All Buildings revisited articles – Page 2

  • Original BD coverage of Stockley Park in 1991 charts the architecture taking shape.
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    Taking stock at Stockley Park

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Launched by Stuart Lipton in the mid-1980s, Stockley Park brought the high-quality, US-style landscaped office development to the UK, with buildings by Geoffrey Darke, Norman Foster and Eric Parry among others. Ken Powell explores how it is responding to the needs of contemporary business. Photos by Dennis Gilbert

  • All of the flats have balconies offering river and parkland views that the wealthy pay substantial sums for on the other side of the Thames.
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    World’s End, the pride of Eric Lyons

    2008-11-21T00:00:00Z

    When the World’s End housing estate was completed in Chelsea in 1977 after 10 years of construction, it was deemed a failure. Three decades on, the enduring excellence of the design by Eric Lyons and HT Cadbury-Brown is recognised by architects and the people who live there

  • The Hub extension created a new main entrance to All Souls Church.
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    Cottrell & Vermeulen sees the light at All Souls

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Cottrell & Vermeulen’s refurbishment of All Souls church, Harlesden, was greeted with polite horror by parishoners. Richard Cottrell sees how it is working a year onPhotos by Ed Tyler

  • The murals are by Michael Craig-Martin, the carpet by Ege.
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    Stiff & Trevillion’s Mike Smith revisits St Alban, the restaurant the firm designed in 2006

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Stiff & Trevillion goes back for seconds to its successful West End eatery

  • Offices (left) and the indoor courts complex (right) overlook the outdoor courts
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    Hopkins Architects’ Bill Taylor revisits the firm’s National Tennis Centre at Roehampton

    2008-07-25T00:00:00Z

    Hopkins Architects served up a smash with its National Tennis Centre — how has it held up in the 18 months since it opened?

  • Gillett Square
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    Squaring up in public with Hawkins Brown’s Hackney makeover

    2008-06-20T00:00:00Z

    A jazz club, artists’ studios and a street market are all part of the eclectic mix at Gillett Square in Hackney, east London. After 18 months, the architect and landscape architect return to find out whether chaos or culture reigns. Photos by Morley von Sternberg

  • The Brunswick Centre
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    Levitt Bernstein changes the climate at the Brunswick

    2008-05-16T00:00:00Z

    In 2006 Levitt Bernstein gave the Brunswick Centre in central London a new lease of life. Here partner David Levitt, who also worked on the original 1960s scheme by Patrick Hodgkinson, returns to soak up the new vibrant atmosphere. Photos by Morley von Sternberg

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    Is Silvertown still golden for Ash Sakula and Niall McLaughlin Architects?

    2008-04-18T00:00:00Z

    A competition, two architects, a leading client and an edgy site in east London — that was four years ago. Now Cany Ash of Ash Sakula and Niall McLaughlin are back for an update on their flats for Peabody Trust

  • The ETFE-roofed atrium acts as a central focus.
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    Return appointment at Kidderminster Treatment Centre

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    MAAP Architects’ director Mungo Smith revisits the innovative NHS project he completed in 2004.

  • The courtyard between the wings could have had a richer spatial quality.
  • Harry Gugger (right) and Anthony Bowne, Laban director, in the main circulation space facing the library.
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    Dancing to the music of time

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron’s dance centre for Laban at Deptford, south London, won the Stirling Prize in 2003. Here partner Harry Gugger finds out how it is holding up

  • A striking glass and steel staircase curves around the inside of the drum building.
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    Putting safety first

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    James Pickard of Cartwright Pickard goes back to the Health & Safety Executive’s headquarters in Bootle, Merseyside, a £57 million PFI project completed two years ago

  • Cladding uses untreated western red cedar from the Wye Valley.
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    More than skin deep

    2007-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Two years on, the Great Bow Yard housing in Langport, Somerset, is continuing to live up to its energy-saving blueprint. Stride Treglown’s Robert Delius makes a return visit

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    Bouji nights

    2007-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Turning a tired nightclub into a night to remember was the mission for Satmoko Ball 18 months ago. Adrian Ball struts his funky stuff back to Boujis to see if it still rocks

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    Gym'll need fixing

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Summer can be sticky at David Morley Architects’ north London sports centre. Partner Ruth Butler hears how staff are coping, and Max Fordham’s David Lindsey responds

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    Counting down to zero carbon

    2007-06-15T00:00:00Z

    PRP ZedFactor set the zero-energy heating standard at St Matthews keyworker estate in Brixton. Two years on, associate director Ziba Adrangi calculates cost and carbon

  • Formal gardens extend the plan’s geometry across the hill-top site.
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    Living the high life

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Doyen of modernist restoration John Winter has been working at High & Over in Amersham since 1994. Here he revisits the building and celebrates the glamour of Amyas Connell’s original concept. Photos by Morley von Sternberg

  • The roof of the Jerwood Hall is supported on new steel columns.
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    Hawksmoor’s heavenly harmonies

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Levitt Bernstein director Axel Burrough hears how classical and contemporary have been mixing at the London Symphony Orchestra’s St Luke’s education and rehearsal centre. Photos by Gareth gardner

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    Keeping up at Peter Jones

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Three years on, John McAslan returns to see how John McAslan & Partners’ work has held up at the iconic John Lewis department store in Sloane Square, west London

  • Blue MDF laminate for the cupboards, right, and the solid laminate glasses display, left.
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    Vision in electric blue

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    An optical illusion of sea and sky was the design concept at Michel Guillon’s Chelsea Eye Boutique & Vision Clinic. Ab Rogers returns to see if it’s still refreshing after four years