Buildings – Page 85
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TechnicalRestoration drama at Pall Mall Reform Club
The same terracotta tiles as those on Rome’s Palazzo Farnese are set to brighten up the historic private members’ club on London’s Pall Mall.
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Building StudyThe Princess and the maze
Developer Land Securities appointed Chapman Taylor, Panter Hudspith and Wilkinson Eyre to update a historic template at its Princesshay shopping centre in Exeter
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Building StudyDirty macs to organic snacks
Wilkinson King Architects finds the perfect recipe for a sandwich bar at the Flavour café in London’s SohoPhotographs: Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyCool heads at city hall
The architect’s acute observations of Cork and conceptual understanding of the city’s urban context have produced a splendid extension to the city hall. Pictures by Dennis Gilbert/View
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Building StudyFlavour Cafe, Soho, London, by Wilkinson King Architects
With its industrial-cum-open-market aesthetic and palette of concrete, wood and galvanised steel and wire mesh, this Soho sandwich bar is a perfect reflection of the Flavour cafe brand.
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Building StudyPrincesshay shopping centre by Chapman Taylor, Panter Hudspith and Wilkinson Eyre
With its warren of narrow streets, public squares and houses about the shops, this collobaration between three architects is an update on a medieval template. Click on the related stories link below to find out more about the project.
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Building StudyThin end of the wedge
A house built on an unusually awkward site proves full of surprises.Pictures by Hélène Binet
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TechnicalThe shunting of the Sark
A visitor centre for the Cutty Sark will be made possible by raising the sailing ship 1.5m to create space underneath.
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Building StudyFilling the hole in the doughnut
UK architet Muf has been asked to come up with ideas to reverse the decline of the neighbourhood of Northside in Pittsburgh . Ellis Woodman looks at the practice’s proposals
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TechnicalSwift and enduring
In 1870, when the Cutty Sark was launched, she was expected to have a life-span of around 30 years. Yet today the ship retains around 90% of the original hull fabric.
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Building StudyDouble Dutch
The evolution of the restaurant, and its essentially ephemeral character, is encapsulated at Puck and Pip in The Hague, says Christoph Grafe. Pictures by Hélène Binet
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Building StudyArt or architecture: refusing to draw the line
BD speaks to artist Mark Pimlott about the diversity of his work
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Building StudyStairway to heaven
In this 2003 article from our archive, Ellis Woodman reviews the work of artist Mark Pimlott, the subject of this week’s building study. At La Scala, Aberystwyth, he found an architectural intervention that aimed to reanimate the sixties complex where it was sited
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TechnicalTwo clients grabbing sustainability by the horns
A road to Damascus conversion or just greenwash? asks our sustainability blogger Phil Clark
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TechnicalGulf states gear up to go green
Can Dubai shake off its gas-guzzling image to become a global model of sustainable design? David Littlefield visits to discover how the emirates and their Middle Eastern neighbours are embracing energy reduction on a massive scale
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TechnicalGoodbye to the garrett
With its permanent artists’ studios, The Galleria has thrown out the old idea that artists should suffer for their art.
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