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May 31, 2022
We did it. Architecture Today readers have raised more than £50,000 for the Kharkiv School of Architecture (KhSA) in Ukraine, writes editor Isabel Allen. The school has asked us to pass on its thanks and to provide an update on its progress and plans. By way of background, the school was forced to relocate from […]
May 30, 2022
Researcher, writer, urbanist and educator Kat Martindale debunks the misconceptions that prevent architectural practices from undertaking research. Baca Architects’ Shipston Road housing scheme in Warwickshire. The practice’s work on flood resilience is recognised internationally. A growing number of architectural practices have adopted research as a core activity, but many are deterred from embracing research by […]
May 26, 2022
Benedetti Architects has been selected to lead the refurbishment of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ headquarters at 66 Portland Place, London. The announcement follows an open call for expressions of interest for the project, which aims to modernise RIBA’s Grade II* listed headquarters in central London, improving its sustainability and accessibility. “We adore 66 […]
May 25, 2022
An AT webinar with The Rooflight Company exploring ways of improving the energy efficiency of our historic building stock is taking place on Wednesday 8th June. Refurbishment of New Court at Trinity College, Cambridge, by 5th Studio and Max Fordham (ph: Timothy Soar) Our built heritage makes an invaluable contribution to the quality of the […]
May 24, 2022
Crossrail – now known as the Elizabeth line – has finally opened to passengers, stretching 118km to connect Reading and Heathrow in the west through central London to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east. The first Elizabeth line train left Abbey Wood station at 6:30am on 24 May, marking the official opening of the […]
May 23, 2022
As KAAN Architecten rounds off its two-decade transformation of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Louis Mayes gives his verdict on the complex insertion of contemporary exhibition and back-of-house spaces with the neo-classical building. KAAN Architecten has completed a near 20-year project for The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA). The proposal, initiated […]
May 23, 2022
A new publication from the Twentieth Century Society by historian Geraint Franklin charts John Outram’s extraordinary career. Charles Holland enjoys the first major study of a highly idiosyncratic architect who remains impossible to categorise. Isle of Dogs Pumping Station by John Outram John Outram gave one of the strangest lectures I have ever attended. It […]
May 13, 2022
OMA and KRIS YAO | ARTECH have completed the Taipei Performing Arts Center, a “super theatre” comprising a huge glazed cube intersected by spherical and cuboid theatres. The Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC) hosts three theatres – the spherical 800-seat Globe Playhouse, 1,500-seat Grand Theater and 800-seat Blue Box – that intersect a central cube. […]
May 11, 2022
Kate Goodwin, professor at the University of Sydney and former Head of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, on Darwin, a city that provokes a vegemite reaction. St Mary’s Star of the Sea Cathedral designed by Ian Ferrier of Donoghue Cusick and Edwards in 1957 and completed in 1962 It’s nearly 2am […]
May 11, 2022
Yusti Herrera of Ian Chalk Architects explains how revisiting historic methods of reading the landscape informed the practice’s approach to building a new house in collaboration with RA Studio in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the Cornish coast. Drawing inspiration from traditional mining workshop typologies, the larch-clad extension designed in collaboration with RA […]
May 9, 2022
James Alder Architects has added a russet extension to a home in north-west London, which has a steeply pitched roof following the outline of a now demolished lean-to. Architect James Alder was asked to design the extension for a couple who, having lived in the flat for some time, wanted a bigger kitchen and dining […]
May 5, 2022
Patrick Lewis from the Brick Development Association answers readers’ questions about bricks. A brick loggia blurs the distinction between inside and outside at The Blockmakers Arms, a converted and extended London pub designed by Erbar Mattes Architects. How do you tackle movement when building with brick?All buildings move and brickwork is no exception. Clay brick […]
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