Architecture & Design Community
January 25, 2024
Mark Stonell, associate director, Buro Happold discusses the shift to glass building envelopes, addressing challenges with innovative solutions for transparency and energy efficiency. How are architects, engineers and the construction industry as a whole developing solutions to maximise transparency while meeting energy performance targets? Why does transparency still matter today? And how can we manage […]
January 16, 2024
dMFK Architects has brought a 1970s office building in Fitzrovia up to speed with a series of strategic alterations made to provide a modern, flexible workplace. Photos Jack Hobhouse In Fitzrovia, Central London, dMFK Architects has completed the retrofit of 45 Whitfield Street, a five-storey office building from the 1970s, on behalf of client Derwent […]
January 15, 2024
Mclaren.Excell has skilfully reworked a pair of listed Oxfordshire barns, creating a sustainable and future-proof home. Photos Rory Gardiner McLaren.Excell has transformed a pair of grade II-listed barns in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, into a sustainable and future-proof home. The project, includes a two-storey bedroom wing, which is connected to the existing structure via a glazed link. […]
January 12, 2024
Levitt Bernstein has restored the Grade II listed Bristol Beacon concert hall, improving the theatre’s acoustics and accessibility. The revamped Beacon Hall offers a capacity of 1,800 (2,200 with stalls standing). Photos Tim Crocker Words Jason Sayer Inside its original 1873 masonry walls, the Bristol Beacon theatre has a new heart. Once known as Colston […]
January 4, 2024
Emile Eve Architects has added a double-height atrium in an extension to a home in North London. Photos Taran Wilkhu Nestled in into the Highgate Conservation Area in London, Hackney studio Emil Eve Architects has toyed with scale and light to revamp this five-storey Edwardian terraced home. The biggest intervention to the property is the […]
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 21, 2023
KAAN Architecten has completed the visitor centre at the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten. Photos Simon Menges Comprising 65 acres, the Netherlands American Cemetery in the town of Margraten, 10km east of Maastricht, contains the graves of some 8,000 American soldiers from the First and Second World Wars. Dedicated as a cemetery in 1960 and […]
December 19, 2023
Kresge College by Studio Gang Nestled into woodland, Studio Gang has extended Kresge College at the University of California, Santa Cruz, adding four new buildings. Photos Jason O’Rear At the University of California, Santa Cruz, Studio Gang has extended Kresge College, adding three residential halls of residence and a College Academic Centre. Buried among a […]
December 19, 2023
Howells’ has completed a contextually-sensitive and materially-rich pavilion restaurant at the National Trust’s Hanbury Hall in Worcestershire. Photos Greg Holmes Designed by Howells, in collaboration with heritage expert Donald Insall Associates, The Courtyard Kitchen, is a pavilion restaurant located alongside the National Trust’s Hanbury Hall in Worcestershire. The single-storey structure is connected to the Grade […]
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 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 27, 2023
Moxon Architects has transformed a historic Aberdeenshire farmstead into a carefully crafted guesthouse, glasshouse and artist’s studio. Photos Simon Kennedy Moxon Architects has transformed a collection of 19th century agricultural buildings belonging to a hillside farm in the Cairngorms National Park, Aberdeenshire, into a modern guesthouse, glasshouse and artist’s studio. Employing a combination of traditional and […]
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