Home - Damien Hirst. Andrew Meredith. AD Interviews: Gateway / Norman Foster. AD Interviews: Norman Foster. The Towers of London. London’s skyline is about to get a complete makeover. While in the past, almost every tower proposed was stalled due to financial shortcomings, or workers just leaving the job site, now, London is dusting off their old building plans and getting ready to move into a construction frenzy. Thanks to Kieran Long’s article at the Evening Standard we get to know more details about this process: Don’t get us wrong – London is still right in the middle of the same financial turmoil we are all experiencing. Peter Rees, the chief planning officer of the City of London, explained, “I don’t see this as the start of a new property boom. Interestingly, the skyscrapers that were designed during London’s more prosperous time will be built exactly the same way.
But this building is not merely confined to the metropolis – various ‘clusters’ of towers in Vauxhall, Blackfriars and Croydon seems to be progressing, and the skylines of these areas will be transformed. Anna Heringer | Architecture: Vision. CAFOD Headquarters / Black Architecture. Architects: Black Architecture Location: London, England Client: CAFOD Project area: 3,000 sqm Project year: 2010 Photographs: Tim Soar CAFOD’s (Catholic Agency for Overseas Development) new headquarters adjacent to Pugin’s listed St George’s Cathedral in Southwark has been designed to be an exemplar of sustainable workplace design.
The building was conceived to be intrinsically sustainable by balancing the three criteria that together comprise sustainable development: Social The design of the building actively encourages people to meet and communicate with each other, improving information and knowledge sharing and creating a heart for the CAFOD community and their international team. Economical A radical innovation in workplace design is realised within the constraints of a limited budget demonstrating CAFOD’s “live simply” philosophy and their core charity function. Environmental * Location to be used only as a reference.
The Calls winning proposal by Fletcher Crane Architects. Architectural Team: Fletcher Crane Architects / Toby Fletcher, Ian Crane and Sam Stevens Structural Engineer: Elliott Wood/Gary Elliott, George Georgiou Building Environment and Services Engineer: Skelly and Couch/Mark Skelly, Matthew Chantzidakis Quantity Surveyor: Quantem Consulting/Dan Watson Landscape Architects: Whitelaw Turkington/Ian Turkington This is the winning scheme for a international competition to design a new office development on the river front in Leeds, UK. The competition was run by the UK magazine The Architects Journal. Commentary ‘The Loom’ is the apparatus for weaving strands of local business into a collective.
The design approach will enable the scheme to have iconic status both locally and throughout Yorkshire giving local business’ a wider presence throughout the region. The building design aims to deliver a dramatic river front facade, utilising the expanse of the river and adjacent sheer faced wharf buildings of the south bank as a canvas. Update: Glasgow School of Art / Steven Holl. Plans for the new Glasgow School of Art building, designed by Steven Holl Architects in association with JM Architects, received approval from the Glasgow City Council’s planning committee this week. Site preparations are scheduled for this summer, and work on the new building will immediately follow with construction scheduled to take around two years. The five story building will reside directly opposite of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterful Glasgow School of Art building.
“We are very pleased with the support from the Glasgow City Council Planning Committee. We believe that the new building will be an exciting addition to the Glasgow School of Art and will provide an inspirational environment for the students and the community,” Holl said. Holl’s design focuses on creating a relationship between the two buildings through attention to architectural elements, such as light, materiality and proportion. Source: bdonline. The Pier Arts Centre / Reiach and Hall Architects. Architects: Reiach and Hall Architects Location: Stromness, Orkney, Scotland Client: The Pier Arts Centre Project manager: Pentarq Project Manager Structural engineer: SKM Anthony Hunt Project area: 1,023 sqm Project year: 2007 Photographs: Ioana Marinescu, Alister Peebles, Gavin Fraser To the southerner Stromness is located in the far north, a place more Scandinavian than Scots.
