More Architectural Reviews – Page 6
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FeaturesSmart building: What makes UCL's Student Centre so special?
University College London’s new Student Centre is innovative, diverse, digitally enabled and focused on sustainability – just like its users.
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FeaturesSingapore Changi airport: The shape of water
Ike Ijeh looks at the challenges of constructing the world’s tallest indoor waterfall
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FeaturesWhat will the Tokyo 2020 Olympic venues look like?
Ike Ijeh discovers that some arenas originally built for the 1964 summer games in Tokyo will be recycled for use in the next Olympiad
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FeaturesProjects: The story of The Tide, the Greenwich Peninsula High Line
The new part-elevated park in Greenwich Peninsula is remarkable for its use of prefabrication and parametric 3D modelling. But will it wash with the public?
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FeaturesProjects: Mace's 'rising factory' at Victory Plaza, London
Do new processes such as Mace’s ‘rising factories’ help deliver projects more quickly and efficiently?
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2019: The winners
This year’s completed scheme winners and the Housing Design Awards 2019 overall winner
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2019: Uncompleted scheme winners
This year’s winners take a smart approach to densification that shows how to provide quality living space in constrained sites
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FeaturesChanging the DNA: how building using a cement substitute is reducing global carbon emissions
Imperial College London’s £90m biomedical engineering research centre is built from an unusual material. Thomas Lane reports on how the challenges of working with GGBS have been overcome to imposing effect
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FeaturesProjects: The Pavilion, Hardman Square, Manchester
The Pavilion in Spinningfields’ Hardman Square stands out among a sea of steel and glass. Ike Ijeh reports on how a modular CLT building has brought a high-end touch of green to Manchester’s financial district
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FeaturesProjects: Hill House, Helensburgh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House near Glasgow was just three years away from being destroyed by catastrophic water ingress
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NewsIn pictures: Canary Wharf 75-storey resi tower tops out
First residents to move in to Landmark Pinnacle next year
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FeaturesProjects: Northampton International Academy
A previously reviled brutalist eyesore in Northampton has been transformed by Architecture Initiative into a light-filled, airy and dynamic academy school
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FeaturesProjects: The Compton, Regent's Park
An innovative choice of cladding material – cast aluminium – has created an unusual look for these luxury flats near Regent’s Park
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FeaturesProjects: Exploring ‘the third space’
Three new London commercial schemes explore the ‘in-between’ areas that are neither home nor workplace, neither public nor private
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FeaturesProjects: Laing O’Rourke on site at Edinburgh St James
The redevelopment of Edinburgh’s St James shopping centre with new apartments, a hotel and retail is on a regal scale – but a very small site
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FeaturesProjects: The FT's former and future home at Bracken House, London
It has in its time embodied more than one archetype of the City office block, from 1950s solid sandstone to 1980s high-tech glass and steel
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FeaturesProjects: How the Royal Papworth Hospital has health at heart
The Royal Papworth hospital has moved into a brand-new building that places health outcomes at its centre
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FeaturesProjects: Guédelon Castle, France
It may resemble a restoration project, but this 13th-century castle in France is being built from scratch entirely by hand
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FeaturesInspirations: architecture admired by the next generation
Architecture that delights the upcoming generation of construction professionals: four of our guest editors pick buildings that either inspired them to waork in construction or have impressed on them the importance of design quality early in their careers
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FeaturesBuild-to-rent: a sleepover at a Wembley scheme
Quintain’s 5,000-home build-to-rent development in Wembley seeks to create a sense of community living through wine tastings, tutored events and supper clubs – a place where residents can return from work to a concierge-serviced, hassle-free oasis. How does it score? Hamish Champ slept the night there to find out