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Iconic Buildings: I work at the Barbican Centre
For our new series 'Iconic Buildings' we speak to people who live or work in buildings of architectural significance. Is their exposure to an architectural wonder on a daily basis a source of...
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Buildings Need to be Curated; Collaboration With Other Fields Is Vital to an...
Look around. What is it that makes you most happy? Is it the mountain bike, or is it where that mountain bike takes you? Out amongst nature, wind in your face, exploring newfound tracks. Without this,...
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Brexit Diaries: Andrew Whalley of Grimshaw, 27 February 2017
As Theresa May prepares to invoke Article 50 before the imminent March 2017 deadline, the UK Government are on the lookout for new economic partnerships to bolster the country’s long term financial...
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Dissolving the line between client and staff spaces
Workplace designers are changing their approaching to client spaces within the office. Traditionally, clients occupied dedicated and contained spaces that are segregated from staff areas and...
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Brexit Diaries: Chris Williamson, 20 March 2017
I am writing this month's Brexit Blog at MIPIM, the annual international property conference. The bill to leave received Royal Assent during the week with ironic timing. MIPIM is a good opportunity to...
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Studio Visits: YARD Architects
For the first in a new series, Studio Visits, we went to see an emerging architecture practice in South London. As well as having a good poke around we asked them to reveal a bit more about who YARD...
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Iconic Buildings: I work at the Natural History Museum, London
For our new series Iconic Buildings, we speak to people who live or work in buildings of architectural significance. Is their exposure to an architectural wonder on a daily basis a source of...
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In Focus: Alex Upton
In Focus is Archinect's series of features dedicated to profiling the photographers who help make the work of architects look that much better. What has attracted them to architecture? How do they...
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Brexit Diaries: Chris Williamson, 20 April 2017
With the London Festival of Architecture opening in June – during which Weston Williamson and Partners have events planned – the organisers have commissioned a survey of the contribution that...
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Getting to know London Landscape Architects Gustafson Porter + Bowman
Gustafson Porter + Bowman are a landscape architecture firm based in Camden, London, with work ranging from conservation of significant sites to innovative re-thinking of urban brownfields.
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When a building is not the answer
In between the rush from here to there, have you noticed that we’re living in the ‘inbetween’?While technology enables unprecedented levels of connectivity and inclusion, fragmentation abounds as our...
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Chasing rabbits — tales from a new practice.
My first entry into the practice diaries is apt. Last week I launched a new architects practice LōF architects. I use the plural, but sat in my office — a small room at the bottom of my garden with...
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Brexit Diaries: Chris Williamson, 26 May 2017
An eventful month indeed. Theresa May took everyone by surprise by announcing an election. I still can’t understand why the opposition didn’t table an amendment to have the election later – say in...
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Small Studio Snapshots: Studioshaw
Small Studio Snapshots is a new, weekly series in which we investigate the ins and outs of running a small architecture practice. This week, we're talking with Studioshaw, a practice set up in 2016...
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Screen/Print #56: Alessandro Bava and Oskar Johanson Reflect on the Future...
One of the preeminent schools of architecture in the world, the Architectural Association of Architecture (AA) in London is in the midst of some significant changes. Brett Steele, the director of the...
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Brexit Diaries: Neven Sidor of Grimshaw, 19 June 2017
“They need us more than we need them”. My blood boils when I hear this delusional nonsense repeated by politicians who should know better. It doesn’t matter how many cars Audi, Mercedes, Porsche and...
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Diébédo Francis Kéré's Tree-Inspired Serpentine Pavilion Fuses Cultural...
‘I was inspired by the figure of the tree in the landscape. I wanted to create a gathering space’, says Diébédo Francis Kéré discussing his design for the much anticipated 2017 Serpentine Pavilion....
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Iconic Buildings: I work at the Victoria Baths in Manchester
For this installment of Iconic Buildings we go to Manchester to visit the historic Victoria Baths, originally opened in 1906 but closed by the council in 1993. We talk to Georgina Child, the...
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Why Not London?
"Why not London?" I kept asking myself as I wandered round the spectacular opening reception of the spectacular HQ of the Norman Foster Foundation in Madrid. Housed in the former Turkish Embassy...
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What we do as architects is not neutral: it is political
I started writing this on the 13th of June. It was going to be a piece on the importance of critical engagement for sole or small practitioners. Thoughts on why, generally, as architects, we don't...
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Stirling Prize shortlist 2017 predictions
Later this week, the RIBA will announce which projects have made it onto the 2017 Stirling Prize shortlist. It’s rare that the very best buildings make the shortlist. It's normally a conservative list...
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Studio Visits: MMAS
This week I went to visit MMAS, a Belfast based practice, in their studio, a converted mill just outside of the city centre. MMAS are a small practice, but their studio, full of models, drawings,...
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The Return of the Master Builder?
Following the Grenfell Tower disaster, Marc Vlessing, CEO of London residential developer Pocket, was speaking at a NLA Sounding Board meeting. Dutch-born Vlessing stated that for an objective view of...
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London at the Seoul Biennale
London made good splash at the inaugural Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism which opened at the beginning of September in Zaha Hadid's DPP Cultural Centre. Taking one of the Biennale's themes...
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Brexit Diaries: Chris Williamson, 4 December 2017
I will be eternally grateful to Archinect for asking me to write these pieces as it has encouraged me to read more column inches on Brexit than I otherwise would and to consider the wider issues. I...
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In Focus: Jill Tate
In Focus is Archinect's recurring series dedicated to profiling the photographers who help make the work of architects look that much better. What has attracted them to architecture? How do they work?...
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Studio Visits: ACME
I walk past Acme's London office regularly and there is almost always a passerby staring into their window with a rather bemused, albeit intrigued, look on their face, not quite sure what to make of...
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Studio Visits: Hawkins\Brown, Manchester
For our most recent Studio Visit, we went to visit Hawkins\Brown in their Manchester office. Set up by Katie Tonkinson who previously worked in the London office for 13 years, 'Studio North', has been...
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Iconic Buildings: I work at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton
In our series Iconic Buildings, we speak to people who live or work in buildings of architectural significance. Is their exposure to an architectural wonder on a daily basis a source of inspiration or...
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Studio Visits: Tate Harmer
Tate Harmer's office is nestled away in a quiet courtyard in Dalston, East London. If you were visiting the very charming nearby Brunswick East cafe, an office favorite, you would never guess that...
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