<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Architecture - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/rss/1000/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Architecture news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening in your profession!]]></description><language>en-uk</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[‘A woman screams from a high balcony: “Help me! I’m freezing to death!”’ – novelist James Meek returns to Kyiv]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stepping off the night train, full of memories of his life there three decades ago, the writer finds a changed city fighting for survivalMy first flat in Kyiv was a couple of metro stops outside the city centre, just opposite Volodymyrskyy market, in a nondescript mid-20th century block. The lease was arranged by post. It took me five days to drive there from Edinburgh in an old Polo in November 1991. Finding my way to Kyiv was easy &ndash; one road from Calais takes you straight there &ndash; b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-woman-screams-from-a-high-balcony-help-me-im-freezing-to-death-novelist-james-meek-returns-to-kyiv/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-woman-screams-from-a-high-balcony-help-me-im-freezing-to-death-novelist-james-meek-returns-to-kyiv/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The sky’s the limit’: Newcastle Art Gallery unveils its ‘divisive’ $48m expansion with a blockbuster opening show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Now the largest public gallery in NSW outside of Sydney, NAG&rsquo;s new exhibition marries big names with local artists &ndash; and celebrates a changing cityGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOn Friday night, the Newcastle Art Gallery (NAG) is throwing open its doors and filling the road and park with giant fluffy doughnuts, live music, dancing and art in a free-for-all street party &ndash; themed &ldquo;industrial disco&rdquo; &ndash; that has been 16 years in the making.For the NAG t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-skys-the-limit-newcastle-art-gallery-unveils-its-divisive-48m-expansion-with-a-blockbuster-opening-show/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-skys-the-limit-newcastle-art-gallery-unveils-its-divisive-48m-expansion-with-a-blockbuster-opening-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on saving Westminster: parliament should leave London | Editorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[The long-overdue refurbishment could be an ideal opportunity for Britain to spread power to other parts of the UK, and send a powerful messageMPs and peers face a looming choice: stay put or move out to allow billions of pounds of urgent repairs to the crumbling Palace of Westminster. That was the conclusion of a report from MPs, peers and lay members on the restoration and renewal client board this month. The palace, rebuilt after a fire destroyed it in 1834, is falling apart. There have been 3]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-saving-westminster-parliament-should-leave-london-editorial/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:38:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-saving-westminster-parliament-should-leave-london-editorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six great reads: dating in later life; a lost Amazon van, ‘gong bath’ freezers, and Toni Morrison]]></title><description><![CDATA[Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/six-great-reads-dating-in-later-life-a-lost-amazon-van-gong-bath-freezers-and-toni-morrison/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/six-great-reads-dating-in-later-life-a-lost-amazon-van-gong-bath-freezers-and-toni-morrison/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on the Southbank Centre: ministers must support innovation in the present as well as the past | Editorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[The decision to grant listed-building status to the brutalist arts complex was bold. Now artists need support to match itThe granting of Grade II-listed building status to the brutalist concrete Southbank Centre, comprising the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Hayward Gallery and Purcell Room, is a bold embrace by the government of this London landmark. It is also timely. Seventy-five years ago, the 1951 Festival of Britain transformed the South Bank. Of its buildings, only the Royal Festival Hall remains.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-the-southbank-centre-ministers-must-support-innovation-in-the-present-as-well-as-the-past-editorial/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-the-southbank-centre-ministers-must-support-innovation-in-the-present-as-well-as-the-past-editorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A joyful day’: final piece of Sagrada Familia’s central tower put in place]]></title><description><![CDATA[Completion of glass cross brings Antoni Gaud&iacute;&rsquo;s church to maximum final height of 172.5m, 144 years after work beganThe final piece of the central tower of Barcelona&rsquo;s Sagrada Familia has been laid in place, bringing the church to its maximum final height 144 years after work began.After several days when it has been too windy to work, the upper section of the 17 metre-high four-sided steel and glass cross was winched into position at 11am on Friday, completing the tower dedic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-joyful-day-final-piece-of-sagrada-familias-central-tower-put-in-place/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-joyful-day-final-piece-of-sagrada-familias-central-tower-put-in-place/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A safe space to come and just be’: the radical, utopian return of Britain’s youth clubs]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a decade of austerity closed more than 1,000 centres, the government has promised &pound;500m to renew youth services. We tour a glossy new venue in Preston &ndash; and a girls-only one in LondonPreston, Lancashire is no stranger to trailblazing architecture. The city&rsquo;s bus station, the largest in Europe when it opened in 1969, is a brutalist masterpiece. Next month, a new public building opens opposite the bus station built with similar aspirations to transform local lives: a youth]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-safe-space-to-come-and-just-be-the-radical-utopian-return-of-britains-youth-clubs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-safe-space-to-come-and-just-be-the-radical-utopian-return-of-britains-youth-clubs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundred-year reveal: Catalonian chalet confirmed as Gaudí work in centenary year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xalet del Catllar&agrave;s contains elements of architect&rsquo;s naturalistic style, expressed in works such as Park G&uuml;ell and Sagrada Fam&iacute;liaAn elegant modernist building in the mountains north of Barcelona, originally constructed to house engineers establishing a nearby mine, has been confirmed as a work of Antoni Gaud&iacute;, Catalonia&rsquo;s most celebrated and distinctive architect.The Xalet del Catllar&agrave;s, about 80 miles from Barcelona in the county of Bergued&agrave;,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hundred-year-reveal-catalonian-chalet-confirmed-as-gaud-work-in-centenary-year/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hundred-year-reveal-catalonian-chalet-confirmed-as-gaud-work-in-centenary-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundred-year reveal: Catalan chalet confirmed as Gaudí work in centenary year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xalet del Catllar&agrave;s contains elements of architect&rsquo;s naturalistic style, expressed in works such as Park G&uuml;ell and Sagrada Fam&iacute;liaAn elegant modernist building in the mountains north of Barcelona, originally constructed to house engineers establishing a nearby mine, has been confirmed as a work of Antoni Gaud&iacute;, Catalonia&rsquo;s most celebrated and distinctive architect.The Xalet del Catllar&agrave;s, about 80 miles from Barcelona in the county of Bergued&agrave;,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hundred-year-reveal-catalan-chalet-confirmed-as-gaud-work-in-centenary-year/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hundred-year-reveal-catalan-chalet-confirmed-as-gaud-work-in-centenary-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper]]></title><description><![CDATA[From high-end boutiques to housing in disaster zones with beer-crate foundations, the Japanese architect creates with things people throw away. What will his distillery in whisky&rsquo;s holy land look like?