Renzo Piano Building Workshop Adamson Associates Architects   United Kingdom   Next to busy Paddington Square in London, this mixed-use building contains offices, shops, and a variety of bars and cafés, all of it crowned with a terrace and a restaurant commanding views of the city. A 50x50x50-meters cube raised on a podium of p

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios   United Kingdom   Shrewsburg Flaxmill Maltings was originally built in 1797 and served different purposes in the course of time, including as military barracks during World War II. The site closed in 1987. A work of Charles Bage, the listed building is known as the ‘g

krft   United Kingdom   Brick and flint in gray tones clad this performing arts center built for Brighton College as part of a masterplan to revamp the British campus that includes OMA’s School for Sports and Science. The Dutch firm krft designed the building in collaborati

Bindloss Dawes   United Kingdom   The Old School House of Pitcombe, in the English county of Somerset, was built in 1864. The listed building was turned into a house in the 1940s, and enlarged thirty years later with a bedroom wing. This extension has been demolished and replaced by

Stanton Williams   United Kingdom   The firm Stanton Williams has completed new social and residential facilities for Emmanuel College in Cambridge. The project include refurbishing the existing construction, integrating them with the recent builds and into a setting of university prem

Gianni Botsford Architects   United Kingdom   Gianni Botsford’s project respectfully integrates the enlargement of a house built by Norman Foster in the late 1960s in Hampstead, north of central London. The result is a four-story building with…

Mass Studies   United Kingdom   The Serpentine Gallery’s 23rd summer pavilion at Kensington Gardens in London will be visitable from 7 June to 27 October. Designed by the Korean architect Minsuk Cho of the firm Mass Studies, it is inspired by vernacular wood architecture in his cou

6a architects   United Kingdom   The Tree House is situated in the communal garden of two small cottages, curving around a central sumac tree. Its ramped interior connects the old buildings with the new ones, reorienting the house around the garden to create a fully accessible famil

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Located in one of the courts of Trinity Hall, one of Cambridge University’s oldest colleges, the WongAvery Gallery replaced a modest shelter built early in the 20th century – attached to the south wall of Avery Court – with a facility for music educa

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   A cross the coast from Portsmouth, in the waters of the Solent, the Isle of Wight is characterized by its rich natural environment and a climate that is gentler than elsewhere in the British Isles. This attractive context and Queen Victoria’s frequen

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   The completion of this student residence is the latest milestone in over a decade of collaboration with Somerville College, in commissions for new constructions and various refurbishments, allowing a longstanding ambition to offer all its undergradua

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Founded in the year 1263, Balliol is one of the oldest colleges at Oxford. To the east of its historic premises in Broad Street, around the lawn of a cricket pitch, an ambitious masterplan has been carried out which comprises eight blocks of student

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Unlike other institutions of Cambridge University, Jesus College was founded outside the city, on the grounds of an old Benedictine convent. With their five hundred years of history, these buildings form the core of the college, which has grown aroun

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Raised on a podium on the edge of a green meadow that serves as a cricket pitch, the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre was designed in the manner of a theater in a garden. It had to engage not only with the parkland and nearby canals but also with the univer

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   By the side of a picturesque lake in the Hampshire countryside, and bordered on the south by a small stream of pristine water and swift currents, the site of this small shelter is one of the best spots for fly fishing in the British Isles. To ensure

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Along with the design of various new student halls for Somerville College, the studio has refurbished and enlarged the listed Wolfson Building, originally designed by Philip Dowson and a team at Arup Associates in the 1960s, and currently listed and

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   In the wake of World War II, King’s Cross became a very degraded industrial zone, but since the early 1990s the district has undergone an incessant urban regeneration process, much of it triggered by the renovation of the historic station and the arr

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Somerville College was founded in 1879 as a college of the University of Oxford and was one of the first higher-education centers for women. It is situated at the north end of St Giles’ Street, one of the city’s main axes, and since its original foun

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   In a greenbelt location less than an hour away from Central London, Piper’s End is a quiet town in the county of Hertfordshire. The undulating landscape of the area is dotted with laconic greenhouses, sheds, and farmhouses. The design of the new hous

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Founded in 1861 by Henry Wilde within St James’s Hall as a school of music and oratory, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) integrated institutions of different arts during the 20th century, becoming one of the most prestigious drama

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Slightly hidden away from the busy junction at the corner of Church Street in the Kensington neighborhood, the Carmelite monastery needed to carry out various works to preserve and enlarge its facilities, adding a private chapel and a new sacristy. T

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture Ellen van Loon   United Kingdom   In more than 13,000 square meters, the new cultural venue for Factory International – the institution that  organizes the Manchester International Festival every two years – is designed to accommodate all kinds of performing arts. 

