Buildings – Page 11
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Building StudyLock Keepers, London by Allies and Morrison
Allies and Morrison has updated the Victorian warehouse typology with an ingenious apartment block on an awkward canalside site in east London, writes Ike Ijeh
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TechnicalHerdernstrasse apartments, Zurich
Lütjens Padmanabhan tackles a complex urban condition with a residential block that embraces modern and classical influences, writes Hugh Strange
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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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TechnicalPoplar Baths by Pringle Richards Sharratt
Poplar Baths in London’s East End is a historic example of state architecture used to improve public health. But to preserve this listed building, the project team had to demolish part of it and rebuild through a PPP agreement
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TechnicalGoede Doelen Loterijen by Benthem Crouwel Architects
Once completed, the new home of the biggest lottery charity in the Netherlands will be the first refurbished office building in Amsterdam to achieve a BREEAM Outstanding
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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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TechnicalIs hardwood the future of timber construction?
As Alison Brooks Architects’ gravity-defying installation at the London Design Festival shows off the structural benefits of cross-laminated hardwood, Amanda Birch examines the growing uptake of CLT solutions
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TechnicalEastern Cemetery, Malmö, by Johan Celsing
Modernist architect Sigurd Lewerentz worked on the Swedish city’s cemetery for more than half a century. Now Johan Celsing has meticulously restored the canopies to two of its chapels
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TechnicalInterview: Johan Celsing
The architect behind the restoration of the Malmö chapels, talks about following in the footsteps of Sigurd Lewerentz and the importance of ‘robust’ architecture
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TechnicalSmart floors: Step-by-step care
Sensor technology embedded in floors could be about to revolutionise patient monitoring in elderly care and dementia homes
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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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TechnicalWellbeing registration: Europe's first project
There is now an international standard for measuring how a building impacts on its users’ health and wellbeing. Ike Ijeh looks at how Studio Ben Allen Architects’ One Carter Lane became the first European project to receive the accreditation
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TechnicalSenate House north block by Mace and Rock Townsend
A Mace-led team has turned the north end of Senate House into a light-filled learning space and glazed courtyard for the School of Oriental and African Studies
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TechnicalHouse Bøe Møller, Norway, by Knut Hjeltnes Arkitekter
Knut Hjeltnes’ single-storey house in Oslo, Norway, continues the architect’s experimentation with materials and succeeds in creating spatial variety despite its simple plan
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TechnicalInterview: Knut Hjeltnes
Following the success of his House Bøe Møller in Oslo, architect Knut Hjeltnes discusses his architectural position on creating houses that are materially rich but that always keep the focus on the occupant
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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?