Buildings – Page 63
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Building StudyDow Jones Architects has designs on London’s waste line
Dow Jones Architects is proposing a radical series of waste-crunching towers across London to help meet recycling targets and generate low-cost energy for local communities, says James R PaynePhotomontages Dow Jones Architects/Arup
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TechnicalGareth Hoskins' Gathering Place at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale
How Gareth Hoskins Architects created its Gathering Place pavilion using laminated veneer sections and a 11.5m cranked beam
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Building StudyA-EM’s steep learning curve at Imperial College
A-EM’s transformation of Imperial College’s sixties library has introduced flexibility to studying, reports Pamela Buxton Photographs Alan Williams
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Building StudyHût Architecture’s slice of white
Hût has refurbished two central London townhouses in typically eclectic style for film company White House Post Production, reports Jessica Cargill Thomson. Photos by Kilian O’Sullivan
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TechnicalWill the future be Dubai or Masdar?
Foster’s Masdar design team rocked up at the Cityscape conference last week in Dubai — and was really impressive
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Building StudyCorbusier’s lost gameplan for Iraq
Baghdad was once the scene of an ambitious modernist plan with Le Corbusier’s unbuilt sports complex at its heart. At last its details can be savoured, reports Ellis Woodman
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TechnicalAsif Khan’s West Beach Café at Littlehampton
West Beach Café, Asif Khan’s first building, is a cheerful addition to the Littlehampton littoral
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Building StudyA real work of art: Tony Fretton’s house for Anish Kapoor
Tony Fretton Architects’ grand London house for artist Anish Kapoor reinvents the idea of domesticity
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TechnicalJohn McAslan & Partners’ £17m refurb of Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower
How did John McAslan & Partners arrive at the difficult decision to replace the original windows at Trellick Tower as part of the £17 million restoration of Erno Goldfinger’s west London landmark?
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Building StudyCloepfils MAD New York opening
The new Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) by Brad Cloepfil at Allied Works Architecture has opened in New York on the southwest corner of Central Park facing Columbus Circle.
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TechnicalUrban Initiatives remodels south London’s Aylesbury Estate
Urban Initiatives’ Kelvin Campbell has spent nearly two years masterplanning the £2.4 billion Aylesbury redevelopment. It’s the sixth such plan in ten years, so why is he confident it will succeed?
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Building StudyIf paradise is half as nice
The long awaited retail project at Paradise Street is a last-ditch attempt to recharge Liverpool’s city centre through a masterplan that pulls together 22 different architects. And it works, says Ellis Woodman
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TechnicalClaffey House aims for BREEAM 'excellent'
Aedas' zero-carbon design includes rooftop photovoltaic array and ground source heat pump
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Building StudyIn detail: El Ray, Dungeness
El Ray, Dungeness - Architect: Simon Conder Architects, Structural engineer: Fluid
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TechnicalOffice of Public Works with Keith Williams Architects' new Wexford Opera House
Wexford’s Theatre Royal gave award-winning lighting designer Sutton Vane Associates the chance to place its skills centre stage
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TechnicalDyson Jr finds a new angle with Motorlight
It appears that 35-year-old Jake Dyson has inherited his father’s imaginative and entrepreneurial genes.
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TechnicalThe environmental cost of leaving the lights on
If all UK offices switched their lights off at night the carbon savings could be phenomenal according to recent research. Time to acts writes Henrietta Lynch
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Building StudyEnd of the line
Blending with the Dungeness environment and being protected from it were major considerations for Simon Conder as he wrapped an 1890s rail carriage with a new skin. Graham Bizley takes a look
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TechnicalNew design for translucent cladding
X2 - the UK's first multi-storey warehouse with full HGV access - has been completed next to London Heathrow Airport.