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December 19, 2023
Kresge College by Studio Gang Nestled into woodland, Studio Gang has extended Kresge College at the University of California, Santa Cruz, adding four new buildings. Photos Jason O’Rear At the University of California, Santa Cruz, Studio Gang has extended Kresge College, adding three residential halls of residence and a College Academic Centre. Buried among a […]
December 18, 2023
Built in collaboration with Pegasus, a developer specialising in retirement living, ‘Cobham Bowers’ consists of 53 apartments arranged around a walled garden. Photos Phil Coffey In Cobham, just inside the M25 motorway in Surrey, Coffey Architects as completed a new later living community for developer Pegasus. The new community replaces an office building from the […]
December 13, 2023
How a new religious building typology that caters for multiple faiths could unite communities and “heal a fractured world.” Words Daniel Leon We are in an era where secularism often overshadows the importance of religious architecture. The potential demolition of Brighton’s Modernist synagogue prompts us as a society to reconsider the intrinsic value of these […]
December 8, 2023
Article 25 with Michael Hadi Associates and Max Fordham have designed new, passively cooled classrooms for a college in west Niger. Photos Souleymane Ag Anara and Toby Pear In Niamey, west Niger, architecture charity Article 25 has been working with local educational institution, the Collège Amadou Hampaté Bâ, to design and deliver new classrooms and […]
December 5, 2023
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Tadao Ando, the concrete pavilion in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens opens to the public. Interior of MPavilion 10, designed by Tadao Ando, located in the Queen Victoria Gardens in Melbourne. Image by John Gollings. Courtesy of MPavilion. Words Jason Sayer Sat within verdant greenery of Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens, the concrete […]
November 28, 2023
Architect and academic Greg Bailey on Ljubljana, Slovenia, a stage for life’s rich theatre. A statue of Slovenia’s national poet France Prešeren (1800-1849) with a muse takes pride of place in the city’s central square. ‘Gibanica’ and coffee arrive. The waiter smiles, genuinely. Maybe not quite as big a slice of this delicious traditional cake […]
November 20, 2023
Mclaren Excell has sympathetically reworked and extended a grade II-listed Victorian villa in Oxfordshire. Photos Rory Gardiner McLaren Excell has extended and renovated a grade II-listed Victorian villa in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. The existing three-storey house had an unsympathetic, highly glazed dual-pitched rear extension. An elegant new brick-clad rear façade both complements and extends the building’s […]
November 17, 2023
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has transformed the former Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel into Tower Hamlets Town Hall. Chris Dyson admires a project that combines conservation, retrofit and new build to create a complex, vibrant building that plays a vital role in civic life. The decision to locate the new Tower Hamlets Town Hall on […]
November 14, 2023
Jonathan Tuckey Design has transformed a former carpentry workshop and cod liver oil factory into a wellness retreat in the arctic circle. Photos Andrea Gjestvang You’d be forgiven for having not heard of Henningsvær. Found way up in the arctic circle, the archipelago in northern Norway is a small fishing village of just 510 people […]
November 11, 2023
In Liverpool, Cullinan Studio has designed two new buildings that focus on children’s mental health. Words Jason Sayer Photos Paul Raftery In England last year, 11,740 children were admitted to hospital for mental health conditions. An alarming number, made even more worrying by the fact that 1.4 million children at school age sought NHS help […]
November 10, 2023
Gundry + Ducker’s design for a home off Wimbledon Common aims to be a “country house in miniature.” Photos Andrew Meredith In the leafy confines of Wimbledon Common, southwest London, Gundry + Ducker has transformed a house from the early 2000s to provide more space and improve its internal qualities as well as the relationship […]
November 3, 2023
After five years, the 18th-Century library at St. Paul’s Cathedral is back open the public. Photos Graham Lacdao Up in the gods of St Paul’s Cathedral, in an area known as the Triforium level – essentially it’s attic – one of the UK’s best kept 18th Century interiors is back open after a five-year hiatus. […]
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