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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 […]
May 5, 2022
An AT Schüco webinar exploring how we can adapt and improve our existing building stock to meet present and future needs is taking place on Wednesday 25th May. The UK has the oldest building stock in the world and the ways in which we continue to use and adapt it will be crucial to ensuring […]
May 4, 2022
Read about the AT Schüco showroom panel discussion that explored how we balance the carbon cost of demolition, conservation and building performance. Embodied carbon is at the heart of the sustainability conversation and how we use our current building stock will be the key to ensuring a viable sustainable future. At this Schüco Showroom panel […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
April 21, 2022
Hareth Pochee, senior engineer at Max Fordham LLP and author of the net zero report for Max Fordham’s House, answers readers’ questions to explain how the figures behind the UK’s first carbon zero house stack up. How can this be the first net zero home? It’s only the verification that has changed. Max Fordham House […]
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