Herzog & de Meuron’s adaptable and dynamic flagship building for the Royal College of Art has its sights set firmly on the future, while also acknowledging the institution’s past successes, finds Vicky Richardson.
Squire and Partners has designed a bespoke ‘cogwheel’ façade for art’otel, a 26-storey art-inspired hotel in London’s Hoxton. Partner Murray Levinson talks to Architecture Today about the challenges involved.
Niall McLaughlin Architects has designed eight low-rise blocks of student rooms and a sports pavilion for Balliol College, Oxford. Amin Taha pays a visit.
The astonishing renovation of the lower level of a centuries-old palazzo seduced a whole generation of architects and helped Carlo Scarpa to acquire a cult status that haunts Venetian architects today.
The new National Model Design Code is being trialled across the UK. Gail Mayhew, managing director of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole’s new placemaking company FuturePlaces, looks at the lessons that can be learnt from previous attempts to codify urban design.
The Concrete Centre announces sponsorship of the Architecture Today Awards 2024.
AT330 features Kenneth Frampton's take on Europe's seminal 20th Century housing, a reflection on Paul Rudolph in Boston, new learning content covering fire safety, healthy materials, earth building and EnerPHit on School of Specification, Simon Allford on BDP's Oak Cancer Centre, Knox Bhavan's materials library, urban life in Ho Chi Minh City and much more.
Draft standfirst to include architect, client and location.
Barrister Estelle Dehon KC makes the case for whole-life carbon assessments and outlines the regulatory, policy and legal issues that are transforming planning departments’ attitudes to demolition and retrofit
Draft standfirst to include architect, client and location.