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture Ellen van Loon   United Kingdom   The new headquarters of Factory International, organizer of the Manchester International Festival (MIF), has been completed. A work of OMA / Ellen van Loon, it responds to an eclectic environment – amid industrial brick constructions, towers, housing

The Elizabeth Line in London, designed by Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation, and AtkinsRéalis, has been named the 2024 winner of the Stirling Prize, which the Royal Institute of British Architects gives for best building completed in the United Kingdom. Pr

Oliver Wainwright   Anabelle Selldorf is carrying out the revamp of the iconic work of Venturi and Scott Brown.

The Guardian   Robert Booth   Emine Sinmaz   The Grenfell Tower disaster was the result of “decades of failure” by central government to stop the spread of combustible cladding combined with the “systematic dishonesty” of multimillion-dollar companies whose products spread the fire that killed

There are buildings that are works of eloquent architecture, but in the extension of the National Gallery, the walls have spoken. Literally. Turning its back on Trafalgar Squqre, what we know as the Sainsbury Wing – because of the generous donation r

The British Museum has announced which teams will be competing in the next stage of the international competition to renovate its Western Range galleries, an ambitious project of reimagining over a third of the London institution’s gallery space. The

Bloomberg   Feargus O'Sullivan   By 2030 the City of London financial district will have sprouted an entirely new crop of skyscrapers. And the difference will be striking. The Square Mile is set to get a total of 11 new towers, the tallest stretching higher than any now existing. To

Bloomberg   Feargus O'Sullivan   British schools are crumbling due to an aerated material that was popular after World War II. The issue centers around “reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete,” a material known more widely as RAAC, which can become dangerous if exposed to water. The

It is not only their professional success, but also the wisdom of a creative undertaking they have maintained over the course of four decades, that has given Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron an indisputable spot on the summit of great architects o

Luis Fernández-Galiano   After two decades, the Swiss partners again exhibit in London, a city that saw their first international success with the opening of Tate Modern.

1930-2022 A journey to precarious Spain of 1950 changed the life of John Elliott, one of the key British hispanists. It changed it because he discovered the Prado Museum, and in it not just Las Meninas, but another great Velázquez painting: Equestria

1936-2022 The semiotic wave of the 1960s and 1970s decade, and in general the scientist obsession of those years, bore disparate fruits. Some were engulfed by history, while others maintain, if not the pertinence of that time, an undoubtable interest

Rowan Moore   Siempre con mirada activista, Ai Weiwei reflexiona en el Design Museum sobre el valor de los objetos cotidianos y sus procesos de fabricación.

Almost unanimously, the latest Pritzker laureate’s most admired forte is the sensitivity with which he operates on existing buildings, where he enhances the patina of time while applying his refined geometry, always knowing exactly when to express it

The global recession caught many by surprise, as it did these two young architects who had practically just set up a practice of their own, forcing them to rechannel the experience they had acquired with Chipperfield and explore less trodden paths: m

What the British photographer defines as his true passion is to move in the backstage looking for scenes within the reach of just a few. His work is characterized by a unique understanding of color and symmetry adorned with touches of dark humor. Asi

Architects are generally trained in the modern idea that their job is to build a new world, so they try to raise new buildings or even design entire parts of cities. But the profession today is more and more about building on what is already built, a

Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh, has been selected to conceive the 22nd Pavilion. Ghotmeh’s Pavilion will be unveiled at Serpentine South in June 2023.  This pioneering and prestigious commission, which began in 2000 with Dame Zaha

From a spider to a sun, from a crack on the floor to a sea of sunflower seeds, the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern has since the year 2000 hosted spectacular installations of the kind that can take on gigantic dimensions – a rare opportunity – and which

When in 1977 the English rock band Pink Floyd flew its famous inflatable pigs amid the chimneys of Battersea, part of the power station – built in two phases under the direction of Sir George Gilbert Scott, author too of the plant that is now Tate Mo

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   In 1983, the year Battersea Power Station was decommissioned, the radical architect Cedric Price drew up a provocative proposal for what to do with the gargantuan brick hulk. The London building’s silhouette of four slender white chimneys rising from

The new head of the United Kingdom is an advocate of traditional architecture and has promoted it in his estates in Cornwall through a development, Poundbury, with Léon Krier as principal advisor. During his time as Prince of Wales he wrote texts in

Not since Louis XIV had the world seen a monarch playing architectural critic. The recently enthroned Charles III has little in common with the Sun King, but does emulate him in his passion for cities and buildings, and though the heyday of monarchie

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