Building Studies – Page 34
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Building StudyArtful arrangements at Sauerbruch Hutton’s Brandhorst Museum
Though Sauerbruch Hutton’s Brandhorst Museum — the latest addition to Munich’s emerging Museum Quarter — suffers from poor masterplanning, as a modern art gallery it is very successful
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Building StudyAlain de Botton’s Living Architecture project
Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project is creating architecturally interesting buildings for short-term lets
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Building StudyNew meets old school at Purcell Miller Tritton's Oxford quad project
Purcell Miller Tritton’s £10m refurbishment of Powell & Moya’s Blue Boar Quad at Oxford’s Christ Church college called for some deft navigation to bring it up to today’s standards
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Building StudySheffield: City of skeletons
Sheffield remains a unique city set in a spectacular landscape, but the gutted form of Park Hill exemplifies the efforts being spent to make it look like everywhere else
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Building StudyTurning yellow at AHMM's new Monsoon headquarters
Its bright cladding gives Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s Yellow Building a distinctive exterior, but as a working environment the interior of this headquarters for clothing retailer Monsoon is a missed opportunity
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Building StudySurface tension at Hongluo Clubhouse near Beijing
The Hongluo Clubhouse, by Beijing-based MAD Office, uses curved steel sections to create a roof structure that blurs boundaries with the surrounding landscape
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Building StudyHull keeps on trucking with new theatre by Wright & Wright
For its next act, Hull Truck Theatre has opened its latest production in Wright & Wright’s new building, which reflects the easy-going, unpretentious character of the company
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Building StudyHow it all stacks up for O’Donnell & Tuomey’s Timberyard
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s Timberyard development hits upon a remarkable urban housing typology that goes some way to redress Dublin’s use of an ill-considered planning formula
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Building StudySergison Bates approach to the cul-de-sac culture in Canning Town
Sergison Bates’ regeneration of Canning Town’s Crediton Road certainly provides solid housing that complements its surroundings, but the home zone concept of open, easily accessible areas has got lost along the way due to fears of misuse
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Building StudyLandroom's RSPB complex
Landroom’s complex of buildings including a bird hide for the RSPB’s Rainham Marsh site in east London makes a novel use of old shipping containers
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Building StudyMalcolm Fraser Architects breaks for the border
Malcolm Fraser Architects has honed its reputation in Edinburgh, but how has its approach translated to creating Work Space, a business incubation centre in Berwick-upon-Tweed?
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Building StudyNottingham: A notty problem
Nottingham hopes to be ‘2012 world design capital’ but the varying quality of its newer buildings exemplifies the problems of what to do with a post-industrial city
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Building StudyGeurst & Schulze's act of mediation at Le Medi
Geurst & Schulze’s Le Medi housing estate in Rotterdam fits comfortably with a career spent celebrating diverse architectural sources
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Building StudyParallel lives at the Whitechapel Gallery
The expansion and refurbishment of east London’s Whitechapel Gallery by Belgian practice Robbrecht & Daem, working with Witherford Watson Mann, burnishes the city’s art scene
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Building StudyStephen Taylor Architects’ cottage industry
With the help of a far-sighted developer, Stephen Taylor Architects has revived the cottage as a housing type
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Building StudyAHMM puts Kentish Town Health Centre in the picture
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has helped realise a pioneering medical practice’s ambition for a centre where health, medicine and art come together
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Building StudyMilton Keynes: End of the space age
It’s the empty streets and lack of crowds that make Milton Keynes feel civilised — but attempts to bring density to the new town could spell the end for this unique quality
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Building Study6a Architects’ Raven Row gallery
6a Architects has remodelled two knocked-through houses in an 18th century Spitalfields terrace to form Raven Row, a contemporary arts space
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Building StudyDavid Chipperfield Architects' Neues Museum, Berlin
David Chipperfield Architects has undertaken a stunningly courageous transformation of Berlin’s ruined Neues Museum
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Building StudyAlison Brooks' folk art for Folkestone
Quarterhouse, a performing arts venue and studio space in Folkestone, Kent, by Alison Brooks Architects’ is the advance guard of the town’s rebirth