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Meet: Ben Adams Architects
2 March 2015Introducing the London-based firm whose projects include workspaces for two major UK practices, Feilden Clegg Bradley's London office and WilkinsonEyre's design studio
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The Art of Robert McGinnis – book review
2 March 2015Robert McGinnis with Art Scott; Titan Books, £24.99
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Federico Babina’s illustrated alphabet of architects
24 February 2015A new publication out this month documents Federico Babina’s fun illustrated alphabet of famous architects, from Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier and Norman Foster to Walter Gropius and Zaha Hadid.
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Miguel Arruda’s Vila Franca Library
24 February 2015Split from its river by the 19th-century arrival of the railway, the Portuguese town of Vila Franca has been made whole again by Lisbon architect and designer Miguel Arruda. His library and its connecting bridge straddling the railway tracks is at the same time the latest in the new generation of Great European libraries.
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Miguel Arruda – interview
17 February 2015Miguel Arruda studied sculpture at Lisbon’s Faculty of Fine Arts, where he would later become a professor, and serves as chair of its board of directors. He studied architecture at Lisbon’s Technical University. He is a furniture designer for several international houses, and he was the subject of a 2013 retrospective at Portugal’s fashion and design museum MUDE. He talked with Herbert Wright about the library at Vila Franca.
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Lobbying for Mies van der Rohe
17 February 2015Having worked on the uncompromising IBM building in Chicago 50 years ago with his grandfather Mies van der Rohe, Dirk Lohan has been called back to help with the reception part of its conversion into a luxury Langham hotel, in which Mies’ ‘less is more’ dictum was apparently not the driving factor.
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Shepherd’s Bush Pavilion, London, by Flanagan Lawrence
17 February 2015What was once Europe’s largest cinema has had a chequered history, including a flying bomb strike, bingo and illegal raves. But style and grandeur have returned in the Shepherd’s Bush Pavilion’s newest guise, a hotel designed by Flanagan Lawrence, and visited by Herbert Wright.
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Stephen Hodder on new housing space standards
10 February 2015Following ongoing lobbying by the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Government has agreed to introduce new housing space standards. Currently the UK builds the smallest new homes in Western Europe and in Yorkshire, which has one of the lowest population densities in the country, they are half the size of new-builds in London. Here RIBA president, Stephen Hodder, tells us why fighting to eradicate shoe-box homes with new minimum space standards has been such an RIBA crusade.
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Surreal estate – the art of Alex Chinneck
10 February 2015From a house which melts before the eyes of thousands of commuters, to a neoclassical portico which hovers precariously over London’s Covent Garden, the magical, ambitious work of Alex Chinneck suspends belief, forcing viewers to question the urban environment. Shumi Bose catches up with the young artist in a rare moment of repose, before he pulls his next reality-bending trick...
