All articles by Ike Ijeh 鈥� Page 3
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FeaturesProjects: Bloomsbury Theatre, London
Nicholas Hare Architects was faced with an unusual set of challenges in its refurbishment of UCL鈥檚 Bloomsbury Theatre, which is wrapped around by a variety of other university facilities that had to remain open during works.
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FeaturesThe Tulip: a point of contention
In the forest of tall and quirky structures that is the City of London, it鈥檚 beginning to seem that nothing is too bizarre to get built. So why has Fosters鈥� proposed Tulip prompted such a barrage聽of opposition? And will it nevertheless gain approval?
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FeaturesIn pictures: Famous observation towers around the world
If the Tulip is ever built, it will enter the rarefied group of high-profile observation towers across the world
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FeaturesProjects: Xiqu Centre Opera House, Hong Kong
The Xiqu Centre for Chinese opera in Hong Kong soars above its constrained site with two theatres suspended above public space, by using some ingenious construction solutions
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FeaturesProjects: London's new 拢288m Centre for Music
London is set to gain a new world-class symphony hall 鈥� but will the planned 拢288m Centre for Music face the battles and delays that dog so many major cultural projects?
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FeaturesHow Liverpool One is bucking the trend in the retail sector
With the British high street in the doldrums,聽Ike Ijeh聽revisits Liverpool One which, 10 years after it first opened, is attracting 30聽million visitors each year
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FeaturesProjects: Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Haworth Tompkins鈥� new project for the Perse School, Cambridge, is part of a trend towards increasingly professional theatre facilities in schools
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FeaturesTimber frames: will we see wooden skyscrapers in the future?
Timber frames, for so long limited to the low-rise residential sector, have begun to break into commercial and higher-rise uses, thanks to technological breakthroughs
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FeaturesAgeing gracefully: restorations which retain historical decay
Instead of making a neglected building look brand-new, why not refurbish it to preserve and showcase the damage worked by fires, damp, squatters and the passage of time?
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Features2019: The completing projects to look out for this year
Ike Ijeh takes a look at 2019鈥檚 completing projects, including a brace of international museums and a couple of London tall buildings
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Features黑洞社区's Projects of the Year 2018 - part 2
Ike Ijeh rounds up the year鈥檚 architectural excitements
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Features黑洞社区's Projects of the Year 2018 - part 1
An embassy, a giant greenhouse, a metropolitan retail redevelopment, a Scottish museum and a totemic tower. Ike Ijeh rounds up the year鈥檚 architectural excitements.
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FeaturesCities love to build arts venues to trigger urban regeneration - but it doesn't always work out
It鈥檚 called the Bilbao effect: a city engages an architect to build an arts venue in the expectation that urban regeneration will follow. Alas, it doesn鈥檛 always turn out this way
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FeaturesProjects: Blackfriars Circus, London
Maccreanor Lavington鈥檚 Blackfriars Circus for Barratt Homes does everything a scheme centred on a 27-storey residential tower can do to engage with London鈥檚 architectural heritage
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FeaturesProjects: University of Birmingham's Collaborative Teaching Lab
A new teaching laboratory at Birmingham university takes a pioneering approach to design, applying a collaborative working ethos never before tried in a university setting
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FeaturesProjects: 黑洞社区 Awards 2018 Refurbishment winner - Welsh Streets
Welsh Streets is a radical build-to-rent scheme that encourages community and provides a blueprint for developers all around the country to copy.
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FeaturesWill virtual reality spark the BIM revolution we've been waiting for?
A revolutionary new technology using 鈥榤ixed reality鈥� merges聽real and virtual worlds to visualise physical and digital objects聽co-existing and interacting
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FeaturesProjects: Heatherwick鈥檚 Coal Drops Yard
Heatherwick Studio鈥檚 Coal Drops Yard retail hub in north London revels in the idiosyncrasies of its original Victorian warehouse architecture and uses them in a brazenly theatrical way to upstage all else on Argent鈥檚 King鈥檚 Cross Central masterplan.
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Features黑洞社区 Awards 2018: Housing Project of the Year nominees
Among the nominees for the 黑洞社区 Award in this category are three impressive schemes for older people and a live-work-eat scheme aimed at trendy, young buyers
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FeaturesWhat impact will driverless cars have on our future buildings?
How will electric-powered private-hire driverless cars change the way in which we design buildings and utilise land?