All Buildings revisited articles

  • Arup Associates designed the SB Warburg (now UBS) headquarters in Finsbury Avenue Square.
    Building Study

    Revisiting Broadgate

    2010-10-22T00:00:00Z

    In the 1980s Broadgate changed the physical and economic landscape – how is it faring now?

  • Crucible bar 1971
    Features

    Revisiting Sheffield’s Crucible theatre

    2010-09-17T00:00:00Z

    The signature thrust stage and octagonal plan of The Crucible have survived but changes in safety regulations and budget cuts made Burrell Foley Fischer’s refurbishment challenging.

  • BedZed general view
    Building Study

    Revisiting the BedZed community

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    BedZed was the ultimate sustainability trailblazer. Nearly a decade on, the Bill Dunster, BioRegional and The Peabody Trust development may be thriving but it remains an anomaly, rather than an exemplar.

  • Hunstanton school 2010
    Building Study

    Revisiting Alison and Peter Smithson’s Hunstanton school

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Alison and Peter Smithson’s Hunstanton school was one of the first secondary moderns. Nearly 60 years after it was built, it is still going strong

  • Flat roofs and satellite dishes are prohibited at Poundbury.
    Building Study

    Revisiting Dorset new town Poundbury

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    The Prince Charles-led ’new town’ of Poundbury which was masterplanned by Leon Krier, has taken a hammering from critics but has succeeded at something more important than architectural brilliance – its role as a community

  • Port Eliot south elevation
    Features

    Building on Soane’s foundations at Port Eliot

    2010-04-16T00:00:00Z

    Much of what Soane envisaged at Port Eliot was not fully realised, yet despite subsequent remodelling, his basic structure still shines through the gilded decay

  • Swindon's Princess Margaret Hospital
    Features

    Powell & Moya's influential healthcare buildings

    2010-03-09T10:52:00Z

    Powell & Moya were pioneers of hospital architecture when the NHS was still in its infancy — and half a century later their early ideas still resonate in spirit as well as form

  • Not all Widdows’ schools share the Croft Infant School’s charm, with its small tile patterns set into rendered gables.
    Features

    Croft infant school: Widdows' peaked?

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    随着英国遗产协会上个月通过清单16来保护历史学校,我们来看看George Widdows最具开创性的设计。But its headteacher asks whether Croft Infant’s grade II* status prevents it adapting to modern use

  • Lasdun conceived the buildings as
    Review

    Revisiting Denys Lasdun’s UEA

    2010-01-04T09:24:00Z

    Half a century on, Denys Lasdun’s campus for the University of East Anglia remains as striking and popular as ever.

  • Berlage Holland House
    Features

    Holland House: born in the USA

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    Greatly inspired by his travels in America, HP Berlage’s completion of Holland House in the City of London in 1916 created one of the first steel-framed buildings in Europe

  • Castle Drogo main NTPL
    Features

    Inskip & Jenkins puts its seal on Castle Drogo

    2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

    Completed in 1930 as the last castle in England, Castle Drogo was sadly always pregnable to the Dartmoor rain. Now Inskip Jenkins’ restoration work is turning Lutyens’ fantastical creation into a weatherproof fortress for the first time

  • Lyde End cemetery
    Features

    Lyde End is in a field of its own

    2009-10-23T10:34:00Z

    The judicious modernism of Aldington Craig’s 1977 Lyde End scheme at Bledlow remains a convincing model for rural housing. Its grade II listing last month should finally bring this little-known gem the credit it deserves

  • Piraeus was the first building on the island to replace the redundant shipping warehouses that it references.
    Technical

    Gerard Maccreanor revisits the Piraeus building in Amsterdam

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    20世纪90年代,当汉斯·科尔霍夫和克里斯蒂安·拉普的比雷埃夫斯大楼在建时,麦克里诺·拉文顿搬到了荷兰。Gerard Maccreanor observes its influence on the practice

  • Nottingham Playhouse stage
    Features

    Nottingham Playhouse: In the round

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Even with the raw board-marked concrete painted over, Peter Moro’s strong geometric composition for the Nottingham Playhouse — a circle within a rectangle — still excites

  • Front Elevation
    Features

    Birmingham Central Library’s final chapter

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    John Madin’s 1974 Birmingham Central Library was designed to be flexible, for a possible future without books. English Heritage would like to see it listed, but the city’s political elite say it is impossible to refurbish for modern needs and want it demolished

  • View along Pall Mall with the Athenaeum on right and Institute of Directors on left. The podium height almost matches its exclusive neighbours.
    Features

    New Zealand House: the modern heart of St James’s

    2009-06-19T00:00:00Z

    Robert Matthew faced much opposition in the 1950s for his ambitious design of New Zealand House. Some of the internal grandness has faded, or disappeared altogether, but the building sits well with the Pall Mall set

  • The buildings employ a disciplined use of reinforced concrete, which over the years has seen an overcoating of white paint.
    Features

    Avanti Architects' Hackney courage

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Having been neglected over the years, Erno Goldfinger’s little known Haggerston School in Hackney is poised to be transformed by the BSF programme. Avanti Architects’ John Allan explains how the listed building will be adapted for a radical new educational programme

  • The Ryde when it was first completed.
    Features

    The Ryde’s experiment in caring and sharing

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    哈特菲尔德的莱德是一个开创性的合作社,居民们创造了他们想要的住房社区,但40年过去了,是社区还是人们想要的房子的隐私?

  • Finsbury, March 2, 2009.
    Features

    Lubetkin’s Finsbury Health Centre — the ideal that time forgot

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Berthold Lubetkin’s Finsbury Health Centre was opened in 1938 with his assertion that “nothing was too good for ordinary people.” It was a pivotal moment in British social history that led to the development of the NHS. But now both the building and Lubetkin’s beliefs are under threat

  • It is a short bicycle ride from Cambridge to the out-of-town college with its temple-like main entrance in purplish-buff brickwork.
    Features

    Sheppard Robson’s Churchill College was built to last the course

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Sheppard Robson’s Churchill College was dubbed safe and even bland in 1959, but 50 years on 6A Architects is revisiting the original courtyard-based design for its new hall of residence