All Building Study articles – Page 45

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    Musical chairs

    2007-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Allies & Morrison’s makeover of the much-loved Royal Festival Hall has been hailed as a respectful transformation, but do the changes go too far

  • The south entrance with new signage and dropped windows to the café.
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    Artists colony gains a new heart

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Caruso St John’s remodelling of Spike Island’s studio and exhibition space in Bristol strives to create a greater sense of community without losing any of the centre’s sense of vitality.Pictures by Ioana Marinescu

  • The terrace outside the first floor entrance.
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    Preservation society

    2007-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Long & Kentish Architects, working with Colin St John Wilson, has added the latest flourish to the latter’s British Library. And the Centre for Conservation is arguably an even better building. Pictures by Peter Durrant

  • The bubble gum pink mirador can be read across the full length of the playground.
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    Hackney’s rose- tinted spectacle

    2007-05-18T00:00:00Z

    The brief for east London practice Sall, Cullinan & Buck was to embody the changes afoot at a local primary school using capital works funding of £1 million. Ellis Woodman takes a look at the result

  • Restoration to front portico: Mosaic Restoration
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    A Russian resurrection

    2007-05-10T00:00:00Z

    The Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Kensington, west London, is a stylistically broad church: Italian in inspiration, Protestant in its interior and arts and crafts in its decoration. Now Richard Griffiths Architects has brought all the layers together in a rich, new interpretation. Photographs by Will Pryce and Morley von Sternberg

  • New windows were inserted under the original A wing (left), while the top floors of C wing were rebuilt in Bath stone.
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    Locked up in luxury

    2007-05-10T00:00:00Z

    As part of a £35 million development, Architects Design Partnership and Jestico & Whiles have been doing time at Oxford’s ancient prison, converting it to a boutique hotel. Photographs by Mark Bramley and Morley von Sternberg

  • Looking out from the nursery play area to the hills on the far side of Sheffield.
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    DSDHA's Emmaus Primary School, Sheffield

    2007-05-10T00:00:00Z

    Built within an unrelentingly tight DfES budget, this Sheffield school by DSDHA amply fulfils its role at the vanguard of a run-down area’s regeneration. Pictures by Hélène Binet

  • Artist Olafur Eliasson (left) and architect Kjetil Thorsen in front of an image of their pavilion.
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    Laboratory of the senses

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    The collaborating artist and architect arrived at their winning Serpentine Pavilion design by talking abstractly about ideas. But if that is too demanding, just enjoy the beautiful result, advises Kester RattenburyPortrait by Morley von Sternberg

  • The ceramic-faced extension addresses Sydney Gardens.
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    Another world

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    An extension to Bath’s Holburne Museum, as well as providing urgently needed gallery space, will create a new gateway into the neglected Sydney Gardens

  • Play Time: Dejan Sudjic's 1976 review
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    Play Time

    2007-05-03T14:40:00Z

    Dejan Sudjic reports on the playstructure designed by Florian Beigel's students in the long hot summer of 1976

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    Liberty, Regent Street, London W1

    2007-04-27T15:31:00Z

    Universal Design Studio has redesigned the store's central atrium to reflect the retailer's renaissance

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    The Brewery, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

    2007-04-27T15:10:00Z

    ESA's £20 million scheme for Salmon Harvester on the site of a listed brewery has a sleek zinc roof with sky opening

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    Asprey & Garrard, New Bond Street, London W1

    2007-04-27T14:55:00Z

    Foster & Partners' design for the flagship London store reflects the jewller's bold vision

  • Marni’s Milan shop
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    Marni shop, Milan

    2007-04-27T14:28:00Z

    At Sybarite's new Milan boutique for fashion label Marni the whole shop becomes the window display

  • Swarovski showroom Wattens
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    Swarovski showroom, Innsbruck, by MMM

    2007-04-27T13:00:00Z

    MMM designs new commission for Austrian crystal designer Swarovski

  • Kinnear Landscape Architects
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    The road to 2012

    2007-04-26T00:00:00Z

    Adams & Sutherland has won the Olympic Delivery Authority’s competition to upgrade the Greenway in east London, a 3km embankment and public way running from Victoria Park to West Ham down the full length of the Olympic Park. The Greenway will provide pedestrian and cycle access for visitors to the ...

  • View across the green showing the retained walls of the original two-storey 1920s house.
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    God save the village green

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Dow Jones’s house in Walberswick has retained the original 1920s facade to the village green, but behind lies a radical new block — as well as its own local shop. Pictures by Christian McDonald

  • Evita Peroni store, Dubai
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    Evita Peroni stores by SHH

    2007-04-17T14:30:00Z

    A new interiors concept for the Evita Peroni brand is being debuted in two new stores in Hong Kong and Dubai

  • Pedestrians stroll between Panter Hudspith’s Debenhams, left, and a mixed-use pavilion.
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    The Princess and the maze

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Developer Land Securities appointed Chapman Taylor, Panter Hudspith and Wilkinson Eyre to update a historic template at its Princesshay shopping centre in Exeter

  • Flavour’s first café opened on a prime site in Brewer Street, central London.
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    Dirty macs to organic snacks

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson King Architects finds the perfect recipe for a sandwich bar at the Flavour café in London’s SohoPhotographs: Morley von Sternberg