All articles by Ike Ijeh – Page 8
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TechnicalPoplar Baths by Pringle Richards Sharratt
Poplar Baths in London’s East End is a historic example of state architecture used to improve public health. But to preserve this listed building, the project team had to demolish part of it and rebuild through a PPP agreement
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OpinionNewport Street Gallery is streets ahead
This year’s Stirling Prize is a victory for the street as well as architecture
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Building StudyAntwerp Port House, by Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects’ spaceship-like extension over the Belgian port’s old fire station is, the practice claims, a response to the site’s context and history. Ike Ijeh is unconvinced
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AnalysisA Tale of Two Parliaments
The renovation of Canada’s parliament, where both architecture and legislature has been based on our own, could provide some pertinent lessons for Westminster’s imminent refurbishment, says Ike Ijeh
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AnalysisTokyo 2020, venue by venue
As the thrills of Rio slowly subside, attention turns to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, where a virtue is being made of necessity by re-using some of the venues built for the 1964 games
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OpinionWhy Lincoln Plaza won the Carbuncle Cup
Lincoln Plaza has won the 2016 Carbuncle Cup and is yet another shameful indictment of bad planning as well as bad architecture
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FeaturesHow the Great Fire of London invented the modern city
On the 350th anniversary of the fire’s close, Ike Ijeh shows how the disaster heralded enormous changes for architecture and urbanism despite the sidelining of Wren’s grand plan
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup 2016 shortlist unveiled
The six-strong shortlist was selected from 10 projects nominated by readers and represents some of Britain’s worst buildings.
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AnalysisLiverpool’s regeneration: Fate of the Futurist ignites row over city’s past
The demolition of Lime Street’s neo-baroque Futurist cinema highlights the misguided attitude to heritage and economic growth that prevails in Liverpool’s corridors of power, writes Ike Ijeh. The irony is that few cities offer better examples of what can be done when conservation-led regeneration is harnessed to high-quality contemporary architecture ...
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Building StudyBaylis Old School, Lambeth by Conran & Partners
While many brutalist schools are being knocked down, one in south London is making a virtue of its architectural heritage and being converted into housing. Photographs by Edmund Sumner
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup: The Fusion Building, Bournemouth University by BDP
This week’s nomination provides an unsettling pair of blasts from the past
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FeaturesThe Rio Olympics: our guide to the venues
The 32 venues that will host the Rio 2016 Olympic Games are a mix of futuristic new build and ambitious reconstruction. Ike Ijeh takes us on a tour of the architectural highlights
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup: The Tower, Southwark by Squire & Partners
This luxury residential tower may be on the thin side, but its poor design and inappropriate location wreaks urban damage that extends far and wide
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Building StudyYoung Street Campus, Cambridge by Richard Murphy Architects
The architect has skilfully integrated Anglia Ruskin University’s new nursing and music therapy campus into a close-knit network of Cambridge terraces, writes Ike Ijeh
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AnalysisAssessing the legacy of London's Olympics
The architecture of the 2012 Olympics had to do more than provide an awe-inspiring home for the Games: it was meant to provide a foundation for the regeneration of a blighted area of the capital. Four years on, Ike Ijeh reports on whether it has succeeded
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Building StudyThe rebirth of Lochgelly and lessons for Brexit Britain
The EU referendum brought home the political divisions between various parts of the UK. The inspired regeneration of a once deprived ex-mining town in Fife shows how architecture can help resolve them.
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TechnicalWellbeing registration: Europe's first project
There is now an international standard for measuring how a building impacts on its users’ health and wellbeing. Ike Ijeh looks at how Studio Ben Allen Architects’ One Carter Lane became the first European project to receive the accreditation
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OpinionIke Ijeh's verdict on the Stirling Prize shortlist
BD’s critic assesses a Stirling shortlist featuring some fine civic architecture - and a few curiosities
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FeaturesHousing design awards: the winners
This year’s entries reveal some interesting trends in housebuilding in the UK such as a reduction in common space, urban design principles being applied to greenfield sites and the successful use of custom build
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Building StudyStavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, Athens, by Renzo Piano
Greece’s most significant cultural project in more than a decade - housing the National Opera House and National Library - is impressive in scale. But do all the elements live up to its immense ambition?