Dispatches from City Hall: Justine Simons
AT Editor2024-03-08T11:15:05+00:00AT chats to Justine Simons, deputy mayor for culture and creative industries, about Creative Land Trusts, how new cultural venues are being established in London, and the efforts being made to aid cultural preservation.
Zaishui Art Museum
AT Editor2024-02-08T09:33:08+00:00A one-kilometre-long art museum in Rizhao, China, by Junya Ishigami forms an inseparable bond with its lake-based site.
Brighton Dome
AT Editor2023-12-12T17:13:49+00:00Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has skilfully reworked a major arts venue in Brighton.
Towner Eastbourne
Isabel Allen2023-12-08T09:45:46+00:00Manalo & White's redesign gives a new lease of life to the Towner Eastbourne, designed by Rick Mather and opened in 2009. Â
The Gilbert & George Centre
AT Editor2023-12-01T21:23:43+00:00The Gilbert & George Centre designed by SIRS Architects is one of the new cultural spaces opening the doors to Spitalfields' hidden creative world. Â
Still standing: The Schomburg Center, Harlem, New York, 1980
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-12-18T13:18:44+00:00The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture by J Max Bond Jr is a crucial component of Harlem's thriving cultural scene and the embodiment of its architect's aptitude for projects that combined civic idealism with understated aesthetics.
My kind of town: Peter Buchanan
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-09-07T09:42:04+01:00The academic, architect and urban designer Peter Buchanan died on August 23rd. Shortly before his death he dictated his thoughts on Cape Town for Architecture Today's series My kind of town. Â
Still standing: Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, 1813
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-12-18T13:19:26+00:00Technical virtuosity, madcap curatorship, and a remarkable eye for detail combine to secure the Soane Museum’s status as architecture’s intellectual funhouse
National Portrait Gallery
AT Editor2023-08-18T11:02:22+01:00Jamie Fobert Architects, in collaboration with Purcell and Max Fordham, has comprehensively reworked London’s National Portrait Gallery.
Still standing: Arab World Institute, Paris, 1987
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-12-21T16:13:19+00:00The first of Mitterrand’s grands projets, the Arab World Institute was born of an unlikely marriage between a politically charged brief and an architect with a penchant for nightclubs and radical ideas.
My kind of town: Melissa Dowler
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-12-19T13:24:29+00:00Melissa Dowler, a director of Bell Phillips Architects, on Los Angeles, a city that does not make much sense but has an unmistakeable joie de vivre.