All Building Study articles – Page 26
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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
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First look: Muf scheme for Whitechapel park traces both religious and secular
Muf has revealed designs for Altab Ali Park in Whitechapel, as part of the High Street 2012 public realm improvement programme along the A11 in London, from the City at Aldgate to the Olympic Park at Stratford.
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Peter Eisenman’s Santiago de Compostela City of Culture
After years in development Eisenman’s icon finally emerges from the earth as a flawed monument to Spanish political wrangling
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XPO and Villa Voka by Office Kersten Geers David van Severen in Kortrijk, Belgium
The first major projects completed by this Belgian practice make good on the promise of its speculative work.
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First look: MSMR homes drive new vision for former Southwark car park
MSMR Architects has won planning permission for a scheme of nine affordable houses on Alice Street in Southwark, south London.
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City of Westminster College by Schmidt Hammer Lassen
City of Westminster College, the Learning & Skills Council’s last grand vision, leaves a dramatic monument to a bygone age.
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AHMM: Dagenham Park School, Barking
Paul Monaghan and Andrew O’Donnell of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris discuss the use of prefabrication at the practice’s £16.9m Dagenham Park School.
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The West Midlands: a mash-up of speculative tat and fearless originals
Carefully planned post-war townscapes fight with moneymaking imperatives in the UK’s largest unplanned agglomeration.
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First look: Green issues and flexibility hold the key to CTA's Brixton house
Work has started on Slip House, a project by Carl Turner Architects, in Brixton, south London. Its site is the central one of five adjacent plots that currently form a gap in a terrace.
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Olympic Velodrome by Hopkins
The London 2012 cycling venue is the first to be completed at the Olympic Park, and it sets a high standard for its fellow sports facilities to reach.
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One Hyde Park, London, by Rogers Stirk Harbour
Despite its attempts to ingratiate, One Hyde Park cannot entirely escape its underlying philosophy of segregation