Ike Ijeh
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Passivhaus: Economy of scale
When it’s finished, Goldsmith Street in Norwich will be the largest Passivhaus scheme in the UK - but built as a 100% social housing scheme, it had to be delivered for a competitive price. But how is it being achieved?
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Wild imaginings: Beach huts, Part 2
The humble British beach hut is being reconfigured for the 21st century, as Part 2 of our guide shows
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Wild imaginings: Beach huts, Part 1
The humble British beach hut is being reconfigured for the 21st century, as Part 1 of our guide shows
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A view of the Serpentine Pavilion 2017
Natural simplicity forms an ode to the spirit of a modern city
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Live Works: As you like it
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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Special projects: Cutty Sark - the crystal ship
The world’s last surviving tea clipper has risen again - not just restored, but dramatically suspended in a vast diagrid glass canopy. Ike Ijeh looks around - and underneath - Grimshaw Architects’ impressive renovation
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Gehry in Las Vegas: Just Frank being Frank
Gehry has taken on Vegas, and left it with an unusual mixed-use scheme: a brain health centre and ’event space’
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Welcome arrivals: East London Line
The East London Line extension has brought four new stations to the capital. Ike Ijeh reviews their designs
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Just add sand … Colegio de Las Mesas
No it’s not a mirage, but a dramatic and inventive addition to a college in eastern Spain
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Beyond the pale: Renzo Piano's Central St Giles
Controversial it may be, but Central St Giles has cheered up an obscure corner of London with a riot of reds, yellows, greens and oranges – making the rest of the capital look a tad grey.
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Will London's new bus win our hearts?
Not all Heatherwick’s adaptations to the Routmaster are successful but at least it’s an attempt to revive one of the capital’s best loved icons
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Nouvel takes Manhattan
The French architect describes his 23-storey apartment block on the Lower West Side as a ‘vision machine’. Ike Ijeh tries to decipher what that means. Photos by Roland Halbe
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Bankside: Have you met the Tate’s new neighbours?
Once snubbed as the poor relation of the trendy South Bank, Bankside has been transformed over the past decade by ambitious design. Now, finally, the residential sector is moving in
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Wonders & blunders with ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV's new architectural correspondent
Ike Ijeh is happy to stand in the rain waiting for a London icon, but some unfriendly office blocks leave him cold
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London: The last of the past
The final projects of London’s long, long commercial boom are going to finish over the next year or so. Ike Ijeh rounds up the best of them
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Strata tower: Southwark’s sore thumb
The Strata tower sticks out 150m above south London’s downtrodden Elephant and Castle. But, rather than being a symbol of aspiration, the building is turning away from the very area it’s meant to be giving a lift
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Bleak and tortured: Kapoor's Orbit is hardly an Olympic ideal
The widely panned sculpture's biggest flaw is its lack of meaning
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Japanese architect SANAA bags 2010 Pritzker prize
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have won the Pritzker. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV’s Ike Ijeh gives his verdict
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2012 ‘Hubble Bubble’ sculpture revealed
Artist Anish Kapoor has designed the UK’s biggest sculpture, which will be a centrepiece of the Olympic park