Building Studies – Page 4
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Building Study: James Simon Galerie, Berlin, by David Chipperfield
The architect’s new gallery is a magnificent gateway to Berlin’s Museum Island, writes Ike Ijeh
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Building Study: Churchill College housing, Cambridge, by Cottrell & Vermeulen
The postgraduate block is a deft study in how to do contextual architecture when the context happens to be your own work, writes Ike Ijeh
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Ike Ijeh’s verdict: Junya Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion
This year’s pavilion has its flaws and yet contains enough joy to convince BD’s critic that the series should continue into its third decade
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Building Study: Drayton Green Church, by Piercy & Company
This west London church replaces medieval mystery with digital geometry in a thrilling reinterpretation of the gothic tradition
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Building Study: Bracken House, London, by John Robertson Architects
In its time it has embodied more than one archetype of the City office block, from 1950s solid sandstone to 1980s high-tech glass and steel
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Building Study: The Ray, Farringdon, by AHMM
Paying close attention to its 19th-century context has created an office with character, says Ike Ijeh
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Building Study: Windermere Jetty Museum, Cumbria, by Carmody Groarke
Carmody Groarke’s museum joyfully embodies and integrates with the romantic landscape and local vernacular of the Lakes
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Building Study: Royal College of Pathologists, London, by Bennetts Associates
The architect had the rare opportunity to tackle a venerable typology - and has produced a virtuoso building, says Ike Ijeh
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Building Study: Dancy House, Marlborough, by Allies and Morrison
This block for Marlborough College is a perfect compromise between the school’s rarefied idyll and the practice’s trademark contemporary aesthetic
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Ageing gracefully: Restorations which retain historical decay
Ike Ijeh on projects that have preserved the damage caused by fires, damp, squatters and the passage of time
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Building Study: Clapham School, London, by Cottrell and Vermeulen
Cottrell and Vermeulen’s school extension takes inspiration from its unusual art deco setting
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Building Study: Blackfriars Circus, London, by Maccreanor Lavington
It does everything a scheme centred on a 27-storey residential tower can do to engage with London’s architectural heritage
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Building Study: Welsh Streets, Liverpool, by MCAU
This radical build-to-rent scheme encourages community and provides a blueprint for other developers
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Building Study: Charlie Bigham’s, Somerset, by Feilden Fowles
Ike Ijeh on a winning recipe for that most functional of building types: the food production plant
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Building Study: Coal Drops Yard, London, by Heatherwick Studio
The retail hub revels in the idiosyncrasies of its original Victorian warehouse architecture, says Ike Ijeh
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Building Study: South London Gallery, by 6a architects
At a derelict fire station, 6a architects has created a sleek contemporary exhibition space while skilfully reawakening the building’s layered past
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Building Study: V&A Dundee, by Kengo Kuma & Associates
The V A Dundee is the museum’s first venue outside London and could have the potential to rejuvenate the city
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Building Study: Goldsmiths CCA, London, by Assemble
Ike Ijeh assesses the Turner Prize-winning collective’s first major permanent building
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Building Study: Moor's Nook, Surrey, by Coffey Architects
The architect’s largest UK project to date reclaims deck-access housing as a means of creating both intimacy and community
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Building Study: Signal Townhouses, Greenwich, by AHMM
The stereotype of back-to-back housing as cramped and poorly lit is overturned by a thoughtfully designed scheme