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The Bartlett by Hawkins\Brown
23 February 2017The Bartlett School of Architecture in London has finally got a building to match its world-class reputation in the form of Hawkins\Brown’s sensitive remodelling of the old Wates House into a lean, robust building that pays respect to its surroundings and connects students to the city around them
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Mathematics: The Winton Gallery at London's Science Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects
20 February 2017Zaha Hadid’s fascination with mathematical logic and geometry crystalised in her design for the new Mathematics Gallery at the Science Museum in London
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Tales of the Unexpected: the work of Bedwyr Williams
20 February 2017We step into the weird and wonderful world of Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams and his surreal staged performances
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Blueprint Seminar: Lighting with Deltalight
20 February 2017We gathered a group of designers and architects at Deltalight’s state-of-the-art showroom in Belgium to discuss the vital importance of lighting in architecture projects.
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Elbphilharmonie by Herzog & de Meuron
16 February 2017The peaks and troughs of the roof of Herzog & de Meuron’s new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg could be a metaphor for its history of popular support, political opposition and rising costs. The crystal fantasy landmark does however put Hamburg on the architectural map. Words by Herbert Wright.
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Sustainability Pavilion for 2020 Expo Dubai by Grimshaw
25 January 2017Grimshaw puts theory into practice with its Sustainability Pavilion for the 2020 Expo in Dubai, which will have a sustainable future as a permanent legacy building. Cate St Hill talks to deputy chairman Andrew Whalley about the design
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Greenwich housing by Bell Phillips Architects
23 January 2017Spread across six very different sites in London’s Greenwich, Bell Phillips Architects has imaginatively repurposed a series of old, underused garage plots for housing for the elderly, freeing up larger public housing stock for families and bringing life to these once-dead backwaters
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Cite du Vin by XTU Architects & Casson Mann
19 January 2017The original straight-edged plans for a museum of wine in Bordeaux went out of the window when the architects Anouk Legendre and Nicolas Desmazières drank a glass of one of the world’s best wines. From that point on, what has become the Cité du Vin, in collaboration with Casson Mann, had to be deliciously voluptuous.
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Vagelos Education Center, Columbia University by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
17 January 2017‘Rolling up the street’ was the starting idea for this 14-storey addition to the Columbia Medical School by Diller Scofido + Renfro. With it the practice has also realised a 20-year long exploration of a continuous surface building, albeit as a specific response to site and program.
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Listen: Michael Pawlyn
16 January 2017While biomimicry has transformed the world of robotics and is being increasingly adopted in engineering and materials science, it is yet to be widely embraced by architects, says Michael Pawlyn. An architect and speaker focused on innovation, Pawlyn is the founder of exploration Architecture, co-founder of the Sahara Forest Project and the author of Biomimicry in Architecture - the second edition was published by RIBA Publishing in October.
