Latest Building Studies – Page 41
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Building StudyCaruso St John’s scheme for Escher-Wyss Platz, Zurich
Caruso St John, working with German artist Thomas Demand on two buildings for a public square in Zurich, makes a quietly political point about the human costs of regeneration, based on China’s infamous ’Nail House’
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Building StudyNew York’s architecture goes ‘bling’
New York’s upper class is employing star architects to put its wealth on display, reports Adrian Dannatt
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Building StudyBenson Forsyth’s Nottingham Pod demonstrates a sense of the city
Benson & Forsyth has produced a hotel and retail development in central Nottingham shaped in response to its city setting, reports Ellis Woodman
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Building StudySarah Wigglesworth boxes clever at Cremorne Riverside Centre
The rusting Corten steel-clad boxes of Cremorne Riverside Centre near London’s Battersea Bridge reflect its location — wedged between leisure gardens and post-industrial wasteland. Tony McIntyre reports
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Building StudyTerry Pawson’s Visual Arts Centre engages with Carlow
Rather than offering an icon, Carlow’s Visual Arts Centre complements the town and allows the art to dominate, writes Robert Payne
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Building StudyEmbracing London's rivers
Cremorne Riverside Centre is one of the projects featured in Waterfront London: Rediscovering the Rivers and Canals of the Capital, an exhibition which opened at New London Architecture this week. Here NLA exhibition director Peter Murray explains how the Thames and its tributaries are at last being recognised as one ...
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Building StudyBD's buildings of 2007
Ellis Woodman looks back at the architectural highs and lows of 2007, and top architects pick their favourite buildings of the year
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Building StudyYorkshire fast forward
Bauman Lyons has delivered the showpiece of the Remaking Barnsley masterplan, with a nod to the county’s heritage and even a flavour of Tuscany
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Building StudyCurtain up, Act III
Norwich Theatre Royal had been the victim of design crimes, but a revamp by Tim Foster Architects has brought the case to a stylish conclusion
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Building StudySanaa's New Museum in NYC
Sanaa’s New Museum is a startling tower of boxes in the heart of New York’s Bowery district, but the inside doesn’t live up to the outside, reports Adrian Dannatt
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Building StudyEarthy delights
Six practices were shortlisted in the Architecture Foundation/BD competition to create a new exhibition space inside the Museum of Garden History. Ellis Woodman surveys the winning entry and the runners-up
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Building StudyIt’s all in the details
Graham Bizley has been producing working details for BD since 2004. He has covered more than 90 buildings, and 40 are now included in his new book, Architecture in Detail. Here Graham explains why detailing is such an important part of the architectural process
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Extracting a building’s essence
For BD working details, I try to develop a drawing that conveys depth of technical information while also containing an essence of what the whole building is about.
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Building StudyAllford Hall Monaghan Morris' Westminister Academy, Central London
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s Naim Dangoor Centre, for the Westminster Academy in central London, is a potential Stirling winner, says Ellis Woodman
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Building StudyFreewheeling in Beijing
It’s not only the 2008 Olympics that are transforming Beijing’s skyline. Architecture is being used to express China’s phenomenal economic growth. Ellis Woodman went to take a look
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Building StudyAlison Brooks Architects makes wood work in Wandsworth
Alison Brooks’ twin timber-clad Herringbone Houses set south London shimmering
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Building StudyIn Detail: Herringbone Houses, Wandsworth
Architect: Alison Brooks ArchitectsStructural engineer : Price & Myers
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Building StudyPlatform soul
In the new HQ for BBC Scotland, David Chipperfield Architects has blended a simple idea and complex programme to stunning effect
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Building StudyMoved up to club class
When planning consultant DP9 wanted to transform a tired building in London’s Pall Mall it turned to architect de Metz Forbes Knight for something a little different
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Building StudyMacGabhann Architects' cultural centre in County Donegal turns up the volume
Local practice MacGabhann's second building in the little town of Letterkenny is a metal-clad tour de force in gold and silver, reports Charles Rattray