All Building Study articles – Page 50

  • The building presents a new elevation to the playground of a neighbouring primary school.
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    All the best moves

    2006-03-17T00:00:00Z

    Sarah Wigglesworth Architects' studios for the Siobhan Davies Dance Company has a synergy with the human body that has delighted the client.

  • The three buildings viewed across the Donaukanal with Otto Wagner's viaduct visible at low level.
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    Vienna's white elephants

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid's project at Spittelau, Vienna, is one of her most compelling yet. Too bad it has become possibly the most expensive and ill-conceived social housing in the world.

  • The exterior uses a perforated copper screen for a dramatic impact.
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    The devil in the detail

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Haverstock school was hailed as a new model for well-designed PFI schools. Has it fulfilled its promise?

  • Slot between one of the new buildings and the viaduct, photographed while under construction
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    In detail: Spittelau Viaduct, Vienna, Austria

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid ArchitectsThree cranked blocks of housing step over an abandoned railway viaduct to stitch a run-down stretch of waterfront on the Danube Canal back into the city fabric. The arches of the viaduct, designed by Otto Wagner contain shop and restaurant units.No additional load can be put on the ...

  • The front elevation to Gordon Street. The metal brise soleil creates a moire pattern that reflects the research being carried on inside.
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    Shrink wrapped

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Designing a centre for scientists working in nanotechnology, Feilden Clegg Bradley faced a rigid technical brief. Despite this, its new research centre is both delicate and confident, giving UCL's Bloomsbury campus a new front door.. Photos by Tim Soar

  • The double-skinned metal facade.
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    In detail: London Centre for Nanotechnology

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    The Nanotechnology building has eight floors of laboratories and offices dedicated to interdisciplinary research in atomic scale devices and materials.

  • Looking south-west across the development. Donnybrook has been scaled in response to the height and grain of the surrounding streets.
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    Donnybrook housing by Peter Barber

    2006-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Peter Barber Architects' low-rise, high-density dwellings for Donnybrook in London's East End have redrawn the template for urban terraced housing.

  • The deep beams on the first floor limit overlooking from the neighbouring properties.
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    Gloom with a view

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Gianni Botsford's St John's Mews house is crafted on a tricky inner-city site. But while the clients are happy, Graham Bizley finds it lacks the soul and intimacy of a family home. Photos by Hélène Binet

  • Jim Stirling (left) and James Gowan outside York Terrace,
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    Style of the century

    2006-02-10T00:00:00Z

    Stirling & Gowan set a template for the future course of British architecture. On the partnership's 50th anniversary, James Gowan gives a rare interview as Ellis Woodman assesses the legacy of one of the 20th century's greatest creative duos

  • Leicester University Engineering building.
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    In celebration of Jim and James

    2006-02-10T00:00:00Z

    The Stirling & Gowan partnership (1956-1963) was roughly coincident with my own architectural education (1958-1965). In this short period they exerted a profound influence on my generation as both educators and architects.

  • Tony Fretton and his large scale development
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    Tony Fretton: A shift in scale

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    It’s a tricky step for any architect to move from the small to the large scale. Tony Fretton is making the leap with three high-end residential schemes in Amsterdam, but has he has managed the transition?

  • A long ramp leads down from the entrance hall into the elliptical covered pool. Lighting is by way of 62 circular skylights which draw light spots on the moving water.
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    Good sports

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Alvaro Siza's world-class sports centre in Barcelona is a model of urban planning. Can London achieve something similar for 2012? Graham Bizley takes a look. Photos by Morley von Sternberg

  • Kirstall abbey
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    Wreck of ages

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Once a place of pilgrimage for the Romantic poets, the ruins of 800-year-old Kirstall Abbey had fallen into neglect. Ken Powell reports on how Purcell Miller Tritton rescued this damsel in distress

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    In detail: Kirkstall Abbey Visitor Centre

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    The 1750s trusses were in a poor state. Bearing ends were rotten and a 20th century laminated, segmental timber arched strengthening scheme cut deeply into the principal rafter and tie members, complicating their removal. It was clear that extensive strengthening repairs would be needed if the barn roof was to ...

  • The south frontage of the administration block, viewed through the mature trees of the college gardens.
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    Holding court

    2006-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Some might say Porphyrios Associates’ courtyards at Selwyn College, Cambridge, are hopelessly antiquated. Wrong, says Ellis Woodman. They are an astute revival of established languages which put modernist competition to shame

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    In detail: Selwyn College, Cambridge

    2006-01-13T00:00:00Z

    The new development employs load-bearing masonry cavity walls to support pre-cast concrete plank floors and a timber roof. At ground floor, an arcade of six stone arches shelter a covered walkway facing the quadrangle lawn.

  • Calatrava’s turning torso tower is just one of the projects that was designed for Malmö by major architects.
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    Malmö model is a template for successful regeneration

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Malmö airport has witnessed a steady traffic of English officials over the past few months. Everyone from Cabe, the Housing Corporation, English Partnerships, Yorkshire Forward and the ODPM have been flocking to the city in search of the Holy Grail of successful regeneration.

  • The Donnybrook Quarter by Peter Barber Architects
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    Top dogs for 2006

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Ellis Woodman looks ahead to the British buildings that promise to be best in class in the year to come

  • left to right: Pier Head building, Wales Millennium Centre, National Assembly.
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    Death by a thousand cuts

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Has Richard Rogers’ Welsh Assembly building finally given Wales a decent piece of architecture? Ellis Woodman discovered an architect’s vision crippled by an ever-shifting brief. Photos by Morley von Sternberg

  • The Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg
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    Zaha’s blinding science

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg is the culmination of a career’s experimentation for Zaha Hadid. Was all worth it? Graham Bizley finds out