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December 22, 2023
In Modena, Italy, ZPZ Partners has designed a new headquarters for multinational food packaging and processing company, Tetra Pak. The hall boasts a white floor and glulam ceiling, devoid of structural obstacles except for two large lattice elements functioning as internal gardens. Photos Marco Cappelletti Designed by Modena-based studio ZPZ Partners, Tetra Pak’s new HQ […]
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 11, 2023
Martin Milner, Managing Director of Milner Associates, and Structural Timber Association Technical Consultant, answers readers’ questions on structural timber. Creative use of cross laminated timber at Hastings Pier visitor centre in East Sussex, designed by drMM (ph: Structural Timber Association) What are the main benefits of using structural timber on construction projects? As we see […]
December 7, 2023
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has skilfully reworked a major arts venue in Brighton. Photos Richard Chivers, Chloe Hashemi, Nick Street, Andy Stagg Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has refurbished the Grade I-listed Corn Exchange and Grade II-listed Studio Theatre, which forms part of Brighton Dome, a major arts venue in the heart of the city. The […]
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 2, 2023
Delve Architects’ Nest nursery brings joy to the base of a residential block in East London. Photos Fred Howarth London-based studio Delve Architects have transformed an empty commercial lot into a nursery in Royal Wharf, East London. Known as the ‘Nest’, the project for client Hestia Education occupies the ground floor of a 19-storey-high residential […]
October 13, 2023
Creative co-working in de Beauvoir Trellik Design Studio has revamped a former Victorian nuts a bolts factory into a co-working creative space in Hackney’s de Beauvoir town. Photos Ed Dabney and Mariell Lind Hansen Hackney-based practice Trellik Design Studio has turned a small site in de Beauvoir town, originally a Victorian nuts a bolts factory […]
October 2, 2023
Dodi Moss and SAB have teamed up to transform the site of a disused confectionary factory in Genoa into a welcoming community centre. Jacopo Gresleri visits a project that represents the first move in a strategy of reclaiming former industrial spaces to enrich civic life. Words Jacopo Gresleri Photos Anna Positano, Gaia Cambiaggi /Studio Campo […]
August 21, 2023
KnoxBhavan has completed an exemplar low-carbon house on a challenging brownfield site in south-west London. Photos Edmund Sumner Designed by KnoxBhavan, Threefold House is a new-build, low-energy, single-family dwelling located on triangular-shaped site in Teddington, south-west London. Restricted access had rendered the 450-square-metre plot unsuitable for industrial use and for local housing associations. The client, […]
August 9, 2023
Paloma Gormley, Summer Islam and George Massoud discuss how the Hackney-based practice is radically rethinking its attitudes towards materials for a post-carbon future. Words Jason Sayer Photos Agnese Sanvito When you visit the Material Cultures’ website materialcultures.org you are greeted by a series of clips of materials in action: brown sludgy stuff being extracted, wood […]
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