Research and manufacturing
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TechnicalAntarctica: Designing for the planet’s most hostile continent
A £100m Antarctic infrastructure programme presents some unique design challenges – like deflecting snow and elephant seals. Elizabeth Hopkirk hears about the hardships and rewards of building at the bottom of the world
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Zayed Centre, Great Ormond Street, by Stanton Williams
The £90m research centre for rare diseases gives the world-famous children’s hospital civic presence for the first time, writes Ike Ijeh
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Charlie Bigham’s, Somerset, by Feilden Fowles
Ike Ijeh on a winning recipe for that most functional of building types: the food production plant
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Vitsoe factory, Leamington Spa
The firm behind Dieter Rams’ 606 shelving system has created a temple to craftsmanship with its new HQ
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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
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Building StudyNew Science Building by Sheppard Robson
Laboratories are most often architecturally dull affairs but not Sheppard Robson’s New Science Building
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TechnicalDavid Attenborough Building by Nicholas Hare Architects
Nicholas Hare Architects has preserved the integrity of the original Arup Associates brutalist Cambridge landmark while ensuring the radical remodelling works well for its new users. Becoming an exemplar of sustainability was something it took in its stride
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Building StudyBoathouse 4, Portsmouth, by Walters & Cohen
Formerly a boat-building shed in Portsmouth’s naval dockyards, Boathouse 4 has been transformed by Walters Cohen into a teaching workshop that doubles up as a live exhibition
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TechnicalSculpture workshop by Gijs De Cock, Freek Dendooven and Peter Van Gelder
A trio of young Belgian architects has designed work and living spaces for a local sculptor in Mariakerke, East Flanders, which share a design flow and innovative material palette. Hugh Strange reports
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Building StudySainsbury Laboratory at Cambridge University, by Stanton Williams
This laboratory in the University of Cambridge’s Botanic Gardens is the ideal habitat for botanists