All articles by Ike Ijeh – Page 27
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FeaturesDrama in Shanghai: Shanghai campus by Morphosis Architects
There’s more than one way to achieve contextualism, and Morphosis Architects’ Giant Campus in Shanghai goes for the provocative approach. Ike Ijeh is beguiled. Photographs by Roland Halbe
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FeaturesNew industrialists: Waste and power station design
Dark satanic mills were once, in fact, exuberant celebrations of technology and design. Now Cabe’s new guidelines on power stations and waste facilities will try to put the architecture back into industry
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NewsBennetts Associates completes New City Inn hotel
Nine-storey, £65m hotel was built by Laing O’Rourke
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NewsGrimshaw submits design for Suffolk energy plant
Planning application sought for energy-from-waste facility near Ipswich
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FeaturesFancy a half at your heritage local?
Historic buildings need to earn their keep these days, whether they’re in the City or the shires. They can’t all be museums or art galleries though, and the new preservers of our built heritage might surprise you
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FeaturesJakob + 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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NewsSavills and DMA's Deptford digs
Savills London Planning Team and DMA Architects have won planning approval for a 199-unit residential development in Deptford, south-east London.
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NewsBritish Land's Slicker City
British Land has submitted a planning application for a 12-storey 1.1m ft2 office block in the iconic Broadgate development in the City of London
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NewsHow to shop in Bangkok
Amanda Levete Architects’ Central Embassy development is due to start on site in Thailand next February
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FeaturesAnything but tinsel: High-tech and artistic decorations
Fairy lights, Christmas trees and Santas are bedecking high streets across the country in the time-honoured tradition. But for a hardcore group of artists and designers, Christmas is more about technology than tinsel
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Projects of the year 2010: Take it to the max
The big, the beautiful and the bonkers - Ike Ijeh and Thomas Lane dish out the awards to an international array of projects that helped keep construction headlines lively in 2010
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CommentCan the war on clutter ever be won?
Is no architecture safe from the march of the dreaded bollards - the latest to succumb to an ill-positioned lampost is a restored Victorian gem next door to St Pauls
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FeaturesPollard Thomas Edwards' Islington square: Shaping up nicely
Pollard Thomas Edwards has made a north London square whole by filling in its missing fourth side with a residential scheme that sensitively reinterprets its traditional context
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FeaturesDarling, you were marvellous
Bennetts’ sensitive conversion of the RSC’s Stratford theatre is a palpable hit, writes Ike Ijeh, and should have audiences in raptures
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NewsBennett's Royal Shakespeare Company takes centre stage
This £12m refurbishment of the Stratford theatre should be a hit with audiences
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NewsMaking a point
WSP’s Grand Palladium injects futuristic design and some serious angles into the heart of Mumbai’s commercial district
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FeaturesMake's £100m Cube: Birmingham cubed
The Second City’s Jewellery Quarter inspired the facade of Make’s astonishing Cube development. But as with any box of jewels, its real treasures are inside
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CommentWhy Cabe must be judged a failure
Ultimately, the design watchdog was both powerless and corrupted by the illusion of power
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