Completed buildings
Building studies
Exhibition Road: Walkin' & wheels
Dixon Jones’ £28m reworking of South Kensington’s great museum quarter, Exhibition Road, resolves the long stand-off between pedestrians and cars by allowing them to share the same space. Ike Ijeh is knocked over by the simplicity of the design. Photographs by Tim Crocker
Canada's bold new library: Can we borrow it?
A city near Vancouver has taken a bold approach with its new public library - throwing out traditional study spaces and pioneering design by social media. Could it provide a template for our own beleaguered institutions? Ike Ijeh reports
Flood-proof house: Home and dry
Would you build a house on the Norfolk Broads, one of the most flood-prone areas of the UK? LSI Architects did and its sophisticated design meant getting the project through planning was plain sailing.
University of the Arts: The art of simplicity
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
The National Maritime Museum: Time and a place
The National Maritime Museum’s £35m extension reconciles the rich architectural heritage of its Greenwich home with the need to provide thoroughly modern facilities. Building celebrates a building firmly anchored to its surroundings
Zaha Brava: The Guangzhou Opera House
Architecture and geology collide in Zaha Hadid’s glorious Guangzhou Opera House
This is the BBC ...
After nine years, two architects and £1bn, the controversial BBC Broadcasting House refurbishment is winding up. But is it a feat of architectural elegance and practicality, or just another prime-time flop?
Winging it: Bombardier aircraft factory
Air traffic gridlock over the holidays might have put you off flying for life. But Bombardier is launching a new plane with high-tech carbon fibre wings - first, though, it needed a factory that could be designed in tandem with those wings
Free school conversions: Making the switch
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…
Rafael Viñoly's Firstsite centre: show time
Rafael Viñoly’s latest UK building finally takes centre stage, but why was it nearly undone by delays, overspends and legal spats? Thomas Lane reports, while below Ike Ijeh asks if it was worth all the pain
It’s big, it’s bold, but is the Heron tower any good?
The City’s tallest skyscraper is the ultimate in lavish office space for ’boutique’ finance firms. But its design is a huge let down for Londoners
The Dali Enigma: HOK's Florida museum
HOK’s Salvador Dalí Museum in Florida marries the classical with the fantastical, a paradox the artist himself would have cherished
One Hyde Park: Heart's desire
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, known for its left-leaning sympathies, is the architect behind the world’s most expensive apartments: One Hyde Park in London’s Knightsbridge
Jakob + Macfarlane's Lyon office: The cube with a hole
Cuboid buildings may be all the rage but Jakob + Macfarlane’s provocative office block in Lyon is one of a kind
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Pollard Thomas Edwards' Islington square: Shaping up nicely
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Qatar's zero carbon stadium: 96 degrees in the shade
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Gilt trip: Refurbishing the Savoy hotel
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Chatham Dockyard's salvage operation
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Aldar’s Abu Dhabi HQ: One last spin of the wheel
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Welcome arrivals: East London Line
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Bankside: Have you met the Tate’s new neighbours?
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The London Library: Speaking volumes
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Make's £100m Cube: Birmingham cubed
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Arena Stage, Washington by Bing Thom: Through a glass darkly
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Terry Farrell's Regent's Place: Regent’s spark
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Kazakhstan: Building the world's largest tent
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Mainstream green: Brighton belle
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Beyond the pale: Renzo Piano's Central St Giles
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Strata tower: Southwark’s sore thumb
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The two-year rush hour: London’s Park Plaza hotel
Gallery
Olympic Wetlands Bridge receives highest ever CEEQUAL rating
Nearly half of the content of the bridge by value is recycled
Carnival spirit: Foster Wilson Architects completes Notting Hill arts centre
Firmco was main contractor on the £3m scheme
Farrells' Kennedy Town Swimming Pool opens in Hong Kong
Phase one provides two outdoor pools with views of Victoria harbour
HLM and Leadbitter complete £20m school in Wales
The school comprises a number of three-storey stone and render-clad wings
Medical building blocks: Stryker unveils office
Volker Fitzpatrick was contractor on the three-story, 10,000m2 facility
Mansell completes Hopkins' Nottingham University building
Engineering and Science Learning Centre cost £10m to build
