All Building Study articles – Page 52

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    First Look: A new stripy star for Tower Bridge

    2005-07-08T00:00:00Z

    Glas Architects has revealed designs for this bold apartment scheme at Tower Bridge in London.

  • The Olympic Village building is arranged as a series of irregular floors around a central lift shaft and staircase, with the exterior clad in U-shaped glass planks.
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    First Look: Pariss late bid for design credibility

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    As the International Olympic Committee prepares to select a city for the 2012 games this week, Lab Architecture Studio has revealed designs for the Paris Olympic Village.

  • The newly repaired and cleaned westerly elevation of St George's Hall.
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    Liverpool renaissance

    2005-06-24T00:00:00Z

    A legend in English architectural history, Liverpool’s St George’s Hall became the country’s grandest white elephant. But Purcell Miller Tritton’s refurbishment is set to change that, writes Gavin Stamp.

  • The new house echoes the design of a ship and features a curved entrance facade of bespoke clay tiles.
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    First Look: Ship shape design wins out

    2005-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Hampshire architectural practice Format Milton has revealed images of its Bell House project — a secluded private dwelling.The £500,000 new-build scheme, which recently began on site in Bursledon, near Eastleigh, overlooks the River Hamble, the Solent and the Isle of Wight, and boasts a curving northern entrance facade made from ...

  • The main elevation to Keeley Street with Freemasons’ Hall beyond and Space House to the right of the image.
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    City literacy

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Cheap yet sophisticated, Allies & Morrison’s City Lit impresses Ellis Woodman

  • The aspect to the park. The colours are predominantly green on this frontage and red against the city.
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    Green with envy

    2005-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Sauerbruch Hutton’s Federal Environmental Agency building in Dessau, Germany, raises the sustainability standards bar in Britain with its string of impressive environmental measures

  • The building is configured around a courtyard, protected by a black painted “portico” at ground level.
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    Queen of the stone age

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield’s butch Madrid housing isn’t quite what it seems

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    Rhapsody in brick

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Caruso St John’s Brick House subverts brickwork’s brutalist image, says Irina Davidovici

  • BMW’s production line moves through the offices.
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    Vroom with a view

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher have rewritten the rules of factory design at BMW’s Leipzig plant with its seamless flow between production line and office floor

  • Mossbrook Primary School’s new science classroom is clad with a collage of industrial construction materials —corrugated steel, polycarbonate sheeting and oak.
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    Nature study

    2005-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Sarah Wigglesworth’s science classroom in Sheffield gives pupils an innovative place to experience nature

  • The faceted glass rises up from a resin floor to the top of the structure to form a geometric ceiling, comprising polygonal panels with openings for lighting and air-conditioning.
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    Crystal power

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron has returned to Tate Modern to give the gallery a new shop — a little gem that gives a fresh vigour to the north entrance. Ellis Woodman reports.

  • The North Glasgow College building makes use of glass, timber, stone and glazed enamel panelling to create a new identity.
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    First Look: College wedged back into community

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    RMJM has submitted this £20 million development for North Glasgow College for planning permission .

  • The entance on New Inn Yard with new hardwood windows above.
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    Humane resources

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    Does Witherford Watson Mann’s Amnesty HQ present the right public image for a 21st century charity?

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    Pauline conversion

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Thomas Archer’s St Paul’s Deptford has been saved from fire, neglect and possible destruction. The restoration is a rebirth for both the building and its architect

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    Work the angles

    2005-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Koolhaas’s startling new concert hall has touched down in the Portuguese city of Porto. We take a journey through the Casa da Musica and discovers a triumph of structural quirks and visual treats

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    Do the right thing

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Cottrell & Vermeulen’s refurbishment of the Kensal House nursery retains the original vision

  • View from the gatehouse looking down the length of the planted loggia with the entrance to the main building on the right.
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    Image maker

    2005-03-24T00:00:00Z

    The British Council presents an open face to Kenya with its new building in Nairobi by Squire & Partners

  • A sample at one of the labs in Manchester’s new Michael Smith Building.
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    Experiment in design

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Daylight and socialising are the innovations in a new science lab in Manchester, writes Robert Booth

  • Model of Wellcome’s lab planned for Hinxton.
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    New direction for lab design

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    A boom in science buildings across the UK gives architects room to experiment, says Robert Booth

  • Peter Inskip & Peter Jenkins Architects’  scheme for Green College, Oxford, features residential blocks, an art gallery and library set around an open-air theatre.
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    First Look: Oxford colleges classic inspiration

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Peter Inskip & Peter Jenkins Architects was inspired by Greek classical architecture when designing this Oxford University quadrangle, seen here for the first time.