Building Studies – Page 31
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Building StudyAdam Khan Architects’ New Horizon Youth Centre
Adam Khan’s reworking of a centre for the young homeless on a north London housing estate, brings together domestic facilities and performance space in an authoritative debut
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Building StudyPurcell Miller Tritton’s refurbishment of Leighton House
After a century of decline, artist Frederic Leighton’s London house has at last been restored to its exotic glory
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Building StudyJewish Museum extension by Long & Kentish in Camden Town, London
The Jewish Museum has been skilfully expanded with the addition of a converted piano factory at the building’s rear, but was it wise to persist with such an understated site?
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Building StudyHighwood Court housing in Harlesden by SUSD
SUSD’s nine-house development on an enclosed site in north-east London disregards conventional spatial arrangements to create housing of joyful intricacy
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Building StudyPatel Taylor Architects’ Lowther School Children’s Centre
Patel Taylor’s Children’s Centre in Barnes, south-west London, is the first stage of a project that aims to boost the whole of the local community
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Building StudyJonathan Woolf Architects and Bharat Patel: Painted House, London
Two semi-detached houses have been comprehensively restructured to create an engaging single dwelling for an extended family
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Building StudySanaa’s Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne
The surreal landscapes of the Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne belie a more traditional belief in the link between open spaces and education
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Building StudyHerzog & de Meuron’s Vitra Haus, Germany
Herzog & de Meuron’s showrooms for chair manufacturer Vitra puts domestic forms to unsettling use.
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Building StudyDavid Chipperfield’s Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany
Following the triumph of the Neues Museum, Chipperfield’s latest building in Essen had a tough act to follow. And while it is accomplished, has the architect played it too safe?
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Building StudyWalters & Cohen's Wembley Primary School, London
Walters & Cohen overcame considerable site constraints to create Wembley Primary School with large courtyards at its heart to bring the community together
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Building StudyABK’s Library, Local Area Offices and Courthouse, in Kilmallock, County Limerick
A single-storey civic complex in Kilmallock has saved the Irish town from a grim architectural legacy of 19th century workhouses
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Building StudyCottrell & Vermeulen’s Krishna-Avanti School in Harrow
The brief for Britain’s first state-funded Hindu school combined adhering to the traditional Vastu Shastra science of construction while creating an essentially modern building
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Building Study5th Studio’s reworking of the George V Pavilion in Cambridge
As part of the regeneration of Trumpington in Cambridge, 5th Studio has recrowned the tired George V pavilion with an overhaul and extension to accommodate the whole neighbourhood
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Building StudyDSDHA’s double chemistry lesson in Guildford
A year after its opening, DSDHA’s special needs school is joined on the site by the practice’s fantastically impressive Christ’s College secondary school
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Building StudyJames Gorst works with the lie of the land
In a corner of Suffolk increasingly dominated by lavish second homes, James Gorst has created a modest residence in keeping with its context
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Building StudyO’Donnell & Tuomey’s historical inspiration
A Derry cultural centre for the Irish language looks to the Middle Ages for the inspiration for its dynamic concrete form
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Building StudyBD’s review of the buildings of the year
While the recession howled outside their doors, a handful of architects realised some remarkable buildings in 2009. We list them here, together with 13 industry figures’ cultural highlights from around the world
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Building StudyRSHP's park ages
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners may have transplanted its Chiswick Park formula to Seville, but ‘out-of-town’ is already starting to feel out of time
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Building StudyAnd the V&A said, let there be light
MUMA’s Medieval & Renaissance Galleries have unlocked hitherto unused spaces at the Victoria &Albert Museum, while making the exhibits integral to the design, using them to define the different zones
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Building StudyGreenwich: Monument to Blair’s Britain
It’s 10 years since the Greenwich peninsula was at the centre of millennium celebrations, but its redevelopment has proved to be a microcosm of New Labour’s wasted opportunities