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February 6, 2025
Cabin Crew A new book from The Modernist tells the story of Welsh architectural practice Hird & Brooks and explores its obsession with crafting the perfect holiday home. Cabin 15 at Penlan Holiday Park, West Wales, a scheme for 69 cabins across a 12-acre site. Cabin 15 was the first to be sold. Dusty, a […]
January 16, 2025
Powerhouse Farrells completes the 15-year transformation of Lots Road Power Station – the ‘cathedral of the industrial age’ – into Chelsea Waterfront’s Powerhouse. Photos Andy Stagg, BAYA Interiors, Chelsea Waterfront, FBC London Farrells has completed the 15-year transformation of the Lots Road Power Station – the oldest of London’s three historic power stations and the […]
January 9, 2025
Sadler’s Wells East O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Sadler’s Wells East brings dance to diverse audiences and much-needed permanence and purpose to Stratford Waterfront. Words Isabel Allen Photographs Peter Cook “We wanted to make a building that spoke of the site’s industrial past,” says Sheila O’Donnell. We are gazing at the saw-tooth roofline of Sadlers Wells East, […]
April 19, 2024
Housing Atlas A compendium of the best housing schemes built across Europe in the 20th Century is an invaluable resource for architects seeking solutions to the current housing crisis. Double page spread devoted to Powell & Moya’s Churchill Gardens, London, completed in 1962. All projects have been painstakingly redrawn to the same graphic standard. Words […]
October 7, 2022
The much-loved South London icon is finally set to be open to the public (for real this time) welcoming visitors into its WilkinsonEyre-refurbished insides on October 14th. Aerial view looking southwest. Credit Jason Hawkes. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott is an architect who has birthed London three icons: the red telephone box, Bankside power station, and […]
October 6, 2022
Eric Parry Architects has given a new lease of life to the Grade II* listed St John’s church in Waterloo, which only just survived the Blitz. “Where’s the church?” questioned the King — King George VI that is — in 1950 when touring the construction site that was Waterloo and Southbank, soon to be home to […]
September 5, 2022
Mae has designed a community building that provides well-being and recreational facilities for the later living residents of London’s Morden College in Blackheath. Mary Duggan appreciates a sophisticated, humane design that reflects and anticipates social change. Established in 1695 by philanthropist Sir John Morden to provide support and accommodation to retired widowed merchants, Morden College […]
July 18, 2022
Waugh Thistleton director Kirsten Haggart reviews the Rhomboid and Ziggurat by Mole Architects, a pair of buildings in the Greenwich Design District with mass timber structures. The Design District, London’s first permanent, purpose-built creative district, is conveniently located minutes’ walk from North Greenwich Station. Knight Dragon has developed a hub for creative businesses which it is […]
13 November 2026
