Buildings – Page 55
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TechnicalSustainable beauty
Tile of Spain member Roca introduces its greenest collection of ceramic tiles
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TechnicalQuick fitters for cool floors
With a heat wave predicted for the coming months, tiles offer a welcome flooring solution that will not only keep your home cool as the temperatures rise, but will also provide a stunning Mediterranean look and feel
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TechnicalGateway to education
Irish practice Grafton Architects has created an impressive new faculty building that also acts as a front door to Milan’s Bocconi University
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Building StudyCambridge blues
Beyond its historic centre, Cambridge’s modern architectural landscape speaks of dislocation and secrecy
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Building StudyOut of the woods: Hopkins’ green learning machine
Hopkins Architects’ new building for Yale University’s forestry school matches sustainability credentials with a sensitive response to its Connecticut context
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TechnicalDow Jones recalls the lessons of Powell & Moya’s Cripps Building at St John’s College
Alun Jones and Biba Dow were first inspired by Powell & Moya’s Cripps Building when they were students in Cambridge.
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Building StudyKim Wilkie gets down to earth
Landscape architect Kim Wilkie Associates’ monumental 7m excavation called Orpheus brings both historic continuity and unexpectedness to the grounds of Boughton House in Northamptonshire
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TechnicalBreaking away from the slideshow presentation
How software can solve problems with images in screen-based presentations
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TechnicalSteel shelter folds into the Northumberland landscape
Sixteen Makers’ shelter for Kielder Park was manufactured in a German factory run by one of the architects
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Building StudyEast’s Sussex Road Primary School in Tonbridge, Kent
Architectural practice East’s commitment to working with a location’s found conditions proved particularly apt when the brief for an extension to Sussex Road Primary School in Tonbridge unexpectedly grew in size
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Building StudyGlasgow: Centuries of change
With its sixties blocks being reclad or demolished, Glasgow has never regained the architectural confidence it showed in the early 20th century
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TechnicalAAIS pumps up the drama
An inflatable extension to a German theatre, designed by a team from the AA’s new Interprofessional Studio, had to overcome the attentions of a concerned local authority
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Building StudyNicholas Hare’s Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College, Birmingham
Nicholas Hare’s Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College provides the students with an atmosphere of calm relaxation
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Building StudyPeter Barber creates a place for change
Spring Gardens hostel for the homeless in south-east London creates an environment that enables residents to regain their independence
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TechnicalZaha Hadid’s new museum brings Glasgow into the fold
Zaha Hadid Architects’ Glasgow Museum of Transport Riverside project creates a vast internal space thanks to the rigidity of its distinctive pleated steel roof
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TechnicalHeatherwick’s Paperhouse kiosks open for business in Kensington
Heatherwick Studios’ bronze and steel kiosks for the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea are sturdy, flexible and sculptural
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Building StudyPolitical transparency helps Fretton to scoop Belgian centre
Tony Fretton Architects has won a competition to build a new €11.75 million (£10 million) administrative centre in the town of Deinze, Belgium
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TechnicalHadid’s Chanel pavilion proving to be a classic in plastic
Inspired by the iconic Chanel 2.55 handbag, Zaha Hadid’s Mobile Art structure reshapes the way polymers can be used by architects
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Building StudyStanton Williams’s double decker delight at Cadbury’s Bournville
Two dramatic full-height atriums lie at the heart of Stanton Williams’ remodelling of a 1927 block as the administrative centre of Cadbury’s Bournville chocolate factory
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Building StudyWoolwich gets a kick up the Arsenal
Since the closure of its munitions factories, Woolwich has become one of the most deprived parts of London. But now Witherford Watson Mann’s public realm improvements are leading a major effort to turn the area around