Structures – Page 4

Technical

Technical Study: Vitsoe factory, Leamington Spa

2017-10-26T06:00:00Z

The firm behind Dieter Rams’ 606 shelving system has created a temple to craftsmanship with its new HQ

Building Study

Building Study: R7, King's Cross, by Duggan Morris Architects

2017-09-25T06:00:00Z

The latest part of the King’s Cross regeneration scheme is a new kind of office block that aims to be unconventional, combining desk space and public areas. And it’s pink. Ike Ijeh is suitably impressed. 

Technical

Technical Study: The Crow's Nest, Dorset

2017-09-18T09:30:00Z

AR Design Studio had an unusual brief - replace a holiday home destroyed by a landslip with a new building on the same high-risk site. Amanda Birch discovers how involving an engineer early on led to an innovative solution 

News

Firm appointed to progress £100m Rotherhithe Bridge

2017-08-15T08:00:00Z

Thames crossing between Canada Water and Isle of Dogs moves forward but original architect faces uncertainty

Technical

Behind the scenes at the V&A Dundee

2017-06-16T07:59:00Z

Realising Kengo Kuma’s extraordinarily complex design for the V A’s outpost in Dundee would not have been possible without sophisticated modelling tools and precision construction techniques.

Technical

Technical study: Tate St Ives extension, St Ives, Cornwall

2017-05-26T08:00:00Z

Jamie Fobert’s discreet subterranean gallery extension has calmed locals’ concerns about the impact on the town’s skyline and reflects in its design all the elements that make St Ives special

Building Study

La Seine Musicale, Paris, by Shigeru Ban

2017-05-22T09:39:00Z

The second concert hall to be completed in the French capital within three years is a showcase to innovation and style. Ike Ijeh admires the distinctive features of this venue, which was designed by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban

Technical

St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross by Avanti Architects & McGinlay Bell

2017-03-08T08:00:00Z

St Peter’s Seminary near Glasgow is a brutalist ruin that is being given new life as an arts venue. What makes the refurb unusual is that the crumbling decay, instead of being covered, will be used as a central feature. Ike Ijeh reports

Building Study

Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron

2017-01-06T06:00:00Z

Hamburg wanted the Elbphilharmonie to be an instantly discernible architectural symbol to lift the city’s prestige but got a faceless glass block sitting on top of a brick one. Yet in its theatrically wavy rooftop, Herzog de Meuron has brilliantly conjured up an emblematic national icon - just ...

Building Study

Holy Trinity Primary School, London by Rock Townsend

2016-12-01T07:15:00Z

A lack of space means that many new schools in London are built within residential schemes and lack a visual expression of their own

Technical

Manufacturing the future

2016-11-21T07:00:00Z

Architects shouldn’t be frightened off by Mark Farmer’s calls for modern methods of construction - they should see it a new opportunity for creativity

Technical

Poplar Baths by Pringle Richards Sharratt

2016-10-19T07:30:00Z

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

Building Study

Antwerp Port House, by Zaha Hadid Architects

2016-09-28T11:10:00Z

Zaha Hadid Architects’ spaceship-like extension over the Belgian port’s old fire station is, the practice claims, a response to the site’s context and history. Ike Ijeh is unconvinced

Technical

Is hardwood the future of timber construction?

2016-09-16T07:00:00Z

As Alison Brooks Architects’ gravity-defying installation at the London Design Festival shows off the structural benefits of cross-laminated hardwood, Amanda Birch examines the growing uptake of CLT solutions

Building Study

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, Athens, by Renzo Piano

2016-06-29T14:30:00Z

Greece’s most significant cultural project in more than a decade - housing the National Opera House and National Library - is impressive in scale. But do all the elements live up to its immense ambition?

Technical

The i360 tower by Marks Barfield Architects

2016-06-17T08:00:00Z

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

Building Study

Treetop walkway, Westonbirt, by Glenn Howells Architects

2016-05-04T08:00:00Z

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

Building Study

London 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects

2016-04-05T08:00:00Z

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.

Building Study

Evelyn Grace Academy, Brixton, by Zaha Hadid Architects

2016-04-01T00:00:00Z

The aggressive swagger of Zaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy reflects the hard-edged dynamism found within the school itself

Technical

Maagdentoren, Zichem, by De Smet Vermeulen and Studio Roma

2016-01-28T08:00:00Z

Following a collapse in 2006, this 14th-century tower in the Belgian town of Zichem has been restored to designs by De Smet Vermeulen and Studio Roma. Hugh Strange reports