Latest Building Studies – Page 42
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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
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Building StudyMoneo’s Prado extension hedges its bets
In the week the Madrid Prado gallery’s long-awaited extension opens, Ellis Woodman speaks to its architect Rafael Moneo about the project
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Building StudySimon Conder's phoenix rising
The accidental demolition of a 1960s John Winter home in St Albans paved the way for a rather special replacement by Simon Conder Associates, reports Ellis Woodman.
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Building StudyIn detail: Courtyard House, St Albans
Architect Simon Conder AssociatesStructural Engineer Built EngineersGlazing sub-contractor Firman GlassA restricted budget has encouraged expedient use of inexpensive materials to make a new house in a suburban street in St Albans. A covenant restricts the building height to a single storey so light is brought in through courtyards and high-level ...
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Building StudyAdding a human touch
The old industrial swath of Dagenham Dock will soon be home to 16,500 dwellings. Before they arrive, the area is being transformed into a people-friendly, riverside location with a human scale
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Building StudyIn detail: Sanger Building Bryanston School, Dorset
Architect Hopkins ArchitectsStructural Engineer Buro HappoldThe Sanger Building contains classrooms, laboratories and a 120-seat lecture theatre for science and maths teaching at Bryanston, a school for 13 to 18 year olds in Dorset. Red handmade bricks with precast concrete details relate the horseshoe-shaped block to the vast Richard Norman Shaw ...
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Building StudyHopkins’ Bryanston school, Dorset
Bryanston’s new maths and science wing develops the school’s tentative courtyard with a crescent that meets its overbearing context with a human scale.
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Building StudyOff the beaten path
For its first UK project, Belgian architect Robbrecht & Daem has given cyclists, walkers, rowers and birdwatchers a pair of towers in Lincolnshire linked by a riverside path. Ellis Woodman takes in the views as he talks to the team that built them
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Building StudyA healthy development
Malcolm Fraser Architects’ transformation of a former Edinburgh hospital site has arguably produced some of the best housing in Scotland