All Building Study articles – Page 25
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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.
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Building StudyLondon 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects
The smoothly undulating surface of Zaha Hadid’s stingray-like Aquatics Centre belies its structural complexity. But does the last Olympic Venue to arrive at the party live up to its promise?
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Building StudyMuseum of Liverpool, by 3XN and AEW
After seven years of legal battles, cost-cutting and a change of architects, the £72 million Museum of Liverpool proves a spectacular botch-up completely divorced from its context
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Building StudyFirst look: Enterarchitecture expands on a building at Kentish Town’s heart
Enterarchitecture has unveiled images of a new rooftop extension to and remodelling of the Kentish Town Community Centre in London.
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Building StudyWardroper House by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects and Arch Street by S333, Elephant & Castle, south London
Financial constraints and local politics have created an uphill struggle for S333 and Sarah Wigglesworth Architects to build decent homes for former tenants of Elephant & Castle’s Heygate Estate.
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Building StudyThe Valleys: some of the saddest sights in Britain
The south Wales Valleys bear the architectural scars of their brutal history
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Building StudySerie Architects’ Chinese calligraphy museum rewrites the traditional garden
Serie Architects has unveiled designs for a new calligraphy museum in Linyi, in China’s north-eastern Shandong province.
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Building StudyIn defence of the Sainsbury Wing
From the BD archive: Denise Scott Brown wrote this essay when the project opened, but she chose not to publish it for 20 years to avoid ruffling feathers
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Building StudyCaruso St John creates a ‘room for the city’ in central Bremen
Sited in the city’s historic temple district, next to the town hall and cathedral, the €33 million, 23,300sq m project will complete the north-western edge of the Domshof central square.The seven-storey building is arranged around an oval-shaped courtyard, conceived as a “room for the city”, open to the sky and ...
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Building StudySouth Norwood Hill Children’s Centre by Erect Architecture
Erect Architecture’s joyful reinvention of a nursery building in South Norwood, London, has a lot to teach us about working with existing buildings and systems, says Oliver Wainwright
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Building StudyJonathan Tuckey’s remodelled school reflects local industrial influences
Jonathan Tuckey Design has revealed plans for Wilberforce Primary School in north Westminster, London.
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Building StudyUnison headquarters, London, by Squire & Partners
Unison’s new headquarters is an enclave of sobriety that draws on the imagery of corporate rebranding to reflect the changing language of the union movement
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Building StudyBenson & Forsyth provides west London with urban punctuation
Benson & Forsyth has submitted a planning application for a major mixed-use development fronting onto London’s Cromwell Road.
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Building StudySainsbury Laboratory at Cambridge University, by Stanton Williams
This laboratory in the University of Cambridge’s Botanic Gardens is the ideal habitat for botanists
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Building StudyPeter Zumthor's Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion
Zumthor’s tranquil retreat was undermined by the frenzy of the opening press conference
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Building StudyPlymouth: the architecture is palpably the work of men in their dotage
The modernised classicism of the rebuilt city centre was already tired by the 1940s, but Plymouth has other surprises
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Building StudyFirst look: Lynch Architects proposes ‘modern palazzo’ opposite Victoria Station
Lynch Architects has submitted a planning application for a mixed-use development opposite Victoria Station in London.