Latest Building Studies – Page 23
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Building StudyWohnWerk, Basel, by Christ & Gantenbein
A scheme that combines live and work space for a community of adults with learning difficulties invests archetypal building types with a high level of specificity
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Building StudyFirst look: Stephen Taylor blends tradition and innovation at Coolhurst Club
Stephen Taylor Architects has revealed images of a new squash court club house for the Coolhurst Tennis & Squash Club in Highgate, north London.The £1 million building comprises a simple steel-portal frame shed, clad in crinkly tin, to house four new squash courts, and a “frontispiece” timber portico, providing a ...
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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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Building StudyFirst Look: Feilden Fowles’ school centre puts focus on all-round learning
Feilden Fowles has revealed images of its Applied Learning Centre for the Ralph Allen School in Bath.
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Building StudyHenrietta Barnett School, Hampstead Garden Suburb by Hopkins Architects
Hopkins’ greatest skill is in creating contextual rather than iconic architecture, and its new school buildings next to Lutyens’ Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute put this to the test
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Building StudyDrawing board: L'AND Vineyards villas, Portugal, by Sergison Bates Architects
Sergison Bates partner Mark Tuff on the challenges of designing vineyard-led holiday homes in Portugal
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Building StudyBelfast: a city riven with divisions
The physical barriers built to quell sectarian violence in Belfast feel disturbingly close to home
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Building StudyCentral St Martins, King’s Cross, London, by Stanton Williams
Stanton Williams’s conversion of a listed granary building in King’s Cross reimagines the industrial landscape for a new creative generation, writes local artist Richard Wentworth
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Building StudyFirst Look: Duggan Morris brings a flexible approach to Denmark Hill centre
Duggan Morris Architects has submitted a planning application for a New Learning Centre on the Maudsley Hospital Campus in Denmark Hill, south London.
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Building StudyArnulfpark, Munich by Petra & Paul Kahlfeldt Architekten
The formal consistency of Petra & Paul Kahlfeldt Architekten’s facades for a mixed-use development in Munich pays tribute to the city’s tradition of very large buildings
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Building StudyMaggie’s Centre Gartnavel by OMA
OMA wilfully subverts expectations at its Glasgow Maggie’s Centre, which melts unassumingly into the background.
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Building StudySolid, Amsterdam, Netherlands, by Tony Fretton Architects
Tony Fretton’s mixed-use building for an Amsterdam housing association combines a 200-year lifespan with a sustainable social function
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Building StudyA day out to Rocksalt Restaurant, by Guy Hollaway Architects
The BD team went to Folkestone to discover the future of seaside dining
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Building StudyFirst Look: RCKA’s Lewisham youth centre unites aspiration and innovation
RCKA has won planning permission for a new youth and community centre in Lewisham, named The New Generation.
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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 StudyStratford High Street
Stratford’s Olympic legacy is already taking shape, but it is a bleak vision that is unlikely to benefit locals.
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Building StudyFirst look: Fraser’s Stromness Pierhead follows local maritime tradition
Malcolm Fraser Architects has submitted a planning application for its proposed redevelopment of the Pierhead of Orkney’s second largest town, Stromness.
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Building StudyMediocrity has been wealth’s bequest to Aberdeen
Since Aberdeen became the UK’s oil capital, its city centre has not seen a single worthwhile building
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Building StudyPark Hill estate, Sheffield, by Hawkins Brown with Studio Egret West
The apartments of the regenerated Park Hill are a world away from 1961’s socially conscious streets in the sky. Here, BD looks at how Sheffield’s iconic housing block has echoed 50 years of Britain shifting political moods