||||||||||||LSE Saw Swee Hock Student Centre ©Dennis Gilbert/View|The Saw Swee Hock building’s multi-faceted brick exterior creates “meaningful vistas” ©Dennis Gilbert/View|Mecanoo’s Library of Birmingham, “a cathedral of nowadays” ©Mecanoo|The library contains a range of working areas so people can find an area that suits them ©Christian Richters|Zaha Hadid’s London Aquatics Centre ©Hufton + Crow|Beneath the undulating roof of the London Aquatics Centre ©Hufton + Crow|The Everyman Theatre by Hayworth Thompkins ©Philip Vile|The Everyman auditorium has a 400-person capacity ©Philip Vile|Manchester Art School by FCB Studios ©Hufton + Crow|The art school’s walls were left as a ‘blank canvas’ for students ©Hufton + Crow|Renzo Piano’s Shard ©Michel Denance||
17 Jul 2014

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Category: Architecture

Editor’s picks

Inside ‘Design at Work’: OnOffice reimagines the future of workplace design at Design London Shoreditch 2025

The best seat in the house

Material Matters

At home and at work

Palma Poufs by Kusheda Mensah for Hem meld fun and function

Muller Van Severen: furniture that balances practicality and playfulness

Award-winning British furniture brand Isomi unveils the Knit One Chair

David Irwin introduces the Setter Swivel, an evolved take on his acclaimed Setter collection for Deadgood

Johanson debuts bold showroom in Clerkenwell

Interiors

Copenhagen Food Collective’s new Hotel Bella Grande maintains its old-world charm

Universal Design Studio’s interiors for British Land’s Norton Folgate complex prove the area’s legacy of craftsmanship is alive and well

The latest outpost of the global aparthotel brand Locke takes visitors to Lisbon

Holloway Li blurs the boundaries between lounge bar and co-working space at Club Quarters

The new Orangebox headquarters by Studio Rhonda lets the company’s products do the talking

A profusion of colour, design and fun is behind Maison Perron’s new concept of a live-work space

Offering coffee with a retro vibe, Sydney’s Superfreak café is the best kind of throwback

OCCA’s new open-plan studio situated in Glasgow embodies the studio’s values and unique personality

BDG Architecture + Design helped to transform an industrial building into a buzzing office for WPP’s creative agencies

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