&lsquo;I don&rsquo;t like waste,&rdquo; says Shigeru Ban. It&rsquo;s a simple statement &ndash; yet it encapsulates everything about the Japanese architect&rsquo;s work. He takes materials others might overlook or discard &ndash; from cardboard tubes to beer crates, styrofoam to shipping cont]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cardboard-crazy-scavenger-genius-shigeru-ban-on-building-cathedrals-and-quake-shelters-with-paper/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cardboard-crazy-scavenger-genius-shigeru-ban-on-building-cathedrals-and-quake-shelters-with-paper/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mick Duncan obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend and fellow architect Mick Duncan, who has died aged 86, imbued his architecture with human scale and proportion, whether for the extensive buildings for Stirling University, at Victoria Quay housing the Scottish Executive in Leith, or in the modest yet stately headquarters for United Distilleries in Edinburgh.Working on the new Scottish parliament building was his most demanding task. The design was won in competition by the Spanish architect Enric Miralles, with Robert Matthew Johnson]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mick-duncan-obituary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:39:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mick-duncan-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could we have 13 million new tiles please? The astonishing £42m rebirth of modernist masterpiece Africa Hall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hailed as one of the defining achievements of African architecture, the historic, recently refurbished Ethiopian landmark has now won the World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism prizeDesigned by the Italian architect Arturo Mezzedimi, Addis Ababa&rsquo;s Africa Hall quickly became recognised as one of the defining achievements of African modernism on its completion in 1961. In 1963, it hosted the founding meeting of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the precursor to today&rsquo;s African Uni]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/could-we-have-13-million-new-tiles-please-the-astonishing-42m-rebirth-of-modernist-masterpiece-africa-hall/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/could-we-have-13-million-new-tiles-please-the-astonishing-42m-rebirth-of-modernist-masterpiece-africa-hall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this the world’s most eye-popping restaurant? The architectural marvel – in a Leipzig industrial estate]]></title><description><![CDATA[This extraordinary diner is the final wonder of the great Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who dreamt it up at the age of 103. And it&rsquo;s a fine place for a sunset kombucha and ginPerched among old brick buildings in an industrial neighbourhood of Leipzig in eastern Germany, a giant white sphere appears to hover over the corner of a former boiler house. Is it a giant&rsquo;s golf ball? An alien spacecraft? A fallen planet?Twelve metres in diameter, the Niemeyer Sphere is the final design]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/is-this-the-worlds-most-eye-popping-restaurant-the-architectural-marvel-in-a-leipzig-industrial-estate/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/is-this-the-worlds-most-eye-popping-restaurant-the-architectural-marvel-in-a-leipzig-industrial-estate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Donnelly obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend John Donnelly, who has died aged 84, was an architect and teacher. His projects included work in housing, waterside redevelopment and conservation design.In 1964 he qualified as an architect, following studies at Birmingham School of Art, and his early career included positions at the firm York Rosenberg and Mardall, and with the Greater London council/Inner London Education Authority architecture department. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-donnelly-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:59:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-donnelly-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Southbank Centre is striking, polarising and now protected | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Francis Bown says its grey concrete and childlike composition expressed the fatalism and despair of the time, while Helen Keats reflects on other brutalist buildsFiona Twycross, the heritage minister, is to be congratulated for finally giving London&rsquo;s Southbank Centre Grade II listing (Campaigners welcome &lsquo;long overdue&rsquo; listing of brutalist Southbank Centre, 10 February).I remember being shocked when I first saw it in the 1960s, but it has become a remarkable symbol of the zeit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-southbank-centre-is-striking-polarising-and-now-protected-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:46:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-southbank-centre-is-striking-polarising-and-now-protected-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brutal but beautiful: Southbank Centre’s Grade II listing is the cherry on a concrete cake]]></title><description><![CDATA[As one of the longest-running battles in British heritage comes to an end, the listing of the London arts complex vindicates the audacity of this sensational droogs&rsquo; paradiseBritain&rsquo;s battle of brutalism has finally reached an exhausted conclusion with the listing of London&rsquo;s Southbank Centre. The so-called &ldquo;concrete monstrosities&rdquo; of the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and its skatepark undercroft have finally been Grade II-listed by the Departm]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brutal-but-beautiful-southbank-centres-grade-ii-listing-is-the-cherry-on-a-concrete-cake/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brutal-but-beautiful-southbank-centres-grade-ii-listing-is-the-cherry-on-a-concrete-cake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Campaigners welcome ‘long overdue’ listing of brutalist Southbank Centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[Decision to grant Grade II status marks turnaround for what was once voted &lsquo;Britain&rsquo;s ugliest building&rsquo;The Southbank Centre, once voted Britain&rsquo;s ugliest building, has been granted listed status, in a decision hailed by campaigners as the coming of age of brutalism.Successive governments have resisted six separate proposals to list the centre &ndash; a set of concrete buildings made up of the Hayward Gallery, the Purcell Rooms and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, plus a makeshif]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/campaigners-welcome-long-overdue-listing-of-brutalist-southbank-centre/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:12:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/campaigners-welcome-long-overdue-listing-of-brutalist-southbank-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back gardens in the sky! The riotous, post-apocalyptic buildings of ‘eco-brutalist’ Renée Gailhoustet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French architect, who once had her nose broken by Jean-Marie Le Pen, created apartment blocks with cascading terraces that seemed to have surrendered to nature. They are still loved by their residentsWhen the French architect Ren&eacute;e Gailhoustet died in 2023, the residents of Le Li&eacute;gat, a social housing block she completed in 1982, put up a large handmade sign saying: &ldquo;Merci Ren&eacute;e.&rdquo; Architects are often accused of designing impersonal rabbit hutches that they t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/back-gardens-in-the-sky-the-riotous-post-apocalyptic-buildings-of-eco-brutalist-rene-gailhoustet/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/back-gardens-in-the-sky-the-riotous-post-apocalyptic-buildings-of-eco-brutalist-rene-gailhoustet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cage fights at the White House! A gigantic arch! Trump’s gaudy plans for America’s 250th anniversary]]></title><description><![CDATA[From minting coins featuring his own face to covering buildings with gold, the president&rsquo;s proposals for marking America&rsquo;s semiquincentennial say a lot about the country&rsquo;s backwards outlookWhen the United States celebrated its bicentennial on 4 July 1976, it marked the occasion with the opening of the National Air and Space Museum&rsquo;s exhibition hall on Washington DC&rsquo;s National Mall. Designed in a boldly modernist style by the blue-chip firm Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabau]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cage-fights-at-the-white-house-a-gigantic-arch-trumps-gaudy-plans-for-americas-250th-anniversary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:52:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cage-fights-at-the-white-house-a-gigantic-arch-trumps-gaudy-plans-for-americas-250th-anniversary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We can learn from the old’: how architects are returning to the earth to build homes for the future]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rammed