All Building Study articles – Page 51
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Building StudyStyle of the century
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
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Building StudyIn celebration of Jim and James
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.
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Building StudyTony Fretton: A shift in scale
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?
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Building StudyGood sports
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
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Building StudyWreck of ages
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
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 ...
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Building StudyHolding court
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
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.
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Building StudyMalmö model is a template for successful regeneration
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.
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Building StudyTop dogs for 2006
Ellis Woodman looks ahead to the British buildings that promise to be best in class in the year to come
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Building StudyDeath by a thousand cuts
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
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Building StudyZaha’s blinding science
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
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Building StudyChill on the hill
Spiritual retreat meets boutique hotel in Bates Maher’s timber hermitages in County Tipperary. Graham Bizley finds sanctuary
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Man and monolith
He is Jacques Herzog’s favourite Swiss architect and a master of the art of construction. Jonathan Woolf explores the work of Valerio Olgiati with an exclusive preview of his latest exquisite creation
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Building StudyFrontier Land London
High-rise developers are running amok in London. Why isn’t sheriff Ken Livingstone doing more to control them?
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Building StudyWhite rose blooms
Leeds is rising again, a shining example of design-led regeneration. Ken Powell takes a tour of the Yorkshire capital with the man spearheading its renaissance
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Building StudyIdeas in store
David Adjaye’s flagship Whitechapel Idea Store is a convincing rethink of the traditional library. But will this be enough to answer his critics?
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Building StudyDiscovery zone
Lincoln’s new museum is defiantly non-iconic. By rejecting the Bilbao approach, Panter Hudspith has produced a building that is contextual, complex and humane and takes its work to a new level.
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Building StudySuburb of the future?
If Britain is to solve its housing crisis, we must learn to love suburbia. Could Maccreanor Lavington in Holland show us how?
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Building StudyRadical restraint
David Chipperfield Architects has dropped the shimmering Figge Art Museum into America’s heartland. Mason White explains why it’s now time to cut the architect loose from the shackles of minimalism