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Switching place: Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern extension
1 August 2016Tate Modern’s latest extension is radical in form and surface, yet intimately relates to the vast building it joins, which opened as London’s foremost modern art gallery in 2000. The new Switch House’s angular geometry, permeability, movement and, materiality are explored by Herbert Wright, who also earlier talked to its architects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
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Forum for change – Herzog & de Meuron’s Blavatnik School of Government
26 April 2016Herzog & de Meuron’s latest building, a wedding cake-like stack of glass volumes, is home to Oxford University’s first School of Government. Funded by Britain’s richest man, Leonard Blavatnik, its centrepiece is a grand cylindrical void designed to foster collaboration and interaction between future world leaders
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The national pavilions of Expo 2015 with Stephen Hitchins
13 July 2015Stephen Hitchins takes an informative and witty hike around the national pavilions of Expo 2015 in Milan.