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Building StudyBrixton Windmill Centre, London, by Squire & Partners
Gallery: Architect completes education and community centre to support grade II* landmark
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Building Study: Plumstead Centre, London, by Hawkins Brown
The architect reckons it has found the solution to saving libraries from extinction. Ike Ijeh assesses the end result
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Maggie’s Centre at the Royal Marsden, Sutton, by Ab Rogers Design
For his first building the designer has gone head-to-head with his father – but he was more intimidated by Rem Koolhaas, he tells Elizabeth Hopkirk
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Building Study: Town House, Kingston University, by Grafton Architects
Grafton’s first UK building is a thrilling reinterpretation of the university library, writes Ike Ijeh
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The world’s hottest projects in 2020
Ike Ijeh tours the planet to report on this year’s most anticipated completions
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Building Study: Auckland Tower, County Durham, by Niall McLaughlin
The architect has given Auckland Castle a timber tower resembling a siege engine – but while it’s a permanent fixture there’s nothing static about it
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Building Study: Walker’s Court, Soho, by Soda Studio
The Walker’s Court development, on the site of the famous Raymond Revuebar, could help Soho rediscover some heart
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Building Study: Zayed Centre, Great Ormond Street, by Stanton Williams
The £90m research centre for rare diseases gives the world-famous children’s hospital civic presence for the first time, writes Ike Ijeh
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Building Study: Marmalade Lane, Cambridge, by Mole Architects
How does this housing development that was instigated and managed by residents work in practice?
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Building Study: The Twist, Norway, by BIG
Bjarke Ingels’ new art gallery over a river might have the whiff of gimmickry but Ike Ijeh finds himself beguiled
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Building Study: Tintagel Bridge, Cornwall, by William Matthews Associates
The two halves of the severed castle have been reconnected by thrusting cantilevers that don’t quite meet. Ike Ijeh asks if Merlin was involved
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Building Study: James Simon Galerie, Berlin, by David Chipperfield
The architect’s new gallery is a magnificent gateway to Berlin’s Museum Island, writes Ike Ijeh
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Building Study: Churchill College housing, Cambridge, by Cottrell & Vermeulen
The postgraduate block is a deft study in how to do contextual architecture when the context happens to be your own work, writes Ike Ijeh
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Ike Ijeh’s verdict: Junya Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion
This year’s pavilion has its flaws and yet contains enough joy to convince BD’s critic that the series should continue into its third decade
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Building Study: Drayton Green Church, by Piercy & Company
This west London church replaces medieval mystery with digital geometry in a thrilling reinterpretation of the gothic tradition
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Building Study: Bracken House, London, by John Robertson Architects
In its time it has 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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Building Study: The Ray, Farringdon, by AHMM
Paying close attention to its 19th-century context has created an office with character, says Ike Ijeh
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Building Study: Windermere Jetty Museum, Cumbria, by Carmody Groarke
Carmody Groarke’s museum joyfully embodies and integrates with the romantic landscape and local vernacular of the Lakes
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Building Study: Royal College of Pathologists, London, by Bennetts Associates
The architect had the rare opportunity to tackle a venerable typology - and has produced a virtuoso building, says Ike Ijeh
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Building Study: Dancy House, Marlborough, by Allies and Morrison
This block for Marlborough College is a perfect compromise between the school’s rarefied idyll and the practice’s trademark contemporary aesthetic
