Building Studies – Page 26
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Building StudyFirst look: Muf scheme for Whitechapel park traces both religious and secular
Muf has revealed designs for Altab Ali Park in Whitechapel, as part of the High Street 2012 public realm improvement programme along the A11 in London, from the City at Aldgate to the Olympic Park at Stratford.
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Building StudyPeter Eisenman’s Santiago de Compostela City of Culture
After years in development Eisenman’s icon finally emerges from the earth as a flawed monument to Spanish political wrangling
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Building StudyXPO and Villa Voka by Office Kersten Geers David van Severen in Kortrijk, Belgium
The first major projects completed by this Belgian practice make good on the promise of its speculative work.
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Building StudyFirst look: MSMR homes drive new vision for former Southwark car park
MSMR Architects has won planning permission for a scheme of nine affordable houses on Alice Street in Southwark, south London.
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Building StudyCity of Westminster College by Schmidt Hammer Lassen
City of Westminster College, the Learning & Skills Council’s last grand vision, leaves a dramatic monument to a bygone age.
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Building StudyAHMM: Dagenham Park School, Barking
Paul Monaghan and Andrew O’Donnell of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris discuss the use of prefabrication at the practice’s £16.9m Dagenham Park School.
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Building StudyThe West Midlands: a mash-up of speculative tat and fearless originals
Carefully planned post-war townscapes fight with moneymaking imperatives in the UK’s largest unplanned agglomeration.
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Building StudyFirst look: Green issues and flexibility hold the key to CTA's Brixton house
Work has started on Slip House, a project by Carl Turner Architects, in Brixton, south London. Its site is the central one of five adjacent plots that currently form a gap in a terrace.
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Building StudyOlympic Velodrome by Hopkins
The London 2012 cycling venue is the first to be completed at the Olympic Park, and it sets a high standard for its fellow sports facilities to reach.
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Building StudyOne Hyde Park, London, by Rogers Stirk Harbour
Despite its attempts to ingratiate, One Hyde Park cannot entirely escape its underlying philosophy of segregation
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Building StudyFirst look: Communality underpins Cottrell & Vermeulen’s Cambridge plans
Cottrell & Vermeulen has won planning consent for a scheme for new postgraduate student accommodation for Clare College, Cambridge.
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Building StudyShingle House, Dungeness, by Nord
The windswept and unworldly coastal settlement of Dungeness provides the location for Living Architecture’s second holiday home.
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Building StudyFirst look: Zumthor shelters historic Jericho mosaic
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has designed a shelter to protect the Middle East’s largest mosaic
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Building StudyFirst look: Michael Gold’s Clapham block pays its respects to neighbours
Michael Gold has revealed plans of an apartment building for a site in Clapham, south London, privately developed with contractor Padraic Sullivan
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Building StudyCranfield Centre for Competitive Creative Design, by Niall McLaughlin Architects
With its distinctive wing-like roof, Niall McLaughlin’s building for Cranfield University in Bedfordshire fits well with the ambition of the only campus to have its own airfield.
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Building StudyFirst look: Union North’s Lancaster student block
The architect’s design for a 96-bedroom housing block that reveals the building’s original “fossilised” history has been given the green light.
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Building StudyFirst look: Caruso St John’s Swiss chancel meditates on baroque geometry
Caruso St John has won the competition to redesign the chancel of the Cathedral of St Gallen in Switzerland, beating entries from an invited international group of architects and artists, including Aires Mateus and Pipilotti Rist.
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Building StudyBarrow-in-Furness: kept on life support by perpetual warfare
Once dubbed ’the English Chicago’, Barrow-in-Furness has been kept alive by the nuclear arms industry
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Building StudyTy-Hedfan, Brecon Beacons, by Featherstone Young
The irregular geometries of Sarah Featherstone and Jeremy Young’s floating house never overwhelm its role as a family home.
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Building StudySt Joseph’s Primary School, Highgate, by Pie Architecture
Pie Architecture’s individual reworking of a 1970s primary school is notable for its careful attention to the needs of the classroom