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.
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.
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.
My kind of town: Tomáš Jurdák
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-12-19T13:11:29+00:00Tomáš Jurdák has a special relationship with Kreuzberg, Berlin. Its youthful population has created an eclectic mixture of communities that retain the old and embrace the new.
Still standing: The Theme Building, Los Angeles International Airport, 1961
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-12-21T16:02:02+00:00The enigmatic concrete spaceship that stands at the centre of Los Angeles International Airport stands as a monument to misplaced optimism, missed opportunities and swinging sixties glamour.
Gallery Barn
AT Editor2023-05-04T14:49:21+01:00IF_DO’s highly accomplished barn conversion in Suffolk employs a series of delicate interventions that are mostly freestanding and demountable.
Ceramic artist’s studio
AT Editor2023-04-26T15:33:21+01:00Harty and Harty has completed a carefully crafted and ecologically responsible art studio in rural Wiltshire.
WongAvery Gallery, Cambridge, by Níall McLaughlin Architects
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-01-02T12:44:31+00:00Níall McLaughlin Architects’ exquisite music practice and performance space for Trinity Hall, Cambridge, may be diminutive in scale, but it joins a small pantheon of modernist projects that can be considered total works of art, says John Pardey.