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March 28, 2022
Nimtim Architects has won an invited competition, organised by Geberit with Architecture Today, to design an inspirational and functional family bathroom measuring just six square metres in size. Loo of a Lifetime by Nimtim Architects As any architect worth their salt will know, designing a small bathroom that can combine functionality and spatial efficiency with […]
March 25, 2022
Determined to stay in Ukraine, the Kharkiv School of Architecture has temporarily relocated across the country to Lviv. Robert Mull talks to the school’s co-founder Oleg Drozdov and Deputy Chancellor Iryna Matsekova about the battle for future architects and engineers in the country and the most effective way for the UK construction industry to offer […]
March 21, 2022
Co-living propositions by architects and designers including Charles Holland, Tonkin Liu and Eley Kishimoto are among 14 longlisted projects for this year’s edition of ideas competition, The Davidson Prize. Charles Holland Architects, Quality of Life Foundation, Verity-Jane Keefe and Joseph Zeal-Henry – Co-Living in The Countryside Multi-disciplinary teams were invited to respond to the theme […]
March 7, 2022
Evans Vettori has designed a student hub and Environment Centre for Nottingham Trent University’s Brackenhurst Campus. Sue and Mark Emms deliver their verdict on a project that acts as a new focal point for the campus and reflects a belief that learning and landscape should go hand in hand. Rooted within beautiful countryside, 14 miles […]
February 28, 2022
The refurbishment of New Court at Trinity College, Cambridge, by 5th Studio and Max Fordham set out to radically improve the comfort and carbon emissions of a Grade I listed building. Five years after its completion, 5th Studio director Oliver Smith assesses the lessons that have been learnt. Originally rendered with Roman cement, the courtyard-facing […]
February 22, 2022
Erbar Mattes Architects has skilfully remodelled a former pub in north London to create a home for an expanding family. PhotosStåle Eriksen, Simon Menges The Blockmakers Arms is a Grade II listed former public house situated on Shepherdess Walk in north London. Forming the end of a terrace of three-storey townhouses, the 19th-century building was […]
February 19, 2022
Threefold Architects has extended and remodelled a Victorian home in Muswell Hill, north London, adding a contemporary extension behind the restored red brick facade to create a “house of two halves”. Victorian end-of-terrace home had previously been split into two flats and the clients approached Threefold Architects to bring the property back into use as […]
February 15, 2022
5th Studio has converted a former vehicle testing facility into an open-access factory for makers as part of the £6 billion Meridian Water development in Enfield, north London. 5th Studio worked with the London Borough of Enfield and social entrepreneurs Bloqs to design the workspace as part of the meanwhile use of land earmarked for […]
February 11, 2022
Matheson Whiteley has transformed the home of not-for-profit arts organisation Studio Voltaire in Clapham, south London. Nana Biamah-Ofosu admires the ingenuity and restraint of a thoughtful remodelling that anchors the building in its community and creates the conditions for creativity to thrive. Adorning the gable end of a nondescript end of terrace leading to Nelson’s […]
February 8, 2022
Foster + Partners has designed a museum of Roman antiquities for the city of Narbonne in the south of France. Alessandra Fanari enjoys the ambiguities of a sophisticated building where the distinction between architecture and exhibits is decidedly blurred. At the entrance to the French city of Narbonne, Narbo Via, the museum of Roman antiquities, […]
February 1, 2022
Greg Lomas of Foster Lomas reviews Kirkland Fraser Moor’s Ashraya house, a low-carbon property tucked beneath an arching roof and covered in a blanket of greenery that melds it with its Chilterns Hills setting. We sit in David Kirkland’s studio, a stone’s throw from the Ashraya house, and discuss the back story of the house […]
January 25, 2022
Elastico Farm has designed a lab building of interlocking pink concrete planes for the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Turin, Italy. Building on the aesthetics and techniques developed by Elastico Farm in its experimental House of Cards scheme, which explores the structural possibilities of granite, the lab is made up from panels of interlocking […]
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