Real Madrid’s new Santiago Bernabéu represents a high point in stadium design, but also highlights how stadia have become increasingly inscrutable and detached from their surroundings.
The lemur domes at Wildheart Animal Sanctuary on the Isle of Wight are the first bamboo structures to obtain Building Regulations approval in the UK – part of an ever-evolving experiment in natural materials and regenerative design. Neil Thomas discovers a world that revolves around the needs of wildlife, the environment, and generations to come.
In 1969 Foster Associates reworked and extended a Victorian cottage in north London. Gianni Botsford Architects has demolished the cottage but retained the extension, drawing on its distinctive architectural language to design a replacement house. Amir Sanei traces the project’s provenance and assesses the results.
John Pardey revisits the acclaimed modernist house that Peter Aldington built for himself and his wife in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, in the 1960s, and reflects on the nature of permanence and the architect’s enduring love of the ordinary.
DRDH Architects has delivered a combined library, cinema and residential building for the London suburb of Sidcup. Madeleine Jacob examines the tensions between commercial viability and civic ambition.
In this extract from his new book How to Enjoy Architecture: A Guide for Everyone Charles Holland reframes Homewood, built by Lutyens for his mother-in-law in 1903, as a barbed commentary on the aspirations of its owner.
A compendium of the best housing schemes built across Europe in the 20th Century is an invaluable resource for architects seeking solutions to the current housing crisis.
BDP has completed the Oak Cancer Centre for the Royal Marsden in Sutton. Simon Allford applauds a bold response to the challenges of delivering high-quality large-scale buildings within the NHS.
A pair of high-quality civic-minded office buildings by Gort Scott and Allies and Morrison mediates between a fragmented past and a more connected future at London’s White City.
