Latest Building Studies – Page 51

  • Three new timber structures are set on the hill above the main buildings of Glencomeragh House retreat. Clumps of birch trees mark the entrances to the hermitages, which cantilever out over the slope
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    Chill on the hill

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Spiritual retreat meets boutique hotel in Bates Maher’s timber hermitages in County Tipperary. Graham Bizley finds sanctuary

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    Man and monolith

    2005-11-18T00:00:00Z

    He is Jacques Herzog’s favourite Swiss architect and a master of the art of construction. Jonathan Woolf explores the work of Valerio Olgiati with an exclusive preview of his latest exquisite creation

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    Frontier Land London

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    High-rise developers are running amok in London. Why isn’t sheriff Ken Livingstone doing more to control them?

  • AHMM’s faience-clad Cloth Hall Street housing scheme sits opposite the grade I listed Corn Exchange.
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    White rose blooms

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Leeds is rising again, a shining example of design-led regeneration. Ken Powell takes a tour of the Yorkshire capital with the man spearheading its renaissance

  • David Adjaye’s flagship Whitechapel
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    Ideas in store

    2005-10-28T00:00:00Z

    David Adjaye’s flagship Whitechapel Idea Store is a convincing rethink of the traditional library. But will this be enough to answer his critics?

  • The top-lit orientation hall with the entrances to the exhibition spaces to the left and the auditorium at the far end of the space.
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    Discovery zone

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Lincoln’s new museum is defiantly non-iconic. By rejecting the Bilbao approach, Panter Hudspith has produced a building that is contextual, complex and humane and takes its work to a new level.

  • The end elevations of the perimeter apartment block in Maccreanor Lavington’s Terwijde project. Escape stairs in plate steel connect the internal galleries to the ground.
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    Suburb of the future?

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    If Britain is to solve its housing crisis, we must learn to love suburbia. Could Maccreanor Lavington in Holland show us how?

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    Radical restraint

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield Architects has dropped the shimmering Figge Art Museum into America’s heartland. Mason White explains why it’s now time to cut the architect loose from the shackles of minimalism

  • View along the north elevation facing towards the city. The low canopy marks the entrance.
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    Tectonic soup

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre’s National Waterfront Museum in Swansea combines an astonishing range of architectural types. Could Kester Rattenbury make sense of the whole?

  • This modern house by 5th Studio features an open-plan living area with two bedrooms above.
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    First Look: How this garden grows in Cambridge

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    Cambridge practice 5th Studio has unveiled designs for an innovative timber house in the back garden of an existing Victorian home.

  • Ightham Mote was developed and rebuilt over several centuries and the elevations date back to a number of historic periods. Above: The weathered rag stone walls of the gate tower date back to the 15th century.
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    The 600-year-old time machine

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    Interiors from the 1950s jostle with Victorian details in Stuart Page Architects’ painstaking restoration of Ightham Mote in Kent — the National Trust’s biggest restoration project of its type, which preserves architecture styles as far back at the Middle Ages

  • he corner of four-storey block A1 — viewed from the junction of the River Wandle and Bennet’s Ditch — showing the one and a half brick deep reveals to window openings.
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    Light industry

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    On the week of its founding partner’s memorial BD visits Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Bennet’s Courtyard in Merton and finds housing for the future inspired by the industrial past

  • See Sydney’s skyline with Foster’s
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    Wish you were here?

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Just as England’s cricketers are finally teaching the Australians a thing or two, our architects are doing the same, with our very own hi-tech “barmy army” making a splash down under. But why aren’t more of us going?

  • The China Inland Mission, features two new retail units to either side of the main entrance.
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    Winning style

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Haworth Tompkins’ student housing in north London is an example of what should be up for the Stirling

  • Alison Brooks Architects timber homes
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    First Look: Wood’s good for Brooks homes

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    These two timber-clad homes have been designed by Alison Brooks Architects for a scheme in Wandsworth, London. The £1.6 million project for developer Lyford Investments is currently on site.Project architect Michael Woodford said the client had been inspired by the practice’s award-winning VXO House in Hampstead.“The developer is very interested ...

  • The roof is planted in blue marram grass. The rooflight is positioned directly above the dining table in the
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    Digging de Paor

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    The career of 2003 YAYA winner Tom de Paor has taken off in the last 18 months. BD visits a pair of Dublin houses and finds them suffused with subtlety and sexuality

  • The south elevation provides a link corridor that serves as an environmental and acoustic buffer zone.
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    Fame academy

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    De la Salle School in St Helens wanted a performance space worthy of local icon status. Did John McAslan deliver? Matthew Turner went to find out.

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    First Look: High-density landmark for Poplar

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Hawkins Brown has revealed this landmark housing development in east London — one of the highest-density schemes ever approved in the capital.

  • Both additions front onto the playground which sits at the back of the elevated site.
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    The art of counterpoint

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Greenhill Jenner and Houlton Architects’ sophisticated new music and art blocks are a sensitive addition to Sydenham’s 1960s Brent Knoll School

  • Unfired clay bricks have been used as a non-structural inner leaf in this home to provide thermal mass, acoustic insulation, moisture regulation and a robust finish.
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    In Detail 49: House at Dalguise, Perthshire, Scotland

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Architect: Arc ArchitectsClay-based materials have been used extensively in a new low-cost house in Fife with a strong sustainability agenda. The house has a simple rectangular plan built off a concrete raft foundation. Most of the accommodation is on the ground floor with a bedroom and storage attic concealed in ...