Buildings – Page 37
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TechnicalLiving With Lakes Centre, Sudbury, Canada
A new sustainable lakeside research lab in a landscape damaged by nickel mining is 77% more efficient than conventional building
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Building StudyRothschild Bank headquarters, London, by OMA
This light, agile new building for the Rothschild banking dynasty is a model of discretion when contrasted with its attention-seeking City neighbours
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Building StudyFirst Look: Pitman Tozer's Peabody housing in Bethnal Green
Architect’s scheme will provide 67 new homes for rent, shared ownership and private sale
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Building StudyThe Spa School, Southwark, by AOC
AOC’s BSF Spa School for children with autistic spectrum disorder makes a virtue of its suburban setting
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TechnicalMetropol Parasol in Seville by Jürgen Mayer H
One of the world’s largest wooden structures has been built in Spain to house Roman ruins, a farmers’ market, cultural events and a café
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Building StudyFirst Look: Peter Barber’s ziggurat homes form fourth side of Stepney site
Peter Barber Architects has revealed plans for a new social housing development set around a community garden, at Hannibal Road in Stepney, east London.
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TechnicalSnøhetta’s Wild Reindeer Centre pavilion
A striking timber pavilion provides shelter to observe wildlife in Norway’s harsh mountain landscape
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Building StudyCity of London: Old Corruption in braced glass
The Occupy encampment makes the perfect backdrop against which to examine the City’s contrasts as Owen Hatherley’s series concludes
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Building StudyQuadrant 3 by Dixon Jones
Dixon Jones’s reinvention of the 1915 Regent Palace Hotel as offices and retail presents its past glories to their best advantage
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Building StudyFirst Look: Tonkin Liu aims high with ‘organic’ cliff-top Dover house
Tonkin Liu has received planning consent for a new family house in St Margaret’s Bay, Dover.
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Building StudyDrawing board: 120 Moorgate, City of London by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Director Paul Sandilands and project architect Chloe Phelps discuss the practice’s first City office development
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Building StudyFirst look: Erect Architecture’s adventure playground given green light
London’s Kennington Park to get new £1.2m children’s facility
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TechnicalWorth Abbey Church by Heatherwick Studio
New furniture and cleaned-up concrete enhances Francis Pollen’s original design
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TechnicalNational Gallery Lower Galleries by Wright & Wright
The architect went beyond the minimal brief when refurbishing the National Gallery’s often overlooked lower galleries
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Building StudyWohnWerk, Basel, by Christ & Gantenbein
A scheme that combines live and work space for a community of adults with learning difficulties invests archetypal building types with a high level of specificity
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Building StudyFirst look: Stephen Taylor blends tradition and innovation at Coolhurst Club
Stephen Taylor Architects has revealed images of a new squash court club house for the Coolhurst Tennis & Squash Club in Highgate, north London.The £1 million building comprises a simple steel-portal frame shed, clad in crinkly tin, to house four new squash courts, and a “frontispiece” timber portico, providing a ...
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Building StudyGwangju follies
The South Korean city has commissioned the first of a series of 100 pavilions with which it plans to reassert its historic urban form
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Building StudyArcellorMittal Orbit by Anish Kapoor, Cecil Balmond and Kathryn Findlay
Kapoor’s tower revels in its ugliness, mocking the reserved spirit of the rest of the Olympic site
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Building StudyFirst Look: Feilden Fowles’ school centre puts focus on all-round learning
Feilden Fowles has revealed images of its Applied Learning Centre for the Ralph Allen School in Bath.
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TechnicalB35 apartments by AGPS Architecture
Hansjürg Leibundgut’s Zurich home is also a ground-breaking research project into energy use