Latest Building Studies – Page 27
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Building StudyThe West Midlands: a mash-up of speculative tat and fearless originals
Carefully planned post-war townscapes fight with moneymaking imperatives in the UK’s largest unplanned agglomeration.
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Building StudyFirst look: Green issues and flexibility hold the key to CTA's Brixton house
Work has started on Slip House, a project by Carl Turner Architects, in Brixton, south London. Its site is the central one of five adjacent plots that currently form a gap in a terrace.
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Building StudyOlympic Velodrome by Hopkins
The London 2012 cycling venue is the first to be completed at the Olympic Park, and it sets a high standard for its fellow sports facilities to reach.
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Building StudyOne Hyde Park, London, by Rogers Stirk Harbour
Despite its attempts to ingratiate, One Hyde Park cannot entirely escape its underlying philosophy of segregation
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Building StudyFirst look: Communality underpins Cottrell & Vermeulen’s Cambridge plans
Cottrell & Vermeulen has won planning consent for a scheme for new postgraduate student accommodation for Clare College, Cambridge.
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Building StudyShingle House, Dungeness, by Nord
The windswept and unworldly coastal settlement of Dungeness provides the location for Living Architecture’s second holiday home.
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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
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Building StudyFirst look: Michael Gold’s Clapham block pays its respects to neighbours
Michael Gold has revealed plans of an apartment building for a site in Clapham, south London, privately developed with contractor Padraic Sullivan
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Building StudyCranfield Centre for Competitive Creative Design, by Niall McLaughlin Architects
With its distinctive wing-like roof, Niall McLaughlin’s building for Cranfield University in Bedfordshire fits well with the ambition of the only campus to have its own airfield.
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Building StudyFirst look: Union North’s Lancaster student block
The architect’s design for a 96-bedroom housing block that reveals the building’s original “fossilised” history has been given the green light.
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Building StudyFirst look: Caruso St John’s Swiss chancel meditates on baroque geometry
Caruso St John has won the competition to redesign the chancel of the Cathedral of St Gallen in Switzerland, beating entries from an invited international group of architects and artists, including Aires Mateus and Pipilotti Rist.
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Building StudyBarrow-in-Furness: kept on life support by perpetual warfare
Once dubbed ’the English Chicago’, Barrow-in-Furness has been kept alive by the nuclear arms industry
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Building StudyTy-Hedfan, Brecon Beacons, by Featherstone Young
The irregular geometries of Sarah Featherstone and Jeremy Young’s floating house never overwhelm its role as a family home.
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Building StudySt Joseph’s Primary School, Highgate, by Pie Architecture
Pie Architecture’s individual reworking of a 1970s primary school is notable for its careful attention to the needs of the classroom
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Building StudyFirst look: Jamie Fobert plans gentle growth for Cambridge’s modest gallery
Jamie Fobert Architects has won planning permission for its extension to Kettle’s Yard Gallery in Cambridge, a project originally won in competition in 2004.
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Building StudyEvelyn Street, London, by Hugh Strange Architects
Hugh Strange’s Deptford family house creates a multi-layered drama out of its enclosed site
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Building StudyEllis Woodman on the Wales Institute for Sustainable Education by Pat Borer and David Lea
My favourite building of the past year was also the one that exceeded my expectations of it most dramatically.
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Building StudyOliver Wainwright on Muf's Eastern Curve project in Dalston
When asked to think of my favourite buildings this year, there was an awkward silence.
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Building StudyFirst look: IBLA wins green light for homes
Inglis Badrashi Loddo Architects (IBLA), working with Churchman Landscape, has won planning permission for a £4.4 million affordable housing scheme in Brixton, south London, for the Kitewood Group
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Building StudyHawkins Brown's school of the arts for the University of Kent
Hawkins Brown took a film studio lot as the inspiration for its new Jarman Building in Canterbury for the University of Kent.