Part of an initiative of the non-profit developer Broadway Housing Communities, this mixed-use complex in the historic Sugar Hill district of Harlem sought to give the neighborhood new affordable housing options and also a cultural institution that w
The aptly named Specere – ‘I am looking’, in Latin –, was promoted by the Forestry Commission and the Kielder Partnership as part of an ongoing Art & Architecture programme. It was created as a shelter for cyclists and as a superb viewpoint for visit
The De Beauvoir Estate is an area of semi-detached villas which have elegant proportions and shallow, hipped roofs. Unusually, for an area of this kind, a number of later workshop buildings have been added to the Victorian fabric and one of these is
In the heart of Hackney, a borough of northern London, on a triangular plot, stands this building designed for the contemporary artist Sue Webster to both live and work in. The owner envisioned her new home and workplace as something to be strongly t
A warehouse of ideas, a labyrinth of interlocking volumes, layers of welcome joining community and university, Town House came into existence born of Kingston University’s progressive educational vision. In this building, sound and silence, exuberant
Concebido como un experimento expresivo y fenomenológico sobre el uso de los materiales, el pabellón, de planta elíptica y con ejes de doce y ocho metros, está construido en su totalidad con tablones y lamas de tulípero, especie escogida por su text
Designed as personal residence and located in Bethnal Green, the busy center of London’s East End, the house is delimited on two of its sides by old dark brick buildings. The intention of the project was to round off a residual linear element facing
This dwellng and studio for London-based artists Sue Webster and Tim Noble occupy the remains of an old public house in East London. The design is based on two strategies: the use of the walls of the old building and the construction of a new volume
Located in London’s East End, the house was designed for an artist couple who wanted to transform the old belt factory they used as a studio into a container which could serve at once as family dwelling and workplace. The house was conceived as a lar
The Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the highest distinction that can be given to a professional in the field in the United Kingdom, went to David Adjaye, one of the leading African architects in the international scene. Born
El arquitecto británico David Adjaye, con estudio en Londres, Berlín y Nueva York, ha realizado para el fotógrafo de arquitectura Ed Reeve una casa en De Beauvior Town, en el norte de Londres. Se trata de un volumen cúbico forrado de madera y dispues
