Latest Building Studies – Page 33
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Building StudyEast’s Sussex Road Primary School in Tonbridge, Kent
Architectural practice East’s commitment to working with a location’s found conditions proved particularly apt when the brief for an extension to Sussex Road Primary School in Tonbridge unexpectedly grew in size
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Building StudyGlasgow: Centuries of change
With its sixties blocks being reclad or demolished, Glasgow has never regained the architectural confidence it showed in the early 20th century
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Building StudyNicholas Hare’s Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College, Birmingham
Nicholas Hare’s Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College provides the students with an atmosphere of calm relaxation
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Building StudyPeter Barber creates a place for change
Spring Gardens hostel for the homeless in south-east London creates an environment that enables residents to regain their independence
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Building StudyPolitical transparency helps Fretton to scoop Belgian centre
Tony Fretton Architects has won a competition to build a new €11.75 million (£10 million) administrative centre in the town of Deinze, Belgium
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Building StudyStanton Williams’s double decker delight at Cadbury’s Bournville
Two dramatic full-height atriums lie at the heart of Stanton Williams’ remodelling of a 1927 block as the administrative centre of Cadbury’s Bournville chocolate factory
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Building StudyWoolwich gets a kick up the Arsenal
Since the closure of its munitions factories, Woolwich has become one of the most deprived parts of London. But now Witherford Watson Mann’s public realm improvements are leading a major effort to turn the area around
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Building StudySanaa's Serpentine pavilion shows a lightness of touch
If Sanaa’s buildings can be said to share a defining quality it lies in their marriage of a startling economy of means and a gleeful abandon in those means’ deployment — a strategy that imbues their best work with something of the impossible loveliness of a child’s drawing.
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Building StudydRMM’s Clapham Manor Primary extension, London
De Rijke Marsh Morgan’s striking addition to the 19th century Clapham Manor Primary school exemplifies the practice’s love of a technological solution
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Building StudyFog on the Tyne
Successive waves of regeneration have landed Newcastle and Gateshead with a riot of architectural statements — yet an urban spirit born in the 19th century lives on
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Building StudyHudson Architects creates something to believe in for the Salvation Army
Hudson Architects had the tough task of translating the Salvation Army’s changing vision of itself into an architectural form at its new Chelmsford HQ building
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Building StudyClash Asociates’ dream machine in Cardiff
The Welsh capital’s industrial past and glamorous rail travel of bygone eras put the design of Peter Clash’s Sleeperz hotel on the right track
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Building StudyHawkins Brown's Oxford University’s biochemistry research facilities, Oxford
A two-phased reimagining of Oxford University’s biochemistry research facilities aims to put straight years of damaging piecemeal development
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Building StudyScabal’s sports hall for Dunraven secondary school in Streatham, London
Could recycled shipping containers be the future of low-cost, fast-build structures? Scabal’s sports hall for Dunraven secondary school in Streatham, south London, is proving a success
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Building StudyO’Donnell & Tuomey Sean O'Casey centre (video)
Set in a neighbourhood of two-storey brick terraced houses, the corrugated concrete walls and circular windows of the Sean O’Casey Community Centre make a distinctive new landmark in the Dublin district of East Wall.
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Building StudyManchester: Heaven knows it’s miserable now
Manchester is hailed as a flagship for successful regeneration but along the way it has lost all appetite for civic architecture
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins creates a well-tempered quintet at Snape
A cluster of five redundant industrial buildings at Snape Maltings, home of the Aldeburgh Festival, has been turned into performance and rehearsal space. Ellis Woodman is impressed by a sensitive, richly-textured refurb
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Building StudyKeith Williams mixes and matches to create new Athlone gallery
London-based practice Keith Williams Architects has won planning consent for a 600sq m addition and refurbishment of a former town hall on the River Shannon in Ireland
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Building StudyStudio MGM’s deep-green living machine
A modest timber-built housing scheme in Bury St Edmunds eschews hi-tech, high-concept sustainability features in favour of practical and imaginative solutions
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Building StudyArtful arrangements at Sauerbruch Hutton’s Brandhorst Museum
Though Sauerbruch Hutton’s Brandhorst Museum — the latest addition to Munich’s emerging Museum Quarter — suffers from poor masterplanning, as a modern art gallery it is very successful