Architecture & Design Community
June 14, 2023
Tomáš Jurdák has a special relationship with Kreuzberg, Berlin. Its youthful population has created an eclectic mixture of communities that retain the old and embrace the new. Perhaps it is no surprise that Kreuzberg has one of the youngest populations of all European city boroughs – its sense of vibrancy and tendency towards counterculture being […]
June 14, 2023
Still standing: The Theme Building, Los Angeles International Airport 1961 The enigmatic concrete spaceship that stands at the centre of Los Angeles International Airport stands as a monument to misplaced optimism, missed opportunities and swinging sixties glamour. The 25-metre-tall saucer is straddled by two perpendicular arches that connect to the central disc via thin concrete […]
May 4, 2023
IF_DO’s highly accomplished barn conversion in Suffolk employs a series of delicate interventions that are mostly freestanding and demountable. Photos Jo Underhill IF_DO has transformed a 17th century, Suffolk-based agricultural building into a gallery for the display and storage of 20th century paintings and furniture. An earlier restoration of the grade II-listed structure in 2009 […]
January 30, 2023
Citizens Design Bureau has skilfully reworked a much loved arts venue in north London. Photos Fred Howarth Citizens Design Bureau has refurbished the Jacksons Lane multi-arts venue in Highgate, north London. Located within a Grade II listed former Wesleyan Methodist church, the project includes upgraded theatre facilities, reworked and – for the first time – […]
December 1, 2022
The co-founder of Allies & Morrison on how Rome accommodates change. The new need not be the enemy of the old; the present can co-exist with the past. In 1982 – exactly forty years ago – I was on my way back to London having spent a year, or more accurately, nine months, at the […]
September 14, 2022
Once the epicentre of Hollywood’s nascent artistic and architectural scene, Rudolph Schindler’s extraordinary home was a stepping stone to Los Angeles’ great leap into modernity. Garden courtyards with outdoor fireplaces penetrate inwards towards the central node of the pinwheel plan. A snapshot scene of 835 Kings Road in Hollywood, California, in the late 1920s, shortly […]
September 8, 2022
Market forces and conservatism are driving queer spaces from urban centres. Tom Wilkinson welcomes a new compendium of LGBTQIA+ places around the world as a timely celebration of the spaces that survive. Comparsa Drag’s performative parties in Buenos Aires, an example of the temporary transformation of spaces through performances, parties and parades. Photograph by Julian […]
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 […]
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