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Interiors – Page 2
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News‘We still have censorship – it’s called the planning system’
Anyone wanting to do ambitious architecture goes abroad, claims former PM advisor
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Technical
Technical Study: Boulevard Theatre, Soho
Thomas Lane finds out how Soda Studio turned tricks with a tiny space to create a supremely flexible theatre
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Opinion
How to design a beautifully modest building
Two new cultural projects by Feilden Fowles and 6a could teach the likes of Diller Scofidio Renfro a thing or two about ambition
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Technical
Technical Study: Alexandra Palace Theatre, London
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ restoration applies the principle of arrested decay with technical ingenuity and visual conviction
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Technical
Technical Study: Royal Opera House, London
Stanton Williams’ revamp of the Royal Opera House opens up the building to make it more accessible as a public space
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Building Study
Building Study: Signal Townhouses, Greenwich, by AHMM
The stereotype of back-to-back housing as cramped and poorly lit is overturned by a thoughtfully designed scheme
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Technical
Technical Study: Bristol Old Vic
Haworth Tompkins has woven a natural ventilation system through the 250-year-old fabric of this grade I theatre
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Building Study
Building Study: Alto private rental scheme, London, by Flanagan Lawrence
On a vast regeneration site in Wembley, Quintain is building what it hopes will be the UK’s largest build-to-rent scheme
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Technical
Technical Study: House in Torhout, Belgium
Marie-José Van Hee has created a refined concrete and timber fronted house above a Flemish dentist using a clever structural solution
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Inspirations
Nick Hayhurst and Jonathan Nicholls' inspiration: Villa dall’Ava, Paris, France
The directors of Hayhurst Co on OMA’s ‘structurally bonkers’ house
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Building Study
Building Study: Hackney town hall, by Hawkins Brown
It’s taken 12 years to restore Hackney town hall after 80 years of neglect. Ike Ijeh assesses the results
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Technical
Technical Study: Vitsoe factory, Leamington Spa
The firm behind Dieter Rams’ 606 shelving system has created a temple to craftsmanship with its new HQ
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Building Study
Building Study: Lego House, Billund, Denmark, by BIG
Lego’s new showpiece attraction in Billund, Denmark, combines exhibition space and the Lego experience in a building that is playful but not contrived, finds Ike Ijeh
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Building Study
Birmingham Conservatoire, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Birmingham’s £57m music college is a quieter building than many of the city’s recent shouty projects. But its very restraint has produced an anonymous facade that conceals the elegant spaces within, says Ike Ijeh
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Building Study
Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Oxford by Níall McLaughlin Architects
At Worcester College, Oxford, Níall McLaughlin Architects has created an elegant building that manages to be both proudly contemporary and almost classically formal while moulding into the landscape. Ike Ijeh finds out how the architect managed it
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Technical
Technical study: Larkfield Road, Dublin
Tom de Paor has created an expansive network of interconnected spaces next to an end-of-terrace property in south Dublin, writes Hugh Strange
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Technical
Technical study: Tate St Ives extension, St Ives, Cornwall
Jamie Fobert’s discreet subterranean gallery extension has calmed locals’ concerns about the impact on the town’s skyline and reflects in its design all the elements that make St Ives special
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Building Study
The Storyhouse, Chester by Bennetts Associates
The Storyhouse in Chester is a daring construction of opposites, with a theatre, cinema and library brought together in a space that combines new-build and the spirit of the orginal 1930s picture house. Ike Ijeh reports on how the building energetically opens up storytelling to the local community
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Building Study
Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin by Gehry Partners
Frank Gehry’s £28.5m Berlin concert hall is an unusual building for this celebrated creator of the unusual. Ike Ijeh finds that through its sharp contradictions of age, shape and material, it achieves a kind of peace
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Technical
Technical study: Atlas House, Eindhoven
Monadnock has created a three-storey house of clarity, rigour and poetic flourishes on a Dutch woodland estate, writes Hugh Strange
