Building Studies – Page 42
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Building StudyMacGabhann Architects' cultural centre in County Donegal turns up the volume
Local practice MacGabhann's second building in the little town of Letterkenny is a metal-clad tour de force in gold and silver, reports Charles Rattray
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Building StudyMoneo’s Prado extension hedges its bets
In the week the Madrid Prado gallery’s long-awaited extension opens, Ellis Woodman speaks to its architect Rafael Moneo about the project
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Building StudySimon Conder's phoenix rising
The accidental demolition of a 1960s John Winter home in St Albans paved the way for a rather special replacement by Simon Conder Associates, reports Ellis Woodman.
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Building StudyIn detail: Courtyard House, St Albans
Architect Simon Conder AssociatesStructural Engineer Built EngineersGlazing sub-contractor Firman GlassA restricted budget has encouraged expedient use of inexpensive materials to make a new house in a suburban street in St Albans. A covenant restricts the building height to a single storey so light is brought in through courtyards and high-level ...
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Building StudyAdding a human touch
The old industrial swath of Dagenham Dock will soon be home to 16,500 dwellings. Before they arrive, the area is being transformed into a people-friendly, riverside location with a human scale
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Building StudyIn detail: Sanger Building Bryanston School, Dorset
Architect Hopkins ArchitectsStructural Engineer Buro HappoldThe Sanger Building contains classrooms, laboratories and a 120-seat lecture theatre for science and maths teaching at Bryanston, a school for 13 to 18 year olds in Dorset. Red handmade bricks with precast concrete details relate the horseshoe-shaped block to the vast Richard Norman Shaw ...
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Building StudyHopkins’ Bryanston school, Dorset
Bryanston’s new maths and science wing develops the school’s tentative courtyard with a crescent that meets its overbearing context with a human scale.
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Building StudyOff the beaten path
For its first UK project, Belgian architect Robbrecht & Daem has given cyclists, walkers, rowers and birdwatchers a pair of towers in Lincolnshire linked by a riverside path. Ellis Woodman takes in the views as he talks to the team that built them
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Building StudyA healthy development
Malcolm Fraser Architects’ transformation of a former Edinburgh hospital site has arguably produced some of the best housing in Scotland
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Building StudyOlympic village life... needs village people
A month before the first practices are appointed to design the Olympic Village, BD Magazine meets three overseas firms that could offer it international flair
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Building StudyGym’ll fix it
A limited site, bound by listed buildings, meant that when St Marylebone School wanted to expand, the only way was down.
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Building StudyPlastik Archictects enjoy first flush of success with Gravesend toilet
Take an adventurous local authority, an uninspiring site and a practice just starting out, and what do you get? A tiny but essential public building
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Building StudyZumthor’s Cologne modern art museum is beyond time
Peter Zumthor’s remarkable museum of modern art in Cologne meshes ancient and modern to create a timeless and evocative building.
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Building StudyIn Detail: Civil Justice Centre, Manchester
Architect Denton Corker MarshallStructural, mechanical & electrical engineer Mott MacDonaldManchester’s Civil Justice Centre contains 47 court rooms, 75 consultation rooms and is the headquarters for the Ministry of Justice in the North-west. The 16-storey steel-framed building is naturally ventilated, with air taken in through wind scoops in the side of ...
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Building StudyBang to rights: Denton Corker Marshall’s Manchester Civil Justice Centre
Manchester’s new Civil Justice Centre has all the makings of an icon, but is its studied informality at odds with its serious purpose.
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Building StudyWhat girls really, really want
With 70% of the staff women — and with Marie Claire and Chat among its titles — IPC Media’s fit-out of its new headquarters inevitably involved a bias towards female tastes
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Building StudyBox of delights
Jamie Fobert Architects has taken the Gherkin’s Konditor & Cook café to new heights with a hanging mezzanine ceiling
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Building StudyAdjaye’s new building at Rivington Place is an answer to his critics
With an OBE and a place on last year’s Stirling shortlist David Adjaye has a level of fame that could be seen as disproportionate to his achievements. But his latest building, a base for two cultural organisations in east London, should help redress this imbalance.
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Building StudyFoster reveals Spaceport design - images
These futuristic images are Foster and Partners’ designs for the world’s first passenger “spaceport”.
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Building StudySchool in Rudrapur, Bangladesh
German and Austrian architects Anna Heringer and Eike Roswag share the award for this hand-built school with Bangladeshi NGO Dipshikha