The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Stirling Prize 2012: New Court OMA with Allies and Morrison
‘New Court demonstrates civility in a part of London hugger-mugger with mute, corporate architectural spoor,’ reflects Jay Merrick
Office
Workplace buildings including offices, studios, architects’ studios and workshops
The bolt-on flagship: Wilkinson Eyre’s Crystal
The Crystal has been turned into a low-carbon exemplar project with add-on technologies, writes Hattie Hartman. Photography by Edmund Sumner
Scuzzy Shoreditch’s Tea Building: The triumph of AHMM’s white collar funhouse
Rory Olcayto visits the continually evolving Tea Building, AHMM’s white collar funhouse in Shoreditch, London
Sun and substance
A remarkable mansard roof comprising 130 solar PV panels caps Squire and Partners’ prestigious mixed-use development at 5 Hanover Square
‘Jan just liked to draw’
Jan Kaplicky’s last building, the Ferrari Museum in Modena, marks the end of good old fashioned Futurism, writes Jay Merrick
New Court, Rothschild Bank headquarters, London, by OMA
Visible/invisible, public/private, iconic/bland: OMA’s Rothschild Bank is simultaneously contradictory, but pulls it off, writes Rory Olcayto
Roath Lock Studios, Cardiff, by FAT and Holder Mathias Architects
FAT’s half-metre thick, clip-on facade for Cardiff’s BBC studios is a poster boy for procurement today, writes Rory Olcayto
Quadrant 3, London, by Dixon Jones with Donald Insall Associates
Dixon Jones kept just the corners of a tricky Edwardian hotel in the West End to create a mixed-use development with high ceilings and an art deco basement, says Felix Mara
The five principles of the ‘white collar factory’ office
A new architectural typology is gaining currency in London’s workplaces, spearheaded by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Heron Tower, London, by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Time capsule: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates’ Heron Tower provides lessons from the past that are relevant to the future, writes Felix Mara. Photography by Hufton + Crow