Buildings – Page 98
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Building StudyVienna's white elephants
Zaha Hadid's project at Spittelau, Vienna, is one of her most compelling yet. Too bad it has become possibly the most expensive and ill-conceived social housing in the world.
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Building StudyIn detail: Spittelau Viaduct, Vienna, Austria
Zaha Hadid ArchitectsThree cranked blocks of housing step over an abandoned railway viaduct to stitch a run-down stretch of waterfront on the Danube Canal back into the city fabric. The arches of the viaduct, designed by Otto Wagner contain shop and restaurant units.No additional load can be put on the ...
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TechnicalGeometry answer
A floating platform will turn a grand Georgian hall into a modern family space.
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 24: Aurora Building, Bothwell Street, Glasgow
We had designed a new glazed entrance for an office building in Glasgow.
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Building StudyShrink wrapped
Designing a centre for scientists working in nanotechnology, Feilden Clegg Bradley faced a rigid technical brief. Despite this, its new research centre is both delicate and confident, giving UCL's Bloomsbury campus a new front door.. Photos by Tim Soar
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Building StudyIn detail: London Centre for Nanotechnology
The Nanotechnology building has eight floors of laboratories and offices dedicated to interdisciplinary research in atomic scale devices and materials.
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TechnicalI wish I'd done that...
Surface: Helen Berresford on Peter Zumthor's gneiss stone Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland
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TechnicalTulip goes straight to the heart
Wood panels and creative lighting put warmth and energy at the ‘heart' of office life.
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TechnicalTime Test: Loxley House, Nottingham
John McRae, a director of ORMS Architecture Design, revists the interior surfaces in the atrium of Loxley House in Nottingham, the UK headquarters of Capital One
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Building StudyDonnybrook housing by Peter Barber
Peter Barber Architects' low-rise, high-density dwellings for Donnybrook in London's East End have redrawn the template for urban terraced housing.
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Technical
What's new in sustainability
Will the mayor's energy targets work? and what can we learn from chilled wine?
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 23: Victorian conversion by Sanya Polescuk Architects
We wanted to bring a sense of space and light to a very narrow Victorian terraced house by opening up the spaces, rationalising the circulation and improving the connection to the garden.
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Building StudyGloom with a view
Gianni Botsford's St John's Mews house is crafted on a tricky inner-city site. But while the clients are happy, Graham Bizley finds it lacks the soul and intimacy of a family home. Photos by Hélène Binet
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TechnicalA new era for Europan
The chance of a winning Europan scheme being built in the UK has traditionally been poor. Until now. This year, the government wants to see all three projects to completion, and it just might happen.
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Building StudyIn celebration of Jim and James
The Stirling & Gowan partnership (1956-1963) was roughly coincident with my own architectural education (1958-1965). In this short period they exerted a profound influence on my generation as both educators and architects.
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TechnicalI wish I'd done that...
Penny Richards on Giovanni Michelucci's Chiesa dell'Autostrada, Italy
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TechnicalPack up your bubbles
Elaine Knutt reports on a technique of adding hollow plastic balls to concrete to make it lighter and more versatile
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TechnicalUnderground movement
Space constraints mean a school gym is being built in a subterranean concrete box.