Materials library: 31/44 Architects
Peter Songi2022-07-20T17:52:31+01:00Jamie Flynn and Tobias Jewson focus on finding lightweight low carbon solutions for sensitive sites and reducing the number of samples that end up in the skip.
Freeholders
Peter Songi2022-07-18T16:06:37+01:00Mole Architects has built a new house and boat shed on the harbour front at Wells-next-the-Sea in north Norfolk. Practice director Meredith Bowles talks to Piers Taylor from Invisible Studio about East Anglia’s otherworldly character.
Waterfront Clubhouse
Peter Songi2021-08-25T16:38:48+01:00Abin Design Studio has designed a clubhouse in Bansberia, West Bengal, using crowdfunding, local craftsmen and personal contacts to turn a modest government grant into a community gathering place that punches above its weight.
Learning from Will Alsop
Peter Songi2021-06-16T11:05:11+01:00Will Alsop’s 2005 proposals for a coast-to-coast northern SuperCity may have seemed a stretch of the imagination but many of its ideas are very relevant today, argues Chris Williamson of Weston Williamson + Partners.
Acoustics case study: UCL School of Management
Peter Songi2023-03-01T11:39:46+00:00The top floor of Canary Wharf’s One Canada Square has been converted into new quarters for the UCL School of Management.
Materials library: Nimtim Architects
Peter Songi2022-07-20T17:52:42+01:00Allie Mackinnon and Charlotte Qureshi enjoy materials that are sustainable, bold and colourful, and think outside the (pure white) box.
My kind of town: Nigel Coates
Peter Songi2021-05-26T10:28:38+01:00The British architect, designer and writer on making a second home in Florence, where he has set up a workshop in the "bowels" of the Porta Romana district.
One Chamberlain Square
Peter Songi2021-05-20T17:58:59+01:00Eric Parry Architects’ One Chamberlain Square is the latest in a series of office buildings designed by the practice over 30 years. Parry and Tom Emerson discuss the project’s urban ambitions, material character and design development.
Montague House
Peter Songi2021-05-24T13:06:34+01:00An upside-down house on Hayling Island is the latest in a series of one-off houses by John Pardey Architects.
Still standing: Seagram Building, 1958
Peter Songi2023-12-21T15:33:06+00:00In the first of a series of revisits, Architecture Today’s new contributing editor Ian Volner assesses the significance of an instant icon that has stood the test of time, beginning with Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building.
Conversation piece
Peter Songi2022-05-11T12:04:10+01:00Dirk Somers of Belgian practice Bovenbouw talks to Louis Mayes about the role of drawing, and the importance of viewing a sketch as a problem for discussion as much as a solution
Peveril Gardens
Peter Songi2021-05-18T16:45:36+01:00Sanchez Benton’s transformation of a 1960s parking structure is subtly sensitive to history and the local community, finds DK-CM co-founder Cristina Monteiro