All Building Study articles – Page 52

  • The housing scheme will feature high levels of insulation and well-positioned windows to reduce energy consumption.
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    First Look: Modernism captures the castle

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    A striking residential development surrounding a turn-of-the-century castle in Swansea has been revealed by Holder Mathias Architects.

  • Looking across the entrance court of the hotel to the three stand-alone dining rooms.
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    Holiday campo

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    With a strong list of celebrated architects signed up, the Corte Velho holiday development in the Algarve is breaking the mould of Portugal’s conventional resorts.

  • The roof is supported on seven triangular trusses sitting on slender circular columns braced by I-section portals.
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    Slice of urban

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Assertive yet portable, Southwark’s new public face offers a taster for the Olympics

  • David Adjaye with Nikolaus Hirsch.
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    Setting the boundaries

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    ith a string of public commissions, German practice Wandel Hoefer Lorch & Hirsch has rocketed to world prominence. Partner Nikolaus Hirsch talks to David Adjaye about how his inspiration comes from limitations.

  • A slice of the old life
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    A slice of the old life

    2005-07-08T00:00:00Z

    Procter Rihl’s modernist home in southern Brazil revives a once prevalent style, writes Matthew Turner

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    First Look: A new stripy star for Tower Bridge

    2005-07-08T00:00:00Z

    Glas Architects has revealed designs for this bold apartment scheme at Tower Bridge in London.

  • The Olympic Village building is arranged as a series of irregular floors around a central lift shaft and staircase, with the exterior clad in U-shaped glass planks.
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    First Look: Pariss late bid for design credibility

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    As the International Olympic Committee prepares to select a city for the 2012 games this week, Lab Architecture Studio has revealed designs for the Paris Olympic Village.

  • The newly repaired and cleaned westerly elevation of St George's Hall.
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    Liverpool renaissance

    2005-06-24T00:00:00Z

    A legend in English architectural history, Liverpool’s St George’s Hall became the country’s grandest white elephant. But Purcell Miller Tritton’s refurbishment is set to change that, writes Gavin Stamp.

  • The new house echoes the design of a ship and features a curved entrance facade of bespoke clay tiles.
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    First Look: Ship shape design wins out

    2005-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Hampshire architectural practice Format Milton has revealed images of its Bell House project — a secluded private dwelling.The £500,000 new-build scheme, which recently began on site in Bursledon, near Eastleigh, overlooks the River Hamble, the Solent and the Isle of Wight, and boasts a curving northern entrance facade made from ...

  • The main elevation to Keeley Street with Freemasons’ Hall beyond and Space House to the right of the image.
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    City literacy

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Cheap yet sophisticated, Allies & Morrison’s City Lit impresses Ellis Woodman

  • The aspect to the park. The colours are predominantly green on this frontage and red against the city.
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    Green with envy

    2005-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Sauerbruch Hutton’s Federal Environmental Agency building in Dessau, Germany, raises the sustainability standards bar in Britain with its string of impressive environmental measures

  • The building is configured around a courtyard, protected by a black painted “portico” at ground level.
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    Queen of the stone age

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield’s butch Madrid housing isn’t quite what it seems

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    Rhapsody in brick

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Caruso St John’s Brick House subverts brickwork’s brutalist image, says Irina Davidovici

  • BMW’s production line moves through the offices.
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    Vroom with a view

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher have rewritten the rules of factory design at BMW’s Leipzig plant with its seamless flow between production line and office floor

  • Mossbrook Primary School’s new science classroom is clad with a collage of industrial construction materials —corrugated steel, polycarbonate sheeting and oak.
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    Nature study

    2005-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Sarah Wigglesworth’s science classroom in Sheffield gives pupils an innovative place to experience nature

  • The faceted glass rises up from a resin floor to the top of the structure to form a geometric ceiling, comprising polygonal panels with openings for lighting and air-conditioning.
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    Crystal power

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron has returned to Tate Modern to give the gallery a new shop — a little gem that gives a fresh vigour to the north entrance. Ellis Woodman reports.

  • The North Glasgow College building makes use of glass, timber, stone and glazed enamel panelling to create a new identity.
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    First Look: College wedged back into community

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    RMJM has submitted this £20 million development for North Glasgow College for planning permission .

  • The entance on New Inn Yard with new hardwood windows above.
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    Humane resources

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    Does Witherford Watson Mann’s Amnesty HQ present the right public image for a 21st century charity?

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    Pauline conversion

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Thomas Archer’s St Paul’s Deptford has been saved from fire, neglect and possible destruction. The restoration is a rebirth for both the building and its architect

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    Work the angles

    2005-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Koolhaas’s startling new concert hall has touched down in the Portuguese city of Porto. We take a journey through the Casa da Musica and discovers a triumph of structural quirks and visual treats