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August 29, 2023
Senior Technical and Design Advisor Marcus Franklin of Wienerberger UK – sponsor of the School of Specification – answers readers’ questions on brick rainscreen cladding. Wienerberger’s Corium brick tile cladding was specified by Marks Barfield Architects for the Cambridge Mosque Why choose a brick rainscreen over a traditional brick façade? Brick rainscreen cladding offers the […]
August 25, 2023
dMFK Architects has delivered a cluster of slender towers on a brownfield site near Wembley Stadium dMFK has completed a new 24 storey building for Barratt London on a brownfield site close to Wembley Stadium. The building, which contains 229 new homes, affordable workspaces, and carefully considered new public realm, is conceived as a composition […]
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, […]
August 14, 2023
London-based designer Adam Nathaniel Furman’s colourful work, Abundance, gently makes its way around Paddington Central. Greeting visitors to Paddington’s amphitheatre is Abundance. Designed by Adam Nathaniel Furman, who was born just a stone’s throw away at St Mary’s hospital, the artwork, as its name suggests, abounds with colour — and delight. Gently tracing and demarcating a […]
August 11, 2023
Zach Fluker, director of ao-ft, explains how Spruce House and Studio, constructed from CLT, establishes a prototype for sustainable housing on tight urban sites. Located in a conservation area, the house occupies a wide plot on what used to be the village high street. Over the past century, houses in the street have transitioned from […]
August 4, 2023
Office S&M’s house for two graphic designers makes use of playful colours and shapes to build on the client’s predilection for Art Deco motifs. Bold forms and striking colours abound — this is nothing new for London-based studio Office S&M. The practice has cut its teeth with playful designs awash with colour, adding joy to […]
July 24, 2023
John Robertson Architects has repurposed the 1920s Daily Mail HQ in the City of London to create one of the 1% of refurbishment projects to achieve BREEAM Outstanding. John Robertson Architects (JRA) has retrofitted the former headquarters and print works of the Daily Mail newspaper on Tudor Street, close to Fleet Street in the City […]
July 14, 2023
Studio Weave’s visually-striking cliff top house on South Korea’s eastern peninsula draws its inspiration from traditional domestic forms and materials. Photos Kyung Roh Located on a cliff top overlooking South Korea’s Eastern Sea, Seosaeng House is a multi-generational family home designed by Studio Weave. The name of the dwelling translates as ‘the brightening East’ or […]
July 10, 2023
AOC and De Matos Ryan have transformed the V&A’s former Museum of Childhood in east London into a state-of-the-art visitor experience aimed at fostering the next generation of artists, thinkers, makers and innovators. Photos Luke Hayes and David Parry (courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum) Designed by AOC, in collaboration with De Matos Ryan, […]
July 3, 2023
Moxon Architects has completed an innovative, low-maintenance timber bridge in Balingen, southern Germany. Photos Simon Kennedy Moxon Architects, in collaboration with timber bridge engineering specialist IB-Miebach, has completed a pedestrian and cycle bridge in the Balingen, southern Germany. Won in competition and unveiled ahead of the 2023 Baden-Würtemberg Garden Show, the bridge links event venues […]
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 […]
June 26, 2023
AOC has completed a highly ambitious and idiosyncratic community and cultural centre in Berkshire. Photos Philip Vile Won in competition, AOC’s School Green Centre in Shinfield, Berkshire, comprises two inter-connected performance halls, a well-being hub, public library, creche, after-school club and café, as well as meeting rooms and offices for the local council. The 960-square-metre […]
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