All Building Study articles – Page 19
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Building Study'Off-grid' community plugs into anaerobic digestion plant
Boyarsky Murphy Architects’ rural homes are designed to achieve Code for Sustainable Homes Level 6
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Building StudyPajol sports centre by Brisac Gonzalez Architects
Built by the city of Paris in one of its more deprived arrondissements, the Pajol sports centre reflects an attitude to the provision of public buildings that puts the UK to shame
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Building StudyKisho Kurokawa's Maggie's Centre
Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, ‘dragon-tailed’ cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK’s 13th Maggie’s Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
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Building StudySolving the panel puzzle
The Maggie’s Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar, very few were identical
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Building StudyThe ‘cosmic whirlpool’ and other Maggie’s Centres
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment
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Building StudyVPPR Architects manipulates daylight at Vaulted House in Hammersmith
Rooflights illuminate interior of four-bedroom home on landlocked industrial site in London
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Building StudyAstley Castle by Witherford Watson Mann
Witherford Watson Mann’s new house within the ruined fragments of Astley Castle creates a physical and emotional connection between old and new
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Building StudyNorwegian farmhouse inspires Haptic Architects' mountain spa
Simple pitched forms capture dramatic views in Sognefjorden, Norway
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Building StudyHouse at Borreraig & Kirk house, Garve by Dualchas Architects
James Benedict Brown visits two domestic projects on the Isle of Skye by Dualchas Architects that are part of an increasingly sophisticated rural portfolio
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Building StudyFirst Look: Peabody housing scheme by PCKO Architects
PCKO Architects’ winning scheme for a new Peabody housing scheme on a 1.6ha site in Newham, east London
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Building StudyThe Photographers' Gallery by O'Donnell & Tuomey
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s warehouse conversion for the Photographers’ Gallery opens up a series of complex spaces and multiple skins, against a dramatic inner London streetscape
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Building StudyFirst Look: Berkhamsted house by Featherstone Young Architects
Home is composed of two wings, each bounded by heavy flank walls of local brick
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Building StudyDrawing board: Taunton Castle bridges by Moxon Architects
Moxon Architects’ sensitive and creative thoroughfares enhance one of Somerset’s historic sites
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Building StudyKensington Palace refurbishment by John Simpson and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
A project to liberate long-concealed areas of Kensington Palace has successfully transformed its outside spaces. However, the interior renovations are underwhelming
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Building StudyFirst look: Channing School, Highgate, north London by Buckley Gray Yeoman
Architect has received planning permission for new sports facilities, teaching rooms and music and arts department
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Building StudyBridport House, east London, by Karakusevic Carson Architects
The first social housing block in Hackney for 45 years, Karakusevic Carson’s Bridport House is a rallying cry to get boroughs building
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Building StudyFirst Look: Empire Way public lavatories, Wembley by Gort Scott Architects
Gort Scott Architects has won a competition for a new public-lavatory pavilion on Empire Way in Wembley, designed to sit on a pedestrianised area outside Wembley Stadium in the London Borough of Brent.
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Building StudyGamlingay Eco Hub by Civic Architects
After a 10-year battle to build it, Civic Architects’ Gamlingay Eco Hub finally emerges as the greenest community centre in the country
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Building StudyFirst Look: Mixed-use courtyard scheme, Highgate Road, north London by Chassay Studio
Chassay Studio has won planning for a mixed-use courtyard scheme on Highgate Road in north London.
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Building StudyCommunity in a Cube, Middlehaven, by Fat Architects
Will Alsop’s psychedelic rethink of Middlesbrough’s docklands died away in the cold light of austerity, leaving Fat’s idiosyncratic new apartment building very much out on its own