All Building Study articles – Page 55

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    First Look: Northern exposure

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield Architects has unveiled new images of its $75 million (£40 million) extension for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art in Alaska.

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    Taking them to the Tower

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Stanton Williams has turned the previously neglected spaces around the Tower of London into a lively external foyer.

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    First Look: Manchesters chip off the old block

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    More housing designs for the New Islington housing project in east Manchester have been unveiled by Alsop Architects and Ian Simpson Architects.

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    Cultured club

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Squire & Partners' restoration of the former Conservative Club into HSBC offices has brought a new vitality to this classical early Victorian building on London's St James's Street

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    First Look: Downhill all the way in Suffolk

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    The world’s largest indoor ski slope — a landmark structure which would be visible for miles across the flat Suffolk countryside — has been submitted for planning.

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    Lessons from the old school

    2004-07-02T00:00:00Z

    The refurbishment of Kingsdale runs counter to thinking about post-war schools, which is moving increasingly towards wholesale demolition. Poor environmental performance, outmoded teaching facilities and disintegrating fabric blight the rash of buildings completed during the 50s and 60s.

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    Class structure

    2004-07-02T00:00:00Z

    DRMM's refurbishment of Kingsdale in south London gives the post-war school a bright future.

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    First Look: Belgian book prize for Sergison Bates

    2004-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Two out of six isn’t bad. That’s the ratio of competition wins for Sergison Bates since it began competing in the Vlaams province of Belgium. This £4 million project to convert a redundant school into a library in the coastal town of Blankenberge and a scheme for Erasmus University in ...

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    Table manners

    2004-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Will Alsop has won over Toronto with his raucous flying tabletop addition to the Ontario College of Art & Design.

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    First Look: Education gateway

    2004-06-25T00:00:00Z

    RMJM this week unveiled designs for the first phase of a £50 million higher education scheme in the heart of the Thames Gateway.

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    At home with Feilden Clegg Bradley

    2004-06-25T00:00:00Z

    David Morley visits two housing projects built around courtyards

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    The written world

    2004-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Architecture Research Unit's scheme for centralising the South Korean publishing industry is emerging from the wetlands near Seoul.

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    Lessons in flexible planning

    2004-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Rab Bennetts goes back to school with two Islington college schemes

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    First Look: Light at the end of a tunnel

    2004-06-18T00:00:00Z

    McDowell & Benedetti is working up detailed designs for a three-storey office building next to London's famous diamond-dealing and jewellery quarter at Hatton Garden in Clerkenwell.

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    Phantom city

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Calm characterises architects' plans to build out the blockbusting King's Cross masterplan. But are these visions just apparitions.

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    First Look: Triangular education in West Bromwich

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Edward Cullinan Architects has revealed eye-catching designs for a new college of further education in West Bromwich town centre.

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    Arts and craftsmanship

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Edward Jones visits museum renovations in London and Cambridge

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    Angell Town wins its wings

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Residents of a Brixton sink estate campaigned to turn its fate around. Zoë Blackler reports on how architect Mode 1 helped its rejuvenation by reworking two of its blocks.

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    Ordinary world

    2004-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Malcolm Fraser’s bid to improve ‘ordinary’ housing in Bo’ness, Scotland is a success, writes Peter Wilson. But as the UK’s suburban population grows by 100,000 a year, will other acclaimed architects follow suit?

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    First Look: Put the Kettle on

    2004-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Jamie Fobert Architects has won its first major public competition with designs for refurbishment and extension of the Kettle's Yard Gallery in Cambridge.