Cultural – Page 6
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Building StudyGiant's Causeway visitor centre by Heneghan Peng Architects
Heneghan Peng Architects’ visitor centre for the Giant’s Causeway combines a raw simplicity with a generative grid to create a powerful sense of place
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TechnicalFinland and China’s operatic duet
PES-Architects’ Wuxi Grand Theatre uses 17,000 individual bamboo blocks to create its unique acoustics
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Building StudySoane Museum refurbishment by Julian Harrap and Caruso St John
The first phase of the restoration of the museum at Lincoln’s Inn Fields aims to bring three buildings as close to the original vision as possible
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TechnicalKilburn Nightingale reinvents vernacular techniques in Uganda
Latest phase of arts centre experiments with oil drums and mud mortar
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Building StudyThe Photographers' Gallery by O'Donnell & Tuomey
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s warehouse conversion for the Photographers’ Gallery opens up a series of complex spaces and multiple skins, against a dramatic inner London streetscape
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Building StudyMac Belfast by Hackett Hall McKnight
Transcending its misconceived context, the Mac proves one of the best pieces of architecture built in Belfast for 50 years
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Building StudyEnzo Ferrari Museum by Future Systems and Shiro Studio
In Jan Kaplicky’s posthumously completed Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena, the architect’s obsession with amoebic, streamlined forms finally makes sense
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Building StudyJerwood Gallery, Hastings, by Hat Projects
Despite a long and controversial journey to completion, Hat Projects’ understated Jerwood Gallery is finally settling in with its Hastings seafront neighbours
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InspirationsQuinlan and Francis Terry's inspiration: Somerset House, London
The father and son team revel in the glory of William Chambers’ classical building on the Strand
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Building StudyDrawing Board: Blythe House, London, by Haworth Tompkins
Architects Jim Reed and Beatie Blakemore of Haworth Tompkins talk about their restoration of a former Post Office building to create a textiles and fashion study centre for the V and A
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Building StudyFestival House, Blackpool, by dRMM
De Rijke Marsh Morgan Architects’ seafront wedding chapel is the most successful of Blackpool’s efforts to reinvent itself architecturally
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InspirationsStephen Hodder’s inspiration: Sainsbury Centre, Norwich
Stephen Hodder recalls how he was set to be a champion of vernacular architecture until he visited Foster Associates’ Sainsbury Centre
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Building StudyFirst Look: A2 Architects’ Irish arts centre takes its cue from the landscape
A2 Architects has revealed images of its design for a new community arts centre in Tullamore, the county town of Offaly in Ireland.
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Building StudyDrawing board: The White Building, Hackney Wick
Director David Kohn and project architect Tom McGlynn discuss how they are converting a redundant print works on the fringes of the 2012 Olympics site into an arts centre with Expedition Architecture
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Building StudyCanada Water Library, London, by CZWG
In spite of funding cuts and its lack of public-sector experience, CZWG has created an imaginative public library in London’s Docklands
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TechnicalMetropol Parasol in Seville by Jürgen Mayer H
One of the world’s largest wooden structures has been built in Spain to house Roman ruins, a farmers’ market, cultural events and a café
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TechnicalSnøhetta’s Wild Reindeer Centre pavilion
A striking timber pavilion provides shelter to observe wildlife in Norway’s harsh mountain landscape
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TechnicalWorth Abbey Church by Heatherwick Studio
New furniture and cleaned-up concrete enhances Francis Pollen’s original design
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TechnicalNational Gallery Lower Galleries by Wright & Wright
The architect went beyond the minimal brief when refurbishing the National Gallery’s often overlooked lower galleries