Retail & Leisure
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Restoring Birmingham Selfridges’ cladding
Future Systems’ Selfridges has donned temporary garb of greater gaudiness while faults are fixed in the glittering blue chainmail below. Thomas Lane explains the technical challenges. Photography by Oliver Lane
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Building StudyThe world’s hottest projects in 2020
Ike Ijeh tours the planet to report on this year’s most anticipated completions
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Stratford Pavilion by Acme
This substantial structure at the Olympic Park had to be built over a DLR tunnel, setting the team major challenges. Ike Ijeh reports
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InspirationsSadie Morgan's inspiration: Plymouth Lido
The art deco pool has a place in the heart of the dRMM co-founder and BD Female Architectural Leader for many reasons, including a rather personal one
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Boulevard Theatre, Soho
Thomas Lane finds out how Soda Studio turned tricks with a tiny space to create a supremely flexible theatre
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Coal Drops Yard, London, by Heatherwick Studio
The retail hub revels in the idiosyncrasies of its original Victorian warehouse architecture, says Ike Ijeh
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Arhus harbour baths, Denmark, by Bjarke Ingels
BIG repeats its trick of bringing swimming to the heart of the city. Could it work in London?
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Vitsoe factory, Leamington Spa
The firm behind Dieter Rams’ 606 shelving system has created a temple to craftsmanship with its new HQ
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross
Heatherwick Studio’s shopping centre at King’s Cross links two former coal depots with a pair of extraordinary curving roofs. Thomas Lane finds out how – and why – they chose this approach
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Building StudyVictoria Gate by Acme
A modern city centre retail project in Leeds harks back to the city’s grand Victorian shopping arcades
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TechnicalPoplar Baths by Pringle Richards Sharratt
Poplar Baths in London’s East End is a historic example of state architecture used to improve public health. But to preserve this listed building, the project team had to demolish part of it and rebuild through a PPP agreement
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Building StudyThe rebirth of Lochgelly and lessons for Brexit Britain
The EU referendum brought home the political divisions between various parts of the UK. The inspired regeneration of a once deprived ex-mining town in Fife shows how architecture can help resolve them.
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TechnicalThe i360 tower by Marks Barfield Architects
The £46 milllion i360 tower in Brighton may claim accolades of being the tallest moving observation tower, the first vertical cable car and the world’s most slender tower, but the execution of its design and build is the real talking point
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Building StudyTreetop walkway, Westonbirt, by Glenn Howells Architects
This aerial footpath snakes its way through the forest at Westonbirt Arboretum in the Cotswolds using form, structure and materials to lift visitors to a heightened communion with nature. Ike Ijeh takes a walk on the wild side
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Building StudyLondon 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects
The smoothly undulating surface of Zaha Hadid’s stingray-like Aquatics Centre belies its structural complexity. But does the last Olympic Venue to arrive at the party live up to its promise? BD’s then architecture critic Oliver Wainwright went along to have a look.
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Building StudyBoathouse 4, Portsmouth, by Walters & Cohen
Formerly a boat-building shed in Portsmouth’s naval dockyards, Boathouse 4 has been transformed by Walters Cohen into a teaching workshop that doubles up as a live exhibition
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Building StudyBirmingham New Street Station by AZPML
It was never going to take a lot to improve on the squalid eyesore of the 1960s incarnation of Birmingham New Street Station. Shame though about the whiff of fakery
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TechnicalInterior flooring with a local twist
Amanda Birch’s study of three distinct examples of interior flooring examines work in London, Zanzibar and India by Amanda Levete, Jestico Whiles and Project Orange
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TechnicalThe Woodspeen, West Berkshire by Softroom
The extension to this 1827 Victorian pub relies on natural materials, including its distinctive thatched roof, to complement the original building, despite its noteworthy design
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Building StudyNouveau Stade de Bordeaux by Herzog & de Meuron
Herzog de Meuron’s new sports stadium in Bordeaux is part of the wider regeneration of the area and taps into the classic French idea of the ‘grand projet’. But is it great architecture? Ike Ijeh takes a tour with Pierre de Meuron