earth sourced from, or near, the grounds of a proposed building site is attracting attention as an eco-friendly construction materialFrom afar, the low-rise homestead perched in the Wiltshire countryside may look like any other rural outpost, but step closer and the texture of the walls reveal something distinct from the usual facade of cement, brick and steel.The Rammed Earth House in Cranborne Chase is one of the few projects in the UK that has been made by unstabilised rammed earth &nd]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-can-learn-from-the-old-how-architects-are-returning-to-the-earth-to-build-homes-for-the-future/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-can-learn-from-the-old-how-architects-are-returning-to-the-earth-to-build-homes-for-the-future/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No 1 for nuns! Níall McLaughlin is architecture’s discreet daredevil – and deserves its top award]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forget brash statement projects &ndash; Riba&rsquo;s prestigious gold medal has gone to a pivotal figure who works above an Aldi and designs billowing bandstands, jewel-like chapels and buildings that change colourWhen N&iacute;all McLaughlin was shortlisted for the Stirling prize in 2013, for designing an exquisitely jewel-like chapel for a theological college near Oxford, he brought along his client to the prize-giving ceremony. It was the first (and possibly last) time a group of Anglican nun]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/no-1-for-nuns-nall-mclaughlin-is-architectures-discreet-daredevil-and-deserves-its-top-award/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/no-1-for-nuns-nall-mclaughlin-is-architectures-discreet-daredevil-and-deserves-its-top-award/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I visited Runcorn for the first time this week – and was blown away by its magic | Adrian Chiles]]></title><description><![CDATA[Decades after I first befriended one of the town&rsquo;s sons, I finally got to see the place &ndash; or at least its glorious bridgeIs it possible to have a soft spot for a place you&rsquo;ve never been to and know next to nothing about? I think it is, in my case anyway, for I have developed warm feelings for Runcorn. On reflection, this has been in the making, quietly, in my subconscious, for a long time. In the last century, I was at university with a lad from Runcorn and, as he is the only p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-visited-runcorn-for-the-first-time-this-week-and-was-blown-away-by-its-magic-adrian-chiles/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-visited-runcorn-for-the-first-time-this-week-and-was-blown-away-by-its-magic-adrian-chiles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s the underground Met Gala of concrete murderzone design’: welcome to the Quake Brutalist Game Jam]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quake Brutalist Jam began as a celebration of old-fashioned shooter level design, but its latest version is one step away from being a game in its own rightA lone concrete spire stands in a shallow bowl of rock, sheltering a rusted trapdoor from the elements. Standing on the trapdoor causes it to yawn open like iron jaws, dropping you through a vertical shaft into a subterranean museum. Here, dozens of doors line the walls of three vaulted grey galleries, each leading to a pocket dimension of di]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-the-underground-met-gala-of-concrete-murderzone-design-welcome-to-the-quake-brutalist-game-jam/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-the-underground-met-gala-of-concrete-murderzone-design-welcome-to-the-quake-brutalist-game-jam/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schools, airports, high-rise towers: architects urged to get ‘bamboo-ready’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Manual for building design aims to encourage low-carbon construction as alternative to steel and concreteAn airport made of bamboo? A tower reaching 20 metres high? For many years, bamboo has been mostly known as the favourite food of giant pandas, but a group of engineers say it&rsquo;s time we took it seriously as a building material, too.This week the Institution of Structural Engineers called for architects to be &ldquo;bamboo-ready&rdquo; as they published a manual for designing permanent b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/schools-airports-high-rise-towers-architects-urged-to-get-bamboo-ready/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/schools-airports-high-rise-towers-architects-urged-to-get-bamboo-ready/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almshouse to haunted student digs: historic Newcastle building to become affordable homes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Keelmen&rsquo;s hospital, which housed dockers in 1700s, awarded &pound;4.6m lottery grant after lying empty for 16 yearsIt was built 300 years ago as an almshouse for men who did some of the most backbreaking and dangerous work on the River Tyne.Most recently it provided fun, if chilly, accommodation for students. Now a new chapter is to be written in the history of a building considered the most at-risk structure in Newcastle, with the announcement of &pound;4.6m lottery money to convert it in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/almshouse-to-haunted-student-digs-historic-newcastle-building-to-become-affordable-homes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/almshouse-to-haunted-student-digs-historic-newcastle-building-to-become-affordable-homes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic market in Kinshasa ready to reopen to a million shoppers a day after five-year makeover]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long criticised as overcrowded and filthy, the city&rsquo;s Zando marketplace has had an elegant and sustainable redesignSelling vegetables was Dieudonn&eacute; Bakarani&rsquo;s first job. He had a little stall at Kinshasa Central Market in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Decades later, the 57-year-old entrepreneur is redeveloping the historic marketplace that gave him his start in business to be an award-winning city landmark.Bakarani hopes to see the market, known as Zando, flourish agai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/historic-market-in-kinshasa-ready-to-reopen-to-a-million-shoppers-a-day-after-five-year-makeover/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/historic-market-in-kinshasa-ready-to-reopen-to-a-million-shoppers-a-day-after-five-year-makeover/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country diary: A chilly tour of our historic churches (while the tourists are away) | Virginia Spierss]]></title><description><![CDATA[St Kew, Cornwall: Midwinter is the best time for us to visit heritage sites and speculate on legends, starting at the secluded St Winnow&rsquo;s churchThe stained glass window of St&nbsp;Kew&rsquo;s church, with a tamed bear at the saint&rsquo;s feet, is temporarily out of sight, penned in by a jumble of scaffolding. On a chilly hilltop a few miles to the south, St&nbsp;Mabyn&rsquo;s tower features weathered carvings of heraldic beasts, including a muzzled bear pointing its snout northwards; ins]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-a-chilly-tour-of-our-historic-churches-while-the-tourists-are-away-virginia-spierss/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-a-chilly-tour-of-our-historic-churches-while-the-tourists-are-away-virginia-spierss/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letter: Frank Gehry obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dramatic plans by Frank Gehry for the redevelopment of the King Alfred Leisure Centre on the seafront at Hove, East Sussex, strongly divided opinion. In 2003, Gehry launched the &pound;290m project featuring a cluster of four towers &ndash; the tallest of them rising to 38 floors &ndash; next to a swimming pool, sports hall and a winter garden. The eccentric design was intended to evoke crumpled Victorian dresses.Five years later, the plan was abandoned, a victim of the financial crash. Gehry to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/letter-frank-gehry-obituary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/letter-frank-gehry-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Bowie’s childhood home to open to public after 1960s restoration]]></title><description><![CDATA[South London house to feature never-before-seen archival items and creative workshops for young peopleOn the evening of 6 July 1972, thousands of young people across the UK had their lives changed when the sight of David Bowie performing Starman on Top of the Pops was beamed into their living rooms.Come the end of 2027, Bowie fans will be able to walk the very floorboards where the young David Jones had his own Damascene cultural conversion, when his childhood home in south London, is opened