Latest Building Studies – Page 29
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Building StudyFirst look: History underpins Sergison Bates’s Swiss piazza plan for Mendrisio
Sergison Bates has won the competition to redesign Piazza del Ponte in Mendrisio, Switzerland, where Jonathan Sergison also holds a professorship at the Accademia della Architettura
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Building StudyStable Acre house by David Kohn Architects
David Kohn’s Norfolk home for gallery owner Stuart Shave represents a perfect marriage of architectural and human concerns
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Building StudyMoscow School of Management by Adjaye Associates
David Adjaye has cross-fertilised 1920s Russian Suprematism with his own African heritage to create the gargantuan Moscow School of Managment in Skolkovo
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Building StudyFirst look: Indian history flows through Allies & Morrison’s luxury resort
Allies & Morrison has started on site with its luxury holiday resort on the banks of the Chaliyar River in Kerala, South India, for hotel operator Alila
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Building StudyStrawberry Hill, Twickenham, restored by Inskip & Jenkins
The £8.9 million restoration of Horace Walpole’s 18th century ’gothic castle’, emphasises its original owner’s distinctive tastes
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Building StudyFirst look: Hawkins Brown’s school revamp learns from the local community
Hawkins Brown has won planning permission for a school refurbishment and 1,400sq m new-build masterplan in West Hampstead, London
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Building StudyProspect House, Sion Hill, Bath, by Dow Jones
A striking zinc skin fitted over an eighties house in Bath demonstrates the architectural possibilities of refurb over new build
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Building StudyRavensbourne College, Greenwich, by Foreign Office Architects
FOA’s new building for Ravensbourne College makes bold predictions about how the next generation of students will be taught
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Building StudyPull House in Vermont by Procter Rihl
Procter Rihl’s Pull House sits amid the maple trees of rural New England and creates an architecture to match the region’s progressive politics.
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Building StudyFirst look: Mae Architects rethinks the semi for Urban Splash’s New Islington
The next stage of Urban Splash’s New Islington project in Manchester is set to start on site in November following a grant of £936,000 from the Homes & Communities Agency.
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Building StudyHatcham Gardens by East
East’s landscaping of Hatcham Gardens is part of a linear arboretum it is creating across the south London area of Deptford.
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Building StudyScotland’s Housing Expo 2010
After a long and difficult birth, Scotland’s Housing Expo is offering visitors to Inverness a showcase of living spaces that range from the functional to the progressive
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Building StudyNo 1 Smithery, Chatham Dockyard, by van Heyningen & Haward
Van Heyningen & Haward’s scheme provides an elegant environment for the presentation of a fine collection of ships’ models
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Building StudyChrist & Gantenbein’s Swiss Church
Young Basel practice Christ & Gantenbein’s reworking of the interior of the Swiss Church in London’s Covent Garden puts mirrored glazing and a highly complex plan to dramatic use
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Building StudyRevisiting the BedZed community
BedZed was the ultimate sustainability trailblazer. Nearly a decade on, the Bill Dunster, BioRegional and The Peabody Trust development may be thriving but it remains an anomaly, rather than an exemplar.
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Building StudyWhite Design’s Dartington Primary School
With its individual timber-clad classrooms, Dartington Primary School in Devon by White Design blends into the rural landscape while creating one of the greenest schools in the UK.
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Building StudySouth London Gallery by 6a Architects
6a’s commission to create a café and flat for the South London Gallery evolved into something more ambitious, while still retaining the building’s domestic character.
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Building StudyA womb with a view: the Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion
The fact that Peter Palumbo is chair of the selection panels for both the Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion and the Pritzker prize, perhaps gives some indication as to why the names recognised by both programmes seem so often to be drawn from the same starlit pool.
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins’ London Library
Haworth Tompkins’ ongoing expansion of the London Library has clarified and enhanced its internal spaces while retaining the unique character of this historic literary institution
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Building StudyWaterloo Place charette
As part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture, five practices were invited to devise ideas for Waterloo Place. Here are the results.