid’s first UK building. Ellis Woodman finds it takes excellent advantage of a quirky site to create architecture of a very high order.
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Building StudyRoyal Court, Guernsey by Nicholas Hare Architects
At Guernsey’s new Royal Court complex, the majesty of the law is given a commanding hill-top position and a contemporary welcoming feel
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Barbican refurbishment by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Never again will culture-going Londoners miss the beginning of a Barbican performance: AHMM leads them through the muddled maze via new ‘portals’ and pedestrian routes
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Theatre by the truckload
Four years after winning a design competition, Wright & Wright’s new home for the Hull Truck theatre company finally starts on site
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Building StudyMaster gardener
Foreign Office Architects has created a matrix for a new garden on a Somerset estate. Ellis Woodman met Alejandro Zaero-Polo and client Niall Hobhouse. Portrait Morley von Sternberg