All First Look articles – Page 7
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First look: Fraser’s Stromness Pierhead follows local maritime tradition
Malcolm Fraser Architects has submitted a planning application for its proposed redevelopment of the Pierhead of Orkney’s second largest town, Stromness.
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First look: Mole’s luxury complex takes its cue from Taiwan’s vernacular
Mole Architects, working with Gianni Botsford and landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, has unveiled plans for a 71,000sq m development on the edge of Hsinchu City, the “Silicon Valley” of Taiwan.
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First look: Cambridge colleges inspire new Proctor & Matthews housing
Proctor & Matthews Architects has gained planning consent for 306 homes as part of a major new housing and mixed-use community on the edge of Cambridge by Countryside Properties.
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First look: Enterarchitecture expands on a building at Kentish Town’s heart
Enterarchitecture has unveiled images of a new rooftop extension to and remodelling of the Kentish Town Community Centre in London.
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Serie Architects’ Chinese calligraphy museum rewrites the traditional garden
Serie Architects has unveiled designs for a new calligraphy museum in Linyi, in China’s north-eastern Shandong province.
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Caruso St John creates a ‘room for the city’ in central Bremen
Sited in the city’s historic temple district, next to the town hall and cathedral, the €33 million, 23,300sq m project will complete the north-western edge of the Domshof central square.The seven-storey building is arranged around an oval-shaped courtyard, conceived as a “room for the city”, open to the sky and ...
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Jonathan Tuckey’s remodelled school reflects local industrial influences
Jonathan Tuckey Design has revealed plans for Wilberforce Primary School in north Westminster, London.
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Benson & Forsyth provides west London with urban punctuation
Benson & Forsyth has submitted a planning application for a major mixed-use development fronting onto London’s Cromwell Road.
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First look: Lynch Architects proposes ‘modern palazzo’ opposite Victoria Station
Lynch Architects has submitted a planning application for a mixed-use development opposite Victoria Station in London.
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First look: Assemble constructs canalside folly beneath Hackney flyover
Assemble has revealed images of the Folly for a Flyover, a temporary structure for an empty flyover undercroft on the edge of the Olympic site in Hackney, east London.
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First look: Duggan Morris is cooking in Croydon
Work has started on three projects designed by Duggan Morris Architects for secondary schools in the London Borough of Croydon.
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First look: Reiach & Hall given green light for Lanarkshire Maggie’s centre
Reiach & Hall Architects has secured planning permission for a new Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre to be built at Monklands General Hospital in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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First look: Caruso St John to transform Lille steelworks into hoteliers’ college
Caruso St John Architects has won an invited competition for a new hotelier training college on the site of a former steelworks in Lille, beating entries from MVRDV and Xavier De Geyter among others.
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First look: Friend & Co's Kielder Park bat station
Plans for a bat spiral, the UK’s first bat station, in the Kielder Water & Forest Park, Northumberland have been revealed by Friend & Company Architects.
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Studio Octopi stages theatrical revival in Berkshire countryside
Studio Octopi has revealed images of its scheme to revamp the Victorian amphitheatre in the grounds of Bradfield College, a private school set in the Berkshire countryside.
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Woolf breaks ground in Nairobi
Jonathan Woolf Architects has revealed designs for a 1,300sq m private house in Nairobi, Kenya.
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First look: ARU’s biennale folly will mark site of South Korean uprising
The Architecture Research Unit (ARU) has revealed designs for a folly for the Gwangju Design Biennale in South Korea.
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First look: Goods Yard vernacular inspires Barber’s Shoreditch brick homes
BD Housing Architect of the year, Peter Barber Architects, has submitted a planning application for a new 43-unit housing scheme in Shoreditch, east London, for developer Londonewcastle.
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First look: Harrap and Fobert redraw the Bloomsbury Group’s retreat
Julian Harrap Architects and Jamie Fobert Architects working in partnership have secured planning permission for the redevelopment of the barns at Charleston Farmhouse, the historic country retreat of the Bloomsbury Group in East Sussex.
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First look: Riches Hawley Mikhail rethinks rural housing types at Bank Hall
Riches Hawley Mikhail has won planning for 23 new-build family houses in the grounds of 17th century Bank Hall, Lancashire, for Urban Splash, as well as renovation of the hall to provide 13 flats.