Refurbishment
Refurbishment
Williamstrip Bath house, Gloucestershire by Craig Hamilton Architects
In the grounds of a 17th century house remodelled by Sir John Soane, Craig Hamilton has created a swimming pool indebted to early 20th century classicism.
Salters’ Hall, Fore Street, London by de Metz Forbes Knight
Basil Spence’s livery building is being sensitively remodelled by de Metz Forbes Knight
Soane Museum refurbishment by Julian Harrap and Caruso St John
The first phase of the restoration of the museum at Lincoln’s Inn Fields aims to bring three buildings as close to the original vision as possible
Simon Hudspith's inspiration: Castle Drogo by Edwin Lutyens
Lutyens’ castle in Devon is grand on the outside, but domestic inside
Park Hill estate, Sheffield, by Hawkins Brown with Studio Egret West
The apartments of the regenerated Park Hill are a world away from 1961’s socially conscious streets in the sky. Here, BD looks at how Sheffield’s iconic housing block has echoed 50 years of Britain shifting political moods
St Pancras Renaissance London Hotel by RHWL and Richard Griffiths
The painstaking restoration of St Pancras station’s neo-Gothic Midland Grand Hotel by architects RHWL and Richard Griffiths honours George Gilbert Scott’s original vision, despite some disappointing fit-out choices.
Tom Holbrook’s inspiration: The Adelphi, London
The Adam brothers’ Georgian Adelphi development appeals as much for its entrepreneurialism as its architecture
Astley Castle by Witherford Watson Mann
Witherford Watson Mann’s new house within the ruined fragments of Astley Castle creates a physical and emotional connection between old and new
First Look: 16 Henrietta Street, Dublin by Ryan W Kennihan Architects
Ryan W Kennihan Architects has revealed images of plans for the end of the historic Henrietta street in Dublin, filling in the “missing tooth” left by the demolition of one half of a four-bay Georgian house in the 1950s.
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.
First look: Zumthor shelters historic Jericho mosaic
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has designed a shelter to protect the Middle East’s largest mosaic
Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, restored by Inskip & Jenkins
The £8.9 million restoration of Horace Walpole’s 18th century ’gothic castle’, emphasises its original owner’s distinctive tastes
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No 1 Smithery, Chatham Dockyard, by van Heyningen & Haward
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Tony Fretton shows the art of merger
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Wright & Wright’s RCA sculpture department refurb
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The sublime and the aedicule
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Dow Jones Architects’ cultivated aesthetic
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Eric Parry’s St Martin-in-the-Fields makeover
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Hût Architecture’s slice of white
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Long live Lubetkin’s republic
