All Building Study articles – Page 25
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Croydon: one of London’s more surreal urban experiences
Grand ambitions and patchy execution are a recipe for urban misery in the London Borough of Croydon, the Mini-Manhattan of the South-east
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First look: Friend & Co's Kielder Park bat station
Plans for a bat spiral, the UK’s first bat station, in the Kielder Water & Forest Park, Northumberland have been revealed by Friend & Company Architects.
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Hepworth Wakefield, by David Chipperfield Architects
Chipperfield’s gallery, which opens this week, draws on the power and heritage of its mill-town setting
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Studio Octopi stages theatrical revival in Berkshire countryside
Studio Octopi has revealed images of its scheme to revamp the Victorian amphitheatre in the grounds of Bradfield College, a private school set in the Berkshire countryside.
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Holburne Museum of Art extension, Bath, by Eric Parry Architects
Eric Parry’s Holburne Museum pavilion has emerged from protracted battles with planners to reflect the best of its former pleasure garden setting.
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Woolf breaks ground in Nairobi
Jonathan Woolf Architects has revealed designs for a 1,300sq m private house in Nairobi, Kenya.
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St Pancras Renaissance London Hotel by RHWL and Richard Griffiths
The painstaking restoration of St Pancras station’s neo-Gothic Midland Grand Hotel by architects RHWL and Richard Griffiths honours George Gilbert Scott’s original vision, despite some disappointing fit-out choices.
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Drawing board: Long & Kentish Porthmeor Studios
MJ Long and Rolfe Kentish discuss their refurbishment of Porthmeor artists’ studios in St Ives, Corwall
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Brighton: the most seductive city of the new economy
Attractiveness and hypocrisy combine to create Brighton & Hove’s unique urban experience
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First look: ARU’s biennale folly will mark site of South Korean uprising
The Architecture Research Unit (ARU) has revealed designs for a folly for the Gwangju Design Biennale in South Korea.
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David Chipperfield’s Turner Contemporary Gallery
David Chipperfield’s Margate gallery celebrates its unique light but fails to open up to the town
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First look: Goods Yard vernacular inspires Barber’s Shoreditch brick homes
BD Housing Architect of the year, Peter Barber Architects, has submitted a planning application for a new 43-unit housing scheme in Shoreditch, east London, for developer Londonewcastle.
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London 2012 Olympic stadium by Populous
Despite a spiralling budget and uncertainty over its legacy, Populous’s Olympic stadium emerges as a lithe all-rounder.
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First look: Harrap and Fobert redraw the Bloomsbury Group’s retreat
Julian Harrap Architects and Jamie Fobert Architects working in partnership have secured planning permission for the redevelopment of the barns at Charleston Farmhouse, the historic country retreat of the Bloomsbury Group in East Sussex.
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Galenkop building by Wingender Hovenier
A mixed-use scheme in Amsterdam articulates Wingender Hovenier’s ongoing research into the tectonic manifestation of brick.
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First look: Riches Hawley Mikhail rethinks rural housing types at Bank Hall
Riches Hawley Mikhail has won planning for 23 new-build family houses in the grounds of 17th century Bank Hall, Lancashire, for Urban Splash, as well as renovation of the hall to provide 13 flats.
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Ellis Miller’s campus for Catmose College
Jonathan Ellis-Miller’s modular school pays tribute to the hi-tech era while presaging the dawn of a joyless flatpack future
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First look: Sustainability underpins this ‘exceptional’ Hexham scheme
Newton Architects has secured planning permission for a new country house at The Paise near Hexham.
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Bristol feels as though it’s been asleep since 1910
Two centuries on from its heyday, Bristol presents an apathetic, scarred, yet striking face to the world
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The Dune House, Thorpeness by Jarmund Vigsnæs Architects
The latest holiday home for Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project sits well with the maverick whimsy of this Suffolk seaside village