Still Standing: The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, 1963
AT Editor2025-08-12T15:46:19+01:00A workplace for scientists and a machine for solar spectacle, Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute is functional, poetic – and impossible to photograph.
Doris Duke
AT Editor2025-08-04T12:38:51+01:00Dutch 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.
The Briggait
Nelly Greig2025-06-10T22:31:40+01:00
A landmark of Glasgow's industrial past, The Briggait has long stood as a gateway between the city's medieval Merchant City and the River Clyde. Now, thanks to an ambitious refurbishment by Collective Architecture, two of its historic market halls have been restored, rekindling a vital connection to the river and the distinctive cultural landscape beyond.
Still Standing: Torre Velasca, Milan, 1958
Nelly Greig2025-05-30T16:42:02+01:00
An emblem of Milan’s rough lovability, BBPR’s Torre Velasca was inspired by traditional Lombard architecture and contempt for the reductive, repetitive Modernism that was on the march worldwide.
De Valera Library and Súil Gallery
Isabel Allen2025-04-29T15:00:34+01:00Keith Williams Architects' library and art gallery in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, is a critical building block in the town's social infrastructure and a well-used civic space.
Still standing: Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, 1921
Isolde Brampton-Greene2025-04-14T14:48:15+01:00
Hollyhock House lived up to Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of a building “comfortable to live in well, with true pride in itself” but was beset by disagreements with his mercurial client.
North Boulder Library
AT Editor2025-03-03T17:23:39+00:00WORKac’s dynamic and community-focused library in Boulder, Colorado, serves a diverse neighbourhood of new developments, art studios, and Spanish-speaking communities.
Sadler’s Wells East
Isabel Allen2025-02-27T15:23:19+00:00O'Donnell + Tuomey's Sadler's Wells East brings dance to diverse audiences and much-needed permanence and purpose to Stratford Waterfront.
Still standing: Hundertwasserhaus Vienna, 1985
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-12-18T13:17:12+00:00
Designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Vienna’s most fanciful social housing project combines contempt for strait-jacketed Modernism with nostalgia for an imaginary past.
Warburg Institute
Isabel Allen2024-09-26T14:47:04+01:00Haworth Tompkins' £14.5 million transformation of the Warburg Institute in London's Bloomsbury includes the Institute’s first gallery, a 140-seat auditorium, and a state-of-the-art centre for special collections.
STORE Pavilion, King’s Cross
Isabel Allen2024-09-19T17:05:26+01:00London and Rotterdam-based STORE works with summer school students create a temporary 'log cabin' in London's Granary Square as a venue for public events at London Design Festival.
Carlton House Terrace
AT Editor2024-10-09T11:11:02+01:00Wright & Wright has remodelled the British Academy’s headquarters in London, transforming the Grade I listed building into digitally-enabled destination for events and public engagement with humanities and social sciences research.