Buildings – Page 78
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Building StudyAdjaye’s new building at Rivington Place is an answer to his critics
With an OBE and a place on last year’s Stirling shortlist David Adjaye has a level of fame that could be seen as disproportionate to his achievements. But his latest building, a base for two cultural organisations in east London, should help redress this imbalance.
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Building StudyFoster reveals Spaceport design - images
These futuristic images are Foster and Partners’ designs for the world’s first passenger “spaceport”.
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Building StudySchool in Rudrapur, Bangladesh
German and Austrian architects Anna Heringer and Eike Roswag share the award for this hand-built school with Bangladeshi NGO Dipshikha
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Building StudyOrion Building, Birmingham by BBLB Architects with John Rocha
"I'd like to nominate the Orion Building," writes Deb Adams. "It’s crude, vulgar and does nothing to enhance the city's architectural reputation." Her nomination is seconded by ex-Cabe commissioner Les Sparks who said: “The Orion Development by Crosby Homes in Navigation Street is a massive apartment complex incompetently designed to ...
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Building StudyKX200 by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, London
Reclad office tower for developer First Base to create a mixed apartment block on London’s Pentonville Road. Nominated anonymously: "This building says: ' Hey - I'm so now and hip' just because the architect has had the very unoriginal idea of cladding it in various shades of ...
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Building StudyOpal Court, Leicester by Stephen George and Partners
A student and key worker housing block near Leicester city centre.Richard L posted his support for this anonymous nomination. “It’s symptomatic of the kind of rubbish being built in leicester at the moment, especially around De Montfort. Leicester is quickly developing an idendikit city centre which will be indistinguishable from ...
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TechnicalHow we cracked the art of colour chemistry
Hawkins Brown creates a contemporary facade that sits comfortably in the historic surroundings of Oxford
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TechnicalScaling new heights in zero-carbon housing
How practical is lightweight construction as a way of complying with the Code for Sustainable Homes?
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Building StudyA brick is a brick for Dutch practice Wingender Hovenier
This Dutch practice is representative of a new generation of European architects who are rejecting recent architecture’s ironic posturing in favour of something fundamentally contextual, says Paul Shepheard
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TechnicalDelivering a garden space
The challenge for Ash Sakula Architects was to create a garden and media gallery in a tiny space at the back of a central London terrace. What the firm delivered was out of this world
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TechnicalWhat we can learn from ‘the good life’
Being sustainable and being happy work surprisingly well in tandem
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Building StudyExpanded horizons
It was a tale of two galleries when thwarted plans to enlarge the Newlyn Art Gallery led to an ambitious expansion across two sites
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Building StudyIn detail: Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
Architect MUMASlate consultant Viv StrattonRoofing subcontractor Forrester RoofingTrevillett slate hung in the traditional Cornish manner has been used to clad the new extension to Newlyn Art Gallery. A scantle was used to set out the battens and slates to achieve a continuously diminishing coursing without any banding. A scantle ...
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TechnicalLifting the lid on slate roofing
Slate consultant for Newlyn Art Gallery, Viv Stratton, talks about the traditional technique of scantle slate roofing
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TechnicalAdding biofuel to the fire
The government says biomass could provide a sustainable means of heating UK homes, but is this remotely practical?
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Building StudyDRMM's MK anniversary tower
De Rijke Marsh Morgan is building this 19m tall wooden tower as part of the celebrations of Milton Keynes at 40