Sarah Featherstone explains how a modest community building in Grangetown, Cardiff, challenges the way we define and measure value and shows how universities can partner with local residents to facilitate community-led projects.
Jonathan Spratt from Bennetts Associates argues that, for ‘young’ buildings from the 1990s and early 2000s architects should steer clients away from a comprehensive retrofit approach towards a strategy of ‘keyhole surgery’ – minimal interventions that have a transformative effect.
Designers and investors are driving a step change in the provision of innovative high-quality projects in the third-age housing sector. Local authorities need to catch up, says Ballymore creative director Roger Black.
Every practice needs a clear succession plan in order to flourish once its founders are no longer at the helm. Jonathan Morrison talks to RSHP, Henning Larsen, Arup, and Grimshaw about making the process effective and pain free.
Designed by dRMM, a new hotel in Cambridge’s emerging Eddington town centre showcases the versatility of modern blockwork and mediates between the university’s commitment to design quality and placemaking, and evolving trends in hotel design.
Julian Robinson, Director of Estates at the London School of Economics, reflects on the costs, benefits and shifting priorities of the university’s ambitious building programme.
Once the epicentre of Hollywood’s nascent artistic and architectural scene, Rudolph Schindler’s extraordinary home was a stepping stone to Los Angeles’ great leap into modernity.
For Martine Hamilton Knight, contributing to a revision of Pevsner’s ‘Buildings of England’ prompted a re-evaluation of the notion of ‘timelessness’ in architectural photography.
Market forces and conservatism are driving queer spaces from urban centres. Tom Wilkinson welcomes a new compendium of LGBTQIA+ places around the world as a timely celebration of the spaces that survive.
Ingrid Petit and Ben Higham of Feilden Fowles discuss how the practice’s approach to materiality is driven by context, craft, sustainability and technical innovation.
Richard Lavington applauds New Practice’s sympathetic and intelligent reworking of a vital, multi-use community resource in Glasgow Southside.
Henrietta Billings, director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, says the planning inquiry intro controversial plans to raze and rebuild Marks & Spencer’s flagship Oxford Street store could change the future of construction.
