Buildings – Page 42
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Building StudyDrawing board: Sita UK energy-from-waste facility by Grimshaw
Great Blakenham in Suffolk will be the location for one of the many new energy from waste (EfW) facilities. Grimshaw partner Chris Nash and project architect Chris Fletcher discuss their design for the plant.
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Building StudyCroydon: one of London’s more surreal urban experiences
Grand ambitions and patchy execution are a recipe for urban misery in the London Borough of Croydon, the Mini-Manhattan of the South-east
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Building StudyFirst look: Friend & Co's Kielder Park bat station
Plans for a bat spiral, the UK’s first bat station, in the Kielder Water & Forest Park, Northumberland have been revealed by Friend & Company Architects.
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Building StudyHepworth Wakefield, by David Chipperfield Architects
Chipperfield’s gallery, which opens this week, draws on the power and heritage of its mill-town setting
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TechnicalGamlingay Eco Hub community centre by Civic Architects
Civic Architects’ remodelling of a Cambridgeshire village community centre uses sustainable materials and three different passive heat and power technologies.
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Building StudyStudio Octopi stages theatrical revival in Berkshire countryside
Studio Octopi has revealed images of its scheme to revamp the Victorian amphitheatre in the grounds of Bradfield College, a private school set in the Berkshire countryside.
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Building StudyHolburne Museum of Art extension, Bath, by Eric Parry Architects
Eric Parry’s Holburne Museum pavilion has emerged from protracted battles with planners to reflect the best of its former pleasure garden setting.
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Building StudyWoolf breaks ground in Nairobi
Jonathan Woolf Architects has revealed designs for a 1,300sq m private house in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Building StudySt Pancras Renaissance London Hotel by RHWL and Richard Griffiths
The painstaking restoration of St Pancras station’s neo-Gothic Midland Grand Hotel by architects RHWL and Richard Griffiths honours George Gilbert Scott’s original vision, despite some disappointing fit-out choices.
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TechnicalBirmingham Library facade by Mecanoo
A technical look at the distinctive facade Mecanoo designed for the new Birmingham Library.
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TechnicalQ & A with Arup cladding expert Mikkel Kragh
Architects’ obsession with glazed facades is coming to an end and the future of buildings will look very different, says Arup’s Mikkel Kragh.
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Building StudyDrawing board: Long & Kentish Porthmeor Studios
MJ Long and Rolfe Kentish discuss their refurbishment of Porthmeor artists’ studios in St Ives, Corwall
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Building StudyBrighton: the most seductive city of the new economy
Attractiveness and hypocrisy combine to create Brighton & Hove’s unique urban experience
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Building StudyFirst look: ARU’s biennale folly will mark site of South Korean uprising
The Architecture Research Unit (ARU) has revealed designs for a folly for the Gwangju Design Biennale in South Korea.
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Building StudyDavid Chipperfield’s Turner Contemporary Gallery
David Chipperfield’s Margate gallery celebrates its unique light but fails to open up to the town
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TechnicalThe Souk, Abu Dhabi Central Market, by Foster & Partners
An opening roof allows rain to fall on an internal tiled square in this ambitious modern reinterpretation of the traditional Middle Eastern souk.
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Building StudyFirst look: Goods Yard vernacular inspires Barber’s Shoreditch brick homes
BD Housing Architect of the year, Peter Barber Architects, has submitted a planning application for a new 43-unit housing scheme in Shoreditch, east London, for developer Londonewcastle.
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TechnicalVelvet Mill rooftop pods by David Morley Architects
David Morley Architects’ conversion of a Bradford landmark for Urban Splash introduces innovative zinc-clad rooftop structures.
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TechnicalSteel structure of the London 2012 Olympic stadium
Here is a technical look at the structure of architect Populous’s Olympic stadium.
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Building StudyLondon 2012 Olympic stadium by Populous
Despite a spiralling budget and uncertainty over its legacy, Populous’s Olympic stadium emerges as a lithe all-rounder.