Latest Building Studies – Page 43
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Building StudyKX200 by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, London
Reclad office tower for developer First Base to create a mixed apartment block on London’s Pentonville Road. Nominated anonymously: "This building says: ' Hey - I'm so now and hip' just because the architect has had the very unoriginal idea of cladding it in various shades of ...
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Building StudyOpal Court, Leicester by Stephen George and Partners
A student and key worker housing block near Leicester city centre.Richard L posted his support for this anonymous nomination. “It’s symptomatic of the kind of rubbish being built in leicester at the moment, especially around De Montfort. Leicester is quickly developing an idendikit city centre which will be indistinguishable from ...
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Building StudyA brick is a brick for Dutch practice Wingender Hovenier
This Dutch practice is representative of a new generation of European architects who are rejecting recent architecture’s ironic posturing in favour of something fundamentally contextual, says Paul Shepheard
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Building StudyExpanded horizons
It was a tale of two galleries when thwarted plans to enlarge the Newlyn Art Gallery led to an ambitious expansion across two sites
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Building StudyIn detail: Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
Architect MUMASlate consultant Viv StrattonRoofing subcontractor Forrester RoofingTrevillett slate hung in the traditional Cornish manner has been used to clad the new extension to Newlyn Art Gallery. A scantle was used to set out the battens and slates to achieve a continuously diminishing coursing without any banding. A scantle ...
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Building StudyDRMM's MK anniversary tower
De Rijke Marsh Morgan is building this 19m tall wooden tower as part of the celebrations of Milton Keynes at 40
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins’ school theatre is a scene stealer
An innovative performance complex for St Edward’s School, Oxford, is designed to serve both the school and surrounding community.
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Building StudyIn Detail: North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford
Architect Haworth TompkinsStructural engineer Price & MyersGlazing subcontractor Fineline AluminiumA Victorian swimming pool has been converted for use as a theatre in the grounds of a school in Oxford. A foyer, gallery, drama studio and dance studio are housed in an adjacent new two-storey building.The new building sits on concrete ...
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Building StudyNorman Foster's Beanhill
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit Norman Foster's run-down Beanhill housing scheme
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Building StudyNetherfield by Jeremy Dixon, Edward Jones, Michael Gold and Chris Cross
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit Netherfield designed by Jeremy Dixon, Edward Jones, Michael Gold and Chris Cross
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Building StudyBeyond Babel: the work of Swiss architect Peter Märkli
After two decades spent designing houses, Peter Märkli is at last building at a substantial scale. Ellis Woodman reports on why the Swiss architect is currently one of the most vital voices in Europe
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Building StudySkydec apartments, London by Edward Potter Associates
Alan Riley has nominated Edward Potter Associates’ Skydec apartments in south west London, a development of 14 flats in a conservation area of two storey Victorian housing.
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Building StudyHoliday Inn Express, Westhill Aberdeen by Peter Redhead Architects
“It is the most hideous building, totally out of scale and massing with it’s location, with scant heed to local architecture or materials,” writes nominator Marie-Louise Dunk. Dunk names another Aberdeen shocker: a new housing estate by Betts on the A944 into the city. “We’ve watched with horror ...
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Building StudyFluid Architects’ Maryland daycare centre is a lesson in colouring in
Faced with a tiny budget and an uninspiring east London site, the architect’s imaginative approach soon saw this daycare project snowball. Pictures by Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyWind catcher for the Windies
Everyone had a view on rebuilding Barbados’s legendary Kensington Oval cricket ground, but for Arup Associates keeping its village style and party character was vital
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Building StudyIn detail: Maryland Early Years Centre, Stratford, London
Architect FluidStructural Engineer ConisbeePrefabricated panels Framework CDMA single-storey early years centre in east London was built in an incredibly short five-months using a prefabricated timber superstructure. The centre houses a daycare room for two to five year olds, a staff training room and a classroom shared with the next-door primary ...
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Building StudyMore London office development by Foster and Partners
Edwin Heathcote, architecture critic on the Financial Times, has nominated Foster's More London for our Carbuncle Cup
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Building StudyOh, to be in Miami!
The new sports and entertainment complex inside the former Millennium Dome looks to Florida’s sun-baked art deco for a feel-good playground all under one roof
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Building StudyRichard Hywel Evans's luxury villas in the Seychelles
Richard Hywel Evans has designed twenty five Bond-style villas on the island of Felicite in the Seychelles