Materials library: Piercy&Company
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-12-18T13:23:44+00:00Matti Lampila, Cathrin Walczyk, and Sofia Steffenoni discuss how the practice’s approach to materiality is informed by craft, technology and making.
My Kind of Town: Laura Carrara-Cagni
Isolde Brampton-Greene2025-02-03T17:31:11+00:00Laura Carrara-Cagni returns to Genoa, its port and medieval old town, one of the largest historic centres in Europe.
Decarbonising historic estates
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-08-05T09:05:34+01:00How can historic institutions adapt to current and ever-changing sustainability standards? Cathy Slessor explains how Wright & Wright is working with the British Museum, Lambeth Palace and St John’s College, Oxford, to decarbonise their estates.
Introducing the July-August 2024 issue of Architecture Today
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-07-29T09:20:31+01:00In this issue: how Wright & Wright Architects are decarbonising the country’s most sensitive historic estates, Gianni Botsford Architects’ Reciprocal House responds to an early Foster project, Hugh Strange Architects’ Farmworker’s House and Piercy&Company’s approach to technology, specification, materials and craft.
Farmworker’s House
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-12-18T17:28:22+00:00Hugh Strange Architects has combined domestic and agricultural typologies to produce a carefully considered courtyard house that complements its setting on the north Cornish coast.
Reciprocal House
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-12-18T17:28:22+00:00In 1969 Foster Associates reworked and extended a Victorian cottage in north London. Gianni Botsford Architects has demolished the cottage but retained the extension, drawing on its distinctive architectural language to design a replacement house. Amir Sanei traces the project’s provenance and assesses the results.
Introduction to fire safety engineering
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-07-22T11:51:11+01:00This mo Read more
AT Awards sponsor spotlight: Leviat
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-07-03T08:10:03+01:00Leviat continues its sponsorship of the Architecture Today Awards, the finalists of which will be announced on Wednesday 10 July.
Still standing: Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo, 1964
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-06-14T10:20:48+01:00
One of the greatest Modernist buildings to emerge from the Olympics, Kenzo Tange’s Yoyogi National Gymnasium’s blend of Zen tranquillity and techno-monumentality connects Japan’s ancient past to its forward-thinking future.
