Latest Building Studies – Page 24
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Building StudyCaruso St John creates a ‘room for the city’ in central Bremen
Sited in the city’s historic temple district, next to the town hall and cathedral, the €33 million, 23,300sq m project will complete the north-western edge of the Domshof central square.The seven-storey building is arranged around an oval-shaped courtyard, conceived as a “room for the city”, open to the sky and ...
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Building StudySouth Norwood Hill Children’s Centre by Erect Architecture
Erect Architecture’s joyful reinvention of a nursery building in South Norwood, London, has a lot to teach us about working with existing buildings and systems, says Oliver Wainwright
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Building StudyJonathan Tuckey’s remodelled school reflects local industrial influences
Jonathan Tuckey Design has revealed plans for Wilberforce Primary School in north Westminster, London.
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Building StudyUnison headquarters, London, by Squire & Partners
Unison’s new headquarters is an enclave of sobriety that draws on the imagery of corporate rebranding to reflect the changing language of the union movement
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Building StudyBenson & Forsyth provides west London with urban punctuation
Benson & Forsyth has submitted a planning application for a major mixed-use development fronting onto London’s Cromwell Road.
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Building StudySainsbury Laboratory at Cambridge University, by Stanton Williams
This laboratory in the University of Cambridge’s Botanic Gardens is the ideal habitat for botanists
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Building StudyPeter Zumthor's Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion
Zumthor’s tranquil retreat was undermined by the frenzy of the opening press conference
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Building StudyPlymouth: the architecture is palpably the work of men in their dotage
The modernised classicism of the rebuilt city centre was already tired by the 1940s, but Plymouth has other surprises
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Building StudyFirst look: Lynch Architects proposes ‘modern palazzo’ opposite Victoria Station
Lynch Architects has submitted a planning application for a mixed-use development opposite Victoria Station in London.
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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 StudyMcAslan’s masterplan for Lancaster University
Over the years since 1963 Lancaster University’s rigorous design vision had become diluted and its core seemed bleak and lifeless. Now John McAslan & Partners is showing it a new way forward.
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Building StudyFirst look: Assemble constructs canalside folly beneath Hackney flyover
Assemble has revealed images of the Folly for a Flyover, a temporary structure for an empty flyover undercroft on the edge of the Olympic site in Hackney, east London.
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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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Building StudyFirst look: Duggan Morris is cooking in Croydon
Work has started on three projects designed by Duggan Morris Architects for secondary schools in the London Borough of Croydon.
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Building StudyAnne Mews housing in Barking by AHMM and Maccreanor Lavington
Allford Hall Monaghan & Morris and Maccreanor Lavington Architects have breathed new life into traditional London housing types to provide the first new council housing built in Barking & Dagenham for 25 years.
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Building StudyFirst look: Reiach & Hall given green light for Lanarkshire Maggie’s centre
Reiach & Hall Architects has secured planning permission for a new Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre to be built at Monklands General Hospital in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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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 StudyFirst look: Caruso St John to transform Lille steelworks into hoteliers’ college
Caruso St John Architects has won an invited competition for a new hotelier training college on the site of a former steelworks in Lille, beating entries from MVRDV and Xavier De Geyter among others.
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Building StudyDoppelhaus by Lütjens Padmanabhan
On a restricted suburban plot by Lake Zürich, Lütjens Padmanabhan has brought a new wit and richness to the semi-detached house
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Building StudyDrawing board: Sita UK energy-from-waste facility by Grimshaw
Great Blakenham in Suffolk will be the location for one of the many new energy from waste (EfW) facilities. Grimshaw partner Chris Nash and project architect Chris Fletcher discuss their design for the plant.