Latest Building Studies – Page 54

  • Visualisation of a new canoeing centre, showing the open-sided pavilion, to be used for teaching.
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    First Look: Oar-inspiring designs for Chelsea

    2004-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Sarah Wigglesworth Architects has revealed arresting new designs for a £375,000 canoeing centre in Chelsea.

  • The Annenberg Court. The first floor gallery projects out to allow wheelchair access to the lift.
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    Making an entrance

    2004-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Dixon Jones’s £17 million first phase of the National Gallery’s renovation improves the building’s public face with a new entrance and a public court, says Catherine Croft.

  • Adam Caruso (left) and Peter St John in the plaster cast court at the V&A, designed by Museum of Childhood architect JW WIld.
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    Getting in the decorators

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Caruso St John’s proposal of lace motifs on a new Nottingham project upset some readers. We ask Peter St John to explain why his practice is breaking a final taboo and embracing decoration

  • A window section from Gropius's 1912 Fagus factory hangs on the left wall of the new architecture gallery, designed by Gareth Hoskins Architects.
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    Something for everyone

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Anonymous architects rub shoulders with historic heavyweights in the UK’s first permanent architecture gallery, at the V&A. But does it work?

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    Quick on the draw

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    The entrance to the V&A architecture gallery is guarded by a massive isometric projection of the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral (pictured). The drawing, which took five years to complete during the 1920s, illustrates the three themes explored through the gallery — the art of architecture, the function ...

  • A prepatinated copper block looks out over Regent's Canal towards Mile End Park.
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    Digging the East End scene

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Feilden Clegg Bradley’s student residences at Queen Mary, University of London, join a pantheon of successful housing experiments

  • O'Donnell & Tuomey's Glucksman art gallery in Cork floats among the trees like a precious wooden casket of art.
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    Celestial vessel

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Will O’Donnell & Tuomey’s remarkable Cork gallery deliver the work outside Ireland that the duo desires? Shane O’Toole reports. Photos by Morley von Sternberg

  • The atrium is dominated by a giant flight of stairs. Overhead, a volume containing exhibition space is supported by a single mushroom column.
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    Straight to the top

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    First breaks don’t come much better than Brisac Gonzalez’s £26 million Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg. But after beating David Chipperfield to the gig, the pressure was on. Would they fly or die?

  • Saturday’s celebrations to mark the official opening of the Scottish parliament.
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    Out of the shadow

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    A huge risk, a major scandal, but does the architecture of Holyrood truly stand for Scotland? asks BD

  • The terracotta-clad English Faculty is one of the new Sidgwick site buildings by Allies & Morrison. Giles Gilbert Scott's University Library sits in the distance.
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    Taming the zoo

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Unexciting, say the dons, but two calm buildings by Allies & Morrison restore sanity to Cambridge.

  • Caruso St John hopes its Nottingham Centre for Visual and Live Art will be a new landmark for the city.
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    First Look: Caruso St Johns vision in lace

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Caruso St John Architects has unveiled images of its competition-winning designs for a new art gallery and performance space in Nottingham.

  • The south elevation is fitted with integral louvres to combat glare, and the way in is clearly signalled by the full-height glazed recess.
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    Eire apparent

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Keith Williams Architects has given Athlone a striking new civic centre as part of of an Ireland-wide programme of local government improvement.

  • Terracotta letters that are 6.4m tall announce the new-look Hackney Empire.
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    Hackneys curtain call

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Tim Ronalds’s bold intervention at Hackney Empire more than matches the exuberance of the Victorian original to create a beautifully judged piece of theatre, writes Catherine CroftTim Ronalds’s bold intervention at Hackney Empire more than matches the exuberance of the Victorian original to create a beautifully judged piece of theatre

  • Seen from the main courtyard, the church's bell tower casts a shadow in the morning sun.
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    Kindred spirits

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    John Pawson says he met his perfect clients when he was appointed to design a monastery in the Czech Republic for a silent order of Cistercian monks. We ask if the result was as heavenly as he hoped

  • Section through the entrance foyer of the Waldron Health Centre in New Cross.
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    Long-term cure

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    With an NHS development deal lasting 25 years, Buschow Henley should be guaranteed a stable financial future. But as Ellis Woodman discovers, the Lift programme also promises to produce the most ambitious healthcare architecture Britain has seen in years

  • Matthew White's Future House proposal that borrows from dentistry practice and the automotive industry and was submitted into a competition as a story in comic book format.
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    Magpie design

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Architects are stealing from dentists and others for new technology

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    God vs the Devil

    2004-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Through the restored Christ Church Spitalfields, the ghost of Hawksmoor is fighting back against ‘satanic’ 21st century development.

  • The Weston link can only be seen across the gardens from east Princes Street.
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    The strongest link

    2004-08-27T00:00:00Z

    It may be understated, but the new subterranean link between two major art galleries in Edinburgh is a quiet triumph on all levels

  • The Trumpf Customer & Administration Building is the third phase of Barkow Leibinger's masterplan for the hi-tech machine-tool company.
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    Hive of industry

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Berlin-based practice Barkow Leibinger is making its name with a series of startling industrial buildings. As David Hills reports, the firm is now competing at the highest level

  • Squire & Partners' 35-storey residential scheme is intended to revive the City Road Basin in Islington.
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    First Look: Islingtons high-rise water feature

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Squire & Partners this week released new images of its 35-storey “Shard-like” tower at one of the last undeveloped waterside sites in central London. A detailed planning application for the tower, at City Road Basin near Angel, has just been submitted to Islington council.