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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 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 […]
April 15, 2022
In interiors, we are not fans of subdued and prissy nor decorative and antique-filled. When we saw the first images of the Californian Canyon house restoration by Los Angeles-based interior designer, Carolyn Miller, we almost passed it by. However, as we do admire skillfully achieved balance in interiors, and almost always place intelligently re-purposed architecture […]
April 14, 2022
An AT webinar with Medite Smartply exploring fire safety in timber buildings is taking place on Thursday 28th April. Constructed from CLT, dRMM’s Charlton Workstack project is a new model for low-carbon, high-density light industrial space Timber construction offers a practical route to a low-carbon future for the built environment. The task for practitioners, however, […]
April 13, 2022
An all-day AT webinar exploring how we can quickly and efficiently deliver new and retrofitted homes that are sustainable, comfortable and suited to today’s lifestyle needs is taking place on Thursday 5th May. England requires an estimated 345,000 new homes every year. Meanwhile, much of our existing housing stock needs to be made energy efficient, […]
April 11, 2022
Chris Williamson, Los Angeles Architects for Ukraine and Clive Wilkinson are among a group of international architects who have donated to our fundraising campaign to support the Kharkiv School of Architecture in Ukraine. Architecture Today has partnered with the Kharkiv School of Architecture, a progressive, independent school that has been forced to flee its city […]
April 6, 2022
Owning any kind of car today is questionable. Owning a whole collection of luxury cars even more so. But there is no denying that the cars of the past were much sexier and had more personality than today’s boring line-up with its mind-numbing sameness and boring repetition. There are exceptions, of course, especially at the […]
April 5, 2022
Max Fordham’s north London house has become the first residential building in the UK to be verified as net zero carbon, making it a fitting tribute to the late great sustainable design pioneer. PhotosTim Crocker A private north London house, designed for – and lived in by – the late great Max Fordham, has achieved […]
April 5, 2022
Skip to content Victoria Whenray in conversation with Isabel Allen Learning from European cities – and from Sheffield, the real Bilbao effect, the power of grassroots projects and thinking outside the red line to embed new parts of the city in the wider neighbourhood. Victoria Whenray is a partner at Conran and Partners, with a […]
April 5, 2022
In its three-plus-year existence, Casa JL, designed by Cinco Solidos, has become gradually more and more one with its lush natural surroundings. When the 1,100 square-metre (11,840 sq.ft) house was built up the hill to face the city of Medellín, it was created to respond to and disappearing into the mountainside. With the tropical, rainy […]
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