to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/david-bowies-childhood-home-to-open-to-public-after-1960s-restoration/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/david-bowies-childhood-home-to-open-to-public-after-1960s-restoration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever been caught short? Here’s the good news: a great British toilet revolution could be on the way | Eddie Blake]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inspired by ministers and councils willing to spend a penny, architects are building beautiful, functional loos &ndash; a first step towards restoring civic prideWhy do we have so few public toilets in UK cities? It&rsquo;s hard to think of two more fundamental social needs than a) not being forced to relieve yourself on the street and b) not having other people relieve themselves on the street &ndash; yet the public toilet is an ignored and vanishing public amenity. The British Toilet Associati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ever-been-caught-short-heres-the-good-news-a-great-british-toilet-revolution-could-be-on-the-way-eddie-blake/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:03:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ever-been-caught-short-heres-the-good-news-a-great-british-toilet-revolution-could-be-on-the-way-eddie-blake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bawdy Beryl, slick Seurat, titanic Tracey and the glory of Gaudí: the best art shows and architecture in 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Must-sees include Beryl Cook&rsquo;s postwar brilliance, Tracey Emin&rsquo;s new highs, Frida Kahlo&rsquo;s confessions &ndash; plus Google&rsquo;s HQ and Gaud&iacute;&rsquo;s finally finished fever dream Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bawdy-beryl-slick-seurat-titanic-tracey-and-the-glory-of-gaud-the-best-art-shows-and-architecture-in-2026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bawdy-beryl-slick-seurat-titanic-tracey-and-the-glory-of-gaud-the-best-art-shows-and-architecture-in-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English House by Dan Cruickshank review – if walls could talk]]></title><description><![CDATA[A deep dive into the creation of eight buildings from the 1700s to the 1900s tells some very human storiesHistory used to be about wars and dates, but to the architecture writer and TV presenter Dan Cruickshank, it&rsquo;s more about floors and grates. In his new book, he takes a&nbsp;keen-eyed tour of eight English houses, from Northumberland to Sussex, dating from the early 1700s to&nbsp;exactly 100 years ago, and ranging from an outlandish gothic pile to one of the first council flats. In Cru]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-english-house-by-dan-cruickshank-review-if-walls-could-talk/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-english-house-by-dan-cruickshank-review-if-walls-could-talk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saving Kyiv’s heritage: a city rebuilding itself in the shadow of war]]></title><description><![CDATA[Volunteers and neighbours are restoring the century-old homes as an act of defiance against Russia&rsquo;s assaultLesia Danylenko proudly showed off her new front door. Volunteers had nicknamed its elegant transom window the &ldquo;croissant&rdquo;, a nod to its curved shape. &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s more of a peacock,&rdquo; she said, admiring its branch-like details. The restoration project at one of Kyiv&rsquo;s early 20th-century art nouveau houses was supported by residents, who celebrated]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/saving-kyivs-heritage-a-city-rebuilding-itself-in-the-shadow-of-war/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/saving-kyivs-heritage-a-city-rebuilding-itself-in-the-shadow-of-war/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FBI to move out of brutalist J Edgar Hoover building in Washington DC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iconic building, called &lsquo;greatest monstrosity ever constructed&rsquo; by Hoover himself, to be closed downThe FBI director, Kash Patel, said the law enforcement agency&rsquo;s sprawling but ageing J Edgar Hoover building in Washington DC will be closed down and the agency will move into existing offices elsewhere.Some FBI workers will report to the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in the US capital to occupy the former offices of the US Agency for International Develop]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/fbi-to-move-out-of-brutalist-j-edgar-hoover-building-in-washington-dc/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:21:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/fbi-to-move-out-of-brutalist-j-edgar-hoover-building-in-washington-dc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London Eye architect proposes 14-mile tidal power station off Somerset coast]]></title><description><![CDATA[West Somerset Lagoon would harness renewable energy for UK&rsquo;s AI boom &ndash; and create &lsquo;iconic&rsquo; arc around Bristol ChannelThe architect of the London Eye wants to build a vast tidal power station in a 14-mile arc off the coast of Somerset that could help Britain meet surging electricity demand to power artificial intelligence &ndash; and create a new race track to let cyclists skim over the Bristol Channel.Julia Barfield, who designed the Eye and the i360 observation tower in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/london-eye-architect-proposes-14-mile-tidal-power-station-off-somerset-coast/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 12:07:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/london-eye-architect-proposes-14-mile-tidal-power-station-off-somerset-coast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best design and architecture of 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[This year&rsquo;s highlights include the remodelling of a Richard Seifert brutalist &lsquo;corncob&rsquo; tower, a celebration of Japanese carpentry and a wearable hot-water bottle&bull; The best art and photography of 2025<br />
&bull; More on the best culture of 2025In a case of contents outshining the container, the V&amp;A&rsquo;s national museum of everything takes the public up close and personal to a gallimaufry of precious things, from porcelain to poison darts, textiles to tiaras. Elegantly s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-best-design-and-architecture-of-2025/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-best-design-and-architecture-of-2025/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Stern obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[US architect who designed 15 Central Park West, a successful homage to the grand apartment blocks of 1920s New YorkIt was Vanity Fair magazine that dubbed Robert Stern, who has died aged 86, &ldquo;the king of Central Park West&rdquo;, following the phenomenal success of his 2008 condominium at 15 Central Park West. Conceived as a homage to the grand and gracious Upper East Side apartment blocks so beloved of old money, it was a calculated retort to the anomie of New York&rsquo;s modern glass to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/robert-stern-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:21:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/robert-stern-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A cave complex worthy of Batman!’ Mind-boggling buildings that showed the world a new China]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal<br />
The birth of the People&rsquo;s Republic is seen as a time of drab buildings. But this dazzling show, featuring a factory in a cave and a denounced roof, tells a wildly different storyIn 1954, an issue of Manhua, a state-sponsored satirical magazine in China, declared: &ldquo;Some architects blindly worship the formalist styles of western bourgeois design. As a result, grotesque and reactionary buildings have appeared.