All articles by Ike Ijeh – Page 6
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FeaturesProjects: Hope for the slope
On a narrow, sloping site in Muswell Hill, architect pH+ has responded imaginatively to a host of site constraints to produce a compelling example of how London’s awkward little corners can help tackle the capital’s housing shortage.
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FeaturesThe return of the clerk of works
Concerns about building quality and safety, especially in the wake of Grenfell, have led to calls for a more co-ordinated approach to accountability. Could the answer be to revive the largely lapsed role of clerk of works?
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FeaturesProjects: Hackney town hall
It’s taken 12 years to restore Hackney town hall after 80 years of neglect. Ike Ijeh assesses the results
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FeaturesConstruction 4.0: where are we now?
From drones that do site inspections, to exoskeletons that save construction workers from back injury, to algorithms that crunch building codes to churn out thousands of design variants, artificial intelligence is ushering in a fourth revolution in construction.
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CommentIke Ijeh on dRMM's Stirling Prize win
Building’s architecture critic hails urban renewal impact of triumphant scheme
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FeaturesProjects: Bloomberg HQ, London
Foster + Partners’ HQ for Bloomberg breaks with tradition for City of London buildings by respecting the architectural context of its surroundings
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NewsNew HQ could have been a lot taller, Bloomberg admits
Client chose to build low out of respect to historic context
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FeaturesProject: North West Cambridge Development
This £1bn development is Cambridge university’s answer to its critical housing shortage. Unusually, the university has taken on the role of developer
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FeaturesBuilding Awards Project of the Year 2017 shortlist: Part 2
The shortlisted entries for this year’s Building Awards Project of the Year aspire to the very highest functionality and aesthetics
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FeaturesBuilding Awards Project of the Year 2017 shortlist: Part 1
The shortlisted entries for this year’s Building Awards Project of the Year aspire to the very highest functionality and aesthetics
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FeaturesPlay house
Lego’s new showpiece attraction in Billund, Denmark, combines exhibition space and the Lego experience in a building designed by Bjarke Ingels Group to reflect the company’s core values and its concept of play.
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FeaturesAll over the place
The differences between regulations in the four UK nations have grown since some legislative powers were devolved in Scotland and Wales
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FeaturesAn architectural side note
The £57m Birmingham Conservatoire’s quiet restraint has produced an anonymous facade that conceals rather than celebrates the elegant music spaces within
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FeaturesBack to school: The human touch
OMA’s first science building, Lab City engineering school near Paris, humanises its rational grid structure through a system of streets and squares bathed in natural light.
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FeaturesHousing Project of the Year shortlist
A Victorian chapel, rooftop houses, and a playground in the sky are just some of the innovations that feature in this year’s Building Awards housing shortlist, showcasing the country’s best residential projects
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2017: the winners
It’s good to be reminded of the high quality that characterises much of the new work being produced in housing
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FeaturesV&A extension: Culture shock
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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FeaturesNational Gallery of Ireland: Windows of opportunity
Heneghan Peng’s £25m refurbishment of the National Gallery of Ireland is a sensitive and sometimes almost invisible intervention into an idiosyncratic building
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FeaturesUnder a cloud
Commercial development in the City has had the shadow of Brexit looming over it for a year now
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FeaturesBIM: Attention to detail
A Boston restoration project using advanced 3D-modelling and printing technologies could hold the key to a new age of decoration within contemporary design