Latest Building Studies – Page 30
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Building StudyCentre for Alternative Technology education building by Pat Borer and David Lea
The Wales Institute for Sustainable Education at the Centre for Alternative Technology is an impressive physical embodiment of the values it champions
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Building StudyChiswick House café by Caruso St John
The initial formality of Caruso St John’s café for the newly restored gardens of Chiswick House soon gives way to something more complex and mysterious
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Building StudyManor Farm Barns conversion by Jonathan Hendry Architects
Planning consent for a conversion of Lincolnshire farm buildings into a live/work development was given on condition that it was fully carbon neutral
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Building StudyPenoyre & Prasad’s Wren Academy
Penoyre & Prasad’s Wren Academy in north London specialises in the built environment, meaning that the building itself is a teaching aid
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Building StudyRevisiting Alison and Peter Smithson’s Hunstanton school
Alison and Peter Smithson’s Hunstanton school was one of the first secondary moderns. Nearly 60 years after it was built, it is still going strong
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Building StudyDEGW’s personalised learning research project
DEGW is leading a research project on the spatial implications of personalised learning principles, and how architects can embody them in their school designs.
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Building StudyEast London Line railway extension
Despite being largely built during the boom, London’s newest transport link is depressingly unambitious
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Building StudyInternational Space Station
A few weeks ago, the final building block was delivered to the International Space Station, thus completing the first building beyond Earth. Here, one of the architects involved in its construction, charts the saga of the most technically advanced environment ever built
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Building StudyCentral St Giles by Renzo Piano
In this archive Building Study from 2010, Ellis Woodman pulls no punches in his assessment of Google’s $1bn trophy
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Building StudyH10 Hotel on Waterloo Road, London, by Maccreanor Lavington
Maccreanor Lavington’s H10 hotel is its largest UK building to date, but the practice originally signed up to create a housing scheme for the site.
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Building StudyBateman’s Row House by Theis Khan Architects
Combining homes, an office and a gallery, this east London building near Shoreditch High Street revels in setting up rules and then breaking them
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Building StudyRevisiting Dorset new town Poundbury
The Prince Charles-led ’new town’ of Poundbury which was masterplanned by Leon Krier, has taken a hammering from critics but has succeeded at something more important than architectural brilliance – its role as a community
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Building StudyPeter Barber’s Baden Powell Close terrace in Dagenham
Peter Barber Architects’ terrace of 14 courtyard houses in Dagenham provides attractive living space whzich also encourages community interaction. Tim Abrahams reports
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Building StudyHawkins Brown's Royal Veterinary College at Potters Bar
Hawkins Brown has won planning permission for its student accommodation complex at the Royal Veterinary College at Potters Bar
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Building StudyNorwegian architect Beate Hølmebakk of Oslo-based Manthey Kula
After creating a series of self-initiated ‘paper’ projects, Norwegian architect Beate Hølmebakk’s first built works are emerging
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Building StudyBiq’s Lakerlopen housing, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Biq’s plan for 161 dwellings in Eindhoven may follow a strict conformity of colour and component, but the total effect is far from monotonous
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Building StudyJohn Glew’s Gloucester Crescent house, Camden
John Glew’s reworking of a small fifties house in north London shows that artistry and attentive detailing can transcend scale
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Building StudyLifschutz Davidson Sandilands' Charlotte Building, Gresse Street, London
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has overcome tight space constraints to create a stylish facade and some positively art deco touches for the Charlotte Building in the heart of London’s West End
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Building StudyCollingham Gardens nursery competition
Shortlisted entries for a nursery in London’s Bloomsbury by Houlton Architects, Llowarch Llowarch, David Kohn and East
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Building StudyAdam Khan Architects’ New Horizon Youth Centre
Adam Khan’s reworking of a centre for the young homeless on a north London housing estate, brings together domestic facilities and performance space in an authoritative debut