Latest Building Studies – Page 53

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    Do the right thing

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Cottrell & Vermeulen’s refurbishment of the Kensal House nursery retains the original vision

  • View from the gatehouse looking down the length of the planted loggia with the entrance to the main building on the right.
    Building Study

    Image maker

    2005-03-24T00:00:00Z

    The British Council presents an open face to Kenya with its new building in Nairobi by Squire & Partners

  • Peter Inskip & Peter Jenkins Architects’  scheme for Green College, Oxford, features residential blocks, an art gallery and library set around an open-air theatre.
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    First Look: Oxford colleges classic inspiration

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Peter Inskip & Peter Jenkins Architects was inspired by Greek classical architecture when designing this Oxford University quadrangle, seen here for the first time.

  • A sample at one of the labs in Manchester’s new Michael Smith Building.
    Building Study

    Experiment in design

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Daylight and socialising are the innovations in a new science lab in Manchester, writes Robert Booth

  • Model of Wellcome’s lab planned for Hinxton.
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    New direction for lab design

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    A boom in science buildings across the UK gives architects room to experiment, says Robert Booth

  • Rear elevation, incorporating glazing treated with a mirrored film.
    Building Study

    Room for change

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    In the final part of our live-work series, we head to Bethnal Green to see how Sergison Bates has created a flexible mix of public and private spaces for an artist, a theatre group and two therapists

  • The elevation to Britton Street. The widths of windows are inherited from the earlier structure, but sill heights have been dropped allowing the proportions to be adjusted.
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    Back to the studio

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    An art studio home by Tony Fretton starts our two-part series on live-work designs

  • Bennetts’ Brighton library, opening next week, was delivered on time and on budget through
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    Seizing the initiative

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    With the completion of Brighton Library and the Home Office HQ, two buildings of architectural merit have emerged from the Private Finance Initiavtive. So can PFI deliver on quality?

  • Vauxhall’s new transport hub boasts Arup Associates’ cantilevered canopy to provide shelter and make an impact.
    Building Study

    The links effect

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    It looks progressive, but is the transport interchange at Vauxhall Cross a template for integrated transport architecture.

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    First Look: Kite Tower set to make a mark

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Make has unveiled images of its latest outlandish designs for an office tower.

  • Marie-José van Hee’s Leeuws & Croes house in Ghent
    Building Study

    More room at the top

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Three decades after Denise Scott Brown lamented sexism in architecture, women still feel forced to hide their identities. We look behind the disguises at some of world’s most interesting women architects

  • The Meadlands Primary School classroom showing how the form has been truncated to provide an entrance portico.
    Building Study

    Tic tac toe

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    As the government plans to dramatically change the look of the UK’s schools, we review a new classroom design by Future Systems

  • 2. Brixton Central Square joins two existing public spaces by removing Effra Road.
    Building Study

    Is London getting a square deal?

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    The Greater London Authority has grand plans to transform the capital’s public realm, but will these succeed in bringing together the city’s inhabitants? Ellis Woodman explores the meaning of public space

  • Model of the West Arcade building, consisting of a 14-storey tower with double-layered facade above a curving low-rise socle.
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    First Look: Frankfurt turns over a new leaf

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Designs for an elegant new office block in Frankfurt inspired by the natural world have been revealed by Anglo-German practice Sauerbruch Hutton Architects.

  • View from Euston Road. The end elevation is generated by truncating the extruded cross-section.
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    Houston in Euston

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Hopkins has given the Wellcome Trust a building with an astonishing interior, but its endless glazing evokes the Texas town and displays an unhappy distaste for its surroundings

  • 10 Palace Gate
    Building Study

    Coates, the comeback kid

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Flamboyant in his time, but often underrated today, modern architect Wells Coates is back in the limelight with the restoration of his three signature buildings.

  • Building Study

    Scribble theory

    2005-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Will Alsop’s new visual arts complex for Goldsmiths College succeeds as an urban landmark but fails to live up to its billing as either art or architecture

  • The Sage viewed through  the Millennium Bridge with the Tyne Bridge beyond.
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    Glazing over

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Foster’s big gesture at Gateshead’s Sage Music Centre — a single unifying membrane-like envelope — isn’t new for the architect. But practice hasn’t made perfect, and while the concert halls succeed, the external form disappoints again and again

  • The mosaic can be viewed in the mirror-finished soffit of the canted roof.
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    Making history

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Muf’s one-room pavilion to guard a Roman mosaic in St Albans was five years in the making. Will the practice’s first bona fide building live up to expectations?

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    Rock of the bay

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    The Wales Millennium Centre is the jewel in Cardiff Bay’s regeneration, but can it perform?