&rdquo;Beneath the headline Ugly Ar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-cave-complex-worthy-of-batman-mind-boggling-buildings-that-showed-the-world-a-new-china/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-cave-complex-worthy-of-batman-mind-boggling-buildings-that-showed-the-world-a-new-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Lunch could last all day – and night’: inside Coco Chanel’s sun-kissed sanctum for art’s superstars]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French fashion designer&rsquo;s lavish Mediterranean villa was frequented by everyone from Dal&iacute; to Garbo to Stravinsky to Churchill. It has now been lovingly restored &ndash; with a thrillingly bolstered libraryIt is the place where Salvador Dal&iacute; painted The Enigma of Hitler, a haunting landscape featuring a giant telephone receiver that seems to be crying a tear over a cutout picture of the Fuhrer. Conceived in 1939, the work seems to anticipate war. It is also the place where]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lunch-could-last-all-day-and-night-inside-coco-chanels-sun-kissed-sanctum-for-arts-superstars/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:02:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lunch-could-last-all-day-and-night-inside-coco-chanels-sun-kissed-sanctum-for-arts-superstars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump says building DC triumphal arch is domestic policy chief’s ‘primary thing’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump praises Vince Haley, his ex-speechwriter tasked with creating Arc de Triomphe knockoff amid affordability crisisAmid concerns that he has failed to address a worsening affordability crisis, with health insurance premiums about to spike dramatically for over 20 million Americans, Donald Trump revealed on Sunday that his domestic policy chief&rsquo;s main priority is building a triumphal arch for Washington DC.Speaking at a White House holiday party, the president praised Vince Haley, his fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/trump-says-building-dc-triumphal-arch-is-domestic-policy-chiefs-primary-thing/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:46:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/trump-says-building-dc-triumphal-arch-is-domestic-policy-chiefs-primary-thing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kevin McCloud: ‘We measure the value of a home by the number of toilets it has – which is bonkers’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Grand Designs presenter and co-host of Tim &amp; Kev&rsquo;s Big Design Adventure on living with bats, the most important room in a house and eating fermented sharkGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThere&rsquo;s an aphorism that Australians only want to talk about two things &ndash; sport and real estate. Do you think we talk too much about real estate?In my experience, Australians never talk about real estate but the Australian media talks about it all the time. It&rsquo;s a little]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/kevin-mccloud-we-measure-the-value-of-a-home-by-the-number-of-toilets-it-has-which-is-bonkers/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/kevin-mccloud-we-measure-the-value-of-a-home-by-the-number-of-toilets-it-has-which-is-bonkers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump sued by preservation group over $300m White House ballroom project]]></title><description><![CDATA[National Trust looks to halt construction, claiming Trump tore down historic East Wing without needed permissionDonald Trump is facing a federal lawsuit seeking to halt construction on his $300m White House ballroom, with historic preservationists accusing the president of violating multiple federal laws by tearing down part of the iconic building without required reviews or congressional approval.The legal challenge, filed on Friday by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the US dist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/trump-sued-by-preservation-group-over-300m-white-house-ballroom-project/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:22:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/trump-sued-by-preservation-group-over-300m-white-house-ballroom-project/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Barbican refurbishment should take heed of Leeds | Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[The University of Leeds complex was a prototype for the Barbican &ndash; and the work done to it over time demonstrates how brutalist buildings can be humanised, writes Alan RadfordI read with interest about the refurbishment plans for the Barbican (Barbican revamp to give &lsquo;bewildering&rsquo; arts centre a new lease of life, 5 December). I spent more than 30 years working on the prototype &ndash; the large complex of buildings that the architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon designed for the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-barbican-refurbishment-should-take-heed-of-leeds-letter/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:58:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-barbican-refurbishment-should-take-heed-of-leeds-letter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Like lipstick on a fabulous gorilla’: the Barbican’s many gaudy glow-ups and the one to top them all]]></title><description><![CDATA[The brutalist arts-and-towers complex, where even great explorers get lost, is showing its age. Let&rsquo;s hope the 50th anniversary upgrade is better than the &lsquo;pointillist stippling&rsquo; tried in the 1990sThe Barbican is aptly named. From the Old French barbacane, it historically means a fortified gateway forming the outer line of defence to a city or castle. London&rsquo;s Barbican marks the site of a medieval structure that would have defended an important access point. Its architect]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-lipstick-on-a-fabulous-gorilla-the-barbicans-many-gaudy-glow-ups-and-the-one-to-top-them-all/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:49:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-lipstick-on-a-fabulous-gorilla-the-barbicans-many-gaudy-glow-ups-and-the-one-to-top-them-all/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Getting lost is good’: skybridge and floating stairs bring fun and thrills to mighty new Taiwan museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[With its soaring ceilings, meandering pathways and mesh-like walls, Taichung Art Museum, designed by Sanaa, sweeps visitors from library to gallery to rooftop garden for rousing viewsWalking through the brand new Taichung Art Museum in central Taiwan, directions are kind of an abstract concept. Designed by powerhouse Japanese architecture firm Sanaa, the complex is a collection of eight askew buildings, melding an art museum and municipal library, encased in silver mesh-like walls, with soaring]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/getting-lost-is-good-skybridge-and-floating-stairs-bring-fun-and-thrills-to-mighty-new-taiwan-museum/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/getting-lost-is-good-skybridge-and-floating-stairs-bring-fun-and-thrills-to-mighty-new-taiwan-museum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Rock obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect who pioneered the idea of the collective workspace as a socially and economically supportive environment in London in the 1970sNow a familiar part of modern working life, the collective workspace, whereby small firms share office space and communal facilities, was the brainchild of the architect David Rock, who has died aged 96. He established a pioneering working community at 5 Dryden Street in Covent Garden in 1972, at a time when London&rsquo;s famous fruit and vegetable market was]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/david-rock-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:44:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/david-rock-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump is remodeling Washington to fit his twisted vision of America | Judith Levine]]></title><description><![CDATA[The administration is offloading gems of US architecture while redesigning the city to match the president&rsquo;s valuesWhile the original architect of Donald Trump&rsquo;s ever-expanding ballroom steps down and preservationists panic over the fate of New Deal murals inside the Social Security Administration building, the president gushes about painting the granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white, &ldquo;fixing&rdquo; the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and erecting his own Arc de]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/trump-is-remodeling-washington-to-fit-his-twisted-vision-of-america-judith-levine/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/trump-is-remodeling-washington-to-fit-his-twisted-vision-of-america-judith-levine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Right Rev Thomas McMahon obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Roman Catholic bishop noted for opposing nuclear arms and abortion, and for remodelling Brentwood Cathedral in EssexCatholicism does not fall quite so neatly into conservative and liberal factions as is sometimes supposed. Thomas McMahon, the former RC bishop of Brentwood, who has died aged 89, was a case in point.So traditional in his liturgical tastes that he spent millions commissioning the architect Quinlan Terry to give his undistinguished cathedral in Essex a neoclassical makeover, McMahon]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-right-rev-thomas-mcmahon-obituary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:02:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-right-rev-thomas-mcmahon-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bold shapes and binoculars: Frank Gehry’s stunning California architecture]]></title><description><![CDATA[From his home town of Los Angeles, the architect