Buildings – Page 42
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Building StudyCaistor Arts & Heritage Centre by Jonathan Hendry Architects
This reinvention of a Primitive Methodist chapel in Lincolnshire as an arts and heritage centre is one of the early manifestations of the Big Society
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TechnicalLSE New Students’ Centre by O’Donnell & Tuomey
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s competition-winning proposal for the London School of Economics’ new Students’ Centre is striking not only for its crumpled form, but its unusual perforated brick facing.
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TechnicalMaccreanor Lavington’s Ceres apartments
The brown brick of these Netherlands canalside apartment blocks provides a continuity with the industrial buildings they have replaced
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Building StudyFirst look: Caruso St John to transform Lille steelworks into hoteliers’ college
Caruso St John Architects has won an invited competition for a new hotelier training college on the site of a former steelworks in Lille, beating entries from MVRDV and Xavier De Geyter among others.
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Building StudyDoppelhaus by Lütjens Padmanabhan
On a restricted suburban plot by Lake Zürich, Lütjens Padmanabhan has brought a new wit and richness to the semi-detached house
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Building StudyDrawing board: Sita UK energy-from-waste facility by Grimshaw
Great Blakenham in Suffolk will be the location for one of the many new energy from waste (EfW) facilities. Grimshaw partner Chris Nash and project architect Chris Fletcher discuss their design for the plant.
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Building StudyCroydon: one of London’s more surreal urban experiences
Grand ambitions and patchy execution are a recipe for urban misery in the London Borough of Croydon, the Mini-Manhattan of the South-east
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Building StudyFirst look: Friend & Co's Kielder Park bat station
Plans for a bat spiral, the UK’s first bat station, in the Kielder Water & Forest Park, Northumberland have been revealed by Friend & Company Architects.
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Building StudyHepworth Wakefield, by David Chipperfield Architects
Chipperfield’s gallery, which opens this week, draws on the power and heritage of its mill-town setting
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TechnicalGamlingay Eco Hub community centre by Civic Architects
Civic Architects’ remodelling of a Cambridgeshire village community centre uses sustainable materials and three different passive heat and power technologies.
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Building StudyStudio Octopi stages theatrical revival in Berkshire countryside
Studio Octopi has revealed images of its scheme to revamp the Victorian amphitheatre in the grounds of Bradfield College, a private school set in the Berkshire countryside.
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Building StudyHolburne Museum of Art extension, Bath, by Eric Parry Architects
Eric Parry’s Holburne Museum pavilion has emerged from protracted battles with planners to reflect the best of its former pleasure garden setting.
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Building StudyWoolf breaks ground in Nairobi
Jonathan Woolf Architects has revealed designs for a 1,300sq m private house in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Building StudySt Pancras Renaissance London Hotel by RHWL and Richard Griffiths
The painstaking restoration of St Pancras station’s neo-Gothic Midland Grand Hotel by architects RHWL and Richard Griffiths honours George Gilbert Scott’s original vision, despite some disappointing fit-out choices.
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TechnicalBirmingham Library facade by Mecanoo
A technical look at the distinctive facade Mecanoo designed for the new Birmingham Library.
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TechnicalQ & A with Arup cladding expert Mikkel Kragh
Architects’ obsession with glazed facades is coming to an end and the future of buildings will look very different, says Arup’s Mikkel Kragh.
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Building StudyDrawing board: Long & Kentish Porthmeor Studios
MJ Long and Rolfe Kentish discuss their refurbishment of Porthmeor artists’ studios in St Ives, Corwall
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Building StudyBrighton: the most seductive city of the new economy
Attractiveness and hypocrisy combine to create Brighton & Hove’s unique urban experience
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Building StudyFirst look: ARU’s biennale folly will mark site of South Korean uprising
The Architecture Research Unit (ARU) has revealed designs for a folly for the Gwangju Design Biennale in South Korea.
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Building StudyDavid Chipperfield’s Turner Contemporary Gallery
David Chipperfield’s Margate gallery celebrates its unique light but fails to open up to the town