Architecture & Design Community
August 26, 2022
Architect Barbara Bailey and interior design firm Wrightson Stewart have completed a modern extension to an existing house in Queensland, Australia. A walkway between old and new A walkway lined with windows links the original house with the extension and eases the transition between them. Stairs within it lead up to the new entry, where […]
August 25, 2022
The green and blue spaces on Maria Westerståhl’s urban doorstep are helping her to rebuild her confidence and sense of adventure after Lockdown and a battle with long Covid. Serendipity brings Tim to my home desk on International Women’s Day. (Is it a wink from the universe to stay in the frame?) A decade has […]
August 24, 2022
Richard Lavington applauds New Practice’s sympathetic and intelligent reworking of a vital, multi-use community resource in Glasgow Southside. Timber and glass screens painted a vibrant yellow subdivide spaces for resident artists and social enterprises on the top floor Kinning Park Complex is an organisation that has operated in the Kinning Park area of Glasgow’s Southside […]
August 22, 2022
Tanzo Space Design has completed a house in Beijing, China, with a sunken conversation pit as one of its main features. A place to gather The pit was designed as a spot where the family can get together and entertain guests. It is screened from public view, yet it can be seen from many rooms […]
August 17, 2022
Herzog & de Meuron’s adaptable and dynamic flagship building for the Royal College of Art has its sights set firmly on the future, while also acknowledging the institution’s past successes, finds Vicky Richardson. Architecture, it is often said, reflects the conditions in which it is made. But it can also anticipate the future. Herzog & […]
August 16, 2022
Residential design studio Charlie & Co. Design, Ltd., together with custom builders John Kraemer & Sons, have completed a new home on the shores of Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota. A key design element of the house, are the floor-to-ceiling windows and sliding doors that are featured on either side of the great room. Vertical wood siding […]
August 15, 2022
Designed and built by Bob’s Containers in Texas, this modern Airbnb in Johnson City, was once a simple 40-foot x 8-foot shipping container. The transformation included adding a rooftop deck, a hammock, a spiral staircase, and a large garage door. Let’s take a look around… The exterior of the 320 square foot (29sqm) shipping container […]
August 12, 2022
Read about the ‘Build Back Safer: Best practice for building and fire safety’ panel discussion hosted at Schüco’s London showroom. Speakers (from left to right): Benjamin Ralph, partner & head of fire safety, Foster + Partners; Joanne Drew, director of regeneration and housing, Enfield Council; Scott Sanderson, partner, PRP Architects; Panel Chair, Jane Duncan, founder, […]
August 11, 2022
Richard Pain argues that proposed amendments to the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing should take heed of the building’s intrinsic qualities, as well as Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s sophisticated, spirited design. Located on the north-west corner of Trafalgar Square, the Grade I listed Sainsbury Wing is locked into its site and into the circulation […]
August 11, 2022
David Mikhail and his partner are combining their passion for woodland and architecture by using chestnut and ash from overgrown woodland for their own new-build Passive House in Whitstable. I’m sitting on a log of a sweet chestnut, in Combwell Wood, Kent. It is one of 40 or so coppice stands felled in winter 2021-2 […]
August 10, 2022
Artist Morag Myerscough has unveiled an aerial art installation running the length of London’s Oxford Street to encourage action on the transition to a low carbon future. Made of recycled plastic from marine environments, the artwork consists of 105 vast, 4-metre flags emblazoned with the words TIME FOR CLEAN POWER, which span the entire length […]
August 10, 2022
Squire and Partners has designed a bespoke ‘cogwheel’ façade for art’otel, a 26-storey art-inspired hotel in London’s Hoxton. Partner Murray Levinson talks to Architecture Today about the challenges involved. Located in the South Shoreditch Conservation Area, the flagship development includes a hotel, creative studios, workshops, an arts hub, spa and cinema Squire and Partners is […]
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