All Buildings, design and specification articles – Page 103
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Building StudyVictoria Gate by Acme
A modern city centre retail project in Leeds harks back to the city’s grand Victorian shopping arcades
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OpinionWhat the Lords have to say about the housing crisis
This summer a House of Lords report set out some informed solutions for our dysfunctional housing market - a shame it’s been overshadowed by all the recent politicking
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Building StudyNew Science Building by Sheppard Robson
Laboratories are most often architecturally dull affairs but not Sheppard Robson’s New Science Building
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Building StudyAntwerp Port House, by Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects’ spaceship-like extension over the Belgian port’s old fire station is, the practice claims, a response to the site’s context and history. Ike Ijeh is unconvinced
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OpinionWhen is a home a dwellinghouse and when is it a family unit?
Julia Park shows up the many inconsistencies in the UK’s Use Classes and suggests it is time to rewrite the planning lexicon
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Building StudyBaylis Old School, Lambeth by Conran & Partners
While many brutalist schools are being knocked down, one in south London is making a virtue of its architectural heritage and being converted into housing. Photographs by Edmund Sumner
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Building StudyArk Putney Academy, London, by Hawkins Brown
Elliott School was one of LCC’s finest post-war comprehensives, but had its fair share of problems. When an ambitious redevelopment was announced, former pupils led a mutiny to save the buildings they loved. Five years later Chloe McCulloch returns to assess the results
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Building StudyYoung Street Campus, Cambridge by Richard Murphy Architects
The architect has skilfully integrated Anglia Ruskin University’s new nursing and music therapy campus into a close-knit network of Cambridge terraces, writes Ike Ijeh
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Building StudyThe rebirth of Lochgelly and lessons for Brexit Britain
The EU referendum brought home the political divisions between various parts of the UK. The inspired regeneration of a once deprived ex-mining town in Fife shows how architecture can help resolve them.
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OpinionA hundred years ago we decided to build homes fit for heroes. What happened?
Tudor Walters, Parker Morris and Parker Boris. Radiograms and MP3s. Julia Park gets out a tape measure and a dictionary
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Building StudyStavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, Athens, by Renzo Piano
Greece’s most significant cultural project in more than a decade - housing the National Opera House and National Library - is impressive in scale. But do all the elements live up to its immense ambition?
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OpinionWe’re older but are we any wiser?
Persuading older people to downsize unlocks homes for others. Yet just 3% of new units are designed for elderly people. Julia Park asks whether a new report has any answers
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Building StudyThe verdict: Bjarke Ingels' Serpentine Pavilion - and four summer houses
After 15 years the Serpentine has added four summer houses to its series of single pavilions. Is it enough to revive an ageing format? Ike Ijeh is in no doubt
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Building StudyHolland Green, London, by OMA + Allies & Morrison
OMA’s first UK residential project has been designed with Allies Morrison and is arranged around Holland Park’s former Commonwealth Institute, soon to be the new home of the Design Museum. It interacts smoothly with the local context, but does it play things too safe? Ike Ijeh reports
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Building StudyTate Modern extension, London, by Herzog & de Meuron
Herzog and de Meuron’s much-delayed extension of the Tate Modern saw the architect handed the rare opportunity of returning to a project having worked on the original
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OpinionWhen it comes to housing it's people who count, not units per hectare
There are endless ways of calculating density, each with a different physical and social outcome. Julia Park does the maths
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Building StudyTreetop walkway, Westonbirt, by Glenn Howells Architects
This aerial footpath snakes its way through the forest at Westonbirt Arboretum in the Cotswolds using form, structure and materials to lift visitors to a heightened communion with nature. Ike Ijeh takes a walk on the wild side
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Building StudyLyndhurst School, London, by Cottrell and Vermeulen
Cottrell and Vermeulen’s third school for the London Borough of Southwark proves that intelligent design can be achieved via government school building programmes, and without reverting to cookie-cutter tropes. Ike Ijeh reports
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AnalysisDoes the government have the sticking power for proper estate regeneration?
Ministers want estates rebuilt as streets - yet they preside over a funding system that makes this unviable. Julia Park uncovers some cognitive dissonance
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Building StudyLondon 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects
The smoothly undulating surface of Zaha Hadid’s stingray-like Aquatics Centre belies its structural complexity. But does the last Olympic Venue to arrive at the party live up to its promise? BD’s then architecture critic Oliver Wainwright went along to have a look.