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.
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
On an enclosed site behind rows of terraced Victorian houses, the project involved refurbishing an old sheet-metal workshop that in the 1980s had been turned into offices, and transforming it now into a residential complex. The building has three flo
This senior daycare is part of a complex of listed buildings of Morden College, which harbors a community of elderly people. Founded in 1695, Morden College is located in Blackheath Park, in Southeast London. Seeking to address the problem of lonelin
The aesthetic of the school dialogs with the buildings on the sides, and the facade folds from the street forming vegetal terraces. Though half of the monolithic structure is preserved, a timber framework reinforces and lightens it visually…
Open to the public from 9 June to 29 October is the temporary pavilion of the popular Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London. For this summer the commission went to the Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh (Beirut, 1980), who designed a round
The contour of the building adapts to the conditions of its context: to the west it sinks and creates a covered open-air space; to the east it opens up to the street to welcome students; and to the south the facade is transformed into a winter garden
The museum is envisaged as a freestanding pavilion, closely linked to its surroundings, its faceted form active on all sides. Inside, a multi-level sequence of gallery spaces is connected by flowing stairs and elevators with social spaces in between.
The character of the new center is in keeping with the industrial past of the site: walls and roofs are clad in brick and big tiles made of clay in the same tone. The steps and chamfers form the entrances and articulate the building...
The Prow was part of the masterplan, developed with A+M Architects, for the residential plot to the north of the Stratford Waterfront site. The tower sits in a unique position, mediating between the tall buildings in the area and the Olympic Park. Ev
The lack of cohesion among the different-style constructions in the area is resolved with new public cores and social spaces that connect the parts to configure the new building. Despite its marked geometry, the piece blends finely with its context.
The London firm SIRS Architects – Manuel Irsara and Sebastian Soukup – has transformed a 19th-century brewery into an exhibition gallery for the artists Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore. Located on a narrow street in Spitalfields, in the East End
This building, housing three faculties of the University of Sheffield, responds to its heterogeneous situation between a highly frequented road and a quieter campus area. The project adapts to the masterplan, also by the studio, for the Modern Langua
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
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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 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
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
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