Buildings – Page 94

  • Technical

    Up, up and away

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    The Serpentine Pavilion, always a chance to show off, is this year an ethereal balloon — light enough to float yet structurally robust. Will Jones explains how Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond did it

  • Technical

    Taking the strain

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Load-bearing facades have never quite gone away, but they may now be giving curtain walls a run for their money. Jes Fernie looks at buildings that bear their structure on their sleeves

  • Looking down the length of the atrium. The entrance from Hatton Garden is visible on the left
    Building Study

    Gold standard

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    In London’s Hatton Garden, almost unknown territory for large office developments, AHMM’s Johnson Building mixes radicalism with sophistication.

  • Mueller Keener Associates and Sabine Gollner’s Skelter features coloured polycarbonate strips inset into the steel panels for colour and luminosity.
    Technical

    Gimme shelters

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    A West Midlands scheme shows how building youth shelters can benefit both young people and architects.

  • Line of site
    Technical

    Design an international oasis for a desert

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Of all the potentially disastrous effects of climate change, “water wars” would be the most bloody and brutal.

  • Sheppard Robson’s £60,000 house, on show in front of the Building Centre in London, drew media and public attention.
    Building Study

    The cost of living

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    John Prescott’s Design for Manufacture competition sparked a serious debate about the economics of housing provision

  • The bridge over the Rio Aguarico, Ecuador.
    Technical

    Hands across the divide

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Two community-led approaches to helping the developing world show how architectural skills - often overlooked by aid organisations - are rebuilding lives from Kosovo to Cambodia.

  • A bombed-out post office in a Kosovan village inspired this image by London Metropolitan diploma students.
    Technical

    London Met's disaster MA fits the new world order

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Toni Ruttimann's story was about breaking the rules on international aid, rules which recent events have shown to be in any case changing.

  • The rendered block fronting Rue du Universite is animated by the ceiling frescoes provided by Aboriginal artists. The volume faced in pleated white steel panels houses the temporary gallery and foyer. The permanent collection is housed above.
    Building Study

    Heart of darkness

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    President Jacques Chirac's legacy is an ambitious and controversial museum devoted to France's ethnic art works. But Jean Nouvel's heavy-handed approach and the Disney-esque displays fail to put the new Musée du Quai Branly on a par with the the French capital's other cultural high points

  • The Abode development by Proctor & Matthews drew as far as possible on local vernacular styles and materials.
    Building Study

    Mix and match

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Proctor & Matthews’ Abode housing in Essex was noted for its density and vernacular references. Three years on, director Andrew Matthews returns

  • The walls and roof slates are the same colour, so the building reads as a single unit, while flush windows make the volume abstract.
    Building Study

    Pump house gang

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Maccreanor Lavington’s four new terraced houses on an awkward site in north London prove surprisingly peaceful

  • The two listed mills face each other across a courtyard, joined by the new linking building.
    Building Study

    Something old something new

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Cartwright Pickard’s Fearn Island Mills scheme in Leeds shows there’s still life in industrial conversions

  • Building Study

    Luna landscape

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    While its design is very much of the moment, Glenn Howells’ Luna Building fits in perfectly with its older riverside neighbours.

  • Technical

    I wish I'd done that...House

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    James Soane on the ‘architecture of modesty’ in Jim Ede’s conversion of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge

  • Student Jesse Randzio pre-assembling the pavilion components.
    Technical

    On the cutting room floor

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The AA student summer pavilion is a work of fractal geometry in wood. Elaine Knutt tells us how they did it

  • Technical

    I wish I'd done that... Timber structure

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Matthew Wells on the equestrian centre, Flyinge Kungsgarden, Sweden

  • Technical

    Time Test

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Sophy Twohig, a project director at Hopkins Architects, looks at how her practice's refectory at Norwich cathedral has stood up to the elements

  • The elevation to Southcombe Street is made from cast stone which employs a Portland stone aggregate.
    Building Study

    Poetic justice

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Terry Pawson's west London office building combines a redundant court building, arts and crafts detail and modern theory to imposing effect

  • Technical

    Beyond the regulations

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Renewables will only get us so far - reducing CO2 emissions must be the key

  • Green scene South West Eco Homes, the company set up in 2002 by the Somerset Trust for Sustainable Development, has completed a new “green” showhome (pictured) at Great Bow Yard in Langport.
    Technical

    Techbrief

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    This week, innovations from Vaillant, South West Eco Homes, Kawneer UK and Akristos