A selection of architectural projects from across the Architecture Today site featured on Instagram.
A new era. Time for the-architecture enthusiast-formerly-known-as-Prince-Charles to stop voicing opinions; to adopt the enigmatic silence befitting a crowned head of state. So does architecture stand to lose its most divisive voice?
When Lord Snowdon, Cedric Price and Frank Newby designed the aviary at London Zoo, they captured the spirit of the times. Samantha Hardingham charts its transformation from 1960s icon to modern-day monkey hangout.
Once 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.
For 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.
Market 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 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.
Ingrid Petit and Ben Higham of Feilden Fowles discuss how the practice’s approach to materiality is driven by context, craft, sustainability and technical innovation.
Invisible Studio has worked with timber specialists Xylotek and community groups to create a hyperbolic paraboloid shelter at Westonbirt, The National Arboretum in Gloucestershire.
Richard Lavington applauds New Practice’s sympathetic and intelligent reworking of a vital, multi-use community resource in Glasgow Southside.
Henrietta 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.
