Archio 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.
Bob 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.
Chicago-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 (t-sa) has transformed eight railway arches in Camden into a cinema for the Curzon chain.
Architect and photographer David Grandorge visits Feilden Fowles latest project, a dining hall with ecclesiastical proportions designed for Homerton College at the University of Cambridge.
Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has completed its much-anticipated new campus for the Royal College of Art in Battersea, south west London.
As 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 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.
OMA 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.
John 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.
James 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.
Feilden Fowles has completed a dining hall and eight-classroom teaching block as part of an ongoing series of commissions for Fergus Feilden’s alma mater, Ralph Allen School, on the outskirts of Bath. Wendy Perring reflects on the architectural moves – and the trust between architect and client – that have given the 1950s campus an enhanced sense of place.
