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June 7, 2024
DRDH Architects has delivered a combined library, cinema and residential building for the London suburb of Sidcup. Madeleine Jacob examines the tensions between commercial viability and civic ambition. Words Madeleine Jacob Photos David Grandorge Sidcup Storyteller is the product of an all-too-rare investment in civic life. Under the heading ‘In Store for Sidcup’, £1.2m from […]
April 4, 2024
A pair of high-quality civic-minded office buildings by Gort Scott and Allies and Morrison mediates between a fragmented past and a more connected future at London’s White City. Words Claudia Lynch Photos David Grandorge (Gateway West), Jack Hobhouse (Gateway Central) For Allies and Morrison, London’s White City is an ongoing project. The practice started engaging […]
March 11, 2024
An expressive yet contextually sensitive residential development in London’s Knightsbridge by Squire & Partners successfully fuses digital fabrication techniques with highly skilled bricklaying. Photos James Jones Designed by Squire & Partners, Kingwood is a residential development located at the corner of Hans Place and Herbert Crescent in Knightsbridge, London. The seven-storey building accommodates 10 open-plan […]
March 8, 2024
DEMOGO’s headquarters for the Guardia di Finanza in Bologna, Italy, explores the nature and meaning of the boundary between building and city. Photos Iwan Baan Designed by Treviso-based practice DEMOGO, the new regional headquarters for the Guardia di Finanza in Bologna, Italy, occupies a densely populated site on the edge of the city. The architect […]
February 13, 2024
In the first instalment of this two-part technical feature, Roofing specialists from SIG Design & Technology (D&T) and EJ Roberts Roofing discuss the design and specification of one of the most complex roofs ever constructed in London with Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw. In association with Located behind the Piccadilly Circus Lights in London’s […]
January 26, 2024
In the town of Česká Lípa, Czech Republic, Adam Rujbr Architects has given the 14th Century Jirásek Theatre a comprehensive transformation. Photos BoysPlayNice The Jirásek Theatre in Česká Lípa, northern Czech Republic, has undergone a substantial overhaul led by Czech studio, Adam Rujbr Architects. The project, completed in late 2023, aimed to address the deteriorating […]
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 23, 2023
Bindloss Dawes has transformed an unloved Victorian terraced house in east London into a spacious light-filled family home. Photos Nick Dearden Bindloss Dawes, in collaboration with designer Daytrip, has skilfully reworked a Victorian terraced house in Clapton, east London. The clients tasked the Somerset-based practice with creating a spacious and light-filled dwelling comprising distinct yet […]
November 20, 2023
Mclaren Excell has sympathetically reworked and extended a grade II-listed Victorian villa in Oxfordshire. Photos Rory Gardiner McLaren Excell has extended and renovated a grade II-listed Victorian villa in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. The existing three-storey house had an unsympathetic, highly glazed dual-pitched rear extension. An elegant new brick-clad rear façade both complements and extends the building’s […]
November 16, 2023
The Growing Space Masters Architecture students at the University of Westminster have completed a lightweight, prefabricated timber structure that forms part of a therapeutic gardening project in east London. Photos Edmund Sumner Designed by the Live Design Studio for Masters Architecture students at the University of Westminster, The Growing Space forms part of the bustling […]
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, […]
June 29, 2023
ritchie*studio’s bold reworking of a listed brewery in Malta combines spatial inventiveness with environmental performance and future flexibility. Photos Joe Smith Won in competition and designed to BREAM Excellent, ritchie*studio’s reworking of the listed Simonds Farsons Cisk brewery in Mriehel, Malta, comprises the restoration and transformation of a 7,000-square-metre Art Deco style building into a […]
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