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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 […]
February 16, 2024
HLW has produced a learning module on specifying healthy materials for School of Specification. Senior designer Alison Grant outlines the dangers of unhealthy materials and the role that architects can play in improving the supply chain. How do you define healthy? For us at HLW, ‘healthy’ is predominantly about working and living in an environment […]
February 16, 2024
Gensler has turned an old warehouse into the new London headquarters of communications firm, Edelman. Photos Vigo Jansons “From the moment we walked into the empty warehouse building, we knew it was the perfect blank canvas to bring to life the vision we had for a post-pandemic workplace,” said Ruth Warder, CEO Edelman UK & […]
February 14, 2024
Working with artist Tess Jaray, Emrys Architects has completed Berners and Wells – a new mixed-used scheme in Fitzrovia for Berners-Allsopp Estate and Schroders that features a glazed-brick, patterned façade. Photos Alan Williams Emrys Architects has completed a mixed-use development project in Fitzrovia, London, in collaboration with Berners-Allsopp Estate and Schroders. Named Berners and Wells, […]
February 1, 2024
Seven years after being commissioned, Daniel Libeskind’s design for the Maggie’s Centre at the Royal Free Hospital in London sees a curvaceous building rise out of what was once a car park. Words Jason Sayer Photos Hufton + Crow At the Royal Free Hospital in Belsize Park, north London, the capital’s third Maggie’s Centre has […]
January 30, 2024
Chris Williamson, chairman, WestonWilliamson+Partners on Ilkeston, Derbyshire and how he hopes its rejuvenation can be kick-started. Ilkeston Contemporary Arts (ILKON). “Ilkon” is Old English for ‘everyone’ and was used by Chaucer in the Second Nun’s Tale about Saint Cecilia, who is depicted in one of the stained-glass windows. I had a fantastic free education at […]
January 26, 2024
In the town of Česká Lípa, Czech Republic, Adam Rujbr Architects has given the 14th Century Jirásek Theatre a comprehensive transformation. Photos BoysPlayNice The Jirásek Theatre in Česká Lípa, northern Czech Republic, has undergone a substantial overhaul led by Czech studio, Adam Rujbr Architects. The project, completed in late 2023, aimed to address the deteriorating […]
January 24, 2024
Finding its feet: The Farrell Centre, Newcastle Owen Hopkins, director at the Farrell Centre, details how the centre is serving as a genuine public forum for the built environment nine months after opening its doors. Photos Jim Stephenson & Jill Tate Words Owen Hopkins “More wildflower meadows please!”; “No hostile architecture”; “More trees please … […]
January 16, 2024
dMFK Architects has brought a 1970s office building in Fitzrovia up to speed with a series of strategic alterations made to provide a modern, flexible workplace. Photos Jack Hobhouse In Fitzrovia, Central London, dMFK Architects has completed the retrofit of 45 Whitfield Street, a five-storey office building from the 1970s, on behalf of client Derwent […]
January 12, 2024
Levitt Bernstein has restored the Grade II listed Bristol Beacon concert hall, improving the theatre’s acoustics and accessibility. The revamped Beacon Hall offers a capacity of 1,800 (2,200 with stalls standing). Photos Tim Crocker Words Jason Sayer Inside its original 1873 masonry walls, the Bristol Beacon theatre has a new heart. Once known as Colston […]
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