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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
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 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 3, 2022
Radical Rooms: Power of the plan Jessica Mairs2022-05-03T18:06:29+01:00 Source: Architecture Today
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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