Refurbishment
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Building StudiesThe Postal Museum by Feilden Clegg Bradley
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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Building Studies
V&A Exhibition Road Quarter, London by AL_A
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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Building Studies
Musee D’Arts, Nantes by Stanton Williams
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 Loom, London by Duggan Morris
Duggan Morris has respun a former east London wool warehouse as a 21st-century office through an elegant balance of intervention and restoration. Ike Ijeh reports
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The Bartlett School of Architecture, by Hawkins Brown
Loved and loathed by its users, renewing the Bartlett School of Architecture’s home was always going to be a sensitive project. Joe Morris returns to his alma mater to assess the transformation of Wates House into 22 Gordon Street
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Design Museum, London, by John Pawson, OMA and Allies and Morrison
The former Commonwealth Institute has been resurrected as London’s new Design Museum. But how do the new interventions match up to the original 1960s architecture and that memorable roof? Ike Ijeh finds out
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Boathouse 4, Portsmouth, by Walters & Cohen
Formerly a boat-building shed in Portsmouth’s naval dockyards, Boathouse 4 has been transformed by Walters Cohen into a teaching workshop that doubles up as a live exhibition
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Newport Street Gallery, Vauxhall, Caruso St John
Caruso St John’s new gallery for Damien Hirst in the industrial back streets just south of the Thames is one of the practice’s best projects yet, says Ike Ijeh
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Alex Monroe Studio by DSDHA
Despite planners’ initial objections, DSDHA’s complex zinc facade for a jeweller’s studio meshes comfortably with the urban patchwork of its London neighbours
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Great Northern Hotel refurbishment by Dexter Moren and Archer Humphryes
Lewis Cubitt’s Great Northern Hotel has been rescued from the shadow of St Pancras thanks to a flamboyant refurbishment
