All Buildings revisited articles
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Building StudyRevisiting Broadgate
In the 1980s Broadgate changed the physical and economic landscape – how is it faring now?
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FeaturesRevisiting Sheffield’s Crucible theatre
The signature thrust stage and octagonal plan of The Crucible have survived but changes in safety regulations and budget cuts made Burrell Foley Fischer’s refurbishment challenging.
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Building StudyRevisiting the BedZed community
BedZed was the ultimate sustainability trailblazer. Nearly a decade on, the Bill Dunster, BioRegional and The Peabody Trust development may be thriving but it remains an anomaly, rather than an exemplar.
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Building StudyRevisiting Alison and Peter Smithson’s Hunstanton school
Alison and Peter Smithson’s Hunstanton school was one of the first secondary moderns. Nearly 60 years after it was built, it is still going strong
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Building StudyRevisiting Dorset new town Poundbury
The Prince Charles-led ’new town’ of Poundbury which was masterplanned by Leon Krier, has taken a hammering from critics but has succeeded at something more important than architectural brilliance – its role as a community
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FeaturesBuilding on Soane’s foundations at Port Eliot
Much of what Soane envisaged at Port Eliot was not fully realised, yet despite subsequent remodelling, his basic structure still shines through the gilded decay
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FeaturesPowell & Moya's influential healthcare buildings
Powell & Moya were pioneers of hospital architecture when the NHS was still in its infancy — and half a century later their early ideas still resonate in spirit as well as form
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FeaturesCroft infant school: Widdows' peaked?
As English Heritage moves to protect historic schools by listing 16 last month, we take a look at George Widdows’ most pioneering design. But its headteacher asks whether Croft Infant’s grade II* status prevents it adapting to modern use
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ReviewRevisiting Denys Lasdun’s UEA
Half a century on, Denys Lasdun’s campus for the University of East Anglia remains as striking and popular as ever.
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FeaturesHolland House: born in the USA
Greatly inspired by his travels in America, HP Berlage’s completion of Holland House in the City of London in 1916 created one of the first steel-framed buildings in Europe
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FeaturesInskip & Jenkins puts its seal on Castle Drogo
Completed in 1930 as the last castle in England, Castle Drogo was sadly always pregnable to the Dartmoor rain. Now Inskip & Jenkins’ restoration work is turning Lutyens’ fantastical creation into a weatherproof fortress for the first time
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FeaturesLyde End is in a field of its own
The judicious modernism of Aldington & Craig’s 1977 Lyde End scheme at Bledlow remains a convincing model for rural housing. Its grade II listing last month should finally bring this little-known gem the credit it deserves
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TechnicalGerard Maccreanor revisits the Piraeus building in Amsterdam
Maccreanor Lavington had relocated to the Netherlands when Hans Kollhoff and Christian Rapp’s Piraeus Building was being built in the 1990s. Gerard Maccreanor observes its influence on the practice
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FeaturesNottingham Playhouse: In the round
Even with the raw board-marked concrete painted over, Peter Moro’s strong geometric composition for the Nottingham Playhouse — a circle within a rectangle — still excites
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FeaturesBirmingham Central Library’s final chapter
John Madin’s 1974 Birmingham Central Library was designed to be flexible, for a possible future without books. English Heritage would like to see it listed, but the city’s political elite say it is impossible to refurbish for modern needs and want it demolished
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FeaturesNew Zealand House: the modern heart of St James’s
Robert Matthew faced much opposition in the 1950s for his ambitious design of New Zealand House. Some of the internal grandness has faded, or disappeared altogether, but the building sits well with the Pall Mall set
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FeaturesAvanti Architects' Hackney courage
Having been neglected over the years, Erno Goldfinger’s little known Haggerston School in Hackney is poised to be transformed by the BSF programme. Avanti Architects’ John Allan explains how the listed building will be adapted for a radical new educational programme
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FeaturesThe Ryde’s experiment in caring and sharing
Hatfield’s The Ryde was a groundbreaking cooperative where residents created the housing community that they wanted, but 40 years on is it the community or the privacy of the houses people want?
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FeaturesLubetkin’s Finsbury Health Centre — the ideal that time forgot
Berthold Lubetkin’s Finsbury Health Centre was opened in 1938 with his assertion that “nothing was too good for ordinary people.” It was a pivotal moment in British social history that led to the development of the NHS. But now both the building and Lubetkin’s beliefs are under threat
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FeaturesSheppard Robson’s Churchill College was built to last the course
Sheppard Robson’s Churchill College was dubbed safe and even bland in 1959, but 50 years on 6A Architects is revisiting the original courtyard-based design for its new hall of residence