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Live Works, Newcastle by Flanagan Lawrence

2017-02-15T08:00:00Z

Live Theatre has ventured into the high-stakes world of property development to enable it to plough the profits back into making plays. Ike Ijeh takes a look around Live Works, the theatre’s £10m office project, to see how the building fits into Newcastle’s historic Quayside

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Goede Doelen Loterijen by Benthem Crouwel Architects

2016-10-14T09:52:00Z

Once completed, the new home of the biggest lottery charity in the Netherlands will be the first refurbished office building in Amsterdam to achieve a BREEAM Outstanding

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Antwerp Port House, by Zaha Hadid Architects

2016-09-28T11:10:00Z

Zaha Hadid Architects’ spaceship-like extension over the Belgian port’s old fire station is, the practice claims, a response to the site’s context and history. Ike Ijeh is unconvinced

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The rebirth of Lochgelly and lessons for Brexit Britain

2016-07-21T08:00:00Z

The EU referendum brought home the political divisions between various parts of the UK. The inspired regeneration of a once deprived ex-mining town in Fife shows how architecture can help resolve them.

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Wellbeing registration: Europe's first project

2016-07-19T09:52:00Z

There is now an international standard for measuring how a building impacts on its users’ health and wellbeing. Ike Ijeh looks at how Studio Ben Allen Architects’ One Carter Lane became the first European project to receive the accreditation

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Hiscox building, York, by Make Architects

2016-03-24T08:00:00Z

This triumphant fusion of heritage and modernity has at its heart a spectacular foyer of swirling concrete staircases and balconies - oh, and a rocket from the former Soviet arsenal. Ike Ijeh reports

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Here East, Hackney Wick, by Hawkins Brown

The former media hub of the London 2012 Olympic Games is presently the focus of a £100m redevelopment and soon to be a creative hub – in what its developers hope is the start of a wider regeneration in the east London region

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H71a, Reykjavík, Iceland

2015-06-02T06:00:00Z

Studio Granda replaced a dilapidated structure with an extension to the studio of Icelandic photographer Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson. The project utilised several long-standing collaborative relationships, not least that between architect and client, writes Hugh Strange

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Institution of Structural Engineering by Hugh Broughton Architects

2015-05-15T06:00:00Z

Hugh Broughton and Expedition Engineering have turned an awkwardly shaped existing office building in Clerkenwell into a showcase of structural innovation

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Can tall buildings ever be sustainable?

2015-02-25T06:00:00Z

With debate still raging over the 230 towers lined up to make the London skyline look more like Hong Kong’s, Ike Ijeh looks at whether tall buildings can ever be sustainable

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Cladding SOM's JTI Building in Geneva

2014-10-23T06:00:00Z

SOM’s JTI building in Geneva uses a revolutionary facade that optimises daylight and transparency while meeting tight Swiss regulatory requirements. Ike Ijeh finds out more

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King's Cross Central and Two Pancras Square by Allies & Morrison

2014-09-30T06:00:00Z

The completion of Allies Morrison’s Two Pancras Square office building is a good moment to assess the practice’s Kings Cross Central masterplan, writes Ike Ijeh

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The Leadenhall Building by Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners

2014-09-11T06:00:00Z

RSHP’s Leadenhall Building – or Cheesegrater – which has just completed its shell and core stage, is an exhilarating skyscraper that does more than any other to open itself up to the public. But Ike Ijeh says it’s a shame that it merely adds to the chaos of London’s skyline

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OMA’s HQ for G-Star Raw fashion brand in Amsterdam

2014-04-14T06:34:00Z

Rem Koolhaas’ open-plan building is the perfect fit for the Dutch denim clothes manufacturer

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Rain pergola for Microsoft Italia HQ

2014-02-13T07:15:00Z

Flores Prats Architects’ steel and glass canopy provides innovative shelter from the elements

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David Chipperfield Architects’ Berlin office campus

2014-02-12T08:00:00Z

Four new concrete volumes restructure the site of David Chipperfield Architects’ office in the Berlin district of Mitte

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De Rotterdam by OMA

2013-12-05T07:00:00Z

Seventeen years in the making, OMA’s latest building embodies Rotterdam‘s attempt to reinvent its passenger docks as a mini-Manhattan

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Independent Age HQ by architect 4ORM

2013-11-22T06:30:00Z

Warehouse refurbishment for west London charity

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Gort Scott's office building for Jesus College, Cambridge

2013-11-01T06:30:00Z

The Hills Road site is next to Eric Lyons’ Highsett housing

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Allies & Morrison offices by Allies & Morrison

2013-10-02T06:30:00Z

The architect is steadily colonising its own corner of central London — and that includes its newly extended headquarters