Carmody Groarke   United Kingdom   A masterplan seeks to give the second campus of the British Library a significant overhaul, enhancing its storage capacity as well as improving its overall environmental performance. The revamped brutalist building will include new public zones with

James Corner Field Operations vPPR   United Kingdom   The green light has been announced for the first stretch of the Camden Highline, an elevated urban parkfor London, an outcome of the transformation of railway tracks long in disuse. Drawing inspiration from New York’s High Line, the 12-kilometer-long

Clementine Blakemore Architects   United Kingdom   Located in Dorchester, the county town of Dorset, England, the Wraxall Yard complex, an old farm has been turned into inclusive holiday accommodations and a community space. The London practice led by Clementine Blakemore was commissioned to refurbis

Feilden Fowles   United Kingdom   A university refectory provides a counterpoint to the Victorian campus around it and combines its traditional ceremonial role with the warmth of a more informal space...

Hugh Broughton Architects   United Kingdom   The efforts to preserve a Norman castle have concluded with the insertion of a timber platform that covers the ruins while tracing a more accessible interior visitor route. The framework raised over four solid pillars also holds up a series of suspen

Selgascano   United Kingdom   Located at the heart of a new real-estate development on Greenwich Peninsula, London’s Design District features 16 buildings. Each is assigned to a different architecture practice, and the invited teams drew up their respective projects knowing nothi

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   A work of the London practice of Niall McLaughlin, the new library in the historical setting of Cambridge University has for 2022 won the Stirling Prize, awarded by Royal Institute od British Architects (RIBA). The ensemble of simple brick volumes re

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris   United Kingdom   Within the Alder Hey children’s hospital in Liverpool, this facility offers counseling and services to anyone affected by the death of a child. A 2016 competition organized by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) was won by the firm Allfo

Invisible Studio   United Kingdom   In the vegetable garden of The Newt – a hotel in Bruton, a town in the southwest English county of Somerset – stands this building by Invisible Studio. This is the third that the British architecture group founded by Piers Taylor has completed for th

Mae Architects    United Kingdom   In West London, close to South Park in Fulham, the English firm Mae has completed a building with timber and bricks where 35% of the construction is composed of recycled materials, prioritizing the use of bolts as structural fixing in order to simpli

Russell Jones   United Kingdom   The placidity that Constable captured in his Highgate sceneries remains patent amid stately Edwardian residences and lush gardens dotting this suburban area of North London; a peace and calm now much coveted in the metropolis and pursued in this smal

Adjaye Associates   United Kingdom   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

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   The Royal College of Art has officially opened its new campus in the Battersea district of southwest London, beside its old premises. The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron won the 2016 competition through a flexible scheme that would adapt to the constan

Grafton Architects   United Kingdom   The 2016 competition for the design of a new building at the London School of Economics and Political Research on Lincoln’s Inn Fields was won by Grafton Architects, which carried the day over firms like David Chipperfield Architects, Diller Scofidio

Carmody Groarke   United Kingdom   In 1902, in Helensburgh, 30 kilometers west of Glasgow and facing the River Clyde estuary, the Swedish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh built the Hill House as a residence fot the publisher Walter Blackie. As part of a process to preserve the buil

Stephen Taylor Architects   United Kingdom   A new porticoed shed with room for fifty cows is the most visible feature of the extensive revamp of a historical farm, a project intended to curb a widespread exodus from the countryside. Drawing inspiration from the barchesse, the agricultural wing

Flores & Prats   United Kingdom   The new auditorium is placed underground, conceived as a large foyer where the building’s horizontal connections converge. The character of the intervention is marked by the preservation of the three historical facades and the existing vaults...

Barozzi Veiga   United Kingdom   The Design District on the Greenwich Peninsula is a one-hectare riverside site with 16 new buildings that will provide an affordable base for creative businesses. Eight emerging architectural practices from across Europe were each given a pair of bui

Es Devlin Studio Veretec UK   United Arab Emirates   A sheaf of stalks of cross-laminated timber forms the scenographic screen on which to project a sampling of cyberpoetry that results from online interactions of users.

