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.
An open letter to the UK design media
Peter Songi2023-06-13T17:15:35+01:00UK Architects Declare, Design Declares and UK Interior Design Declare issue an open letter challenging the design media to up their game.
Dispatches from BCO Conference, Dublin: Chris Webb, tp bennett
Peter Songi2025-10-23T16:45:20+01:00Chris Webb from tp bennett on embedding sustainability know-how across the practice, early engagement with suppliers and unleashing the power of technology.
Dispatches from BCO Conference, Dublin: Indy Johar, Architecture 00
Peter Songi2025-10-23T16:45:42+01:00Indy Johar from Architecture 00 on the need for a total structural transformation of society.