Building Studies

Building Studies

Building Study: Hackney town hall, by Hawkins Brown

2017-11-22T12:09:00Z

It’s taken 12 years to restore Hackney town hall after 80 years of neglect. Ike Ijeh assesses the results

Building Studies

Building Study: Bloomberg HQ, London by Foster & Partners

2017-10-30T07:00:00Z

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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Building Study: Tapestry Building, King's Cross, by Níall McLaughlin Architects

2017-10-23T06:00:00Z

Níall McLaughlin turns a site’s infrastructure constraints to his advantage to create a richly ornamented terracotta residential block crowned with a stunning ‘square in the air’.

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Building Study: Lego House, Billund, Denmark, by BIG

2017-10-03T06:00:00Z

Lego’s new showpiece attraction in Billund, Denmark, combines exhibition space and the Lego experience in a building that is playful but not contrived, finds Ike Ijeh

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Building Study: R7, King's Cross, by Duggan Morris Architects

2017-09-25T06:00:00Z

The latest part of the King’s Cross regeneration scheme is a new kind of office block that aims to be unconventional, combining desk space and public areas. And it’s pink. Ike Ijeh is suitably impressed.

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Birmingham Conservatoire, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

2017-09-13T06:00:00Z

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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Lab City, Paris by OMA

2017-09-07T06:00:00Z

OMA’s first science building unifies a whole engineering school under a giant ETFE roof. Ike Ijeh assesses the result

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The Postal Museum by Feilden Clegg Bradley

2017-08-21T06:00:00Z

Feilden Clegg Bradley’s quiet restoration and intelligent extension of a former post office at London’s gargantuan Mount Pleasant sorting office betrays little of the astonishing visitor attraction below

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Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Oxford by Níall McLaughlin Architects

2017-07-27T10:41:00Z

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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V&A Exhibition Road Quarter, London by AL_A

2017-07-04T06:00:00Z

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