Skip to content Dispatches: Simon Reid, Lungfish Architects Lungfish Managing Director Simon Reid tells AT about the trouble with corridors and dragonflies, the secret of successful Forest Schools and the importance of swapping school shoes for wellington boots. What is Lungfish? We’re an interdisciplinary design team that started out as the design arm of the […]
Skip to content 20 Newcourt Street Wendover Studio’s conversion of the former St John’s Wood police station transforms the Victorian civic building into nine boutique rental apartments arranged around a courtyard. Photos Simon Menges On a quiet street between Primrose Hill and Regent’s Park, the solid brick form of the old St John’s Wood police […]
Skip to content 21–25 Bruton Place DLA Architecture’s mass timber rooftop extension and deep retrofit of three mews buildings elevates a historic Mayfair street into a new, carbon-conscious, design-led workspace. Photos Stevie Campbell Found behind the bustle of Berkeley Square in west London, Bruton Place has long served as a service route to the mansions […]
Skip to content Campfield Project 3’s renovation of Lower Campfield Market in Castlefield, Manchester, marks a new chapter for a structure that has adapted to the city’s social and economic tides. Words Tyler-Antonia Gordon Photos Jack Garforth and Allied London From pasture to market, museum to wartime balloon factory and back again, the Grade II-listed […]
Somerset-based practice Thread has ‘re-revealed’ a collection of historic buildings in Redruth, North Cornwall, to create a vibrant hub for artists, food entrepreneurs and the local community. Words Ian Chalk Photos Claire Fear Redruth, in North Cornwall, was originally established as a market town and became a major regional centre for the Cornish mining industry. […]
Skip to content Rupert Cook and Socrates Miltiadou Rupert Cook and Socrates Miltiadou co-lead London practice Miltiadou Cook Mitzman Architects. They talk to AT about their beginnings in construction and stonemasonry and how they translate this experience into regenerative practice. Rupert Cook and Socrates Miltiadou of Miltiadou Cook Mitzman photographed outside a garden pavilion in […]
John Pardey on William Morris and Philip Webb’s Red House in Bexleyheath – a home that looked to embody ‘truth’ in craftsmanship and construction and which to some, is the very first modern house. (Credit: Ethan Doyle White via Wikipedia Commons) This article is part of a monthly series of short essays on some of […]
Pend Architects’ contemporary extension to a Georgian farmhouse in East Lothian unifies a fragmented rear elevation and creates a new link to the property’s garden. Photos Lorenzo Zandri Pend Architects has completed a sensitive reworking of Whitberry – a Grade B listed Georgian farmhouse in East Lothian. Working closely with the client, who also acted […]
Skip to content National Science and Media Museum, Bradford AOC Architecture’s transformation of the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford introduces new Sound and Vision galleries, reimagines the main foyer, and enhances public access across the building, all part of a masterplan designed to improve visitor experience, environmental performance and cultural relevance in the […]
HTA Design’s latest addition to Canary Wharf delivers two aparthotel buildings and a new public square that echo the area’s industrial past while shaping its residential future. Photos Kilian O’Sullivan HTA Design has completed two residential buildings and a landscaped public square for Canary Wharf Group (CWG) at the heart of the Wood Wharf masterplan. […]
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’s gateway building to UCL’s new East campus in Queen Elizabeth’s Olympic Park combines student accommodation with a range of learning spaces that blur conventional boundaries between education and civic life. Photos Chromaphotography Paul Riddle Jack Hobhouse Forming the gateway to UCL’s new East campus in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, One Pool Street […]
AT speaks to civil engineer Ian Firth, who has challenged demolition threats of Prague’s Vyšehrad Railway Bridge with a proposal to restore the landmark, upgrading its infrastructure for modern rail demands. With UNESCO now backing its protection, the bridge becomes a test case in how cities can balance progress with preservation. Images Michal Slusar An […]