All articles by Ike Ijeh – Page 6
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Opinion2017 Stirling shortlist: Ike Ijeh's verdict
The RIBA has produced another muted Stirling shortlist, writes BD’s underwhelmed architecture critic
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FeaturesHousing design awards 2017: the winners
This year’s winners show schemes in private residential, custom build and housing for older people all setting a benchmark for others to follow
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Building StudyV&A Exhibition Road Quarter, London by AL_A
Amanda Levete’s £48m expansion of London’s V A connects the museum with the public realm through a superb porcelain-paved courtyard. But it’s the sheer immersive power of its vast subterranean exhibition hall that will make visitors stand and gawp
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Building StudyMusee D’Arts, Nantes by Stanton Williams
Stanton Williams set out to reinvent the Breton city’s beaux-art palais as an open, welcoming institution while complementing the spectacular (not to say elitist) architecture. It’s a neat trick to pull off. Ike Ijeh finds out if it succeeded
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup: Nova Victoria by PLP Architecture
This mixed-use development sets a new benchmark for urban horror
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AnalysisOne year after Brexit, are there actually any signs of the predicted construction crash?
The shadow of Brexit has loomed over commercial development in the City for a year now. So were the doom mongers right to say that leaving the EU would darken prospects for some of the biggest schemes? Ike Ijeh looks at five key projects
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Building StudyThe verdict: Diébédo Francis Kéré's Serpentine Pavilion
This simple structure is laced with countless stories of inclusivity which speak to a London in grief, finds Ike Ijeh
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OpinionEnter the Age of Uncertainty
BD’s architecture critic Ike Ijeh assesses the chaotic election outcome - and looks for signs of hope
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TechnicalThe rebirth of the age of ornament
A Boston restoration project using advanced 3D-modelling and printing technologies could hold the key to a new age of decoration within contemporary design
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NewsIan Simpson the latest to query quality of towers going up in London
One Blackfriars architect adds proposed PLP tower scheme over the road is ‘failure of planning’
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FeaturesNew York vs London residential towers: Which is better?
New York and London are both bristling with new residential towers, a boom driven by demand and skyrocketing prices. But how do the two cities regulate their location, shape and design quality? Ike Ijeh reports on a tale of two high-rise housing booms
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NewsArchitect behind City's tallest tower says London skyline 'is being trashed'
Eric Parry says too many are not good enough
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FeaturesInclusiveness onsite at Columbia University, New York
Columbia University’s new Manhattanville campus by Renzo Piano has championed a policy of inclusiveness for the construction teams that built it. Ike Ijeh reports from New York on how using minority employment targets works in practice
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Building StudyLa Seine Musicale, Paris, by Shigeru Ban
The second concert hall to be completed in the French capital within three years is a showcase to innovation and style. Ike Ijeh admires the distinctive features of this venue, which was designed by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban
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Building StudyThe Storyhouse, Chester by Bennetts Associates
The Storyhouse in Chester is a daring construction of opposites, with a theatre, cinema and library brought together in a space that combines new-build and the spirit of the orginal 1930s picture house. Ike Ijeh reports on how the building energetically opens up storytelling to the local community
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Building StudyPierre Boulez Saal, Berlin by Gehry Partners
Frank Gehry’s £28.5m Berlin concert hall is an unusual building for this celebrated creator of the unusual. Ike Ijeh finds that through its sharp contradictions of age, shape and material, it achieves a kind of peace
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Building StudyWarwick Hall, Burford by Acanthus Clews Architects
Building anything new in a Cotswold village is hard enough, but when it’s next door to one of the nation’s best-loved churches, you know you’ve got your work cut out. Ike Ijeh admires a deft piece of architectural reinterpretation by Acanthus Clews Architects
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FeaturesIt's not just the Garden Bridge: other crossings for London
Ike Ijeh takes a look at the other bridges planned across the Thames
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FeaturesConservation areas at 50: is their time up?
As conservation areas turn 50, they are coming under increasing pressure in major cities. Ike Ijeh looks at the battle between heritage enthusiasts and developers, and asks experts if they think the areas have reached a tipping point