Foster and Partners designed this new £100 million addition to the British Museum in London UK. The British Library, which was the main focus of the building’s original design in 1823, moved out of the building, allowing for this central …
Category: England
(zoonabar– flickr/creative commons license) Michael Gaballini and Kimberley Sheppard designed Westfield, London’s largest shopping mall. Having evolved from London’s technological wonder the Crystal Palace, and coincidentally on the site of the exotic White City, the Westfield mall has become the …
About 3 miles long, the Ladyblower was once the longest reservoir in England. Completed in 1943, the dam was built by Richard Baillie and Sons to compensate for water held by two dams higher up in the rivers. …
Henning Larsen designed the Moller Center for Continuing Education at Churchill College. Striving for a purity of form, Larsen makes the functionality of the building evident, with residential, conference rooms, and Lounge bar. Natural lighting is a theme of Larsen’s …
(yellow book– flickr/creative commons license) The Walsall Art Gallery designed by Caruso St John Architects opened in 2000. The terracotta sheathing invites an intimacy with its small-town urban scale. The tallest part of the building cantelivers over the only free-glazed …
The Millennium Bridge over the River Thames has taken its place as cultural staple in England. Arup, Foster and Partners and Sir Anthony Caro designed this suspension bridge for pedestrians, which opened in 2000. The bridge establishes a strong connection …
(caramel377– flickr/creative commons license) David Adjaye, who designed the Nobel Peace Centre, converted a furniture factory into this home for artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster. He had just completed a home for artist Chris Ofill. Located in a rough …
(dumbledad– flickr/creative commons license) The chapel at Churchill College came after a long battle between Christians and atheists, who claimed an institution of science and technology should not have a sacred building. Nobel Prize-winner Francis Crick resigned in protest of …
(Matt Biddulph– flickr/creative commons license) Ernö Goldfinger designed this residential tower, and the Balfron Tower and Glenkerry House around it, for Poplar HARCA. The brutalist concrete building typifies the residences with balconies and large windows. The two buildings’ circulation meet …
(jumblejet– flickr/creative license license) The Laban Contemporary Dance Centre lies in Deptford near Greenwich, in a prominent “U” outlined by the Thames, designed by Herzog & de Meuron (2003). A translucent polycarbonate cladding wraps around a a colored exterior wall …