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May 10, 2024
Architects from CSK, Groupwork, John Pardey Architects, Manalo & White, Morrow + Lorraine, Piercy&Company and Pollard Thomas Edwards share their thoughts on a trip to north-west Spain hosted by AccuRoof to view the extraction and processing of natural slate. In association with Photos Timothy Soar and Miles Elliott Chris Collins, AccuRoof This part of Spain […]
May 8, 2024
In Dvorce, Prague, Green House by Aoc architekti transforms a tired 1960s dwelling into a modern villa connected to its natural surroundings. Photos Studio Flusser Set against the picturesque backdrop of the Vltava River and the Church of St. Philip and Jacob in Zlíchov, the Green House adopts a distinct, fine scraped green render façade […]
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 22, 2024
Earth Building UK and Ireland has produced a learning module on earth building for School of Specification. CEO Rowland Keable explains why we need a change of mindset to unlock the many benefits it brings. What are the main types of earth building? Earth structures can be classified in a number of ways: monolithic, masonry, […]
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 […]
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