Buildings – Page 52
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TechnicalStacks of work at Eastbury Manor
Richard Griffiths Associates has completed its third phase of restoration on the Elizabethan estate’s chimney stacks and east stair turret
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Building StudyDSDHA’s double chemistry lesson in Guildford
A year after its opening, DSDHA’s special needs school is joined on the site by the practice’s fantastically impressive Christ’s College secondary school
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Building StudyJames Gorst works with the lie of the land
In a corner of Suffolk increasingly dominated by lavish second homes, James Gorst has created a modest residence in keeping with its context
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TechnicalJean Nouvel’s One New Change is a City chameleon
The facade’s pioneering frit glazing helps it blend into its surroundings
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TechnicalAHMM’s Angel of north London
Allford Hall Monagham Morris’s choice of curtain walling for its Angel building in Islington pays homage to Mies with floor-to-ceiling glazing and monchrome colour scheme
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Building StudyO’Donnell & Tuomey’s historical inspiration
A Derry cultural centre for the Irish language looks to the Middle Ages for the inspiration for its dynamic concrete form
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Building StudyBD’s review of the buildings of the year
While the recession howled outside their doors, a handful of architects realised some remarkable buildings in 2009. We list them here, together with 13 industry figures’ cultural highlights from around the world
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TechnicalHouse of straw brings a sustainable harvest
White Design’s BaleHaus explores the use of prefabricated straw panels for mass housing
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Building StudyRSHP's park ages
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners may have transplanted its Chiswick Park formula to Seville, but ‘out-of-town’ is already starting to feel out of time
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TechnicalAdam Khan’s wetlands centre floats between land and water
The design of the Brockholes Wetland Nature Reserve buildings in Lancashire draw inspiration from the villages of Iraq’s Marsh Arabs
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TechnicalTim Ronalds’ Sevenoaks School centre raises the roof
A high pitched roof of honey-coloured Douglas fir on this new performing arts centre meet both visual and acoustic requirements
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Building StudyAnd the V&A said, let there be light
MUMA’s Medieval & Renaissance Galleries have unlocked hitherto unused spaces at the Victoria &Albert Museum, while making the exhibits integral to the design, using them to define the different zones
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Building StudyGreenwich: Monument to Blair’s Britain
It’s 10 years since the Greenwich peninsula was at the centre of millennium celebrations, but its redevelopment has proved to be a microcosm of New Labour’s wasted opportunities
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Building StudyNetherlands’ housing in the new ‘old style’
As part of its research into solving the housing needs of the UK’s ageing population, the government-commissioned Happi panel visited the visionary Maartenshof scheme in the Netherlands with an apartment tower by Arons en Gelauff Architecten and community hub by Team 4 Architects
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TechnicalHow Trinity College’s Berkeley Library launched Niall McLaughlin’s career
Ahrends Burton Koralek’s Berkeley Library in Dublin was the inspiration McLaughlin needed to to spark his interest in architecture
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Building StudySquare dancing at Barking Central
Muf’s wide variety of interventions, from an arboretum to a pseudo ruin, are a comment on the worst excesses of Barking Central, but create one of the most extraordinary public spaces in London
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TechnicalStiff & Trevillion brings stripped-back look to Jamie’s Italian
TV chef adds design ingredients to Guildford restaurant
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TechnicalOak is at the heart of Talk Talk HQ interior
Found Associates has used fumed oak parquet to set the tone for the office
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Building StudyTony Fretton shows the art of merger
Tony Fretton’s bringing together of two buildings into a home and studio was just the beginning of a work in progress for artist Brad Lochore
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Building StudyRoman horror day at Zaha Hadid's Maxxi
Maxxi, Rome’s National Museum of 21st Century Arts, displays a cynical disregard for its purpose, that marks a conceit too far for Zaha Hadid