A new theatre has risen from the ashes of Charing Cross Road's once-infamous Astoria venue. Theatre owner Nica Burns and Derwent CEO Paul Williams explains how theatricality and glamour has melded with AHMM's modern architecture to create a contemporary hub for the West End.
Isabel Allen's Editorial for AT322 discusses how the Architecture Today Awards subverted the traditional role of the crit, transforming it into powerful tool for judging the merits and performance of buildings that already exist.
A new exhibition at the RIBA – Long Life, Low Energy: Designing for a Circular Economy – explores the shift away from a culture of demolish and rebuild, and towards retrofit and reuse in the quest for net zero.
Purcell wins the Supreme Award with its striking yet sympathetic extension to Radley College Chapel in Oxfordshire.
Morris+Company, PLP Architecture, McGregor Coxall, Buckley Gray Yeoman and Bennetts Associates discussed what it means to practice for a Net-Zero future.
Sarah Featherstone explains how a modest community building in Grangetown, Cardiff, challenges the way we define and measure value and shows how universities can partner with local residents to facilitate community-led projects.
Jonathan Spratt from Bennetts Associates argues that, for ‘young’ buildings from the 1990s and early 2000s architects should steer clients away from a comprehensive retrofit approach towards a strategy of ‘keyhole surgery’ – minimal interventions that have a transformative effect.
Eddie Blake of Studio Weave looks at Lea Bridge Library, recently extended by the practice, and what it means to genuinely serve a community today.
Designers and investors are driving a step change in the provision of innovative high-quality projects in the third-age housing sector. Local authorities need to catch up, says Ballymore creative director Roger Black.
Every practice needs a clear succession plan in order to flourish once its founders are no longer at the helm. Jonathan Morrison talks to RSHP, Henning Larsen, Arup, and Grimshaw about making the process effective and pain free.
Julian Robinson, Director of Estates at the London School of Economics, reflects on the costs, benefits and shifting priorities of the university’s ambitious building programme.
