Sustano: high-performance recyclable shower trays
AT Editor2022-09-20T12:37:41+01:00Duravit has launched Sustano, a recyclable shower tray that is manufactured from the sustainable material DuraSolid Nature.
Creating outside space to make the best of urban living
AT Editor2024-12-12T17:25:17+00:00Watch our webinar, in partnership Medite Smartply, exploring best practice in designing multifunctional outdoor space.
Still standing: Schindler House, 1922
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-12-21T15:39:40+00:00Once the epicentre of Hollywood’s nascent artistic and architectural scene, Rudolph Schindler’s extraordinary home was a stepping stone to Los Angeles’ great leap into modernity.
The Pevsner way of seeing
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-11-22T12:26:24+00:00For Martine Hamilton Knight, contributing to a revision of Pevsner’s ‘Buildings of England’ prompted a re-evaluation of the notion of ‘timelessness’ in architectural photography.
Queer spaces
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-11-22T12:26:24+00:00Market forces and conservatism are driving queer spaces from urban centres. Tom Wilkinson welcomes a new compendium of LGBTQIA+ places around the world as a timely celebration of the spaces that survive.
Mae designs John Morden Centre for older people
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:23+00:00Mae has designed a community building that provides well-being and recreational facilities for the later living residents of London’s Morden College in Blackheath. Mary Duggan appreciates a sophisticated, humane design that reflects and anticipates social change.
Materials library: Feilden Fowles
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-11-22T12:26:26+00:00Ingrid Petit and Ben Higham of Feilden Fowles discuss how the practice’s approach to materiality is driven by context, craft, sustainability and technical innovation.
Westonbirt Shelter
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:23+00:00Invisible Studio has worked with timber specialists Xylotek and community groups to create a hyperbolic paraboloid shelter at Westonbirt, The National Arboretum in Gloucestershire.
Kinning Park Complex
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-12-18T21:27:03+00:00Richard Lavington applauds New Practice’s sympathetic and intelligent reworking of a vital, multi-use community resource in Glasgow Southside.
Heritage: High Street politics
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-11-22T12:26:26+00:00Henrietta Billings, director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, says the planning inquiry intro controversial plans to raze and rebuild Marks & Spencer’s flagship Oxford Street store could change the future of construction.
RCA Battersea South Campus
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-11-22T12:16:25+00:00Herzog & de Meuron’s adaptable and dynamic flagship building for the Royal College of Art has its sights set firmly on the future, while also acknowledging the institution’s past successes, finds Vicky Richardson.
Morag Myerscough creates ocean plastic installation on Oxford Street
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:26+00:00Artist Morag Myerscough has unveiled an aerial art installation running the length of London’s Oxford Street to encourage action on the transition to a low carbon future.