All Building Study articles – Page 53
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Building StudyRoom for change
In the final part of our live-work series, we head to Bethnal Green to see how Sergison Bates has created a flexible mix of public and private spaces for an artist, a theatre group and two therapists
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Building StudyBack to the studio
An art studio home by Tony Fretton starts our two-part series on live-work designs
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Building StudySeizing the initiative
With the completion of Brighton Library and the Home Office HQ, two buildings of architectural merit have emerged from the Private Finance Initiavtive. So can PFI deliver on quality?
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Building StudyThe links effect
It looks progressive, but is the transport interchange at Vauxhall Cross a template for integrated transport architecture.
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Building StudyMore room at the top
Three decades after Denise Scott Brown lamented sexism in architecture, women still feel forced to hide their identities. We look behind the disguises at some of world’s most interesting women architects
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Building StudyFirst Look: Kite Tower set to make a mark
Make has unveiled images of its latest outlandish designs for an office tower.
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Building StudyTic tac toe
As the government plans to dramatically change the look of the UK’s schools, we review a new classroom design by Future Systems
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Building StudyFirst Look: Frankfurt turns over a new leaf
Designs for an elegant new office block in Frankfurt inspired by the natural world have been revealed by Anglo-German practice Sauerbruch Hutton Architects.
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Building StudyIs London getting a square deal?
The Greater London Authority has grand plans to transform the capital’s public realm, but will these succeed in bringing together the city’s inhabitants? Ellis Woodman explores the meaning of public space
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Building StudyHouston in Euston
Hopkins has given the Wellcome Trust a building with an astonishing interior, but its endless glazing evokes the Texas town and displays an unhappy distaste for its surroundings
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Building StudyCoates, the comeback kid
Flamboyant in his time, but often underrated today, modern architect Wells Coates is back in the limelight with the restoration of his three signature buildings.
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Building StudyScribble theory
Will Alsop’s new visual arts complex for Goldsmiths College succeeds as an urban landmark but fails to live up to its billing as either art or architecture
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Building StudyGlazing over
Foster’s big gesture at Gateshead’s Sage Music Centre — a single unifying membrane-like envelope — isn’t new for the architect. But practice hasn’t made perfect, and while the concert halls succeed, the external form disappoints again and again
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Building StudyMaking history
Muf’s one-room pavilion to guard a Roman mosaic in St Albans was five years in the making. Will the practice’s first bona fide building live up to expectations?
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Building StudyRock of the bay
The Wales Millennium Centre is the jewel in Cardiff Bay’s regeneration, but can it perform?
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Building StudyMaking an entrance
Dixon Jones’s £17 million first phase of the National Gallery’s renovation improves the building’s public face with a new entrance and a public court, says Catherine Croft.
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Building StudyFirst Look: Oar-inspiring designs for Chelsea
Sarah Wigglesworth Architects has revealed arresting new designs for a £375,000 canoeing centre in Chelsea.
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Building StudySomething for everyone
Anonymous architects rub shoulders with historic heavyweights in the UK’s first permanent architecture gallery, at the V&A. But does it work?
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Building StudyQuick on the draw
The entrance to the V&A architecture gallery is guarded by a massive isometric projection of the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral (pictured). The drawing, which took five years to complete during the 1920s, illustrates the three themes explored through the gallery — the art of architecture, the function ...
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Building StudyGetting in the decorators
Caruso St John’s proposal of lace motifs on a new Nottingham project upset some readers. We ask Peter St John to explain why his practice is breaking a final taboo and embracing decoration