Buildings – Page 37
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Building StudyLooking forward to a retrofit future
Retrofitting meets the challenge of improving energy efficiency in existing stock, as Penoyre & Prasad’s refurb of a 1990s house in London shows
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Building StudyBroadway School by Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture
A pragmatic yet innovative approach to a school refurbishment in Birmingham points towards the future of educational institutions in these straitened times
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Building StudyFirst Look: A2 Architects’ Irish arts centre takes its cue from the landscape
A2 Architects has revealed images of its design for a new community arts centre in Tullamore, the county town of Offaly in Ireland.
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Building StudyDrawing board: The White Building, Hackney Wick
Director David Kohn and project architect Tom McGlynn discuss how they are converting a redundant print works on the fringes of the 2012 Olympics site into an arts centre with Expedition Architecture
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Building StudyCanada Water Library, London, by CZWG
In spite of funding cuts and its lack of public-sector experience, CZWG has created an imaginative public library in London’s Docklands
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Building StudyFirst Look: Vaudeville Court housing by Levitt Bernstein
Architect to design socially-rented family housing in north London
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TechnicalPrimary school library by Kéré Architects
This building in rural Burkina Faso makes innovative use of clay pots in its ceiling to aid lighting and ventilation
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TechnicalLiving With Lakes Centre, Sudbury, Canada
A new sustainable lakeside research lab in a landscape damaged by nickel mining is 77% more efficient than conventional building
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Building StudyRothschild Bank headquarters, London, by OMA
This light, agile new building for the Rothschild banking dynasty is a model of discretion when contrasted with its attention-seeking City neighbours
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Building StudyFirst Look: Pitman Tozer's Peabody housing in Bethnal Green
Architect’s scheme will provide 67 new homes for rent, shared ownership and private sale
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Building StudyThe Spa School, Southwark, by AOC
AOC’s BSF Spa School for children with autistic spectrum disorder makes a virtue of its suburban setting
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TechnicalMetropol Parasol in Seville by Jürgen Mayer H
One of the world’s largest wooden structures has been built in Spain to house Roman ruins, a farmers’ market, cultural events and a café
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Building StudyFirst Look: Peter Barber’s ziggurat homes form fourth side of Stepney site
Peter Barber Architects has revealed plans for a new social housing development set around a community garden, at Hannibal Road in Stepney, east London.
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TechnicalSnøhetta’s Wild Reindeer Centre pavilion
A striking timber pavilion provides shelter to observe wildlife in Norway’s harsh mountain landscape
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Building StudyCity of London: Old Corruption in braced glass
The Occupy encampment makes the perfect backdrop against which to examine the City’s contrasts as Owen Hatherley’s series concludes
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Building StudyQuadrant 3 by Dixon Jones
Dixon Jones’s reinvention of the 1915 Regent Palace Hotel as offices and retail presents its past glories to their best advantage
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Building StudyFirst Look: Tonkin Liu aims high with ‘organic’ cliff-top Dover house
Tonkin Liu has received planning consent for a new family house in St Margaret’s Bay, Dover.
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Building StudyDrawing board: 120 Moorgate, City of London by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Director Paul Sandilands and project architect Chloe Phelps discuss the practice’s first City office development
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Building StudyFirst look: Erect Architecture’s adventure playground given green light
London’s Kennington Park to get new £1.2m children’s facility
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TechnicalWorth Abbey Church by Heatherwick Studio
New furniture and cleaned-up concrete enhances Francis Pollen’s original design