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Drawing architecture in motion
13 May 2014Artist-in-residence at the British Museum, Liam O’Connor has been hiding away inside for the past three years while Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ new extension went up around him, documenting its construction in drawings. He tells us about his practice, while Graham Stirk of RSH+P relays observations from the building process.
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Book review: Lina Bo Bardi by Zeuler Rocha Mello De Almeida Lima
13 May 2014Rowan Moore on a biography of Brazilian modernist architect and designer Bo Bardi
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London’s Growing Up! - Exhibition review
12 May 2014New London Architecture, Store Street London WC1; until 12 June. Review by Herbert Wright
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Richard Rogers on Terence Conran
11 May 2014In 1974, Renzo Piano and I were working in Paris on the Centre Pompidou, when a call came from Terence Conran asking if it would be possible for him to have a tour of the building. We were honoured to do so – he was a legend in the world of design.
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Metal with memory: Chris Lefteri on smart materials
6 May 2014Chris Lefteri turns his attention to smart materials – plastics and metals that once altered have the ability to return to a previous form with the application of heat. Lefteri is a designer and has written seven books about new materials and their application
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Driven voids: Steven Holl’s new addition to Glasgow School of Art
6 May 2014American architect Steven Holl’s new addition to the Glasgow School of Art, created in concert with Scottish practice JM Architects, uses a palette of contemporary materials but still manages to complement Rennie Mackintosh’s landmark edifice across the road.
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Meet: 42 Architects
6 May 2014Johan Berglund, the founder of 42 Architects, who hails from Stockholm, admits that he is still figuring out how to be a practice
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Aidan Potter on architecture and community
2 May 2014John McAslan + Partners has set up an office – N17 Design Studio – in the heart of Tottenham, north London, to engage with the community and help regenerate the area from within. Its director for urban design, Aidan Potter, also the N17 Design Studio project director, argues that architects have become marginalised — they need to regain the moral high ground and become agents for change rather than simply profit
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Richard Hamilton and Design
28 April 2014Currently at Tate Modern is the first retrospective of the work Richard Hamilton, the influential British artist, teacher and essayist, who is considered to be a pioneer of pop art. Here Alice Rawsthorn looks at his output in the context of his design influences.
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Portugal's Museum of Coaches by Paolo Mendes da Rocha
23 April 2014At a globally significant Portuguese heritage site, Brazil’s Pritzker Prize-winning Paolo Mendes da Rocha, has left a vigorous example of his hallmark modernism and commitment to urban space. But government austerity measures have held up the Museum of Coaches... so far. Now that an opening date is finally on the cards, Portuguese architect Ricardo Bak Gordon, associate on the project, talks to Herbert Wright about working with a legend, and Mendes da Rocha himself responds from São Paolo
