Building Studies
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Building StudiesBroad Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Sitting opposite the brash Walt Disney Concert Hall, Diller Scofidio Renfro’s £90m museum of contemporary art brings a more understated form to LA’s streets with its perforated shell. A marked contrast to its playful interiors, says Ike Ijeh
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Building Studies
District 33, Bordeaux, by LAN
LAN’s £12m urban renewal of part of the gigantic Génicart housing estate in the Bordeaux suburb Lormont relies on a radical over-cladding strategy and distinguishes public and private space. Could this model influence British cities?
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Building Studies
Dokk1 by Schmidt Hammer Lassen
Based at the heart of a regeneration of Denmark’s second city Aarhus, Dokk1 library rejects tradition for innovative design that borders on science fiction. But is this the library of the future?
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Building Studies
York Art Gallery by Ushida Findlay and Simpson & Brown
Architects working on the £8m refurbishment of York Art Gallery have peeled away decades of callously inappropriate interventions to unlock a wonderland of architectural secrets
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Building Studies
St Mary of Eton, Hackney Wick by Matthew Lloyd Architects
With its ancillary buildings converted into new flats, the main building of this 1892 Hackney Wick church has been refurbished and retained as a place of worship - creating a unique ecclesiastical blend for new residents
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Building Studies
First Look: McGrath Road by Peter Barber Architects
London council project reinvents back-to-back housing
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Building Studies
Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux by Herzog & de Meuron
Herzog de Meuron’s new sports stadium in Bordeaux is part of the wider regeneration of the area and taps into the classic French idea of the ‘grand projet’. But is it great architecture? Ike Ijeh takes a tour with Pierre de Meuron
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Building Studies
National Theatre redevelopment by Haworth Tompkins
Haworth Tompkins’ £80m redevelopment of the National Theatre - a traditionally uncompromising building - is its biggest reworking since Denys Lasdun’s original design
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Building Studies
Bodleian library: The new edition
As custodian of millions of precious books and manuscripts, Oxford’s Bodleian library needed a much bigger - and safer - building to house its collection. With the new Weston Library, Ike Ijeh discovers Wilkinson Eyre provided this and much more
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Building Studies
Next, Southampton by Stanton Williams
Can Stanton Williams work its magic on the most depressing of building typologies, the out-of-town shopping centre? Ike Ijeh is prepared to buy it
