Buildings – Page 33
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Building StudyFirst Look: Peabody housing scheme by PCKO Architects
PCKO Architects’ winning scheme for a new Peabody housing scheme on a 1.6ha site in Newham, east London
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TechnicalScabal weaves a dynamic web of steel for primary school roof
Exaggerated bow-string truss brings brings structural delight
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Building StudyThe Photographers' Gallery by O'Donnell & Tuomey
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s warehouse conversion for the Photographers’ Gallery opens up a series of complex spaces and multiple skins, against a dramatic inner London streetscape
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TechnicalAA students' Big Shed Assembly Workshop
Architectural Association students demonstrate the potential of low-value local timber
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Building StudyFirst Look: Berkhamsted house by Featherstone Young Architects
Home is composed of two wings, each bounded by heavy flank walls of local brick
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Building StudyDrawing board: Taunton Castle bridges by Moxon Architects
Moxon Architects’ sensitive and creative thoroughfares enhance one of Somerset’s historic sites
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Building StudyKensington Palace refurbishment by John Simpson and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
A project to liberate long-concealed areas of Kensington Palace has successfully transformed its outside spaces. However, the interior renovations are underwhelming
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TechnicalWomens Designer Galleries, Selfridges by Jamie Fobert Architects
Jamie Fobert Architects layer of marble is the complete antithesis of the classic department store floor
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TechnicalA bravura performance
Steel-frame construction has enabled Populous and Arup to deliver the complex geometries of their Leeds Arena to a tight budget
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Building StudyFirst look: Channing School, Highgate, north London by Buckley Gray Yeoman
Architect has received planning permission for new sports facilities, teaching rooms and music and arts department
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TechnicalSteel steps up to satisfy thermal mass demands
Despite belief to the contrary, thermal mass can be achieved in steel-framed as well as concrete buildings
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Building StudyBridport House, east London, by Karakusevic Carson Architects
The first social housing block in Hackney for 45 years, Karakusevic Carson’s Bridport House is a rallying cry to get boroughs building
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TechnicalDomino web agency headquarters, Turin, by Marc Architects
Italian practice Marc Architects made innovative use of perforated steel flooring to bring new light into an office building refurbishment
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TechnicalCrystal amazes as sustainable urban showcase
The Crystal, a dramatic urban sustainability centre built for Siemens in east London’s docklands, uses an innovative steel framework to enable its complex crystalline form
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Building StudyFirst Look: Empire Way public lavatories, Wembley by Gort Scott Architects
Gort Scott Architects has won a competition for a new public-lavatory pavilion on Empire Way in Wembley, designed to sit on a pedestrianised area outside Wembley Stadium in the London Borough of Brent.
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Building StudyGamlingay Eco Hub by Civic Architects
After a 10-year battle to build it, Civic Architects’ Gamlingay Eco Hub finally emerges as the greenest community centre in the country
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Building StudyFirst Look: Mixed-use courtyard scheme, Highgate Road, north London by Chassay Studio
Chassay Studio has won planning for a mixed-use courtyard scheme on Highgate Road in north London.
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TechnicalWaltham Forest College by Richard Hopkinson Architects and Platform 5 Architects
Richard Hopkinson and Platform 5 Architects have completed a £3 million refurbishment of Waltham Forest College, breathing new life into an existing 1930s building to create new formal and informal education and meeting areas.
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Building StudyCommunity in a Cube, Middlehaven, by Fat Architects
Will Alsop’s psychedelic rethink of Middlesbrough’s docklands died away in the cold light of austerity, leaving Fat’s idiosyncratic new apartment building very much out on its own
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TechnicalVictory House, London by Ben Adams Architects
Ben Adams Architects has transformed an anonymous office building at the northern end of Tottenham Court Road with a series of subtle interventions.