Building Studies – Page 45
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Building StudyConran completes sustainable habitat
Architect Conran & Partners has completed its Atalanta affordable housing development in Brighton, providing 31 one- and two-bedroom flats and a community centre for Brighton & Hove Council and the Downland Housing Association.
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Building StudyHomes for the future
There were nine short-listed designs, one winner and several surprises in the BD/Mail on Sunday design competition to find a zero-carbon mass-market design.
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Building StudyOn the terraces
Urban Splash assembled a winning team to deliver its Chimney Pot Park in Salford, which turns traditional concepts of terraced housing upside-down
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Building StudyIf you go down to the woods today...
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners has joined with housebuilder Wimpey to design ground-breaking eco-homes at Oxley Wood near Milton Keynes
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Building StudyUniversity pioneers low-carbon homes
Nottingham’s built environment faculty to build six demonstration homes on campus
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Building StudySleeping beauty
Eventually FOA’s technology transfer centre in La Rioja will be engulfed by plants, but already this extraordinary building points to a new direction in the architect’s work.
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Building StudyFoster designs ecological tower for Siberia - images
Foster & Partners has designed this mixed-use tower for the town of Khanty Mansiysk in Siberia
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Building StudyVan Egeraat university extension reaches milestone
Erick van Egeraat’s extension to Inholland University Rotterdam reached a milestone this week, with completion of the 62m-tall structural core.The design of the 15-storey extension is based on van Egeraat’s original university building, realised in 2000. It is made up of three rectangular volumes, shifted and varying in size, which ...
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Building StudyBetween the Campidoglio and the builders’ yard
Jonathan Woolf’s temporary information point-cum-lecture hall for Scotland’s Six Cities Design Festival pits OSB against granite in central Aberdeen
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Building StudyLooking beyond the horizon
Founded in 1968, the New Horizon Youth Centre is a day centre working with young people who are vulnerable, homeless or at risk in London’s King’s Cross area.
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Building StudyThe history of the Royal Festival Hall refurbishment
BD charts the progress of Allies and Morrison's Royal Festival Hall revamp
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Building StudyMusical chairs
Allies & Morrison’s makeover of the much-loved Royal Festival Hall has been hailed as a respectful transformation, but do the changes go too far
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Building StudyArtists colony gains a new heart
Caruso St John’s remodelling of Spike Island’s studio and exhibition space in Bristol strives to create a greater sense of community without losing any of the centre’s sense of vitality.Pictures by Ioana Marinescu
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Building StudyPreservation society
Long & Kentish Architects, working with Colin St John Wilson, has added the latest flourish to the latter’s British Library. And the Centre for Conservation is arguably an even better building. Pictures by Peter Durrant
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Building StudyHackney’s rose- tinted spectacle
The brief for east London practice Sall, Cullinan & Buck was to embody the changes afoot at a local primary school using capital works funding of £1 million. Ellis Woodman takes a look at the result
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Building StudyLocked up in luxury
As part of a £35 million development, Architects Design Partnership and Jestico & Whiles have been doing time at Oxford’s ancient prison, converting it to a boutique hotel. Photographs by Mark Bramley and Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyA Russian resurrection
The Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Kensington, west London, is a stylistically broad church: Italian in inspiration, Protestant in its interior and arts and crafts in its decoration. Now Richard Griffiths Architects has brought all the layers together in a rich, new interpretation. Photographs by Will Pryce and Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyDSDHA's Emmaus Primary School, Sheffield
Built within an unrelentingly tight DfES budget, this Sheffield school by DSDHA amply fulfils its role at the vanguard of a run-down area’s regeneration. Pictures by Hélène Binet
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Building StudyLaboratory of the senses
The collaborating artist and architect arrived at their winning Serpentine Pavilion design by talking abstractly about ideas. But if that is too demanding, just enjoy the beautiful result, advises Kester RattenburyPortrait by Morley von Sternberg