All Materials articles – Page 11
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, by Jamie Fobert Architects
Fobert has skillfully untangled the gallery’s warren of Victorian houses and modern extensions, says Ike Ijeh
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FeaturesBetween our two hands: Creating space for the analogue in architectural education
How can architects draw and specify materials they have never worked with?
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Futurehome Passivhaus, South Gardens, London
Maccreanor Lavington has pushed the boundaries of Passivhaus design by including bay windows on a scheme at Elephant Castle
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TechnicalTechnical Study: the Cambridge Mosque
One of David Marks’ last projects is a contemplative Cambridge mosque with complex timber geometry
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Bloomberg HQ, London by Foster & Partners
Bloomberg’s European headquarters breaks with recent City tradition by respecting the architectural context of its surroundings. And it’s all the better for it, says Ike Ijeh
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Vitsoe factory, Leamington Spa
The firm behind Dieter Rams’ 606 shelving system has created a temple to craftsmanship with its new HQ
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Building StudyBirmingham Conservatoire, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Birmingham’s £57m music college is a quieter building than many of the city’s recent shouty projects. But its very restraint has produced an anonymous facade that conceals the elegant spaces within, says Ike Ijeh
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Building StudyLab City, Paris by OMA
OMA’s first science building unifies a whole engineering school under a giant ETFE roof. Ike Ijeh assesses the result
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Building StudySultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Oxford by Níall McLaughlin Architects
At Worcester College, Oxford, Níall McLaughlin Architects has created an elegant building that manages to be both proudly contemporary and almost classically formal while moulding into the landscape. Ike Ijeh finds out how the architect managed it
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TechnicalTechnical study: Larkfield Road, Dublin
Tom de Paor has created an expansive network of interconnected spaces next to an end-of-terrace property in south Dublin, writes Hugh Strange
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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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TechnicalTechnical study: Maggie’s Oldham
dRMM’s centre for the cancer care charity hovers above its landscaped garden like a giant treehouse – and represents the practice’s most ambitious use yet of cross-laminated timber.
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TechnicalTechnical study: Tate St Ives extension, St Ives, Cornwall
Jamie Fobert’s discreet subterranean gallery extension has calmed locals’ concerns about the impact on the town’s skyline and reflects in its design all the elements that make St Ives special
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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 StudyBush Theatre, London by Haworth Tompkins
In its renovation of west London’s Bush Theatre, Haworth Tompkins was asked to make the building and the theatre it contains accessible and approachable to all the local community. The result, says Ike Ijeh, is full of twists and turns
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TechnicalTechnical study: Garden Halls, London
TP Bennett and Maccreanor Lavington’s elegant stepped facades in the heart of Bloomsbury show how off-site methods can help student accommodation to raise its game. Amanda Birch reports
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TechnicalSt Peter’s Seminary, Cardross by Avanti Architects & McGinlay Bell
St Peter’s Seminary near Glasgow is a brutalist ruin that is being given new life as an arts venue. What makes the refurb unusual is that the crumbling decay, instead of being covered, will be used as a central feature. Ike Ijeh reports
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TechnicalTechnical study: Churchill College, University of Cambridge
6a Architects’ new timber-clad student court is a clever inversion of the original brutalist college, writes Hugh Strange
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TechnicalGoede Doelen Loterijen by Benthem Crouwel Architects
Once completed, the new home of the biggest lottery charity in the Netherlands will be the first refurbished office building in Amsterdam to achieve a BREEAM Outstanding
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TechnicalIs hardwood the future of timber construction?
As Alison Brooks Architects’ gravity-defying installation at the London Design Festival shows off the structural benefits of cross-laminated hardwood, Amanda Birch examines the growing uptake of CLT solutions