All Building Study articles – Page 36
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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
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Building StudyIn detail: Riches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields housing scheme, Elmswell, Suffolk
An affordable housing development in the Suffolk village of Elmswell incorporates sustainable construction technologies to achieve exemplary low levels of embodied energy and carbon emissions.
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Building StudyEric Parry’s St Martin-in-the-Fields makeover
Eric Parry Architects’ refurbishment and reconfiguration of Trafalgar Square’s St Martin-in-the-Fields church demonstrates an impressive singularity of vision.
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Building StudyIn detail: St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
As well as a complete refurbishment of the church itself, the renewal of St Martin-in-the-Fields has included expansion of the crypt and a reordering of the public spaces around it.
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Building StudyPassivhaus design in Sweden
Sustainable design expert Henrietta Lynch reports on the strides made in spreading passiv principles to both new and old buildings alike in Scandinavia
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Building StudyAPA Architects gets established
APA’s showroom and offices for upcoming furniture designer Established & Sons provided it with an opportunity to prove itself beyond its Future Systems background
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Building StudyLow carbon Luton school - images
Biomass and natural ventilation offer key to unlocking BSF cash for plb-designed school
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Building StudyRMJM's University of Bedfordshire, Luton
RMJM’s plans for the £70 million redevelopment of the University of Bedfordshire’s Luton campus have been submitted for planning.
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Building StudyCaruso St John’s shades of difference
Caruso St John’s remodelling of Arts Council England’s London office delivers a richly articulated environment on a tight budget. Ellis Woodman applauds its sucess