Rise Design Studio revitalises community cinema in north London
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:27+00:00Rise Design Studio has refurbished and extended the Lexi Cinema in Kensal Rise, adding a second screen and bar to expand the venue's offering.
Mole Architects deploys CLT for Design District studios
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:28+00:00Waugh Thistleton associate director Kirsten Haggart reviews the Rhomboid and Ziggurat by Mole Architects, a pair of buildings in the Greenwich Design District with mass timber structures.
Made of Sand
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:30+00:00Studio Weave has added a timber-framed artist's retreat to a stone cottage in rural Devon.
Heatherwick Studio creates “kinetic glasshouse”
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:31+00:00Heatherwick Studio has designed a pyramidal glasshouse with unfolding "sepals" for Woolbeding Gardens in West Sussex.
The Marlo
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:36+00:00Bob Allies assesses the merits of The Marlo, a suite of apartments by Barbara Weiss Architects that give a new lease of life to a 19th-century block on Marylebone High Street, London.
Theaster Gates reveals Black Chapel Serpentine Pavilion
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:37+00:00Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates has unveiled Black Chapel, a cylindrical gathering space designed with Adjaye Associates as the 21st edition of the annual Serpentine Pavilion in London's Kensington Gardens.
Takero Shimazaki Architects inserts cinema in London railway arches
Jason Sayer2022-11-22T12:16:37+00:00Takero Shimazaki Architects (t-sa) has transformed eight railway arches in Camden into a cinema for the Curzon chain.
Homerton College Dining Hall
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:38+00:00Architect and photographer David Grandorge visits Feilden Fowles latest project, a dining hall with ecclesiastical proportions designed for Homerton College at the University of Cambridge.
Benedetti Architects to refurbish RIBA headquarters
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:26:35+00:00Benedetti Architects has been selected to lead the refurbishment of the Royal Institute of British Architects' headquarters at 66 Portland Place, London.
Little Brownings by Archmongers wins Don’t Move, Improve! 2022
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:26:37+00:00Archmongers' reconfiguration of a 1960s home on the Dulwich Estate has been named London's best new home improvement in this year's Don't Move, Improve! awards.
Ralph Allen School
Peter Songi2022-11-22T12:16:50+00:00Feilden Fowles has completed a dining hall and eight-classroom teaching block as part of an ongoing series of commissions for Fergus Feilden’s alma mater, Ralph Allen School, on the outskirts of Bath. Wendy Perring reflects on the architectural moves – and the trust between architect and client – that have given the 1950s campus an enhanced sense of place.
Making the UK’s first net zero carbon house
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:26:48+00:00Hareth Pochee, senior engineer at Max Fordham LLP and author of the net zero report for Max Fordham’s house, answers readers' questions to explain how the figures behind the UK's first carbon zero house stack up.