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April 30, 2025
The former Granada Cinema in Walthamstow, north east London, has reopened as Soho Theatre Walthamstow. The listed building was restored by architecture practice Studio-M, with concept design by Pilbrow & Partners and advice from specialists at Historic England. A cinema with many lives The building opened in 1929 as a grand single-screen cinema. In the […]
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
Completed in 1989, La Grande Arche at La Défense in Paris was designed by Danish architect Johan Otto von Spreckelsen as part of President François Mitterrand’s Grands Projets. Architect John Pardey looks back at the building in a monthly essay series on great buildings of the 20th century, introduced here. The Grands Projets Mitterrand’s programme […]
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 […]
April 11, 2025
Lloyd Lee, Managing Partner at Yoo Capital discusses the company’s investment in Olympia and Camden, reflecting a bold belief in London’s enduring global appeal – and what makes a successful architect-client relationship for him. Render of the Kensington Olympia masterplan, shown here at dusk. When did you decide to invest in the Olympia project and […]
April 10, 2025
My Kind of Town: Tom Lacey Tom Lacey explains how London’s Olympic Park has evolved into a thriving neighbourhood, but kept the wild, unpolished spaces that are a respite from city life. My family and I have lived in Chobham Manor, one of the Olympic Legacy developments, for five years now. An architect buying a […]
April 3, 2025
Backlit HIMACS solid surface panels articulate the eye-catching ‘Sounds of Hayes’ underpass in west London. In association with Demonstrating how effectively HIMACS solid surface can transform any setting, the high-performance, ultra versatile material has been used to illuminate the history of EMI records in Hayes, where it now lines the walls of a widely-used pedestrian […]
March 26, 2025
HUT Architecture has sympathetically transformed a 1930s army drill hall into co-working offices, a café, and apartments in the heart of London’s Mile End. Photos Billy Bolton Originally constructed in 1939 for the Royal Army Service Corps 1st Anti-Aircraft Division, the former drill hall in Mile End, east London, has had many lives – as […]
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