Refurbishment – Page 2
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Goldsmiths CCA, London, by Assemble
Ike Ijeh assesses the Turner Prize-winning collective’s first major permanent building
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Bristol Old Vic
Haworth Tompkins has woven a natural ventilation system through the 250-year-old fabric of this grade I theatre
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Westminster Abbey, London, by Ptolemy Dean Architects
How do you design an extension that can live up to the heritage of the coronation place of kings and queens for the last thousand years?
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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: 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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TechnicalTemperate House, Kew, London, by Donald Insall Associates
The world’s largest Victorian greenhouse is about to emerge from an at times nerve-racking restoration
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Melle Psychiatric Clinic, Belgium
Architecten de vylder vinck taillieu has given new life to a partially demolished historic hospital building
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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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TechnicalTechnical Study: Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross
Heatherwick Studio’s shopping centre at King’s Cross links two former coal depots with a pair of extraordinary curving roofs. Thomas Lane finds out how – and why – they chose this approach
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Building StudyThe Postal Museum by Feilden Clegg Bradley
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s quiet restoration and intelligent extension of a former post office at London’s gargantuan Mount Pleasant sorting office betrays little of the astonishing visitor attraction below
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Building StudyV&A Exhibition Road Quarter, London by AL_A
Amanda Levete’s £48m expansion of London’s V A connects the museum with the public realm through a superb porcelain-paved courtyard. But it’s the sheer immersive power of its vast subterranean exhibition hall that will make visitors stand and gawp
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Building StudyMusee D’Arts, Nantes by Stanton Williams
Stanton Williams set out to reinvent the Breton city’s beaux-art palais as an open, welcoming institution while complementing the spectacular (not to say elitist) architecture. It’s a neat trick to pull off. Ike Ijeh finds out if it succeeded
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Building StudyThe Storyhouse, Chester by Bennetts Associates
The Storyhouse in Chester is a daring construction of opposites, with a theatre, cinema and library brought together in a space that combines new-build and the spirit of the orginal 1930s picture house. Ike Ijeh reports on how the building energetically opens up storytelling to the local community
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Building StudyPierre Boulez Saal, Berlin by Gehry Partners
Frank Gehry’s £28.5m Berlin concert hall is an unusual building for this celebrated creator of the unusual. Ike Ijeh finds that through its sharp contradictions of age, shape and material, it achieves a kind of peace
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Building StudyWarwick Hall, Burford by Acanthus Clews Architects
Building anything new in a Cotswold village is hard enough, but when it’s next door to one of the nation’s best-loved churches, you know you’ve got your work cut out. Ike Ijeh admires a deft piece of architectural reinterpretation by Acanthus Clews Architects