Interiors – Page 2
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InspirationsNick 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
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Technical
Carrowbreck Meadows, Norwich, by Hamson Barron Smith
Hamson Barron Smith has planted 14 Passivhaus homes in a woodland in Norfolk. Ike Ijeh explains why it could blossom into a scheme of nationwide significance
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Building Study
Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville, Caen by OMA
With its regular glazed facades and cruciform shape, the northern French city’s new library is surprisingly understated for an OMA project. But as you would expect from the Dutch practice, there are some clever architectural manoeuvres at play – as Ike Ijeh finds out
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Technical
Smart floors: Step-by-step care
Sensor technology embedded in floors could be about to revolutionise patient monitoring in elderly care and dementia homes
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Building Study
Young Street Campus, Cambridge by Richard Murphy Architects
The architect has skilfully integrated Anglia Ruskin University’s new nursing and music therapy campus into a close-knit network of Cambridge terraces, writes Ike Ijeh
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Technical
Wellbeing registration: Europe's first project
There is now an international standard for measuring how a building impacts on its users’ health and wellbeing. Ike Ijeh looks at how Studio Ben Allen Architects’ One Carter Lane became the first European project to receive the accreditation
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Technical
House Bøe Møller, Norway, by Knut Hjeltnes Arkitekter
Knut Hjeltnes’ single-storey house in Oslo, Norway, continues the architect’s experimentation with materials and succeeds in creating spatial variety despite its simple plan
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Building Study
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, Athens, by Renzo Piano
Greece’s most significant cultural project in more than a decade - housing the National Opera House and National Library - is impressive in scale. But do all the elements live up to its immense ambition?
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Technical
Technical: Seeing the light
Research has shown the effects that the brightness and colour of indoor lighting can have on personal wellbeing and performance, which could impact on the way interior architects are expected to approach new designs. Amanda Birch reports
