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May 3, 2022
Together we have raised £45,000 to support the Kharkiv School of Architecture in its efforts to continue teaching a new generation of architects in Ukraine. With just three days of our fundraising campaign to go, can you help reach our £50,000 target? Our fundraising campaign to support the Kharkiv School of Architecture will remain open […]
May 3, 2022
Hannah Brewster from ADP makes the case for using empty retail space to take outpatient services out of the hospital and onto the high street. ADP Architecture’s Shopping for Health concept seeks to repurpose shopping centres to meet the growing need for community-centred outpatient services and other vital healthcare facilities. The Covid pandemic has transformed […]
May 3, 2022
Radmat discusses how the ‘fifth façade’ can help mitigate climate change. In association with A new report from the University of Southampton’s Energy and Climate Change Division, School of Engineering, commissioned by the NFRC Charitable Trust, highlights some key steps that specifiers, building owners and home owners can take to use the roof to help […]
May 2, 2022
Loader Monteith Architects has completed the reconfiguration and rear extension of a 1980’s cottage in a Conservation Village in Scotland. The ground floor plan of the existing cottage was composed of small, dark rooms which closed the house off from the expansive rear garden. The clients requested that the architects upgrade the home and bring […]
April 29, 2022
RKD Architects have shared with us a house they’ve designed in Park City, Utah, that’s made up of three pods, each with a curved, outward-leaning window wall. The home, surrounded by the Wasatch Mountain Range, includes a variety of natural materials such as cut limestone walls and wood beams. Stepping inside the home, the outward-leaning […]
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 23, 2022
April 23, 2022 Jan Willem Wijker of Bureauwijker has designed a new kitchen in a loft within a converted former factory in Amsterdam. The goal of the remodel was to create a home that fosters shared experiences and to convert the living rooms into a single sociable space. To do this, Bureauwijker decided to merge […]
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 […]
13 November 2026
