AT331 features the manifestos of all three RIBA Presidential candidates, a revisit of Kenzo Tange’s 1964 Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo and Peter Aldington’s Turn End in Buckinghamshire, Ellis Woodman’s review of n2 by Lynch Architects, DRDH Architects’ combined library, cinema and housing in Sidcup, Battersea Power Station’s chequered history and more.
The cover of AT331 features n2 by Lynch Architects in London’s Victoria.
Inside the May-June 2024 issue of Architecture Today:
- We delve into Battersea Power Station’s chequered history and the long battle to bring the iconic building back to life and take a peak at Control Room A, the venue for this year’s Architecture Today Awards for buildings that stand the test of time.
- Ian Volner revisits Kenzo Tange’s 1964 Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, one of the greatest Modernist buildings to emerge from the Olympics and a bridge between Japan’s ancient past and its forward-thinking future.
- Funmbi Adeagbo, Chris Williamson and Duncan Baker-Brown explain why they’re pitching for the RIBA Presidency and outline their visions for change
- Architects from John Pardey Architects, Manalo & White, Morrow + Lorraine, CSK, Groupwork, Piercy&Company and Pollard Thomas Edwards visit the slate quarries, mines and factories of north-west Spain to discover more about the extraction and processing of natural slate.
- Ellis Woodman reviews n2, a sophisticated and civic-minded office building by Lynch Architects which stands out as bright point within the flawed and compromised Nova masterplan for London’s Victoria
- John Pardey revisits Turn End, the celebrated home Peter Aldington built for himself and his wife in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire.
- Madeleine Jacob explores Sidcup Storyteller, a combined library, cinema and residential building by DRDH Architects
- Julia Barfield and colleagues explain the Climate Emergency is reshaping Marks Barfield’s how approach to specification.
- Dr Colin Rose from UK CLT and University College London answers readers’ questions about timber reuse
- And Ondrej Chybik from CHYBIK + KRISTOF explains why Brno is his kind of town.
