Flores & Prats   United Kingdom   Castles have been a recurring source of pride for communities, as well as a constant theme of interest for artists and architects, becoming deeply rooted elements in the collective memory of places and fundamental pieces of the imagination of many of

Carmody Groarke   United Kingdom   The London practice of Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke has finished renovating Power Hall, the largest room within the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester. This building of great heritage value was a warehouse in the times of the Industrial Revo

David Chipperfield Architects   United Kingdom   The old Embassy of the United States in London, located in the historic Mayfair neighborhood and Eero Saarinen’s only built work in the United Kingdom, is now the Chancery Rosewood hotel, recently inaugurated following a meticulous refurbishment carr

Studio Anne Holtrop   United Kingdom   Titled ‘Change,’ the pavilion is set out as a scenography of climate and geology. The space reflects how matter changes under the influence of environmental conditions, namely sun, rain, gravity, and darkness. The pavilion is an assembly of three dif

Studio Anne Holtrop   Defining gestures of creation in relation to materials was the starting point of the collaboration with the fashion house and its creative director, John Galliano. Taking from concepts of the firm itself – such as ‘dressing in haste,’ unlocking memor

Foster + Partners   United Kingdom   Norman Foster’s firm has won the competition to design the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park in London. The final design will be unveiled in April 2026 to coincide with the centenary of the monarch, who died in 2022 following

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United Kingdom   V&A East Storehouse has opened in London, offering an experience that breaks away from the traditional concept of a museum. Located in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, within the East Bank cultural quarter, this publicly accessible storage facility fuse

Annabelle Selldorf   United Kingdom   The National Gallery in London reopens the Sainsbury Wing to the public in 10 May, after a revamp led by the New York firm of Annabelle Selldorf, in collaboration with Purcell, a British collective of heritage experts. The project was part of NG200,

Lina Ghotmeh   United Kingdom   The British Museum has announced that Lina Ghotmeh Architecture has by unanimous vote won the bid to redesign its Western Range galleries. The scheme drawn up by the Paris-based firm led by the Lebanese-born architect carried the day over the other f

Barthélémy Griño    United Kingdom   The Paris office led by the French Philippe Barthélémy and the Uruguayan Sylvia Griño won the 2016 competition to extend the Glenmorangie Distillery in Tain, in the Highlands of Scotland. The two new industrial buildings have transformed how the plac

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   The project is one of a series of interventions sponsored by the philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer and aimed at preserving the castle of Bishop Auckland, with a view to promoting the town – located at the confluence of the rivers Wear and Gaunless, in D

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   One park drive, a residential tower in London’s expanding Canary Wharf Estate, shapes the identity of one of the docklands’ last large undeveloped sites. Both iconic in form and human in scale, it is a visual gateway to the dynamic global community i

Renzo Piano Building Workshop Adamson Associates Architects   United Kingdom   Next to busy Paddington Square in London, this mixed-use building contains offices, shops, and a variety of bars and cafés, all of it crowned with a terrace and a restaurant commanding views of the city. A 50x50x50-meters cube raised on a podium of p

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios   United Kingdom   Shrewsburg Flaxmill Maltings was originally built in 1797 and served different purposes in the course of time, including as military barracks during World War II. The site closed in 1987. A work of Charles Bage, the listed building is known as the ‘g

krft   United Kingdom   Brick and flint in gray tones clad this performing arts center built for Brighton College as part of a masterplan to revamp the British campus that includes OMA’s School for Sports and Science. The Dutch firm krft designed the building in collaborati

Bindloss Dawes   United Kingdom   The Old School House of Pitcombe, in the English county of Somerset, was built in 1864. The listed building was turned into a house in the 1940s, and enlarged thirty years later with a bedroom wing. This extension has been demolished and replaced by

Stanton Williams   United Kingdom   The firm Stanton Williams has completed new social and residential facilities for Emmanuel College in Cambridge. The project include refurbishing the existing construction, integrating them with the recent builds and into a setting of university prem

Gianni Botsford Architects   United Kingdom   Gianni Botsford’s project respectfully integrates the enlargement of a house built by Norman Foster in the late 1960s in Hampstead, north of central London. The result is a four-story building with…

Mass Studies   United Kingdom   The Serpentine Gallery’s 23rd summer pavilion at Kensington Gardens in London will be visitable from 7 June to 27 October. Designed by the Korean architect Minsuk Cho of the firm Mass Studies, it is inspired by vernacular wood architecture in his cou

6a architects   United Kingdom   The Tree House is situated in the communal garden of two small cottages, curving around a central sumac tree. Its ramped interior connects the old buildings with the new ones, reorienting the house around the garden to create a fully accessible famil

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Located in one of the courts of Trinity Hall, one of Cambridge University’s oldest colleges, the WongAvery Gallery replaced a modest shelter built early in the 20th century – attached to the south wall of Avery Court – with a facility for music educa

