All articles by Ike Ijeh – Page 4
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Features
Will driverless cars change our urban environment as we know it?
Do electric-powered private-hire driverless cars represent the biggest opportunity to redesign our urban environment since the invention of the motor car itself?
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Comment
It has its flaws but Bloomberg is a worthy winner
Fosters’ Stirling laureate is an environmental game-changer
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Features
The Gantry: London's new 'home for making'
What might have become a dull business park on the site of London’s 2012 Olympics in Stratford is now a hub for artists and makers
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Features
ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Awards 2018: Refurbishment of the Year shortlist - part 2
Nominees in this category include the spectacular overhaul of a neoclassical piazza in Yorkshire
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Features
ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Awards 2018: Refurbishment of the Year shortlist - part 1
Nominees in this category include the spectacular overhaul of a neoclassical piazza in Yorkshire
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Features
Projects: Royal Opera House, London
Stanton Williams’ revamp of the Royal Opera House works as an evolution of Dixon Jones’ earlier scheme, further opening up the building to make it more accessible as a public space
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Projects: V&A Dundee
Kengo Kuma’s V A Dundee, inspired by the cliffs of the north-east Scotland coast, is the museum’s first venue outside of London
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ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Awards 2018: ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø magazine's Project of the Year shortlist part 2
With this year’s ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Awards shortlist announced, we take a look at the nominees for ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø magazine’s Project of the Year
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ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Awards 2018: ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø magazine's Project of the Year shortlist part 1
With this year’s ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Awards shortlist announced, we take a look at the nominees for ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø magazine’s Project of the Year
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Features
History lessens
After 30 years as a World Heritage Site, the Tower of London faces having its status withdrawn because of the skyscrapers looming over it. It’s not the only site recently threatened with delisting – but is there any consistency in Unesco’s approach, and does freezing a city at a moment ...
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Projects: Spanish acquisition - the restoration of the Spanish City pleasure dome, Whitley Bay
Spanish City pleasure dome in Whitley was once known as the Playground of the North. Has its restoration from a crumbling wreck to a mixed-use leisure venue successfully combined Edwardian glamour with a modern commercial space?
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Features
Sun spots: Some of Britain’s best summer spaces - part two
In the second of our two-part summer series, Ike Ijeh discusses some more of the best UK roof gardens and public spaces to make you think twice about that beach holiday
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Features
Sun spots: Some of Britain’s best summer spaces - part one
In the first of a two-part series, here are some of the best UK roof gardens and public spaces to make you think twice about that beach holiday.Â
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Projects: Back for good
The stereotype of back-to-back housing as cramped and poorly lit is overturned by AHMM’s Signal Townhouses, where thoughtful design has maximised natural light and outdoor space
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Projects: For a new generation
On a vast regeneration site in London’s Wembley Park, developer Quintain is building what it hopes will be the UK’s largest build-to-rent scheme
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Features
Housing Design Awards 2018: Winners
As the respected awards ceremony turn 70, Ike Ijeh looks at this year’s winners and concludes that, when it comes to innovative new schemes, councils are leading the way
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Features
Canary Wharf: Eighties revival
Wood Wharf, the latest development on the Canary Wharf estate, seeks to move away from the original scheme’s anodyne corporate banking aesthetic
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Features
Projects: A history lesson at Westminster Abbey
How do you design an extension that can live up to the heritage of the coronation place of kings and queens for the last thousand years?
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News
The verdict: Frida Escobedo's Serpentine Pavilion
ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø’s architecture critic Ike Ijeh is beguiled by the work of the youngest architect yet to win the annual commission