London to host 2023 Ecocity World Summit
Jessica Mairs2022-01-20T12:03:29+00:00London has won a bid to host the biennial Ecocity World Summit, which will take place at the Barbican Centre in June 2023.
Barbican Centre renewal shortlist revealed
Jessica Mairs2022-01-11T16:52:03+00:00Five teams have been shortlisted for the City of London Corporation's £150-million refurbishment of the Barbican Centre.
RIBA seeks architect for HQ redesign
Jessica Mairs2022-01-11T14:09:40+00:00The Royal Institute of British Architects is calling for expressions of interests to refurbish its Grade II* listed headquarters at 66 Portland Place in London.
Catching Sun House
AT Editor2022-11-22T12:17:09+00:00Studioshaw has transformed a disused MOT centre in east London into a sustainable light-filled home.
Camley Street Natural Park learning centre
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:17:10+00:00Erect Architecture has completed a new larch-clad learning and visitor centre for the London Wildlife Trust on the edge of the canal in King's Cross in London, which features a roof form inspired by the area's industrial past.
Holborn House
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:17:11+00:006a Architects has refurbished and extended a run-down gym in central London to create a new community centre featuring an etched-glass facade by the artist Caragh Thuring.
Neave Brown Award for Housing 2021
Jessica Mairs2021-10-25T10:45:22+01:00McGrath Road by Peter Barber Architects has been named the winner of the 2021 Neave Brown Award for Housing, a prize given by RIBA to the best new high-quality and affordable housing project in the UK.
Lavender Hill
Peter Songi2023-09-07T15:05:16+01:00Sergison Bates has converted the site of a former sheet metal factory in Lavender Hill, London, into a community of nine dwellings with a courtyard garden at its heart. Patrick Lynch enjoys the uncanny sensation of stepping into the backyard of a busy London street and being transported to an entirely different world.
Woolwich Works
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:17:26+00:00Bennetts Associates has transformed a group of five Grade II and Grade II*-listed buildings at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich into a new cultural hub for music, theatre, dance and art.
My kind of town: Michál Cohen
Peter Songi2021-09-30T12:46:54+01:00The co-founder of Walters & Cohen on the relationship the pandemic helped her cultivate with open-air London.
Birkbeck campus
Jessica Mairs2021-08-31T09:03:42+01:00Penoyre & Prasad has added a copper-clad roof extension to 373 Euston Road and transformed the building into a new campus for Birkbeck, University of London.
Fit for the future
Peter Songi2021-08-30T18:36:50+01:00Sanya Polescuk Architects has retrofitted an unloved 1950s terraced house to make a home that is refreshed, expanded and entirely fossil-fuel free. Sanya Polescuk explains the practice’s approach to balancing conservation issues with the urgent need to inject our housing stock with a new and sustainable lease of life.