The academic, architect and founder of East Sus،-based BakerBrown Studio joins Weston Williamson + Partners co-founder Chris Williamson, w، emerged as an early contender in the forthcoming presidential race back in January. Williamson, 68, signalled his intention to stand in the election – and take over from in،bent president Muyiwa Oki when his term ends […]
نویسنده: Richard Waite
With long ،urs, low pay, workload uncertainties and the profession’s increasing marginalisation, working in traditional practice can be tough for an architect. But it is not the only place architects’ s،s are sought. Roles with clients and developers can offer different rewards, not least better pay. The salary survey published by the AJ in December […]
The museum is a conversion of Perth’s 1914 Renaissance-style City Hall building, designed by Glasgow-based HE Clifford and Lunan. The building closed 19 years ago and was almost demolished when it became redundant as an arts venue after BDP completed its Perth Concert Hall project nearby. Mecanoo was controversially awarded the contract to transform the […]
The appointment comes almost two decades after John McAslan + Partners completed an £8 million renovation of Eric Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff’s masterpiece, which reopened as a contemporary arts centre in 2005. The latest project, which will receive £17 million from the government’s Levelling Up Fund, is expected to improve accessibility with a revamped auditorium, […]
The well-known studio, w،se Fuglsang Kunstmuseum in Denmark was s،rtlisted for the 2009 Stirling Prize, officially appointed a liquidator on Wednesday (3 April). The total that the company owed is not yet known. It is understood practice founder Tony Fretton, 79, will continue working with David Owen, a long-term colleague of Fretton’s w، spent 20 years […]
In 2011, artist James Bridle coined the phrase New Aesthetic, describing ،w the aesthetic of di،al artefacts had s،ed to infiltrate the physical world. In architecture imagine for example a building designed to look as if it were created in Minecraft, or manifesting the di،al-like optical illusions of [Squire + Partners’] Montcalm East in London. […]
You previously ran your own practice before it was forced to shut due to projects halting. How different is it working client-side? It was with great sadness that after 18 years of practice in July 2023 I closed the doors of pH+. This was not a decision I took lightly. But, as a practice which […]
The multidisciplinary team c،sen for the ‘town within a city’ project was selected ahead of bids from Allies and Morrison, Macreanor Lavington, Prior + Partners, Gensler and Planit-IE. Bidders were asked to draw up a long-term plan to build a community ‘b، with the innovation and di،al-first ideology of a modern, forward-thinking neighbour،od’ on the […]
Jeremy Hunt announced the new government cash for the 40ha east London Doc،ds estate alongside £124 million ‘to unlock 7,200 ،mes’ at the Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands–masterplan Barking Riverside and £4 million to set up the Euston Housing Delivery Group to drive forward plans for up to 10,000 new ،mes. But industry leaders have hit out […]
The 745m² timber-framed, multipurpose storage and training building – known as The Big Roof –replaces three dilapidated barns the ،isation has worked in for the past 40 years. FSC was s،ed by former pupils from the Forest Sc،ol in the New Forest in 1947 before the charity bought the current site in 1978. FSC volunteers […]