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West Hub / Jestico + Whiles

Paula Pintos — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Located in the heart of West Cambridge, the West Hub is key to the University’s vision to transform the site into a lively and active teaching and research quarter for the city. The new building represents a step change in the way the University provides amenities as a shared resource for staff, students, and neighboring institutions.

Rolling Stock Yard Offices / Squire & Partners

Andreas Luco — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Rolling Stock Yard is a new development in King’s Cross designed as a contemporary response to its industrial setting providing 57,500 sq ft of workspace for creative small to medium-sized businesses. The design concept draws on the area north of King’s Cross St Pancras, historically characterised by the machinations of transport, freight, and industry, and now an emerging creative quarter. Converging railway lines and shipping containers are referenced in the nine-storey building, expressed as a series of stacked elements with a black profiled steel structure emulating parallel railway tracks running horizontally across the facades. Within this horizontal grid, full-height glazing is softened by a layer of vertical solid oak sleepers and sinusoidal perforated metal screens to offer privacy and shade during daylight hours, and emit a diffused glow at night. At pavement level, the building animates the street with bespoke illuminated entrance signage behind a corrugated metal screen, and a double-height office entrance addressing York Way.

Northampton International Academy / Architecture Initiative

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 17:00:00 +0000

London-based architecture practice Architecture Initiative has completed a project to turn the largely windowless, utilitarian, industrial building into an education hub filled with natural light and expansive views; designed to motivate and inspire. The 1970s building stood derelict for eleven years and had become a local eyesore, attracting antisocial behavior. Architecture Initiative identified the opportunity to ambitiously reimagine the vast brutalist structure as a school while celebrating the best of its exposed concrete structure and features such as its massive open spaces and waffle slab ceilings. Northampton International Academy accommodates 420 primary pupils 1500 secondary pupils and a 300-place sixth form. The main mass of the building structure remains largely unchanged.

The Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre / Medical Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 21:00:00 +0000

The pioneering Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre, opened summer 2018, is the first of a new class of National Health Service facilities designed to cater for the needs of an increasingly elderly population without the recourse to hospital admission.

BaptCare Brookview, Westmeadows / CHT Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 18 May 2018 19:00:00 +0000

Conceptual Framework
The proposal consisted of a 90 bed Aged care development with the potential to provide an additional 30 bed expansion in the future. The building needed to be able to provide services such as: high care and dementia care. This was at the forefront of mind when drawings began.

Watermark WestQuay / ACME

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 05:00:00 +0000

Phase 1 of Watermark WestQuay is the first part of a major redevelopment of a key area within Southampton’s town centre designed by ACME. e new scheme contains a 10-screen multiplex cinema, bowling alley, 24 restaurants and cafés, and a new public plaza and esplanade. Created for Hammerson, Watermark sits adjacent to their WestQuay Shopping Centre, drawing the development towards the sea. A soaring cantilevered box wrapped in a skin of curving silver tubes projects out over the new square, signalling the development from the city as a hub of activity.

University of Birmingham's Library / Associated Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 05:00:00 +0000

Associated Architects’ feasibility study concluded that a new building rather than refurbishment of the existing library would best meet the University’s needs. The demolition of the adjacent deficient 1950s library will create a ‘green heart’ to the campus, improving both site circulation and the setting of the historic buildings. The new Library has a colonnaded frontage to this open space, at the natural centre of the University.

Architecture Initiative Transforms Derelict Brutalist Northampton Landmark into Mixed-Use Academy

Niall Patrick Walsh — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 08:00:00 +0000

London-based firm Architecture Initiative has released updates of their mixed-use scheme set to transform a neglected brutalist building in Northampton, England. The Northampton International Academy, currently an abandoned Royal Mail sorting office, will be centered around educational, commercial, and community use. The scheme aims to address a need for school places in a manner which contributes to the economic regeneration of the local area.

Helensvale Branch Library and CCYC / Lahznimmo Architects + Complete Urban

Sebastian Jordana — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

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