Latest Building Studies – Page 44
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Building StudyFretton redesigns Warsaw embassy
Fretton’s second design for the British Embassy in Warsaw has such an authoritative presence it needs little fanfare.
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Building StudyThe Treasure House in Beverley, East Yorkshire by East Riding Council Architects and Atkins
A heritage lottery building that's no treasure, nominated by RIBA Journal editor Hugh Pearman
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Building StudyDavid Mikhail's Richmond house: Minimal quibbles
The remodelling and extension of a small terraced house has created a beautiful building displaying intelligent use of space. It's a shame it slips up on some of the details, says Tony McIntyre
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Building StudyRestoring a crown jewel
Dixon Jones is set to refurbish the Regent Palace Hotel at the Crown Estate-owned southern end of London’s Regent Street, the central element of the Allies & Morrison masterplan for the area
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Building StudyMVRDV’s Amsterdam housing block: a bridge over troubled water
Can MVRDV’s “see-through” housing transform Amsterdam West?
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Building StudyPatel Taylor transform Nottingham's Portland College
Patel Taylor's IT wing is the first element in a masterplan for Portland College that is already transforming its architecturally unremarkable campus.
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Building StudyBlog: Mimes, tutus and oligarchs
Peter Murray enjoys the theatre at Foster and Partners' groundbreaking ceremony in St Petersburg
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Building StudyDream green suburbs but in our cities
I’d love a new-build eco-house. And I speak as someone who always pictured themselves as a Victorian sort of person, Edwardian at a push.
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Building StudyConran completes sustainable habitat
Architect Conran & Partners has completed its Atalanta affordable housing development in Brighton, providing 31 one- and two-bedroom flats and a community centre for Brighton & Hove Council and the Downland Housing Association.
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Building StudyHomes for the future
There were nine short-listed designs, one winner and several surprises in the BD/Mail on Sunday design competition to find a zero-carbon mass-market design.
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Building StudyOn the terraces
Urban Splash assembled a winning team to deliver its Chimney Pot Park in Salford, which turns traditional concepts of terraced housing upside-down
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Building StudyIf you go down to the woods today...
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners has joined with housebuilder Wimpey to design ground-breaking eco-homes at Oxley Wood near Milton Keynes
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Building StudyUniversity pioneers low-carbon homes
Nottingham’s built environment faculty to build six demonstration homes on campus
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Building StudySleeping beauty
Eventually FOA’s technology transfer centre in La Rioja will be engulfed by plants, but already this extraordinary building points to a new direction in the architect’s work.
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Building StudyFoster designs ecological tower for Siberia - images
Foster & Partners has designed this mixed-use tower for the town of Khanty Mansiysk in Siberia
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Building StudyVan Egeraat university extension reaches milestone
Erick van Egeraat’s extension to Inholland University Rotterdam reached a milestone this week, with completion of the 62m-tall structural core.The design of the 15-storey extension is based on van Egeraat’s original university building, realised in 2000. It is made up of three rectangular volumes, shifted and varying in size, which ...
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Building StudyBetween the Campidoglio and the builders’ yard
Jonathan Woolf’s temporary information point-cum-lecture hall for Scotland’s Six Cities Design Festival pits OSB against granite in central Aberdeen
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Building StudyLooking beyond the horizon
Founded in 1968, the New Horizon Youth Centre is a day centre working with young people who are vulnerable, homeless or at risk in London’s King’s Cross area.
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Building StudyThe history of the Royal Festival Hall refurbishment
BD charts the progress of Allies and Morrison's Royal Festival Hall revamp