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Cabin Crew
Isabel Allen2025-03-14T11:49:06+00:00A new book from The Modernist tells the story of Welsh architectural practice Hird & Brooks and explores its obsession ith crafting the perfect holiday home.
Ways of seeing: re-framing familiar buildings
Isabel Allen2025-04-22T16:02:46+01:00Timothy Soar talks to AT Editor Isabel Allen about his approach to taking up-to-date photography of the winning buildings in the Architecture Today Awards for buildings that stand the test of time.
5th Studio partner with Barclays to produce retrofit pattern book
Isabel Allen2025-01-27T11:01:47+00:00Grace Fletcher from 5th Studio discusses the battle to retrofit our historic housing stock and how the practice has teamed up with Barclays bank on a pilot retrofit pattern book.
Dispatches from Wales: Heather Macey
Isabel Allen2025-01-21T14:23:26+00:00AT chats to… Heather Macey from Makower Architects about drawing on a history of trauma to rethink spaces for people with poor mental health.
Powerhouse
Isabel Allen2025-01-20T08:56:50+00:00Farrells completes the 15-year transformation of Lots Road Power Station – the 'cathedral of the industrial age' - into Chelsea Waterfront's Powerhouse.
Sadler’s Wells East
Isabel Allen2025-02-27T15:23:19+00:00O'Donnell + Tuomey's Sadler's Wells East brings dance to diverse audiences and much-needed permanence and purpose to Stratford Waterfront. Â
Review of 2024
Isabel Allen2025-01-02T15:05:22+00:00Architecture Today editor Isabel Allen reflects on the highlights of 2024 and looks forward to the year ahead.
The Greenhill Building
Isabel Allen2024-12-03T13:02:42+00:00Chris Dyson Architects' teaching and events building for Harrow Arts Centre's London campus draws on the site's legacy of agricultural buildings to deliver a flexible space that complements the Grade-II listed Gothic Elliott Hall.
Faustino Winery, Oyon, Spain
Isabel Allen2024-10-08T11:33:44+01:00Foster + Partners' visitor centre at the Bodegas Faustino Winery in Oyon, Spain, is the latest project in a two decade relationship between architect and client.
Warburg Institute
Isabel Allen2024-09-26T14:47:04+01:00Haworth Tompkins' £14.5 million transformation of the Warburg Institute in London's Bloomsbury includes the Institute’s first gallery, a 140-seat auditorium, and a state-of-the-art centre for special collections.
Risky business
Isabel Allen2024-10-02T10:32:08+01:00Pippa Nissen explores the crucial distinction between financial risk and creative risk, and explains how the success of Nissen Richards' masterplan for Sutton Hoo in Suffolk depended on the client's ability to distinguish between the two.