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RIBA names UK’s best buildings of 2024

July 10, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Sheffield’s Park Hill Estate, London’s Battersea Power Station and a timber-framed dining hall at the University of Cambridge have been named among the winners of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ National Awards for 2024. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced 26 winners this year, including projects designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects, Waugh Thistleton Architects

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Cement-based rammed earth “not much better than concrete”

July 10, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Rammed earth is often celebrated as a low-carbon method of constructing buildings, but some experts are beginning to cast doubt on its sustainability credentials. Amy Peacock reports. “People are using rammed earth to sell something that is essentially concrete,” said Rowland Keable, CEO of the charity Earth Building UK and Ireland and founder of Rammed

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Corstorphine & Wright carves scoop into office facade to celebrate neighbouring church

July 3, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Corstorphine & Wright has completed The Scoop, an office extension in London named after the gouge in its white-brick facade. The four-storey office building has been extended sideways and upwards and wrapped in glazed bricks, arranged to draw attention to the circular window of the neighbouring Grade II-listed church. “The church’s circular window

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Webb Yates creates structural stone frame for Royal Academy summer exhibition

June 28, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

A post-tensioned stone frame by engineering firm Webb Yates is among the exhibits in the architecture rooms of this year’s Royal Academy of Arts summer exhibition, curated by London studio Assemble. Webb Yates worked with The Stonemasonry Company to create a frame made from cored cylinders of waste limestone joined together with tensioned steel rods, aiming

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Architecture is “stressful, painful and terrifying” say Grafton Architects founders

June 27, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Grafton Architects is one of the world’s most decorated architecture studios. In this interview, founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara explain how they stay motivated after 46 years in practice. Among the Irish studio’s long list of prestigious accolades are the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, the Stirling Prize and the Pritzker Architecture Prize. But the

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Eight dining rooms dominated by dark-wood furniture

June 23, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Our latest lookbook rounds up eight elegant dining rooms where dark-wood furniture, including tables, chairs and shelving, takes centre stage. The dining room furniture pieces featured in this lookbook make an impact with their dark tones, which are often evocative of vintage interiors. Whether made from teak, walnut or rosewood, the rich colours and grains of

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Moreau Kusunoki and Frida Escobedo set to renovate Centre Pompidou

June 21, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

French studio Moreau Kusunoki Architectes and Mexican practice Frida Escobedo Studio have revealed their plans for a major overhaul of the high-tech Centre Pompidou in Paris. According to the studios, the renovation aims to improve movement and accessibility around the museum, which was designed by British architect Richard Rogers and Italian architect Renzo Piano and opened

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Ye strips Tadao Ando beach house in Malibu back to its structure

June 19, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Musician Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has removed the windows and gutted the interior of a concrete home in Malibu, California, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Images of the home’s bare structure have been widely shared following a New Yorker article where contractor Tony Saxon detailed how the house was gutted at the

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“Hideous” redevelopment in Liverpool wins Carbuncle Cup 2024 for UK’s worst building

June 19, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

The redevelopment of Lime Street in Liverpool by British studio Broadway Malyan has been named the country’s worst new building in this year’s Carbuncle Cup. Organised by UK magazine The Fence, judges chose the Lime Street redevelopment as the “very worst new building in Britain”, since the competition was last run in 2018. “From the

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MAD tops “clover-like” conference centre in Beijing with undulating green roof

June 14, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Global architecture studio MAD has unveiled ZGC International Innovation Center in Beijing, which features a curving green roof with rippled overhangs. Located in the Haidian district, the 65,000-square-metre conference centre has an organic shape with rounded, petal-like corners that extend from the building envelope to shade outdoor public spaces. “The centre’s biomorphic, clover-like form features

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