Sir Michael Hopkins (1935–2023)
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-18T10:57:37+01:00Read tributes from Mark Whitby, Andrew Whalley and Dr Alistair Fair for Michael Hopkins, architect and pioneer of High Tech, who has died aged 88.
Mark Whitby reflects on working as Michael Hopkins’ engineer
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-18T11:01:35+01:00Co-founder of engineering practice Whitby Wood, Mark Whitby looks back on what it was like to work with the late Michael Hopkins as the practice was growing.
National Portrait Gallery
AT Editor2023-08-18T11:02:22+01:00Jamie Fobert Architects, in collaboration with Purcell and Max Fordham, has comprehensively reworked London’s National Portrait Gallery.
The life and career of Michael Hopkins
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-18T11:03:43+01:00Author and historian Dr Alistair Fair charts the career of the late Sir Michael Hopkins.
Ask the Expert: MDF
AT Editor2023-08-18T11:04:17+01:00Product manager Rebecca Goldsmith of Medite Smartply – sponsor of the School of Specification – answers readers’ questions on MDF.
Wren 300
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-18T11:05:22+01:00Wadham College at Oxford University is hosting Wren 300, a symposium that looks back on Wren's intellectual, medical and practical achievements prior to him becoming an architect, on Saturday 24th June
Andrew Whalley OBE reflects on the career and influence of Michael Hopkins
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-18T11:06:02+01:00Michael Hopkins, architect and co-founder of Hopkins Architects has died aged 88. Chair at Grimshaw Architects, Andrew Whalley, looks back on his life and career.
Wallbarn’s MetalPad EX pedestal system supports fire-safe balcony installations
AT Editor2023-08-18T11:10:02+01:00Wallbarn’s MetalPad EX pedestal system supports fire-safe balcony installations
Ask the expert: Steel
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-18T11:11:15+01:00Dr David Moore, CEO of the British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA) answers readers’ questions on constructional steelwork.
Still standing: Arab World Institute, Paris, 1987
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-12-21T16:13:19+00:00The first of Mitterrand’s grands projets, the Arab World Institute was born of an unlikely marriage between a politically charged brief and an architect with a penchant for nightclubs and radical ideas.
My kind of town: Melissa Dowler
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-12-19T13:24:29+00:00Melissa Dowler, a director of Bell Phillips Architects, on Los Angeles, a city that does not make much sense but has an unmistakeable joie de vivre.
Materials library: Foster + Partners
AT Editor2023-12-19T13:26:05+00:00Divya Patel Orbesen explains how the practice’s state-of-the-art Materials Research Centre (MRC) and Information Centre (IC) support its multidisciplinary project teams and the wider aspirations of the company.