Buildings We Like
Yokohama Ferry Terminal, Japan
When we visited Tokyo recently, we both enjoyed the flowing, beautiful and accessible spaces of this project for a ferry waiting area with a park on the roof, designed by Foreign Office Architects.
Zoe Partington and Jos Boys (AIO co-ordinators)
TOM Gallery Tokyo
The TOM (Touch-me-art) Gallery, is meant to be a Museum of Touch. The day we went, the exhibits were elsewhere, but we liked the quality of these door handles.
Zoe and Jos
Maison à Bordeaux, France
A house in Bordeaux by Rem Koolhaas which was designed around a large platform that moves up and down like a lift to connect all parts of the house, and, I think, the roof terrace and external landscape.
It's not an add-on after-thought, but the main generator for the layout of the rooms and the design of their spaces. It feels cool, and as far from institutionalised 'disabled access' as you can get.
Steve McAdam, Fluid Architects
Beijing subway, China
I recently visited Beijing and my favourite place inside the subway line on the way to Tiananmen Square was where a film/advertisement flashed at you as the train passed through the tunnel.
Sarah Pickthall, artist
Tate Modern, London
Tate Modern is a favourite place, partly due to its grace and awe-inspiring dimensions, but mainly because it symbolises freedom for me.
It was the first place I was able to access in my wheelchair and spend hours getting lost in another world because all physical barriers had been removed.
Sue Austin, artist
There are many examples of architectural good practice already.
Recently Zoe Partington-Sollinger was funded as a CABE Scholar to explore accessible public spaces, including streets in Japan and Denmark.You can download her report here.
Here, we want to begin to collect examples of buildings and spaces that Architecture-InsideOut participants and others have sent us.
We welcome your suggestions - and comments on the examples shown here. And if you have a building project you would like to be added to this section please
contact us.