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Building Study: Churchill College housing, Cambridge, by Cottrell & Vermeulen
Cottrell & Vermeulen’s new postgraduate block for the Cambridge college is a deft study in how to do contextual architecture when the context happens to be your own work, writes Ike Ijeh
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Building Study: Drayton Green Church, by Piercy & Company
This west London church replaces medieval mystery with digital geometry in a thrilling reinterpretation of the gothic tradition
Building Study: The Ray, Farringdon, by AHMM
Paying close attention to its 19th-century context has created an office with character, says Ike Ijeh
Building Study: Windermere Jetty Museum, Cumbria, by Carmody Groarke
Carmody Groarke’s museum joyfully embodies and integrates with the romantic landscape and local vernacular of the Lakes
Je Ahn’s inspiration: Tongdosa temple complex, South Korea
Studio Weave co-founder finds himself continually drawn back to a place he first encountered as a child
John Puttick’s inspiration: Fundació Joan Miró, Parc de Montjuïc, Barcelona
Josep Lluís Sert’s 1975 gallery is supremely simple - but its design is not passive
Building Study: South London Gallery, by 6a architects
At a derelict fire station, 6a architects has created a sleek contemporary exhibition space while skilfully reawakening the building’s layered past
Building Study: Drayton Green Church, by Piercy & Company
This west London church replaces medieval mystery with digital geometry in a thrilling reinterpretation of the gothic tradition
Building Study: Copyright Building, London, by Piercy & Company
The project continues the firm’s exploration of office as civic building, with active streetfronts, detailed interiors and nods to Fitzrovia’s past
Building Study: US Embassy, Battersea, by Kieran Timberlake
Ike Ijeh finds innovation outshines fortification
Building Study: Churchill College housing, Cambridge, by Cottrell & Vermeulen
Cottrell & Vermeulen’s new postgraduate block for the Cambridge college is a deft study in how to do contextual architecture when the context happens to be your own work, writes Ike Ijeh
Building Study: Bellenden Primary School, London, by Cottrell and Vermuelen
A compact island site in south-east London has been turned into a spacious, playful primary school that’s cleverly knitted into the urban fabric
Nick Hayhurst and Jonathan Nicholls' inspiration: Villa dall’Ava, Paris, France
The directors of Hayhurst & Co on OMA’s ‘structurally bonkers’ house
Building Study: Barts Maggie's by Steven Holl
Ike Ijeh is less than impressed
Maggie's Centre, Kirkcaldy by Zaha Hadid
In 2006, Zaha Hadid’s first UK building opened. It was a Maggie’s cancer care centre in the grounds of a Kirkcaldy hospital and BD’s then architecture critic Ellis Woodman found that it took excellent advantage of a quirky site to create architecture of a very high order. This is what ...
Lydia Eva Court by Barron and Smith Architects
By 2051 it is predicted over two million people in the UK will have dementia and more care homes will need to be built that are adapted to these complex needs. One pioneering care home in Norfolk shows how it can be done, says Ike Ijeh
Building Study: Churchill College housing, Cambridge, by Cottrell & Vermeulen
Cottrell & Vermeulen’s new postgraduate block for the Cambridge college is a deft study in how to do contextual architecture when the context happens to be your own work, writes Ike Ijeh
Building Study: Dancy House, Marlborough, by Allies and Morrison
This block for Marlborough College is a perfect compromise between the school’s rarefied idyll and the practice’s trademark contemporary aesthetic
Building Study: Blackfriars Circus, London, by Maccreanor Lavington
It does everything a scheme centred on a 27-storey residential tower can do to engage with London’s architectural heritage
Treetop walkway, Westonbirt, by Glenn Howells Architects
This aerial footpath snakes its way through the forest at Westonbirt Arboretum in the Cotswolds using form, structure and materials to lift visitors to a heightened communion with nature. Ike Ijeh takes a walk on the wild side
Birmingham New Street Station by AZPML
It was never going to take a lot to improve on the squalid eyesore of the 1960s incarnation of Birmingham New Street Station. Shame though about the whiff of fakery
King's Cross western concourse by John McAslan and Partners
Fifteen years in planning, John McAslan’s ambitious concourse underpins a major transformation of the hitherto neglected London station
Building Study: Bracken House, London, by John Robertson Architects
In its time it has embodied more than one archetype of the City office block, from 1950s solid sandstone to 1980s high-tech glass and steel
Building Study: BBC TV Centre, London, by AHMM
The iconic home of television has been given a new lease of life as housing, offices - and studios. Ike Ijeh tunes in
Building Study: Bloomberg HQ, London by Foster & Partners
Bloomberg’s European headquarters breaks with recent City tradition by respecting the architectural context of its surroundings. And it’s all the better for it, says Ike Ijeh
Building Study: Welsh Streets, Liverpool, by MCAU
This radical build-to-rent scheme encourages community and provides a blueprint for other developers
The Postal Museum by Feilden Clegg Bradley
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s quiet restoration and intelligent extension of a former post office at London’s gargantuan Mount Pleasant sorting office betrays little of the astonishing visitor attraction below
V&A Exhibition Road Quarter, London by AL_A
Amanda Levete’s £48m expansion of London’s V&A connects the museum with the public realm through a superb porcelain-paved courtyard. But it’s the sheer immersive power of its vast subterranean exhibition hall that will make visitors stand and gawp
Building Study: Coal Drops Yard, London, by Heatherwick Studio
The retail hub revels in the idiosyncrasies of its original Victorian warehouse architecture, says Ike Ijeh
Victoria Gate by Acme
A modern city centre retail project in Leeds harks back to the city’s grand Victorian shopping arcades
Birmingham New Street Station by AZPML
It was never going to take a lot to improve on the squalid eyesore of the 1960s incarnation of Birmingham New Street Station. Shame though about the whiff of fakery
Sadie Morgan's inspiration: Plymouth Lido
The art deco pool has a place in the heart of the dRMM co-founder and BD Female Architectural Leader for many reasons, including a rather personal one
Building Study: Arhus harbour baths, Denmark, by Bjarke Ingels
BIG repeats its trick of bringing swimming to the heart of the city. Could it work in London?
The verdict: Diébédo Francis Kéré's Serpentine Pavilion
This simple structure is laced with countless stories of inclusivity which speak to a London in grief, finds Ike Ijeh
