San Salvatore
Pierre d’Avoine Architects has converted a chapel in rural Umbria into a private house. Louis Mayes explores a project that weaves ecclesiastical structures and spaces into a contemporary home.
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Pierre d’Avoine Architects has converted a chapel in rural Umbria into a private house. Louis Mayes explores a project that weaves ecclesiastical structures and spaces into a contemporary home.
As KAAN Architecten rounds off its two-decade transformation of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Louis Mayes gives his verdict on the complex insertion of contemporary exhibition and back-of-house spaces with the neo-classical building.
Grafton Architects’ Kingston University Town House fosters connections between students, the institution and the city, finds Louis Mayes.
Louis Mayes speaks to Carmody Groarke about the new gallery at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, created by cloaking the interior of a Grade II listed warehouse.
Dirk Somers of Belgian practice Bovenbouw talks to Louis Mayes about the role of drawing, and the importance of viewing a sketch as a problem for discussion as much as a solution
The sketches of Florian Beigel and Philip Christou of ARU explore spatial ideas while prolonging uncertainty, finds Louis Mayes
Building Review Turner Works mixes low-cost workspace and a leisure destination in a development that seems well suited to uncertain times, finds Louis Mayes
Drawing Out
Marie-José Van Hee talks to Louis Mayes about the role of sketches in the long process of designing her house in Ghent
Drawing Out
In the first of a series of pieces on drawing and the design process, Roz Barr talks to Louis Mayes about developing her ideas through sketches
Building Review
Louis Mayes reflects on how sensitive design respects the dignity of the occupants at an Ostend care home, designed by Bovenbouw
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