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December 12, 2024
Architects and designers are invited to compete for the design of a lasting tribute to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park. The UK Government has launched a competition to select a multidisciplinary team to create the masterplan for a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II. Located in London’s St James’s Park, the project will […]
December 10, 2024
Henrietta Billings, director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, on why the M&S demolition decision exposes a broken planning system and how we need urgent reform to safeguard heritage assets and reduce embodied carbon emissions. Designed by Trehearne & Norman with WA Lewis, Orchard House was completed in 1930 and has been Marks & Spencer’s flagship Oxford […]
November 28, 2024
Cooke Fawcett has extended an old mill and added a new studio workshop for a creative couple in Hampshire. Photos James Brittain “Touch the Earth lightly,” said the late, great Australian architect Glenn Murcutt. His buildings did just that, employing a vernacular of lightweight materials – chiefly timber and corrugated sheet metal – that came […]
November 20, 2024
East London practice THISS Studio has reconfigured a Victorian terrace in Waltham Forest to maximise existing space and minimise carbon impact. Photos Henry Woide A Victorian terrace in Waltham Forest, northeast London, has been transformed by THISS Studio into a light-filled and functional family home. In reconfiguring the ground floor, the East London practice eschewed […]
November 11, 2024
US firm Jahn has completed the Pritzker Military Archives Centre, providing the institution with a new gallery and 1,400 square metres of archival space. Photos Tom Rossiter Relocating its operations from Chicago, Illinois, to Somers, Wisconsin, Jahn has completed a new home for the Pritzker Military Museum & Library. Somers is a rural village found […]
November 8, 2024
Danish practice Bjarke Ingels Group has designed a new office and HQ for itself in Copenhagen’s industrial harbour. Photos Laurian Ghinițoiu In north Copenhagen, at the far edge of a district known as Sundmolen, BIG’s new 4,488-square-meter headquarters has taken its place among a sea of historic warehouses and maritime landmarks. Completed in early 2024, […]
October 17, 2024
The Elizabeth Line is a wonderful achievement and it’s right we celebrate its success. Gidea Park: know where that is? Twyford: sounds like it should be Wales. Goodmayes: good heavens, what? Slough: didn’t a poet once call for that place to be bombed? These places, far far away though they may sound, can all be […]
September 26, 2024
Haworth Tompkins’ £14.5 million transformation of the Warburg Institute in London’s Bloomsbury includes the Institute’s first gallery, a 140-seat auditorium, and a state-of-the-art centre for special collections. Photos Hufton+Crow The Warburg Institute in London, one of the world’s leading centres for the study of art and culture, has unveiled a transformational redevelopment of its Bloomsbury […]
September 13, 2024
At the Regenerative Architecture Index launch party, founder of UK Architects Declare Michael Pawlyn sat down with legendary musician and thinker Brian Eno. The Regenerative Architecture Index is now live – take a look and read all about it here. To celebrate its publication, AT with UK Architects Declare hosted a launch party at The Bottle […]
September 3, 2024
Oslo studio Fragment has developed a demountable wooden apartment building system, offering a flexible framework for adaptable and sustainable living. Illustration of several Rammeverk buildings that form a yard with food and common functions on the ground level. The window placement in the facade is based on the user workshops and how they placed windows […]
September 3, 2024
Foster + Partners has developed a masterplan with Türkiye Design Council to accelerate Turkey’s recovery from a devastating earthquake, while honouring the city’s ancient heritage and capitalising on opportunities to give it a more resilient and environmentally-friendly future. On February 6th, 2023, the Hatay region of Turkey was devastated by an earthquake that killed more […]
August 29, 2024
A key section of the Sydney Metro, Australia’s biggest public transport project, has finally opened. Set to total 46 stations and 113km of new railway line, we take a look at four of the stations that have just completed, designed by Foster + Partners, Architectus, Cox Architecture, Woods Bagot and John McAslan + Partners. Sydney […]
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