Latest Building Studies – Page 46
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Building StudyCool heads at city hall
The architect’s acute observations of Cork and conceptual understanding of the city’s urban context have produced a splendid extension to the city hall. Pictures by Dennis Gilbert/View
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Building StudyFlavour Cafe, Soho, London, by Wilkinson King Architects
With its industrial-cum-open-market aesthetic and palette of concrete, wood and galvanised steel and wire mesh, this Soho sandwich bar is a perfect reflection of the Flavour cafe brand.
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Building StudyPrincesshay shopping centre by Chapman Taylor, Panter Hudspith and Wilkinson Eyre
With its warren of narrow streets, public squares and houses about the shops, this collobaration between three architects is an update on a medieval template. Click on the related stories link below to find out more about the project.
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Building StudyThin end of the wedge
A house built on an unusually awkward site proves full of surprises.Pictures by Hélène Binet
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Building StudyFilling the hole in the doughnut
UK architet Muf has been asked to come up with ideas to reverse the decline of the neighbourhood of Northside in Pittsburgh . Ellis Woodman looks at the practice’s proposals
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Building StudyDouble Dutch
The evolution of the restaurant, and its essentially ephemeral character, is encapsulated at Puck and Pip in The Hague, says Christoph Grafe. Pictures by Hélène Binet
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Building StudyArt or architecture: refusing to draw the line
BD speaks to artist Mark Pimlott about the diversity of his work
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Building StudyStairway to heaven
In this 2003 article from our archive, Ellis Woodman reviews the work of artist Mark Pimlott, the subject of this week’s building study. At La Scala, Aberystwyth, he found an architectural intervention that aimed to reanimate the sixties complex where it was sited
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Building StudyMoving to a different beat
Eric Parry Architects’ music building for an independent boys’ school takes its place confidently among the hotchpotch styles of previous eras. Pictures by Hélène Binet
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Building StudyAlsop Finch and Lyall's Riverside Studios
More 1984 photographs from the BD archive of Alsop and Lyall and their Riverside Studios scheme that failed to see the light of day
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Building StudyThrough the Gateway
Twelve years into the planning project that is the Thames Gateway, a new scheme in Barking offers an early indication of the change to come, says Ellis Woodman. Pictures by Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyGrowing Pains: BD's 2004 review of the masterplan for Almere
In 1967 two new cities were born: Almere in the Netherlands and Milton Keynes. Thirty-seven years later, both are being transformed. Ellis Woodman visits the Almere scheme by OMA, talks to Rem Koolhaas, and discovers some awkward lessons for the UK. Photos by Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyLift and celebrate
In a south-west London suburb, Penoyre & Prasad has negotiated its way through a complex contract and NHS regulations to deliver a striking uplift in design standards
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Building StudyA garden for England
A serene, green courtyard is the at the heart of Steffian Bradley’s Gravesham Community Hospital in Kent
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Building StudySoul searching
Christhope Grafe finds the perfect internal peace of Sanaa’s arts centre in Almere outside Amsterdam leaves the building somehow lifeless.
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Building StudyBubble Theatre in pictures
More pictures of Archigram's blow-up theatre bubble from BD's coverage in 1978
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Building StudyHanging around
A school of circus skills has made its home in a former electricity generating station. Ellis Woodman looks at how Tim Ronalds Architects has helped make the arrangement more permanent
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Building StudyThe first photographs
The first photographs of the Pompidou centre when it opened in 1977