http://www.building.co.uk http://www.building.co.uk http://www.building.co.uk/magazine/graphics/logo.png http://www.building.co.uk http://www.building.co.uk/buildings/school-refurbishment-shouldnt-you-be-revising?/5045927.article http://www.building.co.uk/buildings/school-refurbishment-shouldnt-you-be-revising?/5045927.article Erno Goldfinger’s brutalist Haggerston school in north-east London has been sensitively modernised Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00 GMT http://www.building.co.uk/news/sectors/education/should-schools-be-uniform?/5041856.article http://www.building.co.uk/news/sectors/education/should-schools-be-uniform?/5041856.article Will standardised schools herald a school building programme where design quality and educational aspiration are crushed under a monotonous wave of Identikit slabs? Ike Ijeh investigates Photos by Mike Pinches Fri, 7 Sep 2012 00:00 GMT http://www.building.co.uk/buildings/from-1900-to-2012-finishing-the-university-of-birmingham/5032058.article http://www.building.co.uk/buildings/from-1900-to-2012-finishing-the-university-of-birmingham/5032058.article Aston Webb’s grand semi-circle of buildings conceived for Birmingham university in 1900 was the original redbrick campus. But only four of its five neo-Byzantine pavilions were ever built. Now Glenn Howells Architects and Bam have finished the job. Building reports Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00 GMT http://www.building.co.uk/free-school-conversions-making-the-switch/5026150.article http://www.building.co.uk/free-school-conversions-making-the-switch/5026150.article The government went out of its way to make it easier for free schools to be formed in non-school buildings by easing planning laws. So now that they’ve opened their doors, do they actually work? Take a look at two very different conversions… Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00 GMT http://www.building.co.uk/buildings/completed-buildings/university-of-the-arts-the-art-of-simplicity/5025959.article http://www.building.co.uk/buildings/completed-buildings/university-of-the-arts-the-art-of-simplicity/5025959.article The new University of the Arts campus exudes creativity. Ike Ijeh visits the recently converted King’s Cross Granary to find a building that melds old and new, industry and art and provides a home for the next generation of designers Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00 GMT