All Building Study articles – Page 30
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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.
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Building StudyA womb with a view: the Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion
The fact that Peter Palumbo is chair of the selection panels for both the Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion and the Pritzker prize, perhaps gives some indication as to why the names recognised by both programmes seem so often to be drawn from the same starlit pool.
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins’ London Library
Haworth Tompkins’ ongoing expansion of the London Library has clarified and enhanced its internal spaces while retaining the unique character of this historic literary institution
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Building StudyWaterloo Place charette
As part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture, five practices were invited to devise ideas for Waterloo Place. Here are the results.
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Building StudyCentre for Alternative Technology education building by Pat Borer and David Lea
The Wales Institute for Sustainable Education at the Centre for Alternative Technology is an impressive physical embodiment of the values it champions
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Building StudyChiswick House café by Caruso St John
The initial formality of Caruso St John’s café for the newly restored gardens of Chiswick House soon gives way to something more complex and mysterious
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Building StudyManor Farm Barns conversion by Jonathan Hendry Architects
Planning consent for a conversion of Lincolnshire farm buildings into a live/work development was given on condition that it was fully carbon neutral
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Building StudyPenoyre & Prasad’s Wren Academy
Penoyre & Prasad’s Wren Academy in north London specialises in the built environment, meaning that the building itself is a teaching aid
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Building StudyRevisiting Alison and Peter Smithson’s Hunstanton school
Alison and Peter Smithson’s Hunstanton school was one of the first secondary moderns. Nearly 60 years after it was built, it is still going strong
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Building StudyDEGW’s personalised learning research project
DEGW is leading a research project on the spatial implications of personalised learning principles, and how architects can embody them in their school designs.
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Building StudyEast London Line railway extension
Despite being largely built during the boom, London’s newest transport link is depressingly unambitious