In this issue: how Wright & Wright Architects are decarbonising the country’s most sensitive historic estates, Gianni Botsford Architects’ Reciprocal House responds to an early Foster project, Hugh Strange Architects’ Farmworker’s House and Piercy&Company’s approach to technology, specification, materials and craft.
The cover of AT332 features Reciprocal House by Gianni Botsford Architects in Hampstead, North London.
Read the digital edition of the July-August 2024 issue of Architecture Today here.
Inside the July-August 2024 issue of Architecture Today:
- Cathy Slessor explains how Wright & Wright Architects are working on The British Museum, Lambeth Palace and St John’s College, Oxford and looking at decarbonising the country’s most sensitive historic estates.
- Ian Volner revisits Skidmore Owings & Merrill’s 1969 John Hancock Center, a building that announced to the world that Chicago, birthplace of the modern skyscraper, was still very much an incubator for innovative design.
- Amir Sanei enjoys the boldness of Gianni Botsford Architects’ response to one of Norman Foster’s early projects at Reciprocal House in north London.
- Graham Bizley visits Farmworker’s House, where Hugh Strange Architects has combined domestic and agricultural typologies to produce a carefully considered courtyard house that complements its setting on the north Cornish coast.
- We publish the winning projects in the Schuco Excellence Awards including projects by Grafton Architects, Levitt Bernstein and Todd Architects.
- A look behind the scenes at Piercy&Company, where Matti Lampila, Cathrin Wakczyk and Sofia Steffanoni explain the practice’s approach to technology, specification, materials and craft.
- Lauma Balina, Principal Engineer at Max Fordham, answers readers’ questions on heritage building and Part L compliance.
- Laura Carrara-Cagni explains why Genova in Italy is her kind of town.
