A selection of architectural projects from across the Architecture Today site featured on Instagram.
Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed reflects on her passion for 20th century architecture, the role of storytelling in preservation, and her ambitions as the newly appointed President of the Twentieth Century Society.
A workplace for scientists and a machine for solar spectacle, Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute is functional, poetic – and impossible to photograph.
Somerset-based practice Thread has ‘re-revealed’ a collection of historic buildings in Redruth, North Cornwall, to create a vibrant hub for artists, food entrepreneurs and the local community.
Aoibhín McGinley and Lauren Li Porter discuss how the practice’s expansive and carefully curated materials library infuses both its work and work-life with practicality and playfulness.
Henrietta Billings reflects on how Norwich’s rich historic character, vibrant economy and human-scale urbanism present both a model and a challenge for new development – and explains why SAVE Britain’s Heritage is helping shape a more contextual vision for its future.
Rupert Cook and Socrates Miltiadou co-lead London practice Miltiadou Cook Mitzman Architects. They talk to AT about their beginnings in construction and stonemasonry and how they translate this experience into regenerative practice.
John Pardey on William Morris and Philip Webb’s Red House in Bexleyheath – a home that looked to embody ‘truth’ in craftsmanship and construction and which to some, is the very first modern house.
Dutch practice Mecanoo has designed a theatre for Jacob’s Pillow, a pioneering dance centre in Western Massachusetts, USA. Isabel Allen visits a project shaped by a sensibility and spirit that refuses to be subdued.
In this issue: Mecanoo's Doris Duke Theatre for Jacob’s Pillow dance centre in Massachusetts, finalists announced for the AT Awards, Ian Volner is revisits Louis Kahn’s SALK Institute, Pierre Bideau on hybrid stone, Rupert Cook and Socrates Miltiadou explain how the studio is moving towards regenerative practice, Materials Library with Manalo & White, Lower Campfield Market in Manchester by Project 3 and Thread ‘re-reveals’ a collection of historic buildings in Redruth, North Conwall.
Project leaders from SPPARC, Anglian Architectural, and Schüco discuss the collaborative processes and technical challenges behind the façade of Greycoat Stores in London with AT’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw.
Pend Architects’ contemporary extension to a Georgian farmhouse in East Lothian unifies a fragmented rear elevation and creates a new link to the property’s garden.