To the Orcadian, Stromness lies on the threshold of a more imaginative North, where thoughts of Thule begin. We view our work through the mirror of a northern modernism. We continue to be interested in the simple resolution of an architectural proposition. Stromness has a unique foreshore of stone piers that span the high and low watermarks along the northern shore of the Hamnavoe. The PAC is home to an internationally acclaimed collection of contemporary art. The new building adopts a simple pitched roof recalling a traditional waterfront warehouse. Internally the spaces are a backdrop to the art.
Ross Lovegrove. Interview: Jonathan Sergison, by Hugo Oliveira. We are sharing with you an interview of british architect Jonathan Sergison of Sergison Bates architects conducted by Hugo Oliveir, as seen in Jornal Arquitectos. Sergison, prior to the founding of his firm in 1996 with partner Stephen Bates, gained professional experience working for David Chipperfield and Tony Fretton. Currently he serves as a Professor of Architectural Design at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland. The complete interview following the break. HO = Hugo OliveiraJS = Jonathan Sergison HO: Why is it, do you think, that people either love or hate your work?
JS: The answer to this question really depends on where it is being asked. In many London schools, too much emphasis is placed on intuition, an uncritical process that is too reliant on computer-generated form-making. HO: But nowadays do you think that it’s easier for people to be drawn by the image than by the writings of an interesting architect? JS: Generally, I think it is quite poor. JS: We were! Brotherton Barn / The Anderson Orr Partnership. Architects: The Anderson Orr Partnership Location: Pusey, Oxfordshire, England Area: 300.0 sqm Year: 2007 Photographs: David Stewart The brief from our client was to sympathetically integrate a contemporary open design within the envelope of the original Grade II Listed Barn with an effortless connection between the open plan living area and the secluded master bedroom suite without detracting from the height and volume of the vaulted spaces of the barn.
The second key element for the barn conversion brief was how to design the entrance. With most barn conversions you find giving the building its own distinct entrance difficult because you’re working with the original openings and these tend to be large openings to the sides of the building. To provide the effortless connection between the open plan living area and the secluded master bedroom suite. For the principle entrance a single storey element already existed. Manor House Stables / AR Design Studio. Architects: AR Design Studio Location: Headbourne Worthy, Winchester, United Kingdom Architect in Charge: Andy Ramus Project Year: 2013 Photographs: Martin Gardner From the architect. Friday April 5th 1946, on a beautifully clear Spring afternoon crowds cheered as the 25/1 racehorse, “Lovely Cottage”, strode triumphantly past the finishing post to be crowned winner of the Grand National, the UKs largest horse race. Trained by Tommy Rayson and ridden by Captain Robert Petre at the first true Aintree Grand National race since 1940, after the Second World War, and the last to take place on a Friday, which had been the tradition since 1876.
That weekend “Lovely Cottage” returned home to the small village of Headbourne Worthy, near Winchester. Practice Director, Andy Ramus, discovered this piece of overlooked historical heritage while undertaking a large scale refurbishment at the Manor House and immediately recognised its potential. Dabbous / Brinkworth. Architects: Brinkworth Location: London, UK Year: 2012 Photographs: Louise Melchior Brinkworth announces the completion of interior architecture and branding design for Dabbous, a new London restaurant and bar. Briefed to create a brand identity and interior for Dabbous, a new restaurant situated on a corner site on Whitfield street, London, Brinkworth took inspiration from the minimal and natural presentation of the food to create a raw, industrial space and a contemporary, restrained brand identity.
Working from a shell site, Brinkworth used materials with authenticity – steel, reeded glass; concrete and wire mesh – to define the architecture of the space. This bare-boned approach allows the space to grow and accumulate as the restaurant evolves. Brinkworth-designed furniture – waxed, timber tables, timber and black leather chairs are coupled with walls lined in burnt timber.
A metal mesh screen separates the route to the bar from the dining space and discreetly hides the bar traffic. John Pawson's Private Residence. “There are 50 different color shades of white,” says John Pawson. And you could probably only see them in an empty room. For John Pawson, architecture is about reduction. British architect John Pawson is a master of minimalism. He is recognized for Calvin Klein’s flagship store in Manhattan and a Cistercian monastery in Bohemia. The minimalism thing. John Pawson - Plain Space.