Latest Building Studies – Page 55
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Building StudyToying with Uncle Sam
Rem Koolhaas designs a public library in Seattle and an exclusive Prada shop in Beverly Hills. Both play with ideas of public space, he says. Can he be serious? Kester Rattenbury finds out
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Building StudyFirst look: New for Old Street
Designs by Tonkin Liu to upgrade public spaces on London’s Old Street have won a competition run by the Architecture Foundation. The practice’s “Promenade of Light” scheme beat designs by Alison Brooks Architects, ASC + AWP, Milk Architecture & Design and WaG Architecture to design the £1 million first phase ...
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Building StudyThe big idea
A retail-style library in east London gives David Adjaye the chance to really prove himself.
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Building StudyFirst Look: Zaha talks the walk in Manhattan
Zaha Hadid has unveiled designs to bring a disused viaduct in Manhattan back into public use.
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Building StudyFirst Look: Northern exposure
David Chipperfield Architects has unveiled new images of its $75 million (£40 million) extension for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art in Alaska.
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Building StudyLooking for pastures new
As townies go in search of a rural idyll and pressure to build in the countryside grows, rural architecture needs reinventing. Ellis Woodman looks at new three schemes
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Building StudyTaking them to the Tower
Stanton Williams has turned the previously neglected spaces around the Tower of London into a lively external foyer.
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Building StudyFirst Look: Manchesters chip off the old block
More housing designs for the New Islington housing project in east Manchester have been unveiled by Alsop Architects and Ian Simpson Architects.
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Building StudyCultured club
Squire & Partners' restoration of the former Conservative Club into HSBC offices has brought a new vitality to this classical early Victorian building on London's St James's Street
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Building StudyFirst Look: Downhill all the way in Suffolk
The world’s largest indoor ski slope — a landmark structure which would be visible for miles across the flat Suffolk countryside — has been submitted for planning.
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Building Study
Class structure
DRMM's refurbishment of Kingsdale in south London gives the post-war school a bright future.
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Building StudyFirst Look: Belgian book prize for Sergison Bates
Two out of six isn’t bad. That’s the ratio of competition wins for Sergison Bates since it began competing in the Vlaams province of Belgium. This £4 million project to convert a redundant school into a library in the coastal town of Blankenberge and a scheme for Erasmus University in ...
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Building StudyLessons from the old school
The refurbishment of Kingsdale runs counter to thinking about post-war schools, which is moving increasingly towards wholesale demolition. Poor environmental performance, outmoded teaching facilities and disintegrating fabric blight the rash of buildings completed during the 50s and 60s.
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Building StudyTable manners
Will Alsop has won over Toronto with his raucous flying tabletop addition to the Ontario College of Art & Design.
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Building StudyFirst Look: Education gateway
RMJM this week unveiled designs for the first phase of a £50 million higher education scheme in the heart of the Thames Gateway.
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Building StudyAt home with Feilden Clegg Bradley
David Morley visits two housing projects built around courtyards
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Building StudyThe written world
Architecture Research Unit's scheme for centralising the South Korean publishing industry is emerging from the wetlands near Seoul.
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Building StudyLessons in flexible planning
Rab Bennetts goes back to school with two Islington college schemes
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Building StudyFirst Look: Light at the end of a tunnel
McDowell & Benedetti is working up detailed designs for a three-storey office building next to London's famous diamond-dealing and jewellery quarter at Hatton Garden in Clerkenwell.
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Building StudyPhantom city
Calm characterises architects' plans to build out the blockbusting King's Cross masterplan. But are these visions just apparitions.