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   A work of Herzog & de Meuron, the building is a triangular glass disc with edges rounded to follow the shape of the site. The complex is characterized by a sawtooth roof that stretches in an east-to-west...

Groupwork   United Kingdom   A work of the architect Amin Taha, this seven-story block contains apartments – including this own home on the top floor – and the offices of his practice, Groupwork. Defined by its limestone structure, the building makes references to a ruined 11th-

Marks Barfield Architects   United Kingdom   Combining elements of local architecture and Islamic tradition, with geometrical decorative patterns symbolizing the infinite, this mosque was built in accordance with the scheme that won a 2009 competition, drawn up by Julia Barfield and her husband

William Matthews Associates   United Kingdom   A fruit of collaboration between the engineering firm Ney & Partners and the architecture practice William Matthews Associates, this footbridge over a 58-meter drop between cliffs recreates the structure that in the past connected the two sides of th

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

Charles III and Architecture

The Guardian   Rowan Moore   Born in controversy, the National Gallery wing was a lesson in throwing away the architects’ rulebook. Now plans to remodel it threaten its quirky splendour. The Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, tucked into a corner of Trafalgar Squa

Kingston University Town House Conferred every year by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Stirling Prize is a recognition of the best new buildings raised in the United Kingdom. The 2021 winner was Kingston University London – Town

Fed up perhaps with all the artsy airs that architects sometimes take on, the Serpentine Gallery in London has this year decided to assign its summer pavilion directly to a conceptual artist. Eclectically trained in urban planning and ceramics throug

The Guardian   Rowan Moore   The world’s first multilevel skatepark could easily have come across as architectural dad-dancing, but it’s just right for its target audience F51 bills itself as the world’s first multilevel skatepark, a place where skaters, cyclists, scooters, roll

The Guardian   Joanna Partridge   Google has announced a $1bn (£871m) deal to buy the London development Central Saint Giles, calling the move a show of confidence in the return to more office working. The US tech firm currently rents space in the brightly coloured development design

The Economist   The 25m-high artificial hill at one end of Oxford Street dubbed the Marble Arch Mound opened in July. It was supposed to help lure shoppers freed from lockdown away from internet stores and back to Britain’s best-known shopping thoroughfare. But once

John Puttick Associates was awarded the 2021 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize, recognizing its thoughtful and detailed conservation of Preston Bus Station, located in Preston, UK, a civic monument of central importance that serves as a hub

The Economist   Peter Barber’s work offers a chance for a meeting of minds. On mcgrath road, a side street in Stratford, east London, a 26-dwelling modernist terrace in mustard-coloured brick surrounds a square. The development (pictured) is hard to pigeonhole. Pete

The Guardian   Josh Halliday   Liverpool has been stripped of its coveted world heritage status after Unesco blamed years of development for an “irreversible loss” to the historic value of its Victorian docks. The UN’s heritage body concluded at a meeting in China on Wednesday tha

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Norman Foster   The library of Manchester is arguably one of the most important buildings of my life in terms of influence. There I disovered Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture, the work of Henry-Russell Hitchcock on Frank Lloyd Wright… I discovered those wor

Alberto Ballesteros   “Elizabeth was delighted. She had never seen a place where nature had done more... To be mistress of Pemberley might be something.” So did Jane Austen imagine the incarnation, in manor houses of the English countryside, of a productive, social, and a

Be they coherent additions in dialogue with the preexisting, silent interventions on historic buldings, or constructions raised ex novo, the works conceived by David Chipperfield Architects to harbor museum institutions are luminous supports for art

The Guardian   Dave Simpson   As the spectacular Cornish bio-domes turn 20, their creators reveal how they were inspired by a lost civilisation – and a load of washing up. The Eden Project has generated £2.2bn for the local economy, attracted 20 million visitors and has regenerat

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Renzo Piano Carlo Piano   A journey in search of beauty

Harry Gugger   Commons Revisited

Alan Powers   Una historia en siete episodios

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Harvard University Press   - 392 Pages 

Dean Hawkes   An Environmental History of British Architecture. 1600-2000

Lucy Bullivant   UK Architecture´s rising generation