San Salvatore
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:31+00:00Pierre d’Avoine Architects has converted a chapel in rural Umbria into a private house. Louis Mayes explores a project that weaves ecclesiastical structures and spaces into a contemporary home.
200 Becontree
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:33+00:00Archio has created two ‘super-sized’ villas containing dense infill housing on east London’s historic Becontree Estate. Marwa El Mubark enjoys a contemporary project that builds on the social aspirations of the original designs.
The Marlo
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:36+00:00Bob Allies assesses the merits of The Marlo, a suite of apartments by Barbara Weiss Architects that give a new lease of life to a 19th-century block on Marylebone High Street, London.
Theaster Gates reveals Black Chapel Serpentine Pavilion
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:37+00:00Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates has unveiled Black Chapel, a cylindrical gathering space designed with Adjaye Associates as the 21st edition of the annual Serpentine Pavilion in London's Kensington Gardens.
Takero Shimazaki Architects inserts cinema in London railway arches
Jason Sayer2022-11-22T12:16:37+00:00Takero Shimazaki Architects (t-sa) has transformed eight railway arches in Camden into a cinema for the Curzon chain.
Homerton College Dining Hall
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:38+00:00Architect and photographer David Grandorge visits Feilden Fowles latest project, a dining hall with ecclesiastical proportions designed for Homerton College at the University of Cambridge.
Herzog & de Meuron completes RCA Battersea campus
Jason Sayer2022-11-22T12:16:39+00:00Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has completed its much-anticipated new campus for the Royal College of Art in Battersea, south west London.
Reframing the past
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:39+00:00As KAAN Architecten rounds off its two-decade transformation of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Louis Mayes gives his verdict on the complex insertion of contemporary exhibition and back-of-house spaces with the neo-classical building.
Heatherwick and BIG unveil Google Bay View campus
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:40+00:00Heatherwick Studio and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) have completed Google's Bay View campus, a trio of tent-like structures covered in a "dragonscale" arrangement of solar panels in California's Silicon Valley.
Taipei Performing Arts Center
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:41+00:00OMA and KRIS YAO | ARTECH have completed the Taipei Performing Arts Center, a "super theatre" comprising a huge glazed cube intersected by spherical and cuboid theatres.
The Burrell Collection
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:42+00:00John McAslan + Partners’ sensitive restoration of the much-loved Burrell Collection has improved environmental performance and ensured that the gallery will be enjoyed by future generations, writes Jennifer O'Donnell.Â
Manber Jeffries House
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:46+00:00James Alder Architects has added a russet extension to a home in north-west London, which has a steeply pitched roof following the outline of a now demolished lean-to.
