All Buildings articles – Page 43
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NewsCIOB picks finalists for Art of Building competition
See the shortlist of 15 built environment photographs from around the world for the CIOB annual Art of Building photography competition
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FeaturesPwC's London office: Highest BREEAM-rated building ever
When PwC decided to refurbish its unloved central London office, it thought it would be doing well to achieve a BREEAM “excellent” rating. Then it realised it could do rather better than that …
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FeaturesNew Victorians
A 19th-century primary school in Dulwich came with the usual set of problems associated with old buildings. To solve them, Edward Cullinan Architects took a pragmatic and piecemeal approach
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FeaturesAl Wakrah stadium: The big heat
Despite pressure to move the 2022 World Cup to the winter, Qatar is soldiering on with plans to hold the games in the summer. So how will the new stadiums cope with the scorching temperatures, and carbon neutral and legacy goals?
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FeaturesReview: Tate Britain's refurbishment
Caruso St John’s redevelopment of Tate Britain contains no dramatic interventions. Rather, it is a masterclass in creating modern, vibrant spaces within the context of a venerable institution
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NewsBetteshanger Sustainable Parks scheme: Park life
Sheppard Robson reveals plans for 121-hectare regeneration scheme in east Kent
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FeaturesScottish Crime Campus
With its DNA-inspired design concept, BMJ and Ryder Architecture’s £82m Scottish Crime Campus provides compelling evidence that police buildings don’t have to be grim high-security compounds.
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NewsBanham relocates
Allies and Morrison secure planning permission to develop brownfield site into new headquarters for security firm
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NewsBristol Old Vic
Architect Haworth Tompkins submits plans for the refurbishment of Bristol’s 1760s theatre
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NewsParkview Green: What a performance
Arup-designed building in Beijing, China, is among projects shortlisted for the 2014 Building Performance Awards
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FeaturesStavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre roof, Athens
Athens’ vast £500m Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre is being crowned with a 10,000m2 ferrocement canopy, designed by Expedition Engineering. Why did the UK practice settled on this unusual choice of material?
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FeaturesWWF HQ: 'Stringent is an understatement'
At the World Wildlife Fund’s new HQ in Surrey, Willmott Dixon has taken sustainable construction to new levels of rigour, forensically tracking the carbon content of every single element, and even building an FSC-certified workshop on site. So has the result been worth it?
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FeaturesDanish Maritime Museum: Method in the Madness
Bjarke Ingels Group Architects’ £34m Danish Maritime Museum has been built entirely underground - in a former dock in Elsinore. The challenge was building underneath the water level without Hamlet’s old castle sinking into oblivion
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FeaturesSix stadiums that tell the story of English football
The Football Association is 150 years old this week and, to celebrate, Building picks out some of the architectural highpoints of English stadiums
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FeaturesThe spaces in between
As London’s King’s Cross Square opens at last, Ike Ijeh considers the chequered history of the capital’s spaces - and their likely future
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NewsVHH unveils plans for Richard III's tomb
Architect van Heyningen and Haward has revealed final design proposals for Richard III’s tomb at Leicester Cathedral
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FeaturesFoster + Partners' The Hydro
With its dazzling state-of-the-art light shows, Foster + Partners’ £125m concert arena on the Clyde could well become the main event itself
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NewsLots Road Power Station: Lots of apartments
One of London’s first steel framed buildings is converted into flats
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NewsBennetts Associates scheme wins planning
A Bennetts Associates-designed mixed-use scheme at One Bedford Avenue, central London, has been given the green light by Camden council
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NewsKing's Cross Square opens to public
King’s Cross Square officially opened yesterday, marking the completion of the £550m development of King’s Cross station