New York-based Studio Libeskind has completed its 454m² Maggie’s Centre at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London. Rob Wilson talked to Daniel Libeskind about the project.
Glasgow projects round-up
Fran Williams and Rob Wilson look at notable recent and ongoing schemes in and around Glasgow
Ways of practising: Leeds Beckett Project Office – ‘ethical, social and resilient architecture’
The industry is changing and so are the priorities and methods of its practitioners. Fran Williams and Rob Wilson speak to three differing practices across the UK about how and why they set up, how they approach architecture and a key project they have worked on. Here we introduce Leeds…
Ways of practising: North West Design Collective – ‘joy and colour’
The industry is changing and so are the priorities and methods of its practitioners. Fran Williams and Rob Wilson speak to three differing practices across the UK about how and why they set up, how they approach architecture and a key project they have worked on. Next is North West…
Ways of practising: IDK – ‘building is never necessarily the solution’
The industry is changing and so are the priorities and methods of its practitioners. Fran Williams and Rob Wilson speak to three differing practices across the UK about how and why they set up, how they approach architecture and a key project they have worked on. First up is IDK
Revisit: FCBS goes back to the Energy Efficient Office of the Future
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios associate Ron Nkomba talks about the practice’s experience of retrofitting the building it designed nearly 30 years ago for BRE
Building revisit: returning to FAT’s Blue House
The Blue House in east London was FAT’s first built project. Twenty years on, former director Sean Griffiths has remodelled and extended it, fulfilling its original design intention
Manser Medal – AJ House of the Year 2022 winner announced
March House by Knox Bhavan Architects has won this year’s Manser Medal – AJ House of the Year Award
AJ Retrofit Awards 2022 shortlists revealed: Cultural, community, leisure
The AJ has shortlisted 102 projects for the AJ Retrofit Awards 2022. Here we reveal the first set of finalists in the Cultural and Religious, Health and Community and Hotel, Retail and Leisure categories
‘Surprisingly soulless and unsensual’ – verdict on the 2021 Serpentine Pavilion
Rob Wilson visits the newly opened structure by South African practice Counterspace. But while it provides great spaces to stop, sit and chat in, he finds it more stage-set than building