designed a career around defying what was predictableIn Frank Gehry&rsquo;s world, no building was left untilted, unexposed or untouched by unconventional material. The Canadian-American architect, who died in his Los Angeles home at 96, designed a career around defying what was predictable and pulling in materials that were uncommon and, as such, relatively inexpensive.Gehry collaborated with artists to turn giant binoculars into an entryway of a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bold-shapes-and-binoculars-frank-gehrys-stunning-california-architecture/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bold-shapes-and-binoculars-frank-gehrys-stunning-california-architecture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank Gehry: maximalist master who created instant icons like the Bilbao Guggenheim]]></title><description><![CDATA[He made buildings that looked like slouching drunks and quarrelling couples but it was the Spanish museum that secured his &lsquo;starchitect&rsquo; status &ndash; a creation that became something of a curseFrank Gehry once had a cameo in The Simpsons in which he designed buildings by scrunching up pieces of paper. There was a bit more to it than that, but from Prague to Panama City, his scrunched contours were instantly recognisable, expressed in an exuberant parade of buildings that cranked an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/frank-gehry-maximalist-master-who-created-instant-icons-like-the-bilbao-guggenheim/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/frank-gehry-maximalist-master-who-created-instant-icons-like-the-bilbao-guggenheim/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six greats reads: a train ride to the future; searching for the ‘sky boys’ and wallaby hunting in the English countryside]]></title><description><![CDATA[Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/six-greats-reads-a-train-ride-to-the-future-searching-for-the-sky-boys-and-wallaby-hunting-in-the-english-countryside/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/six-greats-reads-a-train-ride-to-the-future-searching-for-the-sky-boys-and-wallaby-hunting-in-the-english-countryside/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank Gehry obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canadian&ndash;American architect who explored crumpling and fish curves in such buildings as the Guggenheim Museum in BilbaoFrank Gehry, who has died aged 96 after a respiratory illness, influenced the course of world architecture at least twice. First, in the 1970s, with his informal ad hoc aesthetic, he showed how such material as chain-link fencing could be turned into an expressive art form. Secondly, in the 1990s, he showed how the computer could be used to help realise extraordinarily com]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/frank-gehry-obituary/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 01:13:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/frank-gehry-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Bilbao to Las Vegas: Frank Gehry’s incredible architecture – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The award-winning designer and architect leaves behind unique buildings all across the world from Dundee to D&uuml;sseldorf. He died after a brief respiratory illness at the age of 96Frank Gehry, legendary Canadian-American architect, dies aged 96 Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-bilbao-to-las-vegas-frank-gehrys-incredible-architecture-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-bilbao-to-las-vegas-frank-gehrys-incredible-architecture-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank Gehry, legendary Canadian-American architect, dies aged 96]]></title><description><![CDATA[The architect, whose work included the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, died after a brief illnessFrom Bilbao to Las Vegas: Frank Gehry&rsquo;s incredible architecture &ndash; in picturesFrank Gehry, one of the most influential and distinctive talents in American architecture, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles following a brief respiratory illness, his chief of staff confirmed. He was 96.Gehry, the most recognizable American architect since Frank Lloyd]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/frank-gehry-legendary-canadian-american-architect-dies-aged-96/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:38:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/frank-gehry-legendary-canadian-american-architect-dies-aged-96/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gillian Hopwood obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect who with her husband, John Godwin, designed more than 1,000 modernist buildings in post-independence NigeriaThe architect Gillian Hopwood, who has died aged 98, only recently found recognition in her home country, England, after a career spent since 1954 in Nigeria. As Godwin and Hopwood, she and her husband, John Godwin, worked together as equals in a partnership that long outlasted the larger London-based practices that briefly flourished there in the years leading up to independence]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/gillian-hopwood-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:42:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/gillian-hopwood-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The imposing concrete buildings that defined British postwar architecture held a vision of the future &ndash; but many fell into disrepair. A new book finds the finest examples Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/they-rose-out-of-the-ground-scotlands-brutalist-beauties-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/they-rose-out-of-the-ground-scotlands-brutalist-beauties-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country Diary: A lonely chapel that whispers and roars | Sara Hudston]]></title><description><![CDATA[Abbotsbury, Dorset: Long ago this was the place to come and wish for a husband. It is empty today, but still so full of presenceTwo ascending buzzards dazzle against the sun as I climb to St&nbsp;Catherine&rsquo;s Chapel alone on its hill above the sea. It is the saint&rsquo;s own feast day (25 November), when women once came to recite a charm for getting married. The traditional wording was blunt: &ldquo;A husband, St Catherine, a handsome one, St&nbsp;Catherine, a rich one, St&nbsp;Catherine,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-a-lonely-chapel-that-whispers-and-roars-sara-hudston/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-a-lonely-chapel-that-whispers-and-roars-sara-hudston/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eco obscenity: Norman Foster’s steroidal new skyscraper is an affront to the New York skyline]]></title><description><![CDATA[It contains enough steel to go round the world twice &ndash; and even has a fake breeze to flutter the stars-and-stripes flag in its lobby. If this $4bn colossus is just the first of a new breed of bulky supertalls, is Britain next?Among the slender needles and elegant spires of the Manhattan skyline, a mountainous lump has reared into view. It galumphs its way up above the others, climbing in bulky steps with the look of several towers strapped together, forming a dark, looming mass. From some]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/an-eco-obscenity-norman-fosters-steroidal-new-skyscraper-is-an-affront-to-the-new-york-skyline/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/an-eco-obscenity-norman-fosters-steroidal-new-skyscraper-is-an-affront-to-the-new-york-skyline/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It would take 11 seconds to hit the ground’: the roughneck daredevils who built the Empire State Building]]></title><description><![CDATA[They wrestled steel beams, hung off giant hooks and tossed red hot rivets &ndash; all while &lsquo;strolling on the thin edge of nothingness&rsquo;. Now the 3,000 unsung heroes who raised the famous skyscraper are finally being celebratedPoised on a steel cable a quarter of a mile above Manhattan, a weather-beaten man in work dungarees reaches up to tighten a bolt. Below, though you hardly dare to look down, lies the Hudson River, the sprawling cityscape of New York and the US itself, rolling ou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-would-take-11-seconds-to-hit-the-ground-the-roughneck-daredevils-who-built-the-empire-state-building/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-would-take-11-seconds-to-hit-the-ground-the-roughneck-daredevils-who-built-the-empire-state-building/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Older couples need a living room of one’s own | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Separate rooms | Downsizing homes | Nigel Farage | Hong Kong fires |Idle Working Men&rsquo;s ClubIt&rsquo;s not just renters who need a living room (The death of the living room: &lsquo;It&rsquo;s hard to invite people over &ndash; not everyone wants to sit on a bed&rsquo;, 26 