Buildings – Page 78
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Building StudyOrion Building, Birmingham by BBLB Architects with John Rocha
"I'd like to nominate the Orion Building," writes Deb Adams. "It’s crude, vulgar and does nothing to enhance the city's architectural reputation." Her nomination is seconded by ex-Cabe commissioner Les Sparks who said: “The Orion Development by Crosby Homes in Navigation Street is a massive apartment complex incompetently designed to ...
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Building StudyKX200 by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, London
Reclad office tower for developer First Base to create a mixed apartment block on London’s Pentonville Road. Nominated anonymously: "This building says: ' Hey - I'm so now and hip' just because the architect has had the very unoriginal idea of cladding it in various shades of ...
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Building StudyOpal Court, Leicester by Stephen George and Partners
A student and key worker housing block near Leicester city centre.Richard L posted his support for this anonymous nomination. “It’s symptomatic of the kind of rubbish being built in leicester at the moment, especially around De Montfort. Leicester is quickly developing an idendikit city centre which will be indistinguishable from ...
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TechnicalHow we cracked the art of colour chemistry
Hawkins Brown creates a contemporary facade that sits comfortably in the historic surroundings of Oxford
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TechnicalScaling new heights in zero-carbon housing
How practical is lightweight construction as a way of complying with the Code for Sustainable Homes?
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Building StudyA brick is a brick for Dutch practice Wingender Hovenier
This Dutch practice is representative of a new generation of European architects who are rejecting recent architecture’s ironic posturing in favour of something fundamentally contextual, says Paul Shepheard
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TechnicalDelivering a garden space
The challenge for Ash Sakula Architects was to create a garden and media gallery in a tiny space at the back of a central London terrace. What the firm delivered was out of this world
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TechnicalWhat we can learn from ‘the good life’
Being sustainable and being happy work surprisingly well in tandem
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Building StudyExpanded horizons
It was a tale of two galleries when thwarted plans to enlarge the Newlyn Art Gallery led to an ambitious expansion across two sites
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Building StudyIn detail: Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
Architect MUMASlate consultant Viv StrattonRoofing subcontractor Forrester RoofingTrevillett slate hung in the traditional Cornish manner has been used to clad the new extension to Newlyn Art Gallery. A scantle was used to set out the battens and slates to achieve a continuously diminishing coursing without any banding. A scantle ...
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TechnicalLifting the lid on slate roofing
Slate consultant for Newlyn Art Gallery, Viv Stratton, talks about the traditional technique of scantle slate roofing
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TechnicalAdding biofuel to the fire
The government says biomass could provide a sustainable means of heating UK homes, but is this remotely practical?
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Building StudyDRMM's MK anniversary tower
De Rijke Marsh Morgan is building this 19m tall wooden tower as part of the celebrations of Milton Keynes at 40
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TechnicalCall for entries for Cool Wall contest in September
The BD/100% Detail Cool Wall contest will be taking place during the show in September. Enter your residential project for the chance to win top billing.
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins’ school theatre is a scene stealer
An innovative performance complex for St Edward’s School, Oxford, is designed to serve both the school and surrounding community.
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Building StudyIn Detail: North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford
Architect Haworth TompkinsStructural engineer Price & MyersGlazing subcontractor Fineline AluminiumA Victorian swimming pool has been converted for use as a theatre in the grounds of a school in Oxford. A foyer, gallery, drama studio and dance studio are housed in an adjacent new two-storey building.The new building sits on concrete ...
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TechnicalTonkin Liu’s Singing Ringing Tree puts panpipes into park panorama
Singing Ringing Tree, the RIBA award-winning public art scheme in the Pennines by architect Tonkin Liu, posed a number of tricky challenges, not least of which was getting the sculpture to live up to its name and make a sound. With a little help from engineer Jane Wernick Associates, it ...