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   A cross the coast from Portsmouth, in the waters of the Solent, the Isle of Wight is characterized by its rich natural environment and a climate that is gentler than elsewhere in the British Isles. This attractive context and Queen Victoria’s frequen

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   The completion of this student residence is the latest milestone in over a decade of collaboration with Somerville College, in commissions for new constructions and various refurbishments, allowing a longstanding ambition to offer all its undergradua

Norman Foster has designed a time capsule to commemorate the 250th anniversary of US independence. The piece was officially presented in Washington, D.C., by UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, to be buried under the plaza at the Washington Monumen

Luis Fernández-Galiano   On the evening of Friday, October 24, Luis Fernández-Galiano recorded a telephone conversation with the British architect while the latter was waiting at Madrid’s Barajas airport, and he edited the transcript as a monologue. In it, Chipperfield discu

A 700-year-old church tower has been suspended 14 metres above ground as part of a major City of London building project by Eric Parry Architects. The Grade I listed tower of All Hallows Staining Church was balanced on stilts above a 60,000 square fo

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Two iconic museums in New York and London opened anew in May. The Frick Collection returned to its original home on Fifth Avenue, after expansion works that lasted five years, carried out by Anabelle Selldorf, and the same architect remodeled the Sai

From 6 June to 26 October the Serpentine Pavilion of 2025 can be visited by the public in Kensington Gardens, London. A work of the Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum, the founder of Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), this year’s pavilion is named

What is home? Is it a city? A building? A feeling? This question has for years chased Do Ho Suh. A simple – but not easy – question that has pushed the South Korea-born, London-based artist to look for an answer through his work, on view until 19 Oct

English football club Manchester United has announced plans to build a 100,000-seat stadium designed by Foster + Partners. The ambitious project will be erected near the 74,140-seat Old Trafford, which has been the team's home for 115 years and will

The British Museum has announced which teams will be competing in the next stage of the international competition to renovate its Western Range galleries, an ambitious project of reimagining over a third of the London institution’s gallery space. The

The Elizabeth Line in London, designed by Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation, and AtkinsRéalis, has been named the 2024 winner of the Stirling Prize, which the Royal Institute of British Architects gives for best building completed in the United Kingdom. Pr

Oliver Wainwright   Anabelle Selldorf is carrying out the revamp of the iconic work of Venturi and Scott Brown.

The Guardian   Robert Booth   Emine Sinmaz   The Grenfell Tower disaster was the result of “decades of failure” by central government to stop the spread of combustible cladding combined with the “systematic dishonesty” of multimillion-dollar companies whose products spread the fire that killed

There are buildings that are works of eloquent architecture, but in the extension of the National Gallery, the walls have spoken. Literally. Turning its back on Trafalgar Squqre, what we know as the Sainsbury Wing – because of the generous donation r

Bloomberg   Feargus O'Sullivan   By 2030 the City of London financial district will have sprouted an entirely new crop of skyscrapers. And the difference will be striking. The Square Mile is set to get a total of 11 new towers, the tallest stretching higher than any now existing. To

Bloomberg   Feargus O'Sullivan   British schools are crumbling due to an aerated material that was popular after World War II. The issue centers around “reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete,” a material known more widely as RAAC, which can become dangerous if exposed to water. The

It is not only their professional success, but also the wisdom of a creative undertaking they have maintained over the course of four decades, that has given Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron an indisputable spot on the summit of great architects o

Luis Fernández-Galiano   After two decades, the Swiss partners again exhibit in London, a city that saw their first international success with the opening of Tate Modern…

1930-2022 A journey to precarious Spain of 1950 changed the life of John Elliott, one of the key British hispanists. It changed it because he discovered the Prado Museum, and in it not just Las Meninas, but another great Velázquez painting: Equestria

1936-2022 The semiotic wave of the 1960s and 1970s decade, and in general the scientist obsession of those years, bore disparate fruits. Some were engulfed by history, while others maintain, if not the pertinence of that time, an undoubtable interest

Rowan Moore   Siempre con mirada activista, Ai Weiwei reflexiona en el Design Museum sobre el valor de los objetos cotidianos y sus procesos de fabricación.

Almost unanimously, the latest Pritzker laureate’s most admired forte is the sensitivity with which he operates on existing buildings, where he enhances the patina of time while applying his refined geometry, always knowing exactly when to express it

The global recession caught many by surprise, as it did these two young architects who had practically just set up a practice of their own, forcing them to rechannel the experience they had acquired with Chipperfield and explore less trodden paths: m

What the British photographer defines as his true passion is to move in the backstage looking for scenes within the reach of just a few. His work is characterized by a unique understanding of color and symmetry adorned with touches of dark humor. Asi

Architects are generally trained in the modern idea that their job is to build a new world, so they try to raise new buildings or even design entire parts of cities. But the profession today is more and more about building on what is already built, a

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