Buildings – Page 41
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Building StudySainsbury Laboratory at Cambridge University, by Stanton Williams
This laboratory in the University of Cambridge’s Botanic Gardens is the ideal habitat for botanists
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Building StudyPeter Zumthor's Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion
Zumthor’s tranquil retreat was undermined by the frenzy of the opening press conference
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TechnicalSerpentine Gallery Pavilion by Peter Zumthor
Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion blacks out the noise and smells of London to lead the visitor to a tranquil garden of light.
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TechnicalA technical look at Bridport House's timber structure
Karakusevic Carson Architects’ cross-laminated timber design lightens the load at a new housing scheme in east London
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Building StudyPlymouth: the architecture is palpably the work of men in their dotage
The modernised classicism of the rebuilt city centre was already tired by the 1940s, but Plymouth has other surprises
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Building StudyFirst look: Lynch Architects proposes ‘modern palazzo’ opposite Victoria Station
Lynch Architects has submitted a planning application for a mixed-use development opposite Victoria Station in London.
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Building StudyZaha Hadid Architects’ Riverside museum in Glasgow
City icon it may be, but Zaha Hadid’s Riverside transport museum is as removed from its Glasgow context as the cars and trains housed within its zinc-clad walls, says Steve Parnell
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Building StudyMcAslan’s masterplan for Lancaster University
Over the years since 1963 Lancaster University’s rigorous design vision had become diluted and its core seemed bleak and lifeless. Now John McAslan & Partners is showing it a new way forward.
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Building StudyFirst look: Assemble constructs canalside folly beneath Hackney flyover
Assemble has revealed images of the Folly for a Flyover, a temporary structure for an empty flyover undercroft on the edge of the Olympic site in Hackney, east London.
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Building StudyLyric Theatre in Belfast by O’Donnell & Tuomey
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s joyful new building is the stuff of theatrical legends,
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TechnicalRoyal Road housing by Panter Hudspith
This sizeable London housing scheme in Southwark presents a varied street elevation while incorporating gardens and mature trees.
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TechnicalSulgrave Gardens by Cartwright Pickard
This £5.5m scheme will be the first mixed-tenure PassivHaus development in London and the architect’s first attempt at this type of sustainable design
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Building StudyFirst look: Duggan Morris is cooking in Croydon
Work has started on three projects designed by Duggan Morris Architects for secondary schools in the London Borough of Croydon.
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Building StudyAnne Mews housing in Barking by AHMM and Maccreanor Lavington
Allford Hall Monaghan & Morris and Maccreanor Lavington Architects have breathed new life into traditional London housing types to provide the first new council housing built in Barking & Dagenham for 25 years.
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Building StudyFirst look: Reiach & Hall given green light for Lanarkshire Maggie’s centre
Reiach & Hall Architects has secured planning permission for a new Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre to be built at Monklands General Hospital in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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Building StudyCaistor Arts & Heritage Centre by Jonathan Hendry Architects
This reinvention of a Primitive Methodist chapel in Lincolnshire as an arts and heritage centre is one of the early manifestations of the Big Society
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TechnicalLSE New Students’ Centre by O’Donnell & Tuomey
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s competition-winning proposal for the London School of Economics’ new Students’ Centre is striking not only for its crumpled form, but its unusual perforated brick facing.
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TechnicalMaccreanor Lavington’s Ceres apartments
The brown brick of these Netherlands canalside apartment blocks provides a continuity with the industrial buildings they have replaced
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Building StudyFirst look: Caruso St John to transform Lille steelworks into hoteliers’ college
Caruso St John Architects has won an invited competition for a new hotelier training college on the site of a former steelworks in Lille, beating entries from MVRDV and Xavier De Geyter among others.
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Building StudyDoppelhaus by Lütjens Padmanabhan
On a restricted suburban plot by Lake Zürich, Lütjens Padmanabhan has brought a new wit and richness to the semi-detached house