All Building Study articles – Page 48
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Building StudyMaggies Centre, Kirkcaldy by Zaha Hadid
A Maggie’s cancer care centre in the grounds of a Kirkcaldy hospital is Zaha Hadid’s first UK building. Ellis Woodman finds it takes excellent advantage of a quirky site to create architecture of a very high order.
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Building StudyRoyal Court, Guernsey by Nicholas Hare Architects
At Guernsey’s new Royal Court complex, the majesty of the law is given a commanding hill-top position and a contemporary welcoming feel
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Barbican refurbishment by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Never again will culture-going Londoners miss the beginning of a Barbican performance: AHMM leads them through the muddled maze via new ‘portals’ and pedestrian routes
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Theatre by the truckload
Four years after winning a design competition, Wright & Wright’s new home for the Hull Truck theatre company finally starts on site
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Building StudyMaster gardener
Foreign Office Architects has created a matrix for a new garden on a Somerset estate. Ellis Woodman met Alejandro Zaero-Polo and client Niall Hobhouse. Portrait Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyForever young
Haworth Tompkins’ reworking of the Young Vic retains the egalitarian attractions of the original.
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Building StudyBrunswick Centre refurbishment by Patrick Hodgkinson
Now that the Brunswick Centre’s winter gardens, concrete walkways and shops have been remodelled by the original architect, Patrick Hodgkinson, with Levitt Bernstein, this modernist icon is ready to face a new era.
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Building StudyThe Palestra and the pod
Palestra’s pod is the inviting gateway to Will Alsop’s architecture and ID:SR’s interiors, a happy combination of styles that blend practicality and whimsy
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Building StudyHip in Hoxton
Prèt a Manger boss Sinclair Beecham has opened a new hotel that reflects the historic past and artistic present of its location, while staying true to the Prèt ethos
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Building StudyFull metal jacket
The distinctive form of McDowell & Benedetti’s Springboard Centre in Stokesley, North Yorkshire, contains a nurturing environment for new businesses to keep them in the area.
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Building StudyPalace of Peace & Accord, Kazakhstan by Foster and Partners
New architecture, like much else in Kazakhstan, bears the mark of the country’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Yet the latest landmark in its new capital is a Foster building through and through
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Building StudyGames lesson
A tight budget but lots of empathy with the building’s users have created a basic but imaginatively light and airy structure housing a nursery and youth centre.
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Building StudyHoly order
St George’s Bloomsbury has suffered radical alterations through the ages, but now it has been painstakingly returned to Hawksmoor’s original vision.
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Building StudyIndustrial evolution
The Zollverein School of Management & Design is the first new building in OMA’s masterplan for a mine in Essen, Germany, and the first European building by Japanese practice Sanaa.
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Building StudyTrojan house
Wren would marvel at the surprises concealed within his Christchurch tower, which has been converted by Boyarsky Murphy Architects. Ellis Woodman ascends its 11 storeys to find it utterly fantastical, yet completely able to function as a family home. Photos by Hélène Binet
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Building StudyThermae Bath Spa by Grimshaw Architects
Three years overdue, Grimshaw Architects’ Thermae Bath Spa has become one of the longest running sagas in British construction. On the eve of its opening, Ellis Woodman discovers if it has been worth the wait.
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Building StudySofa, so good
Four years after its completion, David Walker of Walker & Martin returns to the Aram furniture showroom in London’s Covent Garden
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Building StudyEstuary English
The drive to lure homebuyers to the Thames Gateway starts in earnest with high-spec apartments like these by Hawkins Brown in Essex.
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Building StudyBuilding on the future
The AA pavilion has taken students from writing their own bespoke software to building at 1:1 scale. Unit 2’s tutors — Martin Self and Charles Walker of Arup’s Advanced Geometry Unit — look back on a learning experience
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Building StudyHis dark materials
Tom de Paor’s first standalone house brings a hint of aggression to a hillside in the Irish town of Dalkey. Pity about the garden, though