All Buildings articles – Page 92

  • Design for new Rochdale homes for the Asian community
    News

    Housing for Asian families unveiled in Rochdale

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Barratt and Artisan have developed a housing range designed for the needs of large, extended Asian families.

  • Ealing borough council offices image 1
    Features

    Style council

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    OFFICES — Ealing borough council wanted to migrate 2,500 staff from an archipelago of offices into its headquarters, and turn that into a sexy, sustainable civic centre for the good burghers of west London. Sonia Soltani reports on how it did the job, with a little help from Pringle Brandon

  • Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate, When the partition behind the stage is open, the arena and the auditorium can accommodate all 1200 pupils and teachers
    Features

    ‘You could run this building as a traditional school – but it would be a waste’

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Building Design Partnership’s Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate is like no other school – it has a campus feel, there are no corridors and the students don’t even bunk off.

  • Stubbs Rich has taken a tired old library and reinvented it as a funky learning resource centre
    Features

    The grater good

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Education For the new learning resource centre at Herefordshire College of Technology, the architect will reuse the concrete frame of the original library, but add some very inventive mesh cladding.

  • Features

    Dream house Down Under

    2006-11-24T00:00:00Z

    When Paul and Jaki Halliday decided to leave London’s traffic-clogged rat’s maze for the hills of New South Wales, they celebrated by commissioning their ideal home. Martin Spring explains how their compatriot, Alan Higgs, designed it

  • David Cameron
    Features

    ‘I can’t tell you on the hoof what our policy would be’

    2006-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Finding out where David Cameron stands on the big questions is a tricky matter, but at least he is starting by putting his own house in order. Thomas Lane spoke exclusively to the Tory leader, then met the architect and builder who are tackling the green makeover of his family ...

  • Features

    Beer, cannabis, glue and a generous helping of lime

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    No, not a recipe for a quiet night in, but rather the ingredients of Adnams’ deep green distribution centre. Thomas Lane went to Suffolk to meet a brewer with a difference

  • Features

    This is madness

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    On the average job, contractors happily chuck away enough recyclable material to triple their profit. But not for much longer, if the DTI, environmental responsibility and economic sanity have any bearing on the matter.

  • The pure cylindrical shape of the Asticus Building is clearly expressed in the stylish reception foyer
    Features

    Drum solo

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands deserves a big hand for managing to squeeze an old-school cylinder-shaped building into a tiny London backstreet

  • Set in the 12-acre grounds adjoining Alnwick Castle in Northumberland the visitor centre overlooks the garden and offers horticultural enthusiasts a shelter from which to admire the many spectacular features
    Features

    A light topping

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Kicking off this week’s Specifier, Sonia Soltani found out why the intricate larch structure has been shortlisted for a Wood award

  • Features

    Gods of the Plague

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    They gave Shepherd Construction a two-sheet brief and asked it to build a lab secure enough to test the most dangerous virus on Earth … inside six months. Thomas Lane reports on how the team took the test and triumphed

  • Darlington Education Village is a campus of simple rectangular buildings made exciting by vivid colours and large expanses of glazing
    Features

    Under their wings

    2006-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Ryder HKS’s Darlington Education Village brings together the least able children, including those with severe behavioural difficulties, and the most academic – an architectural and curatorial challenge that has been met with verve. Not bad for a PFI project

  • The straw-panelled EcoDepot is said to reduce energy use by three-quarters compared with standard buildings
    Features

    Down on the farm

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Sonia Soltani reports on how a York council building is demonstrating the eco-credentials of an unlikely building material … straw

  • A rare architectural flourish – the main headquarters has granite entrance cladding. The administration blocks have red brick and buff masonry to differentiate them from the living quarters
    Features

    A 2bn student village in a bullet-proof vest

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Construction of the first entire garrison to be built in 100 years is being marshalled with the same discipline and tactical precision needed in times of war.

  • Features

    An oasis by the Elephant

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Just around the corner from the Elephant & Castle shopping centre, a colourful housing scheme by de Rijke Marsh Morgan has replaced the drab greys of Southwark’s Heygate estate. Martin Spring explains how the project is just the beginning of a long-overdue £1.5bn regeneration plan

  • The large, bright and airy atrium makes patients and staff feel at ease, and all departments can be pointed out from the reception desk
    Features

    All together now

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Penoyre & Prasad’s Holywood Arches primary health centre in Belfast has enough of the boutique hotel about it to cheer visitors and patients alike. But it’s the inspired mix of health and social services that is its real triumph

  • Features

    Life after la corrida

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Barcelona’s disused Las Arenas bullring is being transformed from a crumbling wreck into Richard Rogers’ vision for a leisure and entertainment venue, topped out with a UFO-style roof.

  • “Hansom” looks on approvingly as the scaffolding comes down.
    Features

    Hansom’s other good idea

    2006-08-04T00:00:00Z

    The Builder was his masterpiece, but nine years before it was born, Joseph Aloysius Hansom designed a civic temple for the proud city of Birmingham. Unlike the magazine you’re holding, it hasn’t aged well. Thomas Lane reports on the town hall’s long-awaited refurbishment

  • For Hartcliffe Community College in Bristol, three triangular “strawberry” blocks are planned to house nursery, primary and secondary teaching spaces
    Features

    To sir, with love

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    CABE has warned Building Schools for the Future risks procuring poor designs. But Wilkinson Eyre’s Bristol schools – the first off the blocks – are based on a lovingly prepared concept

  • Grants galore: Germany
    Features

    Germany 1 England 0

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    … but it’s the USA and Canada that take the title. As our 99% Campaign continues, Sonia Soltani explores the energy efficiency grants and tax incentives on offer around the world