All Building Study articles – Page 30
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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: 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 StudyRevisiting Broadgate
In the 1980s Broadgate changed the physical and economic landscape – how is it faring now?
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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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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Building StudyFirst look: Mae Architects rethinks the semi for Urban Splash’s New Islington
The next stage of Urban Splash’s New Islington project in Manchester is set to start on site in November following a grant of £936,000 from the Homes & Communities Agency.
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Building StudyPull House in Vermont by Procter Rihl
Procter Rihl’s Pull House sits amid the maple trees of rural New England and creates an architecture to match the region’s progressive politics.
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Building StudyHatcham Gardens by East
East’s landscaping of Hatcham Gardens is part of a linear arboretum it is creating across the south London area of Deptford.
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Building StudyScotland’s Housing Expo 2010
After a long and difficult birth, Scotland’s Housing Expo is offering visitors to Inverness a showcase of living spaces that range from the functional to the progressive
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Building StudyNo 1 Smithery, Chatham Dockyard, by van Heyningen & Haward
Van Heyningen & Haward’s scheme provides an elegant environment for the presentation of a fine collection of ships’ models
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Building StudyChrist & Gantenbein’s Swiss Church
Young Basel practice Christ & Gantenbein’s reworking of the interior of the Swiss Church in London’s Covent Garden puts mirrored glazing and a highly complex plan to dramatic use
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Building StudyRevisiting the BedZed community
BedZed was the ultimate sustainability trailblazer. Nearly a decade on, the Bill Dunster, BioRegional and The Peabody Trust development may be thriving but it remains an anomaly, rather than an exemplar.
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Building StudyWhite Design’s Dartington Primary School
With its individual timber-clad classrooms, Dartington Primary School in Devon by White Design blends into the rural landscape while creating one of the greenest schools in the UK.
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Building StudySouth London Gallery by 6a Architects
6a’s commission to create a café and flat for the South London Gallery evolved into something more ambitious, while still retaining the building’s domestic character.