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.
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.