All Building Study articles – Page 24
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Building StudyBelfast: a city riven with divisions
The physical barriers built to quell sectarian violence in Belfast feel disturbingly close to home
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Building StudyCentral St Martins, King’s Cross, London, by Stanton Williams
Stanton Williams’s conversion of a listed granary building in King’s Cross reimagines the industrial landscape for a new creative generation, writes local artist Richard Wentworth
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Building StudyFirst Look: Duggan Morris brings a flexible approach to Denmark Hill centre
Duggan Morris Architects has submitted a planning application for a New Learning Centre on the Maudsley Hospital Campus in Denmark Hill, south London.
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Building StudyArnulfpark, Munich by Petra & Paul Kahlfeldt Architekten
The formal consistency of Petra & Paul Kahlfeldt Architekten’s facades for a mixed-use development in Munich pays tribute to the city’s tradition of very large buildings
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Building StudyMaggie’s Centre Gartnavel by OMA
OMA wilfully subverts expectations at its Glasgow Maggie’s Centre, which melts unassumingly into the background.
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Building StudySolid, Amsterdam, Netherlands, by Tony Fretton Architects
Tony Fretton’s mixed-use building for an Amsterdam housing association combines a 200-year lifespan with a sustainable social function
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Building StudyA day out to Rocksalt Restaurant, by Guy Hollaway Architects
The BD team went to Folkestone to discover the future of seaside dining
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Building StudyFirst Look: RCKA’s Lewisham youth centre unites aspiration and innovation
RCKA has won planning permission for a new youth and community centre in Lewisham, named The New Generation.
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Building StudyColchester slips up on Viñoly’s golden banana
There are many reasons not to like Rafael Viñoly’s Colchester Firstsite, which finally opens this week, four years late and, at £28 million, costing almost twice its original budget.
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Building StudyStratford High Street
Stratford’s Olympic legacy is already taking shape, but it is a bleak vision that is unlikely to benefit locals.
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Building StudyFirst look: Fraser’s Stromness Pierhead follows local maritime tradition
Malcolm Fraser Architects has submitted a planning application for its proposed redevelopment of the Pierhead of Orkney’s second largest town, Stromness.
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Building StudyMediocrity has been wealth’s bequest to Aberdeen
Since Aberdeen became the UK’s oil capital, its city centre has not seen a single worthwhile building
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Building StudyPark Hill estate, Sheffield, by Hawkins Brown with Studio Egret West
The apartments of the regenerated Park Hill are a world away from 1961’s socially conscious streets in the sky. Here, BD looks at how Sheffield’s iconic housing block has echoed 50 years of Britain shifting political moods
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Building StudyDrawing board: Ironmonger Row Baths by Tim Ronalds Architects
Tim Ronalds discusses his updating of the interior of Islington’s Ironmonger Row Baths, a listed thirties community bathhouse and laundry still popular for its swimming pools and Turkish baths
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Building StudyFirst look: Mole’s luxury complex takes its cue from Taiwan’s vernacular
Mole Architects, working with Gianni Botsford and landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, has unveiled plans for a 71,000sq m development on the edge of Hsinchu City, the “Silicon Valley” of Taiwan.
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Building StudyBrockholes Wetland Nature Reserve, by Adam Khan Architects
Moored in a flooded gravel pit off the M6, Adam Khan Architects’ Brockholes Wetland Nature Reserve visitor centre forms a gateway to nature
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Building StudyNational Museum of Scotland refurbishment by Gareth Hoskins Architects
The £47 million revamp of Fowke’s Victorian museum, by a team led by Gareth Hoskins, restores the clarity of the building’s original plan.
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Building StudyFirst look: Cambridge colleges inspire new Proctor & Matthews housing
Proctor & Matthews Architects has gained planning consent for 306 homes as part of a major new housing and mixed-use community on the edge of Cambridge by Countryside Properties.
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Building StudyEdinburgh: A planning tradition that is the opposing force to grands projets
A process of ’conservative surgery’ has helped create an impressive city - making its low points all the less forgivable
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Building StudyEast London's Greenway by Adams & Sutherland Architects
Adams & Sutherland’s sensitive approach has seen east London’s Greenway updated for its new Olympic role, without losing its sense of place.