Building Studies – Page 36
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Building StudyRiches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields sustainable housing
Riches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields affordable housing scheme at Elmswell, near Bury St Edmunds, successfully integrates sustainable village living and locally appropriate design
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Building StudyIn detail: Riches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields housing scheme, Elmswell, Suffolk
An affordable housing development in the Suffolk village of Elmswell incorporates sustainable construction technologies to achieve exemplary low levels of embodied energy and carbon emissions.
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Building StudyEric Parry’s St Martin-in-the-Fields makeover
Eric Parry Architects’ refurbishment and reconfiguration of Trafalgar Square’s St Martin-in-the-Fields church demonstrates an impressive singularity of vision.
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Building StudyIn detail: St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
As well as a complete refurbishment of the church itself, the renewal of St Martin-in-the-Fields has included expansion of the crypt and a reordering of the public spaces around it.
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Building StudyPassivhaus design in Sweden
Sustainable design expert Henrietta Lynch reports on the strides made in spreading passiv principles to both new and old buildings alike in Scandinavia
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Building StudyAPA Architects gets established
APA’s showroom and offices for upcoming furniture designer Established & Sons provided it with an opportunity to prove itself beyond its Future Systems background
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Building StudyLow carbon Luton school - images
Biomass and natural ventilation offer key to unlocking BSF cash for plb-designed school
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Building StudyRMJM's University of Bedfordshire, Luton
RMJM’s plans for the £70 million redevelopment of the University of Bedfordshire’s Luton campus have been submitted for planning.
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Building StudyCaruso St John’s shades of difference
Caruso St John’s remodelling of Arts Council England’s London office delivers a richly articulated environment on a tight budget. Ellis Woodman applauds its sucess
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Building StudyDow Jones Architects has designs on London’s waste line
Dow Jones Architects is proposing a radical series of waste-crunching towers across London to help meet recycling targets and generate low-cost energy for local communities, says James R PaynePhotomontages Dow Jones Architects/Arup
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Building StudyA-EM’s steep learning curve at Imperial College
A-EM’s transformation of Imperial College’s sixties library has introduced flexibility to studying, reports Pamela Buxton Photographs Alan Williams
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Building StudyHût Architecture’s slice of white
Hût has refurbished two central London townhouses in typically eclectic style for film company White House Post Production, reports Jessica Cargill Thomson. Photos by Kilian O’Sullivan
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Building StudyCorbusier’s lost gameplan for Iraq
Baghdad was once the scene of an ambitious modernist plan with Le Corbusier’s unbuilt sports complex at its heart. At last its details can be savoured, reports Ellis Woodman
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Building StudyA real work of art: Tony Fretton’s house for Anish Kapoor
Tony Fretton Architects’ grand London house for artist Anish Kapoor reinvents the idea of domesticity
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Building StudyCloepfils MAD New York opening
The new Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) by Brad Cloepfil at Allied Works Architecture has opened in New York on the southwest corner of Central Park facing Columbus Circle.
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Building StudyIf paradise is half as nice
The long awaited retail project at Paradise Street is a last-ditch attempt to recharge Liverpool’s city centre through a masterplan that pulls together 22 different architects. And it works, says Ellis Woodman
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Building StudyIn detail: El Ray, Dungeness
El Ray, Dungeness - Architect: Simon Conder Architects, Structural engineer: Fluid
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Building StudyEnd of the line
Blending with the Dungeness environment and being protected from it were major considerations for Simon Conder as he wrapped an 1890s rail carriage with a new skin. Graham Bizley takes a look
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Building StudySergison Bates masters its craft
The Centre for Applied Arts at Ruthin, north Wales, demonstrates that Sergison Bates’ ambitions extend beyond the housing projects for which it is known