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.
Developers are simply meeting demand that currently exists, because there is a shortage of grade-A office space in the City. 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.
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. The Pier Arts Centre / Reiach and Hall Architects. 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. Brotherton Barn / The Anderson Orr Partnership. 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. 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. 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. John Pawson - Plain Space.