All articles by Oliver Wainwright – Page 8
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Building StudyEllis Miller’s campus for Catmose College
Jonathan Ellis-Miller’s modular school pays tribute to the hi-tech era while presaging the dawn of a joyless flatpack future
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Building StudyThe Dune House, Thorpeness by Jarmund Vigsnæs Architects
The latest holiday home for Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project sits well with the maverick whimsy of this Suffolk seaside village
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Building StudyFirst look: Muf scheme for Whitechapel park traces both religious and secular
Muf has revealed designs for Altab Ali Park in Whitechapel, as part of the High Street 2012 public realm improvement programme along the A11 in London, from the City at Aldgate to the Olympic Park at Stratford.
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Building StudyPeter Eisenman’s Santiago de Compostela City of Culture
After years in development Eisenman’s icon finally emerges from the earth as a flawed monument to Spanish political wrangling
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BlogsMove over Gok Wan, Adolf Loos is back
From English-cut suits, to stretchy white pants, we investigate the feisty Austrian polemicist’s exacting sartorial standards.
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Building StudyFirst look: MSMR homes drive new vision for former Southwark car park
MSMR Architects has won planning permission for a scheme of nine affordable houses on Alice Street in Southwark, south London.
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Building StudyCity of Westminster College by Schmidt Hammer Lassen
City of Westminster College, the Learning & Skills Council’s last grand vision, leaves a dramatic monument to a bygone age.
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Building StudyOlympic Velodrome by Hopkins
The London 2012 cycling venue is the first to be completed at the Olympic Park, and it sets a high standard for its fellow sports facilities to reach.
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Building StudyOne Hyde Park, London, by Rogers Stirk Harbour
Despite its attempts to ingratiate, One Hyde Park cannot entirely escape its underlying philosophy of segregation
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Building StudyShingle House, Dungeness, by Nord
The windswept and unworldly coastal settlement of Dungeness provides the location for Living Architecture’s second holiday home.
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Building StudyCranfield Centre for Competitive Creative Design, by Niall McLaughlin Architects
With its distinctive wing-like roof, Niall McLaughlin’s building for Cranfield University in Bedfordshire fits well with the ambition of the only campus to have its own airfield.
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Building StudyFirst look: Union North’s Lancaster student block
The architect’s design for a 96-bedroom housing block that reveals the building’s original “fossilised” history has been given the green light.
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BlogsIn search of criticism
Spitting venom from behind the safety of Twitter, critics decorously agreed to differ when pitted face-to-face.
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Building StudyTy-Hedfan, Brecon Beacons, by Featherstone Young
The irregular geometries of Sarah Featherstone and Jeremy Young’s floating house never overwhelm its role as a family home.
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Building StudyFirst look: Jamie Fobert plans gentle growth for Cambridge’s modest gallery
Jamie Fobert Architects has won planning permission for its extension to Kettle’s Yard Gallery in Cambridge, a project originally won in competition in 2004.
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Building StudySt Joseph’s Primary School, Highgate, by Pie Architecture
Pie Architecture’s individual reworking of a 1970s primary school is notable for its careful attention to the needs of the classroom
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Building StudyOliver Wainwright on Muf's Eastern Curve project in Dalston
When asked to think of my favourite buildings this year, there was an awkward silence.
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Building StudyFirst look: IBLA wins green light for homes
Inglis Badrashi Loddo Architects (IBLA), working with Churchman Landscape, has won planning permission for a £4.4 million affordable housing scheme in Brixton, south London, for the Kitewood Group
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BlogsBeyond the occupation
They may have lost the vote in Parliament, but the legacy of the occupations is only just beginning.
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Building StudySchool House at St Elizabeth primary school, Bethnal Green, by Scabal
Scabal’s skill in extracting maximum value from the budget to create an after school club building is the antithesis of the free school movement’s anti-architect doctrine