November). What about a couple of senior citizens, home most of the time, who do not&nbsp;wish to spend every waking hour in the same room? In our local area there appear to be no flats for sale with a kitchen/diner and se]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/older-couples-need-a-living-room-of-ones-own-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/older-couples-need-a-living-room-of-ones-own-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our beautiful multiplex: Milton Keynes council fights to save landmark cinema The Point]]></title><description><![CDATA[The building was once home to the UK&rsquo;s first US-style multiplex. Now developers are seeking to demolish it for a new housing schemeForty years ago this month, British cinema-going changed for ever with the opening of The Point in Milton Keynes, the UK&rsquo;s first US-style multiplex. Looming over Midsummer Boulevard, the Point&rsquo;s mirrored glass ziggurat and red pyramidal frame audaciously synthesised Maya and Egyptian motifs in a futuristic, hi-tech temple of pleasure. As well as 10]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/our-beautiful-multiplex-milton-keynes-council-fights-to-save-landmark-cinema-the-point/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/our-beautiful-multiplex-milton-keynes-council-fights-to-save-landmark-cinema-the-point/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert AM Stern, architect dubbed ‘King of Central Park West’, dies aged 86]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stern, credited with designing 15 Central Park West, sought to design buildings that invoked pre-war splendorRobert AM Stern, an architect who fashioned the New York City skyline with buildings that sought to invoke pre-war splendor but with modern luxury fit for billionaires and movie stars, has died at the age of 86.Dubbed &ldquo;The King of Central Park West&rdquo; by Vanity Fair, Stern was credited with designing 15 Central Park West that, in 2008, was credited as being the highest-priced ne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/robert-am-stern-architect-dubbed-king-of-central-park-west-dies-aged-86/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/robert-am-stern-architect-dubbed-king-of-central-park-west-dies-aged-86/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtauld to embark on £82m campus project at Somerset House in London]]></title><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Once-in-a-generation transformation&rsquo; of Grade-I building will bring teaching spaces under same roof as galleryThe Courtauld has unveiled an &pound;82m campus redevelopment it is calling a &ldquo;once-in-a-generation transformation&rdquo; of its Grade-I listed building, Somerset House, in London.The Stirling prize-winning architects Witherford Watson Mann will take charge of the four-year project at the teaching and research centre and public gallery, which follows their 2021 revamp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/courtauld-to-embark-on-82m-campus-project-at-somerset-house-in-london/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/courtauld-to-embark-on-82m-campus-project-at-somerset-house-in-london/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Australian homes win top places in international 2025 Dezeen awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Dracula-inspired bathroom in Sydney and an outside-inside home in Melbourne claim interior design and architecture prizesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailPoint Piper in Sydney&rsquo;s eastern suburbs is home to one of the best bathrooms in the world, according to the annual Dezeen awards, a global design accolade.Its dark, moody and luxurious interiors were partly inspired by Bram Stoker&rsquo;s Dracula. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/two-australian-homes-win-top-places-in-international-2025-dezeen-awards/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/two-australian-homes-win-top-places-in-international-2025-dezeen-awards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of the living room: ‘It’s hard to invite people over – not everyone wants to sit on a bed’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The number of rental properties without a lounge is surging, and people are having to eat and socialise in kitchens, bedrooms and stairwells. How can you relax and build community without a communal area?&lsquo;Without a living room, your world becomes quite small,&rdquo; says Georgie, a 27-year-old climbing and outdoor instructor. When she moved into a house-share with four strangers in 2023, she wasn&rsquo;t worried about the lack of a living room. &ldquo;I kind of thought it would be fine &nd]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-death-of-the-living-room-its-hard-to-invite-people-over-not-everyone-wants-to-sit-on-a-bed/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-death-of-the-living-room-its-hard-to-invite-people-over-not-everyone-wants-to-sit-on-a-bed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Byzantine cottages to vulvic stadiums: the brilliance of female architects]]></title><description><![CDATA[A RIBA report says &ldquo;stark displays of sexism&rdquo; are driving women from the profession. If we don&rsquo;t fight this systemic misogyny, we won&rsquo;t just lose dazzling designs &ndash; we&rsquo;ll have a world only fit for 6ft tall policemenIf one were to think &ldquo;Brazilian 20th-century modernist genius&rdquo;, one might alight on Oscar Niemeyer, but see also the Italian &eacute;migr&eacute; Lina Bo Bardi, who developed an Italian-style modernism with a Brazilian accent in her adop]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-byzantine-cottages-to-vulvic-stadiums-the-brilliance-of-female-architects/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-byzantine-cottages-to-vulvic-stadiums-the-brilliance-of-female-architects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘An idealized version of LA’: fabled mid-century Stahl house on sale for first time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Home perched in Hollywood Hills, constructed for $37,500 and made famous by Julius Shulman photo, listed for $25mThe Stahl house &ndash; a paragon of Los Angeles mid-century modern architectural design &ndash; is for sale for the first time in the home&rsquo;s history.The cantilevered home, perched in the Hollywood Hills, hit the listings market this week. The asking price: $25m. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/an-idealized-version-of-la-fabled-mid-century-stahl-house-on-sale-for-first-time/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:39:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/an-idealized-version-of-la-fabled-mid-century-stahl-house-on-sale-for-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Beautiful to look at and wonderful to live in’: new pattern designs could be next art deco or red brick classics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Competition-winning apartment building plans should be approved twice as quickly by NSW councils, and will be three to six storeys highFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAiry Scandinavian interiors, shaded balconies, light-filled courtyards &ndash; could these be Sydney&rsquo;s next art deco apartment blocks or red brick walk-ups?The New South Wales government has launched nine new mid-rise apartment building pattern b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/beautiful-to-look-at-and-wonderful-to-live-in-new-pattern-designs-could-be-next-art-deco-or-red-brick-classics/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 04:07:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/beautiful-to-look-at-and-wonderful-to-live-in-new-pattern-designs-could-be-next-art-deco-or-red-brick-classics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance, grandeur and charm: winners of the 2025 New Zealand architecture awards – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spread across 11 categories, winners include church conversions, bridges and homes set against New Zealand&rsquo;s wild landscapesContinue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/elegance-grandeur-and-charm-winners-of-the-2025-new-zealand-architecture-awards-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 01:04:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/elegance-grandeur-and-charm-winners-of-the-2025-new-zealand-architecture-awards-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A tapestry of stone’: the first Ismaili Centre in the US rises in the heart of Texas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect Farshid Moussavi is behind a tranquil and timeless new building where Houston&rsquo;s 40,000-strong Ismaili Muslim community can come together. But how has she created something that looks so delicate out of stone?On a hot autumn day in southern Texas, monarch butterflies flit around the gardens of Houston&rsquo;s new Ismaili Centre. Fragile and gaudy, they are on their way south to overwinter in Mexico, travelling up to 3,000 miles in a typical migration cycle, an epic feat of insecti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-tapestry-of-stone-the-first-ismaili-centre-in-the-us-rises-in-the-heart-of-texas/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:46:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-tapestry-of-stone-the-first-ismaili-centre-in-the-us-rises-in-the-heart-of-texas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s about quality of life’: Can Birmingham’s Retrofit House help fix the UK’s terrible housing?]]