Cultural – Page 8
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TechnicalGarsington Opera pavilion by Snell Associates
Sliding fabric screens were chosen to clad this temporary venue for the Garsington Opera Company in Buckinghamshire.
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TechnicalRoyal Opera House production workshop
Thanks to Nicholas Hare Architects, Covent Garden now has a facility fit for producing world-class sets.
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Building StudyCaruso St John’s renovation plans for Tate Britain, London
An aversion to iconic swagger and an unwavering attention to detail will guide the architect’s endeavours to make Tate Britain less of a poor relation to its Bankside cousin
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Building StudyRoyal Shakespeare Theatre by Bennetts Associates
Bennetts Associates’ long-awaited remodelling of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Stratford-on-Avon home finally gives the company the theatre it deserves
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Building StudyNo 1 Smithery, Chatham Dockyard, by van Heyningen & Haward
Van Heyningen & Haward’s scheme provides an elegant environment for the presentation of a fine collection of ships’ models
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Building StudyChrist & Gantenbein’s Swiss Church
Young Basel practice Christ & Gantenbein’s reworking of the interior of the Swiss Church in London’s Covent Garden puts mirrored glazing and a highly complex plan to dramatic use
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Building StudySouth London Gallery by 6a Architects
6a’s commission to create a café and flat for the South London Gallery evolved into something more ambitious, while still retaining the building’s domestic character.
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Building StudyA womb with a view: the Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion
The fact that Peter Palumbo is chair of the selection panels for both the Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion and the Pritzker prize, perhaps gives some indication as to why the names recognised by both programmes seem so often to be drawn from the same starlit pool.
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins’ London Library
Haworth Tompkins’ ongoing expansion of the London Library has clarified and enhanced its internal spaces while retaining the unique character of this historic literary institution
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Building StudyChiswick House café by Caruso St John
The initial formality of Caruso St John’s café for the newly restored gardens of Chiswick House soon gives way to something more complex and mysterious
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Building StudyJewish Museum extension by Long & Kentish in Camden Town, London
The Jewish Museum has been skilfully expanded with the addition of a converted piano factory at the building’s rear, but was it wise to persist with such an understated site?
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Building StudyHerzog & de Meuron’s Vitra Haus, Germany
Herzog & de Meuron’s showrooms for chair manufacturer Vitra puts domestic forms to unsettling use.
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Building StudyDavid Chipperfield’s Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany
Following the triumph of the Neues Museum, Chipperfield’s latest building in Essen had a tough act to follow. And while it is accomplished, has the architect played it too safe?
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Building StudyO’Donnell & Tuomey’s historical inspiration
A Derry cultural centre for the Irish language looks to the Middle Ages for the inspiration for its dynamic concrete form
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Building StudyAnd the V&A said, let there be light
MUMA’s Medieval & Renaissance Galleries have unlocked hitherto unused spaces at the Victoria &Albert Museum, while making the exhibits integral to the design, using them to define the different zones
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Building StudyRoman horror day at Zaha Hadid's Maxxi
Maxxi, Rome’s National Museum of 21st Century Arts, displays a cynical disregard for its purpose, that marks a conceit too far for Zaha Hadid
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Building StudyCaruso St John's Nottingham curtain raiser
The dramatic green and gold facades of the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery are an outward expression of its relationship with the city
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Building StudyCultures successfully crossed at Oxford’s Ashmolean
Rick Mather’s reinvention of Oxford’s Ashmolean has written a dynamic new chapter in the history of museums
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Building StudyPawson’s Visual Centre is a temple for the senses
The new George Bernard Shaw Theatre & Visual Centre for Contemporary Art by Terry Pawson in Carlow, Ireland, is a spiritual monument for a post-religious age
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Building StudyBody building in South Korea with ARU
The latest of three buildings that Florian Beigel and Philip Christou’s Architecture Research Unit has designed for South Korea’s Paju Book City is complete