All Building Study articles – Page 35
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Building StudyBelgian practice Office emerges as one of Europe’s most provocative voices
On the eve of an exhibition showcasing the work of Office Kersten Geers David van Severen, BD looks at the practice’s preoccupation with an architecture uninhibited by function, context and ideology
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Building StudyPenoyre & Prasad’s Minster School in Southwell
The practice’s Minster School in Southwell consolidated two sites on one, with open and versatile spaces. Happy staff and proud, well-behaved pupils are testament to its success
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Building StudyDSDHA’s Pond Meadow School is a singular piece of education architecture
Pond Meadow special needs school near Guildford is the first phase of DSDHA’s biggest commission yet. The external aspect makes free with the sense of scale while its attentive internal detailing is as much therapeutic as architectural
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Building StudySouthampton: What's next for this major port turned mega-retail park?
Southampton’s reliance on retail and leisure to counter a declining shipping industry has given it a new architectural identity
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Building StudyNiall McLaughlin is Deal’s choice
As British seaside towns scramble to secure much needed regeneration cash, Niall McLaughlin Architects’ refit of the pier at Deal sets down a marker
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Building StudyArchitects Maccreanor Lavington and KCAP are driving regeneration at Barking Riverside
Maccreanor Lavington and KCAP are the architects behind the massive Barking Riverside regeneration project which will see thousands of new homes built in east London
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Building StudyAsh Sakula’s Adnams’ shop and café at Southwold
The first phase of a mixed-use development at Southwold in Suffolk, a shop and café for local brewer Adnams, adds significantly to the debate about the place of modern architecture in the rural environment
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Building StudyWright & Wright’s RCA sculpture department refurb
Wright & Wright has imaginatively reorganised the Royal College of Art’s sculpture resource at its south London campus
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Building StudyBuschow Henley’s St Benedict’s School, west London
Using a pared-down palette of materials and colours, Buschow Henley’s new building for St Benedict’s School in west London unifies a sprawling and unruly site
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Building StudyStudio Idealyc’s pyramid scheme
The refurbishment of London’s Spa Fields includes a distinctive community building by a recent architecture graduate, writes Graham Bizley
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Building StudyDow Jones brings crypt to life in Spitalfields’ Hawksmoor church
Dow Jones has unveiled its competition-winning design for the crypt of the Nicholas Hawksmoor-designed Christ Church in east London’s Spitalfields
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Building StudyThe sublime and the aedicule
Architect David Kohn has teamed up with cult restauranteurs Pablo Flack and David Waddington to create a temporary dining space for the Royal Academy, deploying a host of artists and designers to startling effect.
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Building StudyThe Year in Review: Designs to beat the architecture downturn blues
We might have had a bleak end to 2008, but it was actually a good year for splendid buildings and inspiring architectural exhibitions, says Ellis Woodman. We also asked 18 major players in the business to pick out their highlights
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Building StudyMatch made in heaven
Shed KM’s Matchbox building for developer Urban Splash, next to the former Bryant & May match factory in Liverpool, is a striking Miesian office block that links old and new, reports Peter Blundell Jones. Photos by Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyDow Jones Architects’ cultivated aesthetic
The temporary exhibition gallery at the Garden Museum on the Thames at Lambeth is a triumph of architectural imagination over budgetary constraint.
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Building StudyIM Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art opens in Doha (review)
Qatar’s plan for a world-class set of cultural facilites has made an impressive start with IM Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art in Doha
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Building StudyThe Architecture Research Unit’s islands of possibility (video)
London Metropolitan University’s Architecture Research Unit has proposed one of three schemes chosen for the next stage in the development of South Korea’s enormous new reclaimed city of Saemangeum.
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Building StudyStudio KAP Architects’ detailed domesticity
Two domestic projects by Studio KAP, one at Dumgoyne near Glasgow, the other near Oban, share highly specific handling, and both captivate and intrigue, finds Charles Rattray
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Building StudyHow AHMM delivered housing with real value at Adelaide Wharf
AHMM’s mixed-tenure housing development on the Grand Union Canal’s Adelaide Wharf in Hackney, east London, really catches the eye
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Building StudyRiches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields sustainable housing
Riches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields affordable housing scheme at Elmswell, near Bury St Edmunds, successfully integrates sustainable village living and locally appropriate design