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Revisit: ZHA’s Glasgow Riverside Museum 12 years on
How is Zaha Hadid Architects’ 2011 Glasgow’s harbour museum faring? Hayley Chivers pays a visit accompanied by key figures in its creation
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Shelf life: Revisiting Feilden Fowles’ factory for Charlie Bigham
The ready meal-maker Bighams hired Feilden Fowles to design its Somerset base. Five years after completion, Hayley Chivers pays a visit along with architect Edmund Fowles and Charlie Bigham himself
Snags or flaws? How Citu’s testbed housing scheme is faring four years on
The AJ returns to a south Leeds eco-neighbourhood to hear about the realities of living in an emerging development, and to ask developer Citu whether the ‘innovative’ model is working
Building revisit: Cartwright Pickard’s pioneering prefab
A return visit to Cartwright Pickard’s first completed project – Murray Grove, now known as Shepherdess Walk – confirms it has stood the test of time as an exemplar of ‘modern methods of construction’
The AJ’s building revisits provide fascinating insights
It has been fascinating to see what has worked (and what has been less successful) in our recent series of building revisits, writes Emily Booth
Revisit: FCBS goes back to the Energy Efficient Office of the Future
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios associate Ron Nkomba talks about the practice’s experience of retrofitting the building it designed nearly 30 years ago for BRE
Building revisit: returning to FAT’s Blue House
The Blue House in east London was FAT’s first built project. Twenty years on, former director Sean Griffiths has remodelled and extended it, fulfilling its original design intention
Is Liverpool One an exemplar of urban regeneration?
Iain Jackson revisits L1, completed in 2008 to a masterplan by BDP working with a stable of 26 architecture practices, to see how the huge urban regeneration scheme has bedded in
Revisit: Hopkins’ WWF Living Planet Centre six years on
Hattie Hartman revisited Hopkins Architects’ Living Planet Centre to find out how WWF-UK’s pioneering headquarters, an exemplar of passive design, is faring after six years of occupancy. Photography Ben Blossom
How is O’Donnell + Tuomey’s LSE building faring five years on?
The Stirling-shortlisted Saw Swee Hock students’ union is proving popular and well used, but has it met its ambitious sustainability targets? Hattie Hartman investigates. Photography by Ben Blossom