Building Studies

Building Studies

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

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Musee D’Arts, Nantes by Stanton Williams

2017-06-30T06:00:00Z

Stanton Williams set out to reinvent the Breton city’s beaux-art palais as an open, welcoming institution while complementing the spectacular (not to say elitist) architecture. It’s a neat trick to pull off. Ike Ijeh finds out if it succeeded

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The verdict: Diébédo Francis Kéré's Serpentine Pavilion

2017-06-21T09:00:00Z

This simple structure is laced with countless stories of inclusivity which speak to a London in grief, finds Ike Ijeh