Architecture & Design Community
August 23, 2024
New York City’s High Line is now home to ‘One High Line’, a pair of sculptural towers designed by Danish studio Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). Photos Evan Joseph Joining a notable collection of buildings by architects such as Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, and Shigeru Ban on New York’s Highline, ‘One High Line’ features two distinct […]
August 20, 2024
London studio Unknown Works has designed a concept store in Amsterdam for the electric vehicle brand Zeekr. It is the company’s first European flagship and occupies 2,000 square metres inside the historic Vroom & Dreesmann building. A former department store The store sits at the corner of Rokin and Kalverstraat, the city’s main shopping street. […]
August 16, 2024
London studio Artefact has extended a 1950s property in Surrey, making clever use of triangular blue blocks and terracotta tiles to add some Caribbean flavour to the suburban home. Photos Lorenzo Zandri Just beyond the southern outskirts of London, a striking new wing has been added to home in Epsom. Originally built by the development […]
August 16, 2024
Shedkm has designed a new church for the Parish of Heswall in Merseyside, allowing the congregation to better serve its community and benefit from a contemporary street presence. Photos Daniel Hopkinson Photography Located on the Wirral, and closer to the River Dee than the Mersey, the Lighthouse Church can be found on Telegraph Road in […]
August 12, 2024
London studio MATT+FIONA has led the creation of the ‘Rubble Garden’ with help from a local group of 11- to 14-year-olds. Photos French+Tye, Luke O’Donovan, MATT+FIONA & Polly Alderton Rubbing shoulders with a Rafael Viñoly-designed visual arts centre and Colchester High Street is the ‘Rubble Garden’. Featuring planting by local (but globally renowned) horticulturalists Beth […]
August 5, 2024
Ten transformative parkland projects Just because it’s summer and we wish we were outdoors… we’re celebrating projects that transform under-used sites into unexpected gardens of delight. Xuhui Runway Park by Sasaki Studio. Credit: by Insaw Photography. Words Stella Forde Photos by Insaw Photography Xuhui Runway Park, Shanghai, China, by Sasaki 2020 Almost two kilometres long, […]
August 2, 2024
As the pressures of the Climate Emergency intensify, a key challenge for the nation’s historic institutions is how to reconcile the demands of modern – and still evolving – standards of sustainability within highly sensitive settings. How can historic buildings and estates be made genuinely fit for the future? Over the last decade, Wright & […]
July 24, 2024
Hugh Strange Architects has combined domestic and agricultural typologies to produce a carefully considered courtyard house that complements its setting on the north Cornish coast. Photos Jason Orton The north Cornish coast is more rugged, wetter and more windswept than the south coast, attracting more surfers than sailors. The cliffs bring to an abrupt end […]
July 23, 2024
Lynch Architects’ addition to the Coroner’s Court in Westminster serves as a place of remembrance and embeds the work of stained glass artist Brian Clarke. Photos Christian Cunninghame, David Grandorge, Rachel Elliott, Rory Gaylor, Prudence Cummings & Andy Stagg On Horseferry Road in west London you’ll find Westminster Coroner’s Court. A quirky-looking building employing red […]
July 23, 2024
In 1969 Foster Associates reworked and extended a Victorian cottage in north London. Gianni Botsford Architects has demolished the cottage but retained the extension, drawing on its distinctive architectural language to design a replacement house. Amir Sanei traces the project’s provenance and assesses the results. Photos Schnepp Renou I first visited this property in early […]
July 18, 2024
The TO: Foundation, in collaboration with Arup, Hassell, LocalWorks, and SINA Loketa, has completed an innovative performing arts centre in Bidi Bidi, Uganda, for Africa’s largest refugee settlement. Photos Mutua Matheka In 2016, northern Uganda’s remote village communities were sparsely populated, relying on hunting and small-scale farming. Today, Bidi Bidi – located 600 kilometres north of […]
July 16, 2024
Stanton Williams has completed new social and residential facilities at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, promoting interaction, collaboration, and sociability. Photos Jack Hobhouse Set within the historic heart of the Cambridge Central Conservation Area, the 5,770 square metre scheme is Emmanuel College’s most significant development in more than 100 years. The £21m development at the University of […]
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