Still standing: Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, 1921
Isolde Brampton-Greene2025-04-14T14:48:15+01:00
Hollyhock House lived up to Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of a building “comfortable to live in well, with true pride in itself” but was beset by disagreements with his mercurial client.
Introducing the March-April 2025 issue of Architecture Today
Isolde Brampton-Greene2025-04-10T17:18:18+01:00In this issue: Unboxed Homes’ Blenheim Grove in Peckham, Keith Williams Architects’ De Valera Library and Súil Gallery in Ireland, Materials library with Alison Brooks Architects, Roz Barr Architects’ Courtyard Houses in Surrey, dRMM on the benefits of mass timber, and more.
My Kind of Town: James Traynor
Isolde Brampton-Greene2025-02-25T13:12:05+00:00James Traynor, managing director at ECD Architects, is rooting for Preston to realise its potential to become the perfect 15-minute compact city.
Introducing the January-February 2025 issue of Architecture Today
Isolde Brampton-Greene2025-03-13T15:15:06+00:00In this issue: Timothy Soar revisits winners of the 2024 AT Awards documenting them as they are now, having stood the test of time; we hear from architects and clients on what made their projects so successful; Tom Bloxham reflects on 30 years of Urban Splash and Fernando Sordo Madaleno on Mexico City.
My Kind of Town: Fernando Sordo Madaleno
Isolde Brampton-Greene2025-02-06T16:19:29+00:00Fernando Sordo Madaleno explains how a series of cataclysmic events have made their mark Mexico City, resulting in a multi-layered cityscape that is melodramatic, memorable and even a little crazy.
Still standing: Hundertwasserhaus Vienna, 1985
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-12-18T13:17:12+00:00
Designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Vienna’s most fanciful social housing project combines contempt for strait-jacketed Modernism with nostalgia for an imaginary past.
My Kind of Town: John Pardey
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-11-19T16:33:37+00:00John Pardey is charmed by Louis Kahn's National Assembly building in Dhaka, Bangladesh and pays a flying visit to Le Corbusier's Chandigarh on the way home.
Introducing the November-December 2024 issue of Architecture Today
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-12-09T10:09:16+00:00In this issue: Hundertwasser's virtues hold strong 40 years later, the consequences for non-compliance with ARB and RIBA's CPD shake-up, Chris Dyson on the restored and reworked historic buildings in Spitalfields' Norton Folgate scheme, how Tuckey Design Studio has turned a 16th century Somerset wool hall into a recording studio and home, and much more.
Introducing the September-October 2024 issue of Architecture Today
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-09-24T10:33:42+01:00In this issue: we publish the inaugural Regenerative Architecture Index, with each practice's answers to the survey available to read. Plus, Engineer Neil Thomas reviews two bamboo domes at the Wildheart Animal Sanctuary on the Isle of Wight and Wildheart COO Lawrence Bates explains why Wildheart has pledged to work exclusively with architects in the RAI.
My Kind of Town: Lawrence Bates
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-09-18T08:05:37+01:00Lawrence Bates reflects on the transformation of the former Isle of Wight zoo into a unique ‘walled town’ designed as a sanctuary for traumatised animals and an ongoing experiment in regenerative design.
Introduction to bio-based materials
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-08-14T09:11:39+01:00This mo Read more
