Housing

Building Studies

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