Buildings – Page 36
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Building StudyExhibition Road, London, by Dixon Jones
Dixon Jones’s shared-space scheme for Exhibition Road paves the way for many more creative London streetscapes
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Building StudyFirst look: Duggan Morris uses cubic forms to create Richmond arts wing
New elements are intended to contrast against the imposing original Edwardian Richmond Adult Community College
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TechnicalBIG unveils 'driverless city' plan
BIG Architects’ futuristic proposal uses a carpet of LEDs to create a public space shared by people and cars
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Building StudyLondon 2012 Athletes’ Village
London 2012’s Athletes’ Village far outstrips the makeshift facilities of the last century, but the need to beat the clock has taken its toll
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TechnicalVauxhall Spring Gardens light poles by DSDHA
Dramatic LED lighting changes colour to mark the entrance to a historic London site
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Building StudyFirst Look: Inglis Badrashi Loddo designs brick barrel vault semi-detached houses
Inglis Badrashi Loddo Architects has submitted a planning application for a pair of two-storey semi-detached houses in Barnet, north London.
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TechnicalMcLaren Production Centre by Foster & Partners
Foster’s latest building for McLaren echoes the practices earliest projects in its showcasing of technology
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Building StudyPeabody Avenue social housing in Pimlico, London, by Haworth Tompkins
A new social housing scheme in central London for Peabody marks a deliberate move away from novelty in favour of longevity
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Building StudyFirst look: AHMM takes domestic approach with suburban hospice scheme
Architect designs £1.8 million building to feel like a ‘big version of someone’s house’
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TechnicalKfW-Westarkade banking HQ, Frankfurt, by Sauerbruch Hutton
Sauerbruch Hutton’s glazed offices feature a technically innovative approach to passive ventilation
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Building StudyRue du Cendrier housing by Sergison Bates and Jean-Paul Jaccaud
Sergison Bates has teamed up with Swiss architect Jean-Paul Jaccaud to create a Geneva social housing project that resolves a long-standing urban fault
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TechnicalConstructing a precast load-bearing facade
The cladding concept of Sergison Bates’ and Jean-Paul Jaccaud’s Geneva housing and creche building
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Building StudyFirst Look: Architype given green light for sustainable Peckham charity HQ
Scheme on island site is follows Passivhaus principles
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Building StudyLooking forward to a retrofit future
Retrofitting meets the challenge of improving energy efficiency in existing stock, as Penoyre & Prasad’s refurb of a 1990s house in London shows
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Building StudyBroadway School by Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture
A pragmatic yet innovative approach to a school refurbishment in Birmingham points towards the future of educational institutions in these straitened times
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Building StudyFirst Look: A2 Architects’ Irish arts centre takes its cue from the landscape
A2 Architects has revealed images of its design for a new community arts centre in Tullamore, the county town of Offaly in Ireland.
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Building StudyDrawing board: The White Building, Hackney Wick
Director David Kohn and project architect Tom McGlynn discuss how they are converting a redundant print works on the fringes of the 2012 Olympics site into an arts centre with Expedition Architecture
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Building StudyCanada Water Library, London, by CZWG
In spite of funding cuts and its lack of public-sector experience, CZWG has created an imaginative public library in London’s Docklands
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Building StudyFirst Look: Vaudeville Court housing by Levitt Bernstein
Architect to design socially-rented family housing in north London
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TechnicalPrimary school library by Kéré Architects
This building in rural Burkina Faso makes innovative use of clay pots in its ceiling to aid lighting and ventilation