All Building Study articles – Page 54

  • A prepatinated copper block looks out over Regent's Canal towards Mile End Park.
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    Digging the East End scene

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Feilden Clegg Bradley’s student residences at Queen Mary, University of London, join a pantheon of successful housing experiments

  • O'Donnell & Tuomey's Glucksman art gallery in Cork floats among the trees like a precious wooden casket of art.
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    Celestial vessel

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Will O’Donnell & Tuomey’s remarkable Cork gallery deliver the work outside Ireland that the duo desires? Shane O’Toole reports. Photos by Morley von Sternberg

  • The atrium is dominated by a giant flight of stairs. Overhead, a volume containing exhibition space is supported by a single mushroom column.
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    Straight to the top

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    First breaks don’t come much better than Brisac Gonzalez’s £26 million Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg. But after beating David Chipperfield to the gig, the pressure was on. Would they fly or die?

  • Saturday’s celebrations to mark the official opening of the Scottish parliament.
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    Out of the shadow

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    A huge risk, a major scandal, but does the architecture of Holyrood truly stand for Scotland? asks BD

  • The terracotta-clad English Faculty is one of the new Sidgwick site buildings by Allies & Morrison. Giles Gilbert Scott's University Library sits in the distance.
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    Taming the zoo

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Unexciting, say the dons, but two calm buildings by Allies & Morrison restore sanity to Cambridge.

  • Caruso St John hopes its Nottingham Centre for Visual and Live Art will be a new landmark for the city.
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    First Look: Caruso St Johns vision in lace

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Caruso St John Architects has unveiled images of its competition-winning designs for a new art gallery and performance space in Nottingham.

  • The south elevation is fitted with integral louvres to combat glare, and the way in is clearly signalled by the full-height glazed recess.
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    Eire apparent

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Keith Williams Architects has given Athlone a striking new civic centre as part of of an Ireland-wide programme of local government improvement.

  • Terracotta letters that are 6.4m tall announce the new-look Hackney Empire.
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    Hackneys curtain call

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Tim Ronalds’s bold intervention at Hackney Empire more than matches the exuberance of the Victorian original to create a beautifully judged piece of theatre, writes Catherine CroftTim Ronalds’s bold intervention at Hackney Empire more than matches the exuberance of the Victorian original to create a beautifully judged piece of theatre

  • Seen from the main courtyard, the church's bell tower casts a shadow in the morning sun.
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    Kindred spirits

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    John Pawson says he met his perfect clients when he was appointed to design a monastery in the Czech Republic for a silent order of Cistercian monks. We ask if the result was as heavenly as he hoped

  • Matthew White's Future House proposal that borrows from dentistry practice and the automotive industry and was submitted into a competition as a story in comic book format.
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    Magpie design

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Architects are stealing from dentists and others for new technology

  • Section through the entrance foyer of the Waldron Health Centre in New Cross.
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    Long-term cure

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    With an NHS development deal lasting 25 years, Buschow Henley should be guaranteed a stable financial future. But as Ellis Woodman discovers, the Lift programme also promises to produce the most ambitious healthcare architecture Britain has seen in years

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    God vs the Devil

    2004-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Through the restored Christ Church Spitalfields, the ghost of Hawksmoor is fighting back against ‘satanic’ 21st century development.

  • The Weston link can only be seen across the gardens from east Princes Street.
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    The strongest link

    2004-08-27T00:00:00Z

    It may be understated, but the new subterranean link between two major art galleries in Edinburgh is a quiet triumph on all levels

  • The Trumpf Customer & Administration Building is the third phase of Barkow Leibinger's masterplan for the hi-tech machine-tool company.
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    Hive of industry

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Berlin-based practice Barkow Leibinger is making its name with a series of startling industrial buildings. As David Hills reports, the firm is now competing at the highest level

  • Squire & Partners' 35-storey residential scheme is intended to revive the City Road Basin in Islington.
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    First Look: Islingtons high-rise water feature

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Squire & Partners this week released new images of its 35-storey “Shard-like” tower at one of the last undeveloped waterside sites in central London. A detailed planning application for the tower, at City Road Basin near Angel, has just been submitted to Islington council.

  • The main Seattle library entrance at Fourth Avenue and Madison Street.
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    Toying with Uncle Sam

    2004-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Rem Koolhaas designs a public library in Seattle and an exclusive Prada shop in Beverly Hills. Both play with ideas of public space, he says. Can he be serious? Kester Rattenbury finds out

  • Tonkin Liu's Promenade of Light scheme envisages an avenue of trees that will be lit from above and below and be elevated at either end.
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    First look: New for Old Street

    2004-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Designs by Tonkin Liu to upgrade public spaces on London’s Old Street have won a competition run by the Architecture Foundation. The practice’s “Promenade of Light” scheme beat designs by Alison Brooks Architects, ASC + AWP, Milk Architecture & Design and WaG Architecture to design the £1 million first phase ...

  • Hadid proposes a cultural and education building for the end of the High Line. The building would also provide a foyer space for the new park.
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    First Look: Zaha talks the walk in Manhattan

    2004-07-30T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid has unveiled designs to bring a disused viaduct in Manhattan back into public use.

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    The big idea

    2004-07-30T00:00:00Z

    A retail-style library in east London gives David Adjaye the chance to really prove himself.

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    Looking for pastures new

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    As townies go in search of a rural idyll and pressure to build in the countryside grows, rural architecture needs reinventing. Ellis Woodman looks at new three schemes