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April 5, 2022
With Lovedon Fields I acquired – the hard way – a little more understanding as to why innovative housing projects are so few and far between, writes Architecture Today editor Isabel Allen. I have a conflict of interest to declare. Lovedon Fields, featured on the cover of this issue, is perhaps a little too close […]
April 1, 2022
Historic buildings need to be adapted to become energy efficient. Robert Adam urges heritage bodies and architects to embrace an approach that evolves, rather than contrasts with, the architectural language of our listed building stock. Daniel Libeskind’s Royal Ontario Museum can be viewed as an extreme expression of the UNESCO Venice Charter principle, which states […]
March 25, 2022
Determined to stay in Ukraine, the Kharkiv School of Architecture has temporarily relocated across the country to Lviv. Robert Mull talks to the school’s co-founder Oleg Drozdov and Deputy Chancellor Iryna Matsekova about the battle for future architects and engineers in the country and the most effective way for the UK construction industry to offer […]
March 21, 2022
Jay Morton of Bell Phillips Architects calls for political and regulatory action to accelerate the adoption and development of low-carbon and zero-carbon construction methods. On its completion in 2017 Dalston Works by Waugh Thistleton was the world’s tallest CLT building at 33 metres high. Post Grenfell fire regulations have banned the use of combustible materials, […]
March 21, 2022
Co-living propositions by architects and designers including Charles Holland, Tonkin Liu and Eley Kishimoto are among 14 longlisted projects for this year’s edition of ideas competition, The Davidson Prize. Charles Holland Architects, Quality of Life Foundation, Verity-Jane Keefe and Joseph Zeal-Henry – Co-Living in The Countryside Multi-disciplinary teams were invited to respond to the theme […]
March 15, 2022
The 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Burkinabè architect Diébédo Francis Kéré. The architect, educator and social activist who was born in Gando, Burkina Faso and is based in Berlin, was awarded the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize for his acclaimed socially motivated work ranging from schools and heath facilities to civic buildings. “I […]
March 2, 2022
An enigmatic Tom dePaor retrospective at Carlow’s VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art opens up a world of imaginative possibilities and captures the spirit of a practice that defies categorisation and refuses to be pinned down. “i see Earth” installation. Photograph by Ros Kavanagh courtesy of VISUAL Carlow The Irish architect Tom dePaor has unveiled ‘I […]
February 16, 2022
Grafton Architects’ Town House building for Kingston University in London is among five finalists for this year’s EU Mies Award, which is given to the best building completed in Europe within the last two years. The Stirling Prize-winning Town House at Kingston University by Grafton Architects is shortlisted for the EU Mies Award 2022 alongside […]
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