Forest School
Peter Songi2021-08-20T19:11:37+01:00Studio 54 Architecture has refurbished and extended the Prep School at Forest School, on the edge of Epping Forest, to deliver an additional storey, a rooftop playground, and an entirely new facade.
Lord’s Cricket Ground
Jessica Mairs2021-08-17T15:17:03+01:00WilkinsonEyre's Compton and Edrich stands have opened at Lord’s Cricket Ground ahead of the new season.
Fin House
Jessica Mairs2021-08-19T15:07:00+01:00Architect Stephanie Thum-Bonanno has added a stepped brick extension to her east London home, introducing vertical oak fins that frame views out to the garden.
Rendering versus reality
Jessica Mairs2021-08-09T12:26:49+01:00According to the glossy renders, the Marble Arch Mound was to be a lush green hill offering visitors spectacular views of Hyde Park. But the reality turned out to be rather different, writes Amanda Baillieu.
King’s Cross reborn
Peter Songi2021-07-21T07:22:23+01:00As the country emerges from lockdown, the public spaces of what, not so long ago, was an urban no-go zone are the very picture of urban regeneration. Deyan Sudjic gives his verdict on what’s been achieved and what’s been lost.
Victoria House
Jessica Mairs2021-08-25T16:39:46+01:00Hutchinson & Partners has refurbished the neoclassical Victoria House building on London's Bloomsbury Square, transforming it into a refined oak- and marble-lined co-working office.
Lessons learnt: Kings Cross
Jessica Mairs2021-08-25T16:38:15+01:00Peter Bishop served as director of planning at the London Borough Camden from 2001 until 2006 when the Kings Cross development was being planned. He reflects on the project's ambitions and the factors that contributed to its success.
The Cheese Barge
Jessica Mairs2022-05-11T12:01:18+01:00Adam Richards Architects has designed a floating cheese restaurant in the Paddington Basin, featuring a patinated metal roof based on James Stirling's Bookshop Pavilion in Venice.
Morris+Company and Freehaus unveil City of London School redesign
AT Editor2021-07-02T11:12:41+01:00Morris+Company and Freehaus have won a competition to redevelop the Thames-side school with their design for a russet extension enclosing a courtyard and framing views to the river and St Paul’s Cathedral.
Museum of the Home
AT Editor2021-06-29T09:41:17+01:00Wright & Wright Architects has skilfully reworked London’s Museum of the Home, revitalising and extending the assemblage of 300-year-old almshouses the interiors museum occupies.
Serpentine Pavilion 2021 by Counterspace
Jessica Mairs2021-06-24T18:58:36+01:00The 2021 Serpentine Pavilion by Sumayya Vally of Johannesburg-based studio Counterspace splices together forms taken from meeting spaces – from bookshops to markets and places of worship – significant to migrant communities in London.
A1
Jessica Mairs2021-06-17T15:09:27+01:00A reflective aluminium block designed by Barozzi Veiga for Ravensbourne University’s Institute for Creativity and Technology is the first building to complete at the Greenwich Peninsula Design District in London.