Cultural – Page 7
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Building StudyGwangju follies
The South Korean city has commissioned the first of a series of 100 pavilions with which it plans to reassert its historic urban form
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Building StudyArcellorMittal Orbit by Anish Kapoor, Cecil Balmond and Kathryn Findlay
Kapoor’s tower revels in its ugliness, mocking the reserved spirit of the rest of the Olympic site
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InspirationsHans van der Heijden's inspiration: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
The co-founder of BIQ on how his relationship with Rotterdam’s Boijmans museum has shadowed his own evolution as an architect
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TechnicalRothschild Foundation/Windmill Hill by Stephen Marshall Architects
The new charity office and archive buildings use oak extensively for doors, window shutters, screens and vertical cladding.
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Building StudyColchester slips up on Viñoly’s golden banana
There are many reasons not to like Rafael Viñoly’s Colchester Firstsite, which finally opens this week, four years late and, at £28 million, costing almost twice its original budget.
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Building StudyBrockholes Wetland Nature Reserve, by Adam Khan Architects
Moored in a flooded gravel pit off the M6, Adam Khan Architects’ Brockholes Wetland Nature Reserve visitor centre forms a gateway to nature
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Building StudyNational Museum of Scotland refurbishment by Gareth Hoskins Architects
The £47 million revamp of Fowke’s Victorian museum, by a team led by Gareth Hoskins, restores the clarity of the building’s original plan.
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TechnicalElbphilharmonie Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron
This geometrically complex concert hall is set to become one of the best in the world
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Building StudyMuseum of Liverpool, by 3XN and AEW
After seven years of legal battles, cost-cutting and a change of architects, the £72 million Museum of Liverpool proves a spectacular botch-up completely divorced from its context
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Building StudyIn defence of the Sainsbury Wing
From the BD archive: Denise Scott Brown wrote this essay when the project opened, but she chose not to publish it for 20 years to avoid ruffling feathers
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TechnicalSerpentine Gallery Pavilion by Peter Zumthor
Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion blacks out the noise and smells of London to lead the visitor to a tranquil garden of light.
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Building StudyZaha Hadid Architects’ Riverside museum in Glasgow
City icon it may be, but Zaha Hadid’s Riverside transport museum is as removed from its Glasgow context as the cars and trains housed within its zinc-clad walls, says Steve Parnell
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Building StudyLyric Theatre in Belfast by O’Donnell & Tuomey
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s joyful new building is the stuff of theatrical legends,
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InspirationsPaul Monaghan’s inspiration: Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool
Paul Monaghan of AHMM tells how the boldness of Frederick Gibberd’s Catholic cathedral made a far-reaching impression
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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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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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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 StudyDavid Chipperfield’s Turner Contemporary Gallery
David Chipperfield’s Margate gallery celebrates its unique light but fails to open up to the town
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TechnicalSteel structure at the heart of Bennetts’ Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford
Steel plays both a functional and aesthetic role in the design Bennetts Associates’ RST auditorium.
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Building StudyFirst look: Zumthor shelters historic Jericho mosaic
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has designed a shelter to protect the Middle East’s largest mosaic