Housing

Building Studies

Alan Stanton’s inspiration: Lovell Beach House, Newport Beach, California

2019-08-28T06:00:00Z

The architect recalls his first visit to Rudolph Schindler’s inventive ocean house that has remained in his imagination ever since

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Building Study: Churchill College housing, Cambridge, by Cottrell & Vermeulen

2019-06-26T09:33:00Z

The postgraduate block is a deft study in how to do contextual architecture when the context happens to be your own work, writes Ike Ijeh

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Building Study: Dancy House, Marlborough, by Allies and Morrison

2019-01-30T07:00:00Z

This block for Marlborough College is a perfect compromise between the school’s rarefied idyll and the practice’s trademark contemporary aesthetic

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Building Study: Blackfriars Circus, London, by Maccreanor Lavington

2018-11-30T10:15:00Z

It does everything a scheme centred on a 27-storey residential tower can do to engage with London’s architectural heritage

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Building Study: Welsh Streets, Liverpool, by MCAU

2018-11-22T07:00:00Z

This radical build-to-rent scheme encourages community and provides a blueprint for other developers

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Building Study: Signal Townhouses, Greenwich, by AHMM

2018-08-02T06:00:00Z

The stereotype of back-to-back housing as cramped and poorly lit is overturned by a thoughtfully designed scheme

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Building Study: Alto private rental scheme, London, by Flanagan Lawrence

2018-07-12T06:00:00Z

On a vast regeneration site in Wembley, Quintain is building what it hopes will be the UK’s largest build-to-rent scheme

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Building Study: Bourne Estate, London, by Matthew Lloyd Architects

2018-06-25T06:00:00Z

Matthew Lloyd’s clever remodelling of an inner London estate shows the value of high-quality healthy communal space

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Building Study: BBC TV Centre, London, by AHMM

2018-02-28T07:00:00Z

The iconic home of television has been given a new lease of life as housing, offices - and studios. Ike Ijeh tunes in

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Building Study: Gasholders King's Cross, London, by Wilkinson Eyre

2018-02-14T07:00:00Z

Can shoe-horning luxury homes into three Victorian gasholders successfully combine industrial history with contemporary design, asks Ike Ijeh

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Richard Cottrell's inspiration: Unité d’habitation de Briey, France

2017-12-11T07:00:00Z

Richard Cottrell and Brian Vermeulen set up their practice after working together on the restoration of the Briey Unité

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Building Study: Pinnacle N10, Muswell Hill, by pH+

2017-12-06T07:00:00Z

This scheme on a narrow, sloping site in north London shows how awkward little corners could help tackle the capital’s housing shortage says Ike Ijeh

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Chris Loyn's inspiration: Fallingwater, Pennsylvania

2017-11-10T07:00:00Z

The relationship of Fallingwater to the landscape was a powerful influence on Chris Loyn despite never visting the house

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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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Annalie Riches' inspiration: Park Hill, Sheffield

2017-10-06T06:00:00Z

Park Hill sparked Sheffield student Annalie Riches’ interest in designing social housing. Now Mikhail Riches is working on phase 2 of its refurbishment

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Ben Derbyshire's inspiration: Hubertus House, Amsterdam

2017-09-11T06:00:00Z

New RIBA president Ben Derbyshire says Aldo van Eyck’s community for single mothers could be an exemplar for shared living today

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Lock Keepers, London by Allies and Morrison

2016-11-03T07:00:00Z

Allies and Morrison has updated the Victorian warehouse typology with an ingenious apartment block on an awkward canalside site in east London, writes Ike Ijeh

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Baylis Old School, Lambeth by Conran & Partners

2016-08-11T08:00:00Z

While many brutalist schools are being knocked down, one in south London is making a virtue of its architectural heritage and being converted into housing. Photographs by Edmund Sumner

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Holland Green, London, by OMA + Allies & Morrison

2016-06-03T12:27:00Z

OMA’s first UK residential project has been designed with Allies Morrison and is arranged around Holland Park’s former Commonwealth Institute, soon to be the new home of the Design Museum. It interacts smoothly with the local context, but does it play things too safe? Ike Ijeh reports

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Frampton Park Baptist Church, Hackney, by Matthew Lloyd Architects

2016-01-13T08:00:00Z

A Baptist church in Hackney, east London, has broken with the archetypes of church design to place community facilities, a cafe, creche and offices at the congregational heart of the building – prayers go on up on the third floor