All Leisure & culture articles – Page 15
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Edward Cullinan's Fitzwilliam College library officially opens
Duke of Edinburgh opens university building designed by this year's ɫTV Awards Architect of the Year
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Birmingham MAC to reopen in May
Branson Coates came up with initial designs for £15m expansion to Birmingham's Midlands Art Centre
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Plans for world's first underground golf club
ReardonSmith submits plans for £72m subterranean scheme in area of English natural woodland
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Images and video footage: London's Olympic pools filled for the first time
The aquatics centre pools are tested before being being sealed and tiled
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Clapham gets a makeover
Studio Egret West has designed a 12-storey building in south London to be built by United House
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Made in Taiwan: Pop music complex, Taiwan
Arup Associates together with the US architect Reiser + Umemoto have won a competition to design Asia’s first performance complex devoted to pop music
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Neat work: Foster + Partners' Wisconsin museum
Fortaleza Hall, a museum at the Wisconsin headquarters of cleaning product maker SC Johnson, is complete
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Nouvel to design Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Jean Nouvel has been invited to design 10th Serpentine Pavilion and his first UK building
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The London Library: Speaking volumes
The London Library has been extending in higgledy-piggledy fashion ever since it moved to its St James’s home in 1845. Now Haworth Tompkins has set out to rationalise its circulation so that readers may actually be able to find the books they’re looking for
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Double crossing: Heneghan Peng’s Olympic bridge
Heneghan Peng’s 54m-wide central bridge at the Olympic park, which was lowered into place last week, has been ingeniously designed to form two narrower walkways after the Games have finished. Stephen Kennett explains how it all works
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Aukett + Heese to design 464-room Berlin hotel
German arm of Aukett Fitzroy Robinson wins contract for scheme, which is part of wider mixed-use development
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The school's in aisle 46
Tesco is reworking plans for a district centre in Bromley-by-Bow, east London, after Cabe criticised them
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V&A ceiling scoops plastering award
Subcontractor David Andrews Construction picks up prize at FPDC Plaisterers Awards 2009
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Planners approve Bristol City FC's £60m stadium
Decision over 30,000-seat stadium now rests with the secretary of state
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That’s all, Folkwangers
David Chipperfield Architects has completed an extension to the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany
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The best seats on earth: South Africa’s World Cup stadiums
On 11 June, the 2010 World Cup kicks off in South Africa, the first time it’s been held on the African continent. Some 32 nations will compete in 10 stadiums, five of which are new. Stephen Kennett and Thomas Lane take a look at the construction of the big three
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Twist and shout: RMJM’s Abu Dhabi Capital Gate tower
RMJM’s Capital Gate tower in Abu Dhabi leans at a stomach-lurching 18º, making it a project that largely consisted of geometrical and structural problems – not least of which was finding out where the building had moved to each morning
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Plans submitted for Greenwich hotel
450-bed hotel by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands will include a triple-height pavilion adjacent to O2 arena
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Worcester Library and History Centre's roof
The Worcester Library and History Centre’s geometrically complex roof needed to bring light into the building as well as get air out. Luckily, a powerful parametric model came to the rescue, as Stephen Kennett discovered
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Green light for Warrington sports hub
Capita Symonds worked with council to get £30m sports project through planning