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April 29, 2022
Design firm LUO studio has recently completed a new pedestrian bridge in Jiangmen City, China, that’s been built using pine wood, concrete, aluminum plate, and glass. The bridge, which spans across a small tidal waterway and is located within an eco-cultural tourism resort, has an arched design that accommodates the passage of boats underneath and […]
April 28, 2022
A team led by Allies and Morrison and Asif Khan Studio has been selected to deliver multi-million “project of a lifetime” to refurbish the Barbican Centre. The Allies and Morrison and Asif Khan Studio team – which also includes heritage experts from Alan Baxter Ltd, engineers and sustainability consultants Buro Happold, digital consultants Charcoalblue, landscape […]
April 27, 2022
Feilden Fowles has completed a dining hall and eight-classroom teaching block as part of an ongoing series of commissions for Fergus Feilden’s alma mater, Ralph Allen School, on the outskirts of Bath. Wendy Perring reflects on the architectural moves – and the trust between architect and client – that have given the 1950s campus an […]
April 27, 2022
“It’s not a place to show off, it’s a place for my soul to rest,” says 37-year-old Colombian reggaeton superstar, José Álvaro Osorio Balvín known professionally as J Balvin in a magazine article. “It’s about creating something with nature. Like everything in life, the simple things are the most amazing.” This is was all we […]
April 26, 2022
The shingle-clad East Hampton beach house, located on the coveted Further Lane, has an illustrious celebrity-amplified past as do so many in the area. It was built in 1998 by French fashion and celebrity photographer and former international creative director of ELLE magazine, Gilles Bensimon, and his then-wife, former model, American real-estate agent, author, The […]
April 22, 2022
Leaders of the Kharkiv School of Architecture have responded to Norman Foster’s plans to create a new masterplan for their city, welcoming the attention of a “big name” architect but hoping it will provoke a discussion about who should be involved in the process. Norman Foster met with Kharkiv city mayor Ihor Terekhov in Geneva […]
April 21, 2022
Hareth Pochee, senior engineer at Max Fordham LLP and author of the net zero report for Max Fordham’s House, answers readers’ questions to explain how the figures behind the UK’s first carbon zero house stack up. How can this be the first net zero home? It’s only the verification that has changed. Max Fordham House […]
April 21, 2022
Relocating to Deal, a seaside town in east Kent, has exposed Charles Holland’s practice to fresh influences, new ways of working and opportunities to engage with the community in profound ways. When I started my practice in 2016 I was excited at the prospect of a change of scene. I had been working in Shoreditch […]
April 19, 2022
Deyan Sudjic explains how his new biography of Boris Iofan, state architect to Joseph Stalin, shows how damaging it can be for a talented architect to come too close to power. One of Iofan’s many designs for the unbuilt Palace of the Soviets. Just as Vladimir Putin was seemingly handing over the Russian presidency to […]
April 19, 2022
Apparata has designed 12 studio apartments for artists and their families in Barking, east London. Frances Holliss applauds the ingenuity and courage of a project that recognises the need for flexible, affordable accommodation. The five-storey concrete building employs strong geometric forms, powerful massing, and deep covered balconies on the upper floors. Unexpectedly successful, Covid-19’s experiment […]
April 19, 2022
Skip to content Claire Bennie in conversation with Isabel Allen Interrailing in middle age, learning from life on the continent, the joys of 1930s mansion blocks and a proposal to give architects the skills required to write a decent brief and be an effective client. Claire Bennie is a former development director at Peabody and […]
April 15, 2022
Overcoming numerous site challenges and political controversies, this iconic project by I.M. Pei is a testament to the architect’s ingenuity and foresight. Now a beloved Hong Kong landmark, the twelvehundred- foot tower was hugely contentious. The points of the triangles that make up its multi-faceted fa ades appeared to many locals as offensively, dangerously jagged, leading […]
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