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May 7, 2025
AT talks to… Owen Hopkins, director of the Farrell Centre and co-curator the British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, about how the pavilion reimagines architecture as an earth-bound, reparative practice confronting the intertwined legacies of colonialism and climate crisis. Photos Chris Lane © British Council What position is the British Pavilion, GBR – […]
May 2, 2025
The historic Procuratie, Venice, is set to open its doors to the public for the first time amidst the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Housing the new arts institute San Marco Art Centre AT speaks to its co-founders Anna Bursaux, David Gramazio and David Hrankovic ahead of the launch. Photos Mike Merkenschlager San Marco Art Centre (SMAC) will […]
May 2, 2025
Verdant Fletcher Priest Architects has completed a major retrofit of 150 Aldersgate, London, retaining 81 per cent of the existing structure and providing 140,000 square foot of workspace for TikTok’s UK offices. Photos Dirk Lindner Forming the wester boundary of the Barbican Estate, 150 Aldersgate Street from the outset demanded careful consideration from the architects […]
April 30, 2025
Soho Theatre Walthamstow A sensitive refurbishment breathes new life into The Grade II* listed Granada Cinema Walthamstow, opening its doors as Soho Theatre’s latest incarnation. Photos David Levene The Granada Cinema in Walthamstow, north London has long served as a cultural and community landmark in north east London. Originally opened in 1929 as a grand […]
April 29, 2025
Carmody Groarke has completed a distinctive duplex apartment and rooftop pavilion within a Grade II listed merchant’s house in Covent Garden, London. Photos Johan Dehlin & James Retief As if a piece from Richard Serra has landed on a rooftop in Central London, a home in Covent Garden boasts an elegant, silver Mansard-like pavilion that […]
April 24, 2025
Tom Bennett, Director at Studio Bark, speaks to AT about their bespoke carbon analysis tools and U-Build’s new acoustic interior partition, ‘U-What’. Tom Bennett photographed at Studio Bark in East London. I feel most productive in calm, quiet moments. Sometimes on a Monday or a Friday I might be the only person in the studio for example. […]
April 22, 2025
John Pardey on Johan Otto von Spreckelsen’s La Grande Arche in Paris (1989) – a monumental, yet elegant building laced with symbolism that was part of President Mitterand’s Grands Projets. This article is part of a monthly series of short essays on some of the greatest buildings of the 20th Century. Read John Pardey’s introduction to […]
April 22, 2025
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April 15, 2025
Darren Brennan, Specification Director at Siderise, answers readers’ questions on passive fire protection for the building envelope. 1 Bank Street in London’s Canary Wharf employs Siderise CW-FS firestops and MI3 acoustic foam inserts (photo: Hufton + Crow). What is passive fire protection in terms of the building envelope and why is it important? Passive fire […]
April 15, 2025
WOO architects and ES Global have unveiled their design for the UK pavilion which opened this week at the 2025 Osaka Expo in Japan. A narrative of British industrial heritage has been layered into this high-tech, transportable and reusable structure, too. Built on a 10-by-10 metre modular grid, the façade’s perforated aluminium blocks are a […]
April 15, 2025
Michelmersh explores the rising popularity of Roman bricks in contemporary architecture. In association with As an architect, Roman bricks can be a powerful way to add style and substance to your structures. In this article, we’ll explain how. First, we’ll peer into the past to see where Roman bricks originated. Then, we’ll journey back to […]
April 15, 2025
Watch: Footprint founders Tim Pyne and Emily Day talk to AT Editor Isabel Allen about striking a balance between producing an influential conference and throwing the best party in town. Now in its fourth year, FOOTPRINT+ 2025 takes place on 14-15 May at Old Billingsgate in the heart of London. The UK’s leading conference for […]
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