Buildings – Page 32
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Technical11-15 Baker Street, London by Squire and Partners
Squire and Partners keeps up appearances on one of London’s most celebrated thoroughfares with a sharp white-concrete facade that echoes its Portland stone neighbours
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Building StudySpatial Affairs Bureau creates a hidden compound in Stoke Newington
House and artists’ studios use clerestory windows and roof lights to let in natural light
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TechnicalCommunity hub's concrete cladding echoes industrial past
Collective Architecture’s sculptural facade takes inspiration from Scotland’s steelworks
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Building StudyBlankenberge Public Library by Sergison Bates Architects
Sergison Bates’ scheme for a new public library in Blankenberge, Belgium, is a lesson in how bring redundant buildings back to life
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TechnicalStacking Green, Vietnam by Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Two walls of this house on one of Ho Chi Minh City’s busiest streets are composed entirely of cantilevered concrete planters
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TechnicalNational BMX Centre, Manchester by Ellis Williams Architects
Ellis Williams Architects has used concrete to create two very different effects at the UK’s first indoor BMX arena in Manchester
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TechnicalGardens by the Bay, Singapore, by Wilkinson Eyre
Gridshell structures form the two biodomes at the heart of Marina South gardens
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Building StudyMangera Yvars designs pavilion for Notting Hill park
Architect’s park building is second phase of wider Avondale improvement plan
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Building Study'Off-grid' community plugs into anaerobic digestion plant
Boyarsky Murphy Architects’ rural homes are designed to achieve Code for Sustainable Homes Level 6
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Building StudyPajol sports centre by Brisac Gonzalez Architects
Built by the city of Paris in one of its more deprived arrondissements, the Pajol sports centre reflects an attitude to the provision of public buildings that puts the UK to shame
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Building StudyKisho Kurokawa's Maggie's Centre
Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, ‘dragon-tailed’ cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK’s 13th Maggie’s Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
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Building StudySolving the panel puzzle
The Maggie’s Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar, very few were identical
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Building StudyThe ‘cosmic whirlpool’ and other Maggie’s Centres
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment
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Building StudyVPPR Architects manipulates daylight at Vaulted House in Hammersmith
Rooflights illuminate interior of four-bedroom home on landlocked industrial site in London
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TechnicalUndulating concrete wall shows potential of rubber formwork
Walter Jack’s Crushedwall celebrates Cornish mining heritage
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TechnicalKilburn Nightingale reinvents vernacular techniques in Uganda
Latest phase of arts centre experiments with oil drums and mud mortar
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Building StudyAstley Castle by Witherford Watson Mann
Witherford Watson Mann’s new house within the ruined fragments of Astley Castle creates a physical and emotional connection between old and new
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Building StudyNorwegian farmhouse inspires Haptic Architects' mountain spa
Simple pitched forms capture dramatic views in Sognefjorden, Norway
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Building StudyHouse at Borreraig & Kirk house, Garve by Dualchas Architects
James Benedict Brown visits two domestic projects on the Isle of Skye by Dualchas Architects that are part of an increasingly sophisticated rural portfolio
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TechnicalWill bio-plastic change the face of design?
Lighting company unveils first commercial product made of sugar waste