Architecture news

• Cosy nooks in a thicket of books: time-straddling library is Britain’s best new building

  13-10-2022 22:00
  Awash with light, boasting river views and fresh air indoors, this tall-chimneyed, Tudor-tinged book-lovers’ paradise in Cambridge is a worthy winner of the RIBA Stirling prizeSix hundred years after it was founded as a hostel for Benedictine student monks, Magdalene College in Cambridge has scooped the RIBA Stirling prize for best new building in the UK – for a library designed to last for another four centuries.Standing next to the 17th-century Pepys Library, the cramped study spac
  
  Read more

• The hidden wonders of Battersea power station | Letters

  13-10-2022 18:20
  Mike Lee on emissions from its chimneys, and Jane Marsh on the innovative use made of waste heat that it generated The question of whether it was smoke or steam emitted from the chimneys of Battersea power station is less straightforward than either of your previous correspondents suggests. The Rev Keith Burchell (Letters, 9 October) is correct that cooling water was drawn from and returned to the Thames without any steam being generated by the cooling process, and the chimneys emitted smoke. Bu
  
  Read more

Follow @architectureuk1 on Twitter!