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.
Still standing: The Museu de Art São Paulo (MASP) 1968
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-06-22T14:57:12+01:00Designed by a lifelong communist for a wealthy media magnate, Lina Bo Bardi’s uncompromising art museum is full of contradictions – just like the Italian architect’s life.
My kind of town: Barbara Weiss
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-03-21T18:50:59+00:00Barbara Weiss explains that visiting Bologna with James Stirling as travel companion was a crucial element in her understanding of urban stewardship.
Jacksons Lane
AT Editor2023-02-07T11:00:41+00:00Citizens Design Bureau has skilfully reworked a much loved arts venue in north London.
My kind of town: Bob Allies
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-12-01T17:41:05+00:00The co-founder of Allies and Morrison on how Rome accommodates change. The new need not be the enemy of the old; the present can co-exist with the past.
Theatrum Mundi launches study programme on transdisciplinary city-making
Isabel Allen2022-11-28T18:59:41+00:00Theatrum Mundi celebrates 10 years of transdisciplinary work in city-making and calls for applicants for its new study programme
Still standing: Schindler House, 1922
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-12-21T15:39:40+00:00Once the epicentre of Hollywood’s nascent artistic and architectural scene, Rudolph Schindler’s extraordinary home was a stepping stone to Los Angeles’ great leap into modernity.
Queer spaces
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-11-22T12:26:24+00:00Market forces and conservatism are driving queer spaces from urban centres. Tom Wilkinson welcomes a new compendium of LGBTQIA+ places around the world as a timely celebration of the spaces that survive.
Kinning Park Complex
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-12-18T21:27:03+00:00Richard Lavington applauds New Practice’s sympathetic and intelligent reworking of a vital, multi-use community resource in Glasgow Southside.
Stage craft
Peter Songi2022-11-22T12:26:56+00:00Ed Wilson of Foster Wilson Size explains how well-designed theatre spaces can have a life-changing impact on young people’s confidence, creativity, communication skills and careers.