Michael Hopkins, architect and co-founder of Hopkins Architects has died aged 88. Chair at Grimshaw Architects, Andrew Whalley, looks back on his life and career.
Dr David Moore, CEO of the British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA) answers readers’ questions on constructional steelwork.
The first of Mitterrand’s grands projets, the Arab World Institute was born of an unlikely marriage between a politically charged brief and an architect with a penchant for nightclubs and radical ideas.
Melissa Dowler, a director of Bell Phillips Architects, on Los Angeles, a city that does not make much sense but has an unmistakeable joie de vivre.
Tomáš Jurdák has a special relationship with Kreuzberg, Berlin. Its youthful population has created an eclectic mixture of communities that retain the old and embrace the new.
The enigmatic concrete spaceship that stands at the centre of Los Angeles International Airport stands as a monument to misplaced optimism, missed opportunities and swinging sixties glamour.
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has completed a Passivhaus hall of residence for King's College, Cambridge. Holly Galbraith explains how the practice combined modern methods of construction, attention to detail and well-honed placemaking skills to minimise embodied and operational carbon and deliver a project that responds intelligently to its context.
French-Lebanese architect, Lina Ghotmeh, unveils her first built work in the UK as the 22nd edition of the Serpentine Pavilion, located as always in London’s Hyde Park
Bath-based practice NVB Architects has completed the transformation of Royal Wootton Bassett Infant School in Wiltshire.
The Victoria & Albert Museum has reached the completion of the final phase of its Photography Centre, designed by Gibson Thornley Architects and Purcell.
In Camden, Roundhouse has opened up a new fully accessible venue designed by Paddy Dillon architect, with Allies and Morrison and Reed Watts architects for creatives to learn, practice and perform.
Basil Anuar, an architectural apprentice at Levitt Bernstein, explains why apprentice architects can learn a lot from practices – and vice versa.
