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Architect: Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners The opening of the Channel Tunnel in November 1994 was the culmination of surely the 20th century’s biggest single civil engineering and political project. Physically connecting Britain and mainland Euro...
This wedge-shaped private house, squeezed into a 20ft gap between a 1860s pub and a late-Georgian terrace, was one of the first built-projects by Future Systems - a unique practice whose output embodied the optimism and fun of the 1990s perhaps more ...
Architect: Populous As soccer fever gripped the USA at the FIFA World Cup ‘94, closer to home Huddersfield Town FC’s elegant yet groundbreaking new Kirkless Stadium (by Populous) scooped the RIBA Building of the Year Award – the only stadium...
Architect: Philip England The tallest and steepest roller coaster in the world at the time of its opening, the Pepsi Max (now known as The Big One) joined the several other architecturally notable structures at Blackpool Pleasure Beach - Joseph Em...
A beautiful essay in fitting comfortably into a sensitive historical landscape without pastiche or pomposity, Hopkins seized this rare opportunity to build a large-scale purpose-designed theatre in the countryside, as only he could. Despite posing a ...
Architect: Hudson Architects A six bedroom family home, Baggy House is a building of contrasts, and a remarkable synthesis of modernist and vernacular elements. Situated on one of the most unspoilt stretches of Britain’s coastline, it mediates b...
Architect: Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners The RAC Regional Control Centre transformed an otherwise nondescript road-locked site near a major junction into a monumental statement: An energy efficient, technologically advanced headquarter building t...
Architect: Niall Philips Niall Philips dabbled in this thoughtful piece pf early eco-modernism on the woody Welsh Wildlife Centre in Cilgerran, which scooped The Royal Society of Architects in Wales Building of the Year. The south facing elevation...
Architect: Ted Cullinan Ted Cullinan conjured a techno take on Jacobethan at his St College Cambridge library, radically reconstructing and extending an existing Tudor Gothic style Victorian building on the site, ably demonstrating his ‘dynamic ...
Architect: Dixon Jones This is student accommodation, but not as we know it. In the postmodern Garthadee project, part of Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University, Jeremy Dixon and Ed Jones managed to channel both Aldo Rossi and Scottish baronial arc...
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