All Building Study articles – Page 6
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Building StudyBuilding Study: The Royal Academy, London, by David Chipperfield Architects
Expanding Burlington House into Burlington Gardens is all about forging a strong link, says Ike Ijeh
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Grange Primary School, London, by Maccreanor Lavington
A tired Victorian primary school is given a new public face and facilities without compromising its original character or surroundings
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Old Bearhurst, East Sussex, by Carmody Groarke
AYA Gold Award winner Carmody Groarke’s studio and guesthouse wears its split personality with brutal honesty
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Centre Point, London, by Conran and Partners
Richard Seifert’s landmark has been transformed from rejected 1960’s pariah to chic luxury flats
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Bellenden Primary School, London, by Cottrell and Vermuelen
A compact island site in south-east London has been turned into a spacious, playful primary school that’s cleverly knitted into the urban fabric
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Building StudyBuilding Study: BBC TV Centre, London, by AHMM
The iconic home of television has been given a new lease of life as housing, offices - and studios. Ike Ijeh tunes in
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Gasholders King's Cross, London, by Wilkinson Eyre
Can shoe-horning luxury homes into three Victorian gasholders successfully combine industrial history with contemporary design, asks Ike Ijeh
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, by Jamie Fobert Architects
Fobert has skillfully untangled the gallery’s warren of Victorian houses and modern extensions, says Ike Ijeh
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Judge Business School, Cambridge, by Stanton Williams
The extension to Cambridge University’s business school joins a fusion of Victorian pomp and playful po-mo, says Ike Ijeh
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Building StudyBuilding Study: US Embassy, Battersea, by Kieran Timberlake
Ike Ijeh finds innovation outshines fortification
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Pinnacle N10, Muswell Hill, by pH+
This scheme on a narrow, sloping site in north London shows how awkward little corners could help tackle the capital’s housing shortage says Ike Ijeh
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Building StudyBuilding Study: New Mildmay, by Matthew Lloyd
Matthew Lloyd Architects creates a blessed union of religious and residential with a Shoreditch Baptist church that quietly asserts its presence within an elegant new urban streetfront. By Ike Ijeh
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Hackney town hall, by Hawkins Brown
It’s taken 12 years to restore Hackney town hall after 80 years of neglect. Ike Ijeh assesses the results
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Bloomberg HQ, London by Foster & Partners
Bloomberg’s European headquarters breaks with recent City tradition by respecting the architectural context of its surroundings. And it’s all the better for it, says Ike Ijeh
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Tapestry Building, King's Cross, by Níall McLaughlin Architects
Níall McLaughlin turns a site’s infrastructure constraints to his advantage to create a richly ornamented terracotta residential block crowned with a stunning ‘square in the air’.
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Lego House, Billund, Denmark, by BIG
Lego’s new showpiece attraction in Billund, Denmark, combines exhibition space and the Lego experience in a building that is playful but not contrived, finds Ike Ijeh
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Building StudyBuilding Study: R7, King's Cross, by Duggan Morris Architects
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.
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Building StudyBirmingham Conservatoire, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Birmingham’s £57m music college is a quieter building than many of the city’s recent shouty projects. But its very restraint has produced an anonymous facade that conceals the elegant spaces within, says Ike Ijeh
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Building StudyLab City, Paris by OMA
OMA’s first science building unifies a whole engineering school under a giant ETFE roof. Ike Ijeh assesses the result