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April 30, 2024
Hien Nguyen, associate director at MCW Architects, on Ho Chi Minh City, where her family has lived for the last ten years. Formerly known as Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has been extraordinary in its speed of transformation in recent years. For the last ten years or so, while my family has been living […]
April 23, 2024
Manalo & White has led the conversion of Bangor’s grade-II-listed St Mary’s Church into Nyth (nest in Welsh), a rehearsal centre for the Frân Wen (White Raven) Welsh-language youth theatre company and a community hub for Bangor as a whole. Photos Morgan O’Donovan With a focus on supporting young people from low-income backgrounds to take […]
April 19, 2024
Housing Atlas A compendium of the best housing schemes built across Europe in the 20th Century is an invaluable resource for architects seeking solutions to the current housing crisis. Double page spread devoted to Powell & Moya’s Churchill Gardens, London, completed in 1962. All projects have been painstakingly redrawn to the same graphic standard. Words […]
April 10, 2024
London studio Knox Bhavan has retrofitted and extended an early Victorian villa on Love Walk in Camberwell, south London. Photos Edmund Sumner Words Madeleine Jacob Based in Camberwell itself, Knox Bhavan remodelled the house next door in 1995; they were appointed to this project in 2019, with the home completing in June 2022. Speaking to […]
April 8, 2024
Development director at General Projects, Ben Cross talks to AT about retrofitting two major buildings in London and what the market for retrofit is like at the moment and moving forward. Ben Cross (Credit: With Love Studio) What’s going on at the Heal’s Building (currently being retrofitted by Buckley Gray Yeoman)? Our workplace-led re-imagination of […]
April 4, 2024
A pair of high-quality civic-minded office buildings by Gort Scott and Allies and Morrison mediates between a fragmented past and a more connected future at London’s White City. Words Claudia Lynch Photos David Grandorge (Gateway West), Jack Hobhouse (Gateway Central) For Allies and Morrison, London’s White City is an ongoing project. The practice started engaging […]
March 25, 2024
HUB Victoria: high-tech revisited Retrofit specialists Morrow + Lorraine add a building-on-top-of-a-building to two high-tech office blocks completed in 1991 by Arup Associates led by Peter Foggo. Photos Timothy Soar Retrofit specialist Morrow + Lorraine has completed a major extension for Gaw Capital, building over and connecting two existing buildings at 123 and 151 Buckingham […]
March 21, 2024
Office S&M has given the Nag’s Head Market in Seven Sisters, North London, a new lease of life, adding a mezzanine level, creating new routes through and improving spaces for traders. Photos Jim Stephenson “In markets, location is everything,” said Office S&M director Hugh McEwen, speaking to Architecture Today. “This meant that as we discussed needs […]
March 20, 2024
Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries have turned a former barbershop in Battersea into a flexible home, an office and a place for trade. Photos Jim Stephenson Words Jason Sayer What’s in a façade? Even a very small façade? In Battersea, southwest London, a converted barbershop tells us that the answer is, in fact, quite a […]
March 6, 2024
Architecture Office has restored and extended a Grade II listed property on the River Fowey in Cornwall. Photos Nick Dearden Edinburgh studio Architecture Office has completed an extension to a Grade-II listed 19th Century home in the in the village of Golant. Located just off the wide banks of the River Fowey, the house sits […]
March 6, 2024
Japanese architect, Riken Yamamoto has won the 53rd Pritzker Architecture Prize, lauded by the jury for “reminding us that in architecture, as in democracy, spaces must be created by the resolve of the people.” Japanese architect, Riken Yamamoto, has won the Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate for 2024. Yamamoto is the ninth architect from Japan, following […]
February 26, 2024
Arne Jacobsen’s Bellevue Beach changing room in Klampenborg, Denmark, has been has been given a new lease of life as a wellness centre. Photos Courtesy of Duravit AG Arne Jacobsen’s bathing facility for Bellevue Beach in Klampenborg, a northern suburb of Copenhagen, remains a popular destination for day trippers – not least architecture students with […]
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