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Redbridge Welcome Centre by Peter Barber Architects
The open-plan layout of Peter Barber’s centre for the homeless in Ilford, east London, creates a lively atmosphere conducive to getting things done
Drawing Board: Blythe House, London, by Haworth Tompkins
Architects Jim Reed and Beatie Blakemore of Haworth Tompkins talk about their restoration of a former Post Office building to create a textiles and fashion study centre for the V and A
Festival House, Blackpool, by dRMM
De Rijke Marsh Morgan Architects’ seafront wedding chapel is the most successful of Blackpool’s efforts to reinvent itself architecturally
Peabody Avenue social housing in Pimlico, London, by Haworth Tompkins
A new social housing scheme in central London for Peabody marks a deliberate move away from novelty in favour of longevity
Rue du Cendrier housing by Sergison Bates and Jean-Paul Jaccaud
Sergison Bates has teamed up with Swiss architect Jean-Paul Jaccaud to create a Geneva social housing project that resolves a long-standing urban fault
Looking forward to a retrofit future
Retrofitting meets the challenge of improving energy efficiency in existing stock, as Penoyre & Prasad’s refurb of a 1990s house in London shows
Broadway School by Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture
A pragmatic yet innovative approach to a school refurbishment in Birmingham points towards the future of educational institutions in these straitened times
Drawing board: The White Building, Hackney Wick
Director David Kohn and project architect Tom McGlynn discuss how they are converting a redundant print works on the fringes of the 2012 Olympics site into an arts centre with Expedition Architecture
City of London: Old Corruption in braced glass
The Occupy encampment makes the perfect backdrop against which to examine the City’s contrasts as Owen Hatherley’s series concludes
Belfast: a city riven with divisions
The physical barriers built to quell sectarian violence in Belfast feel disturbingly close to home
Mediocrity has been wealth’s bequest to Aberdeen
Since Aberdeen became the UK’s oil capital, its city centre has not seen a single worthwhile building
Edinburgh: A planning tradition that is the opposing force to grands projets
A process of ’conservative surgery’ has helped create an impressive city - making its low points all the less forgivable
First look: Adjaye Associates’ African American History & Culture museum
The Smithsonian Institution’s new building has broken ground this week
City Making
City Making: Antwerp
In the first of a new series looking at exemplary city planning projects, Ellis Woodman investigates the ‘slow urbanism’ being engineered at Antwerp’s former docks
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Julian Lewis’s inspiration: the 1960 Olympic Village, Rome
Julian Lewis of East looks to the outskirts of Rome for an example of rich urban placemaking
Stephen Hodder’s inspiration: Sainsbury Centre, Norwich
Stephen Hodder recalls how he was set to be a champion of vernacular architecture until he visited Foster Associates’ Sainsbury Centre
Cany Ash’s Inspiration: Unité d’Habitation, France
The co-founder of Ash Sakula Architects reveals the enduring impact of Le Corbusier’s town in the sky on her work
Jonathan Woolf’s inspiration: Mies van der Rohe's Krefeld villas, Germany
For architect Jonathan Woolf, Mies van der Rohe’s Krefeld villas offered a masterclass in how to approach the design of his own Brick Leaf House
Carbuncle Cup
MediaCityUK wins 2011 Carbuncle Cup
Amid strong competition, the Salford media hub is voted this year’s worst UK building in BD’s annual Carbuncle Cup competition.
Media City Salford by Fairhursts, Chapman Taylor and Wilkinson Eyre
“There’s an emptiness here that the architects have desperately tried to compensate for”
Revisiting Broadgate
In the 1980s Broadgate changed the physical and economic landscape – how is it faring now?
Revisiting Sheffield’s Crucible theatre
The signature thrust stage and octagonal plan of The Crucible have survived but changes in safety regulations and budget cuts made Burrell Foley Fischer’s refurbishment challenging.
