All Building Study articles – Page 29
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Building StudyRainham: Design for London’s projects near fruition
This east London outpost is home to a projects by architects including Alison Brooks, East and Maccreanor Lavington
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Building StudyRevisiting the Shopping Building, Milton Keynes
More than 30 years after completion, Derek Walker, Stuart Mosscrop and Christopher Woodward’s recently listed Shopping Building in Milton Keynes still holds an austere charm.
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Building StudyFirst look: DRDH Architects raises the roof for Baptist church in Oklahoma
DRDH Architects has unveiled plans for a Baptist church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The £1.2 million project, which will house a congregation of around 300, sits in a rolling 40ha site on the edge of the city
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Building StudyFaustino Winery, Spain, by Foster & Partners
Winemakers in northern Spain hope this futuristic new bodega will put the Ribera del Duero region on the world stage.
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Building StudyFirst look: River Styx inspires Western Design’s Dorset burial chapel
Western Design Architects has won planning approval for a woodland burial chapel in the heart of the green belt of Lytchett Minster, near Poole in Dorset
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Building StudyMiddlesbrough: exploring the ‘least resilient’ place in the UK
Patchy attempts to revive post-industrial towns are producing unsettling results in Teeside, one of Britain’s most blighted regions
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Building StudyOne New Change, London, by Jean Nouvel
While the form of Jean Nouvel’s One New Change is designed to respect views of St Paul’s Cathedral, the mixed-use scheme has an exotic geometry that contrasts with its ’polite’ neighbours
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Building StudyVoltaMitte housing in Basel, by Christ & Gantenbein
Basel’s VoltaMitte housing scheme demonstrates the young Swiss practice’s interest in employing highly particular floor plans
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Building StudyFirst look: Stable yards provide inspiration for ARU’s Lambourn housing
The Architectural Research Unit (ARU) has unveiled plans for 43 houses on the edge of Lambourn, west Berkshire, for Crispin Kelly’s Baylight Properties, with associate Matt Barton
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Building StudyRevisiting Broadgate
In the 1980s Broadgate changed the physical and economic landscape – how is it faring now?
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Building StudyFirst look: McDowell & Benedetti brings new wooden heart to Shoreditch
McDowell & Benedetti has secured planning permission for its largest project to date, a £17.2 million mixed-use development in Shoreditch, east London
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Building StudyEvelyn Grace Academy, Brixton, by Zaha Hadid Architects
The aggressive swagger of Zaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy reflects the hard-edged dynamism found within the school itself
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Building StudyFirst look: History underpins Sergison Bates’s Swiss piazza plan for Mendrisio
Sergison Bates has won the competition to redesign Piazza del Ponte in Mendrisio, Switzerland, where Jonathan Sergison also holds a professorship at the Accademia della Architettura
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Building StudyStable Acre house by David Kohn Architects
David Kohn’s Norfolk home for gallery owner Stuart Shave represents a perfect marriage of architectural and human concerns
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Building StudyFirst look: Indian history flows through Allies & Morrison’s luxury resort
Allies & Morrison has started on site with its luxury holiday resort on the banks of the Chaliyar River in Kerala, South India, for hotel operator Alila
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Building StudyMoscow School of Management by Adjaye Associates
David Adjaye has cross-fertilised 1920s Russian Suprematism with his own African heritage to create the gargantuan Moscow School of Managment in Skolkovo
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Building StudyStrawberry Hill, Twickenham, restored by Inskip & Jenkins
The £8.9 million restoration of Horace Walpole’s 18th century ’gothic castle’, emphasises its original owner’s distinctive tastes
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Building StudyFirst look: Hawkins Brown’s school revamp learns from the local community
Hawkins Brown has won planning permission for a school refurbishment and 1,400sq m new-build masterplan in West Hampstead, London
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Building StudyProspect House, Sion Hill, Bath, by Dow Jones
A striking zinc skin fitted over an eighties house in Bath demonstrates the architectural possibilities of refurb over new build
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Building StudyRavensbourne College, Greenwich, by Foreign Office Architects
FOA’s new building for Ravensbourne College makes bold predictions about how the next generation of students will be taught