Smithfield Market London building, architecture

Smithfield Market

John McAslan’s Smithfield proposal is ‘sophisticated’, states English Heritage. Save Britain’s Heritage calls the plans the ‘worst mutilation of a major Victorian building in 30 years’. The market halls date from 1883, but derelict for the last 15 years, are facing a controversial £160m plan to scoop out their innards and insert six-storey blocks of shops and offices in their place.

Earls Court Redevelopment, London

Earls Court Redevelopment

Design: Pilbrow & Partners

Part of architect Sir Terry Farrell’s Masterplan.

Parts of the scheme designed by Pilbrow & Partners include the Broadway Terrace Building in what will become Earls Court Village and a prominent building entitled The Prow.
Detailed design proposals for further phases of the Earls Court Masterplan will be presented for consultation in late 2014.

Tollgate Gardens in Maida Vale, London

Tollgate Gardens in Maida Vale

Tollgate Gardens in Maida Vale, London. BDP has secured detail planning consent for its competition winning housing and regeneration project at Tollgate Gardens in Maida Vale, London. The redevelopment of the 1960s estate forms the first step in Westminster City Council’s ambitious Housing Renewal Strategy.

De Fabriek Delfshaven Rotterdam – Building

De Fabriek Delfshaven, Rotterdam

Re-use of a former factory in Delfshaven: In the heart of bustling Delfshaven on the banks of the river Schie is an old characteristic industrial complex located which has lost a lot of its luster and vibrancy in the course of the years. The by time grown together agglomeration of characteristic buildings has become in an almost irreversible process of decline by years of vacancy and neglect.

Hans-Sachs-Haus Conversion, Gelsenkirchen

Hans-Sachs-Haus Conversion, Gelsenkirchen Building Development, Germany Project, German Architecture Hans-Sachs-Haus Conversion, Germany Gelsenkirchen Listed Building – design by von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) 30 Aug 2013 Gelsenkirchen Town Hall Design: von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) Location: Gelsenkirchen, Germany Hans-Sachs-Haus Town Hall Gelsenkirchen After a construction period of four years, the city of Gelsenkirchen … Read more

Hanomag U-Boat Hall Hannover Building

Hanomag U-Boat Hall Development by BOLLES+WILSON

Conversion of the Hanomag ‘U-Boat Hall’, Hannover, north Germany, into a RS+Yellow Furniture Outlet by BOLLES+WILSON. There is today an enormous potential in the re-scripting of grand industrial spaces, survivors from an epoch that had less trouble expressing itself and its mechanical or technical potency than our current mean and exploitative ‘global shopping-centre-culture’.

Ironmonger Row Baths Islington Development

Ironmonger Row Baths was built in 1931, designed by Alfred Cross PRIBA, a distinguished architect who specialised in public baths. The building provided the people of Finsbury with eighty slipper baths and a large public laundry, concealed by an Italian Renaissance palazzo façade. In 1938, Cross’s son Kenneth added two swimming pools to the side, with a small Turkish baths in the basement. It was listed Grade II in 2006.