All Building Study articles – Page 25
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Building StudyMcAslan’s masterplan for Lancaster University
Over the years since 1963 Lancaster University’s rigorous design vision had become diluted and its core seemed bleak and lifeless. Now John McAslan & Partners is showing it a new way forward.
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Building StudyFirst look: Assemble constructs canalside folly beneath Hackney flyover
Assemble has revealed images of the Folly for a Flyover, a temporary structure for an empty flyover undercroft on the edge of the Olympic site in Hackney, east London.
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Building StudyLyric Theatre in Belfast by O’Donnell & Tuomey
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s joyful new building is the stuff of theatrical legends,
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Building StudyFirst look: Duggan Morris is cooking in Croydon
Work has started on three projects designed by Duggan Morris Architects for secondary schools in the London Borough of Croydon.
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Building StudyAnne Mews housing in Barking by AHMM and Maccreanor Lavington
Allford Hall Monaghan & Morris and Maccreanor Lavington Architects have breathed new life into traditional London housing types to provide the first new council housing built in Barking & Dagenham for 25 years.
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Building StudyFirst look: Reiach & Hall given green light for Lanarkshire Maggie’s centre
Reiach & Hall Architects has secured planning permission for a new Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre to be built at Monklands General Hospital in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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Building StudyCaistor Arts & Heritage Centre by Jonathan Hendry Architects
This reinvention of a Primitive Methodist chapel in Lincolnshire as an arts and heritage centre is one of the early manifestations of the Big Society
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Building StudyFirst look: Caruso St John to transform Lille steelworks into hoteliers’ college
Caruso St John Architects has won an invited competition for a new hotelier training college on the site of a former steelworks in Lille, beating entries from MVRDV and Xavier De Geyter among others.
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Building StudyDoppelhaus by Lütjens Padmanabhan
On a restricted suburban plot by Lake Zürich, Lütjens Padmanabhan has brought a new wit and richness to the semi-detached house
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Building StudyDrawing board: Sita UK energy-from-waste facility by Grimshaw
Great Blakenham in Suffolk will be the location for one of the many new energy from waste (EfW) facilities. Grimshaw partner Chris Nash and project architect Chris Fletcher discuss their design for the plant.
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Building StudyCroydon: 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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Building StudyFirst 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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Building StudyHepworth 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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Building StudyStudio 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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Building StudyHolburne 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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Building StudyWoolf breaks ground in Nairobi
Jonathan Woolf Architects has revealed designs for a 1,300sq m private house in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Building StudySt 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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Building StudyDrawing 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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Building StudyBrighton: the most seductive city of the new economy
Attractiveness and hypocrisy combine to create Brighton & Hove’s unique urban experience
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Building StudyFirst 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.