My kind of town: Zoë Barrett
AT Editor2023-08-16T12:35:26+01:00Zoë Barrett, Wayfinding Director at DNCO, on her emotional connection to Gatwick Airport and how it sparked her love of wayfinding.
Meet the client: Dicle Guntas, HGG London
Isabel Allen2023-08-16T12:38:36+01:00HGG London's Dicle Guntas extols the virtues of out-of-the ordinary projects, multi-layered meanings and innovative design.
Herzog & de Meuron stages major exhibition at the Royal Academy
Kiran Suryanarayana2023-08-16T12:43:25+01:00
The Royal Academy of Arts is staging an exhibition of critically acclaimed Swiss architectural practice Herzog & de Meuron (H&dM), the first in London for almost twenty years.
Harrison Stringfellow Architects win Liverpool City Region Townhouse of the Future competition
AT Editor2023-08-18T10:50:10+01:00Liverpool practices put forward solutions for the revitalisation of the city's vacant housing stock.
Sir Michael Hopkins (1935–2023)
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-18T10:57:37+01:00Read tributes from Mark Whitby, Andrew Whalley and Dr Alistair Fair for Michael Hopkins, architect and pioneer of High Tech, who has died aged 88.
Mark Whitby reflects on working as Michael Hopkins’ engineer
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-18T11:01:35+01:00Co-founder of engineering practice Whitby Wood, Mark Whitby looks back on what it was like to work with the late Michael Hopkins as the practice was growing.
The life and career of Michael Hopkins
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-18T11:03:43+01:00Author and historian Dr Alistair Fair charts the career of the late Sir Michael Hopkins.
Andrew Whalley OBE reflects on the career and influence of Michael Hopkins
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-18T11:06:02+01:00Michael 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.
Still standing: Arab World Institute, Paris, 1987
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-12-21T16:13:19+00:00The 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.
My kind of town: Melissa Dowler
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-12-19T13:24:29+00:00Melissa 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.
My kind of town: Tomáš Jurdák
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-12-19T13:11:29+00:00Tomáš 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.
Still standing: The Theme Building, Los Angeles International Airport, 1961
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-12-21T16:02:02+00:00The 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.
