Architecture & Design Community
February 22, 2022
Erbar Mattes Architects has skilfully remodelled a former pub in north London to create a home for an expanding family. PhotosStåle Eriksen, Simon Menges The Blockmakers Arms is a Grade II listed former public house situated on Shepherdess Walk in north London. Forming the end of a terrace of three-storey townhouses, the 19th-century building was […]
February 21, 2022
London School of Architecture founder and former CEO Will Hunter on Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is spending the year as one of Harvard University’s Loeb Fellows. Cambridge Common, which borders Harvard Square, in the morning snow. The statue memorialises the Irish potato famine: “Never again should a people starve in a world of plenty”. Portrait: […]
February 19, 2022
Threefold Architects has extended and remodelled a Victorian home in Muswell Hill, north London, adding a contemporary extension behind the restored red brick facade to create a “house of two halves”. Victorian end-of-terrace home had previously been split into two flats and the clients approached Threefold Architects to bring the property back into use as […]
February 17, 2022
Architecture firm HKS Architects has collaborated with interiors firm Narrative Design Studio, to complete the new Joshua Tree location of AutoCamp, a premier outdoor lodging brand. Surrounded by the famed Joshua Trees and subtle rock formations of Southern California’s desert area, AutoCamp is a 25-acre property featuring 47 Airstreams, four Accessible Suites, and four X […]
February 16, 2022
Grafton Architects’ Town House building for Kingston University in London is among five finalists for this year’s EU Mies Award, which is given to the best building completed in Europe within the last two years. The Stirling Prize-winning Town House at Kingston University by Grafton Architects is shortlisted for the EU Mies Award 2022 alongside […]
February 15, 2022
Loader Monteith has reconfigured a Victorian merchant’s house outside Glasgow to create a home for an architectural designer and ceramicist, and added a blackened timber pottery studio. The property is located in a conversation area of Lenzie, Dunbartonshire and had been previously been subdivided into a pair of flats. The new owners, an architect and […]
February 15, 2022
5th Studio has converted a former vehicle testing facility into an open-access factory for makers as part of the £6 billion Meridian Water development in Enfield, north London. 5th Studio worked with the London Borough of Enfield and social entrepreneurs Bloqs to design the workspace as part of the meanwhile use of land earmarked for […]
February 15, 2022
Architecture firm Olson Kundig has designed a floating home in Seattle, Washington, that’s part of a floating home community on Portage Bay. The floating home lies low to the water and creates a platform from which to enjoy and engage with the surrounding waterway. The galvanized steel structure supports generous roof planes and walls of […]
February 14, 2022
Steven Vincent, Major Projects Manager at Eco Green Roofs (EGR), in conversation with Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discusses best practice design for the innovative SolarNature roof system from SIG Design & Technology (SIG D&T) and EGR. In association with SIG D&T and EGR SolarNature Scheme, BioDiverse version When it comes to environmentally responsible […]
February 12, 2022
Architecture firm ShubinDonaldson, has sent us photos of a modern home they designed in Pacific Palisades, California, that’s set into a steep hillside of Sullivan Canyon. The design of the house is composed of two vertical and horizontal volumes on a stone limestone plinth, rooted into the rugged hillside. The home, which has been clad […]
February 11, 2022
Matheson Whiteley has transformed the home of not-for-profit arts organisation Studio Voltaire in Clapham, south London. Nana Biamah-Ofosu admires the ingenuity and restraint of a thoughtful remodelling that anchors the building in its community and creates the conditions for creativity to thrive. Adorning the gable end of a nondescript end of terrace leading to Nelson’s […]
February 9, 2022
Sarah Griffiths and Martin Williams have witnessed the increase in intensity and frequency of extreme weather events from the window of their woodland studio. There is no denying the pandemic has been a strain, and although difficult at times for us and the practice, it has not been as harsh or as sad as it […]
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