Buildings – Page 56
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Building StudyFog on the Tyne
Successive waves of regeneration have landed Newcastle and Gateshead with a riot of architectural statements — yet an urban spirit born in the 19th century lives on
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Building StudyHudson Architects creates something to believe in for the Salvation Army
Hudson Architects had the tough task of translating the Salvation Army’s changing vision of itself into an architectural form at its new Chelmsford HQ building
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Building StudyClash Asociates’ dream machine in Cardiff
The Welsh capital’s industrial past and glamorous rail travel of bygone eras put the design of Peter Clash’s Sleeperz hotel on the right track
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Building StudyHawkins Brown's Oxford University’s biochemistry research facilities, Oxford
A two-phased reimagining of Oxford University’s biochemistry research facilities aims to put straight years of damaging piecemeal development
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TechnicalNottingham students put this South African community on a learning curve
Nottingham University students designed a timber-framed building for a South African nursery school and then built it in seven weeks
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Building StudyScabal’s sports hall for Dunraven secondary school in Streatham, London
Could recycled shipping containers be the future of low-cost, fast-build structures? Scabal’s sports hall for Dunraven secondary school in Streatham, south London, is proving a success
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TechnicalRenzo Piano brings bright cladding to the big city
Colourful extruded ceramic and glazed facades at Central St Giles are guaranteed to illuminate this new development near Centre Point
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TechnicalPreston’s golden porcupine
Moxon Architects uses aluminium fins to create the spiky cladding for Oliver’s Place office building in Preston
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TechnicalO'Donnell & Tuomey's Sean O'Casey Community Centre
Quirky detailing and a clever use of poured concrete give this new community centre a dramatic impact
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Building StudyO’Donnell & Tuomey Sean O'Casey centre (video)
Set in a neighbourhood of two-storey brick terraced houses, the corrugated concrete walls and circular windows of the Sean O’Casey Community Centre make a distinctive new landmark in the Dublin district of East Wall.
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Building StudyManchester: Heaven knows it’s miserable now
Manchester is hailed as a flagship for successful regeneration but along the way it has lost all appetite for civic architecture
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins creates a well-tempered quintet at Snape
A cluster of five redundant industrial buildings at Snape Maltings, home of the Aldeburgh Festival, has been turned into performance and rehearsal space. Ellis Woodman is impressed by a sensitive, richly-textured refurb
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Building StudyKeith Williams mixes and matches to create new Athlone gallery
London-based practice Keith Williams Architects has won planning consent for a 600sq m addition and refurbishment of a former town hall on the River Shannon in Ireland
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Building StudyStudio MGM’s deep-green living machine
A modest timber-built housing scheme in Bury St Edmunds eschews hi-tech, high-concept sustainability features in favour of practical and imaginative solutions
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TechnicalGood vibrations at O2’s Matter nightclub
Situated inside Greenwich’s O2 building, Matter nightclub boasts a vibrating dance floor, time-saving touches and 3D projections that clubbers should love
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TechnicalRecycled paper makes riches from rags
A structure made from old copies of the Guardian is the latest achievement of engineer James Thomson’s Paper Project
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Building StudyArtful arrangements at Sauerbruch Hutton’s Brandhorst Museum
Though Sauerbruch Hutton’s Brandhorst Museum — the latest addition to Munich’s emerging Museum Quarter — suffers from poor masterplanning, as a modern art gallery it is very successful
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TechnicalClassic dining at the Whitechapel Gallery
Project Orange’s Whitechapel Dining Room makes the newly refurbished gallery’s gastronomic experience as satisfying as its cultural one
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Building StudyAlain de Botton’s Living Architecture project
Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project is creating architecturally interesting buildings for short-term lets
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