All Building Study articles – Page 24

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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.

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First look: Fraser’s Stromness Pierhead follows local maritime tradition

2011-09-16T00:00:00Z

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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Mediocrity has been wealth’s bequest to Aberdeen

2011-09-15T08:46:00Z

Since Aberdeen became the UK’s oil capital, its city centre has not seen a single worthwhile building

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Park Hill estate, Sheffield, by Hawkins Brown with Studio Egret West

2011-09-14T10:20:00Z

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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Drawing board: Ironmonger Row Baths by Tim Ronalds Architects

2011-09-14T08:45:00Z

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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First look: Mole’s luxury complex takes its cue from Taiwan’s vernacular

2011-09-12T08:00:00Z

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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Brockholes Wetland Nature Reserve, by Adam Khan Architects

2011-09-07T08:25:00Z

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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National Museum of Scotland refurbishment by Gareth Hoskins Architects

2011-09-02T09:03:00Z

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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First look: Cambridge colleges inspire new Proctor & Matthews housing

2011-08-26T00:00:00Z

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.