All Building Study articles – Page 24

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First Look: Tonkin Liu aims high with ‘organic’ cliff-top Dover house

2011-11-18T08:41:00Z

Tonkin Liu has received planning consent for a new family house in St Margaret’s Bay, Dover.

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Drawing board: 120 Moorgate, City of London by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands

2011-11-17T08:54:00Z

Director Paul Sandilands and project architect Chloe Phelps discuss the practice’s first City office development

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First look: Erect Architecture’s adventure playground given green light

2011-11-11T08:43:00Z

London’s Kennington Park to get new £1.2m children’s facility

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WohnWerk, Basel, by Christ & Gantenbein

2011-11-09T09:03:00Z

A scheme that combines live and work space for a community of adults with learning difficulties invests archetypal building types with a high level of specificity

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First look: Stephen Taylor blends tradition and innovation at Coolhurst Club

2011-11-04T08:40:00Z

Stephen Taylor Architects has revealed images of a new squash court club house for the Coolhurst Tennis & Squash Club in Highgate, north London.The £1 million building comprises a simple steel-portal frame shed, clad in crinkly tin, to house four new squash courts, and a “frontispiece” timber portico, providing a ...

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Gwangju follies

2011-11-02T08:40:00Z

The South Korean city has commissioned the first of a series of 100 pavilions with which it plans to reassert its historic urban form

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ArcellorMittal Orbit by Anish Kapoor, Cecil Balmond and Kathryn Findlay

2011-10-29T17:34:00Z

Kapoor’s tower revels in its ugliness, mocking the reserved spirit of the rest of the Olympic site

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First Look: Feilden Fowles’ school centre puts focus on all-round learning

2011-10-28T08:56:00Z

Feilden Fowles has revealed images of its Applied Learning Centre for the Ralph Allen School in Bath.

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Henrietta Barnett School, Hampstead Garden Suburb by Hopkins Architects

2011-10-26T09:03:00Z

Hopkins’ greatest skill is in creating contextual rather than iconic architecture, and its new school buildings next to Lutyens’ Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute put this to the test

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Drawing board: L'AND Vineyards villas, Portugal, by Sergison Bates Architects

2011-10-21T10:22:00Z

Sergison Bates partner Mark Tuff on the challenges of designing vineyard-led holiday homes in Portugal

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Belfast: a city riven with divisions

2011-10-20T08:37:00Z

The physical barriers built to quell sectarian violence in Belfast feel disturbingly close to home

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Central St Martins, King’s Cross, London, by Stanton Williams

2011-10-19T08:36:00Z

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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First Look: Duggan Morris brings a flexible approach to Denmark Hill centre

2011-10-14T08:56:00Z

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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Arnulfpark, Munich by Petra & Paul Kahlfeldt Architekten

2011-10-12T08:37:00Z

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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Maggie’s Centre Gartnavel by OMA

2011-10-05T08:38:00Z

OMA wilfully subverts expectations at its Glasgow Maggie’s Centre, which melts unassumingly into the background.

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Solid, Amsterdam, Netherlands, by Tony Fretton Architects

2011-09-28T10:24:00Z

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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A day out to Rocksalt Restaurant, by Guy Hollaway Architects

2011-09-23T12:27:00Z

The BD team went to Folkestone to discover the future of seaside dining

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First Look: RCKA’s Lewisham youth centre unites aspiration and innovation

2011-09-23T09:04:00Z

RCKA has won planning permission for a new youth and community centre in Lewisham, named The New Generation.

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Colchester slips up on Viñoly’s golden banana

2011-09-22T12:00:00Z

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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Stratford High Street

2011-09-21T08:41:00Z

Stratford’s Olympic legacy is already taking shape, but it is a bleak vision that is unlikely to benefit locals.