></title><description><![CDATA[From flood protection and encouraging wildlife to fixing doors and reducing fuel bills, a new initiative aims to empower residents and make their homes more comfortableLink Road is home to an unassuming row of Victorian terrace houses in Edgbaston, but inside one of these two up, two downs, a domestic revolution is happening.At No 33 Link Road, a property bought by community group Civic Square and named Retrofit House, it&rsquo;s open week. Events include a series of talks, classes and performan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-about-quality-of-life-can-birminghams-retrofit-house-help-fix-the-uks-terrible-housing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:28:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-about-quality-of-life-can-birminghams-retrofit-house-help-fix-the-uks-terrible-housing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Harlem has always been evolving’: inside the Studio Museum’s $160m new home]]></title><description><![CDATA[The iconic museum, which was founded in 1968, has been rehoused in 82,000-sq-ft building providing a new destination for Black art in New York CityCall it the second Harlem renaissance. On Manhattan&rsquo;s 125th Street, where a statue of Adam Clayton Powell Jr strides onwards and upwards, and a sign marks the spot where a freed Nelson Mandela dropped by, there is bustle and buzz.The celebrated Apollo Theater is in the midst of a major renovation. The National Black Theatre is preparing to move]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/harlem-has-always-been-evolving-inside-the-studio-museums-160m-new-home/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:03:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/harlem-has-always-been-evolving-inside-the-studio-museums-160m-new-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living with the water: the Netherlands’ floating futures – photo essay]]></title><description><![CDATA[Photographer Alessandro Gandolfi&rsquo;s project looks at how sustainable floating neighbourhoods in the Netherlands offer a way forward as the sea rises, by embracing the philosophy of meebewegen: learning to live with the water&ldquo;A pitiful land, flooded twice a day,&rdquo; was the verdict of the Roman savant, Pliny the Elder, of a region where &ldquo;wretched peoples living in huts&rdquo; must battle perpetually to resolve the question of &ldquo;whether this region belongs to the land or t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/living-with-the-water-the-netherlands-floating-futures-photo-essay/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/living-with-the-water-the-netherlands-floating-futures-photo-essay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metro stations, country homes and a picnic shelter: Australia’s 2025 National Architecture award winners – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 40 projects were recognised in the national awards, identifying contemporary designs that offer solutions to critical national issues, including housing shortages, affordability and the climate crisisGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/metro-stations-country-homes-and-a-picnic-shelter-australias-2025-national-architecture-award-winners-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/metro-stations-country-homes-and-a-picnic-shelter-australias-2025-national-architecture-award-winners-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Garden shed of vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner added to heritage at risk register]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hut where father of immunology trialled first smallpox vaccine among 138 additions to Historic England listA rustic, ordinary-looking English garden hut regarded as the birthplace of immunology &ndash; revolutionising global public health and saving countless lives &ndash; has been added to the nation&rsquo;s heritage at risk register.The hut belonged to Edward Jenner (1749-1823), regarded as someone who has saved more lives than any other human. It was there that he first trialled a vaccine for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/garden-shed-of-vaccine-pioneer-edward-jenner-added-to-heritage-at-risk-register/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/garden-shed-of-vaccine-pioneer-edward-jenner-added-to-heritage-at-risk-register/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiny beautiful things: architectural exhibition showcases the enduring role of scale models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tangible 3D models of global landmarks are used for &lsquo;understanding how a building will look and feel&rsquo; &ndash; and offer global city skylines on a tabletopGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIn architecture, the biggest civic visions are born in the smallest form. Sometimes, the most powerful ideas can fit neatly on a table.The scale model is a crucial step in the journey from concept design to skyline. Anexhibition opening in Sydney on Sunday pays tribute to th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tiny-beautiful-things-architectural-exhibition-showcases-the-enduring-role-of-scale-models/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tiny-beautiful-things-architectural-exhibition-showcases-the-enduring-role-of-scale-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four feet higher and rising: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia becomes world’s tallest church]]></title><description><![CDATA[Antoni Gaud&iacute;&rsquo;s masterwork is still under construction but now stands taller than Ulm Minster in southern GermanyBarcelona&rsquo;s Sagrada Familia basilica became the world&rsquo;s tallest church on Thursday after a part of its central tower was lifted into place.The masterwork of the architect Antoni Gaud&iacute; now rises to 162.91 metres (534ft 8in) above the city, the church said in a statement. That beats the spire of Ulm Minster in Germany, which tops out at 161.53 metres. Cont]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/four-feet-higher-and-rising-barcelonas-sagrada-familia-becomes-worlds-tallest-church/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:06:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/four-feet-higher-and-rising-barcelonas-sagrada-familia-becomes-worlds-tallest-church/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christopher Mullan obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, Christopher Mullan, who has died aged 78, was an architect who undertook hundreds of projects during 37 years working at the Falconer Partnership in Stroud, Gloucestershire.Perhaps his finest creations were the various developments to &#8203;the Fuller&rsquo;s brewery in Chiswick, west London, as it grew across the 1980s, 90s and early 2000s, and a large award-winning extension he designed for Christ Church in Cheltenham, the final phase of which opened in 2006. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/christopher-mullan-obituary/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/christopher-mullan-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We want people to get lost!’ Princeton’s new museum survives scandal to deliver a mazey art ambush]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is architect David Adjaye&rsquo;s first major project since the allegations that rocked his firm &ndash; a bold museum for Princeton University with exhibits that sneak up on its students. But do the insides match the outsides?A cluster of serrated concrete bunkers has landed in the heart of Princeton University&rsquo;s leafy campus in New Jersey, sending tremors through this twee Oxbridge fantasyland of gothic turrets and twiddly spires. The new addition&rsquo;s brute, blank facade gives lit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-want-people-to-get-lost-princetons-new-museum-survives-scandal-to-deliver-a-mazey-art-ambush/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-want-people-to-get-lost-princetons-new-museum-survives-scandal-to-deliver-a-mazey-art-ambush/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clean lines and a connection with nature: the modernist beach house jutting out over a Scottish loch]]></title><description><![CDATA[A couple&rsquo;s dream home on Scotland&rsquo;s rocky west coast is an audacious, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired feat of architectureBuilding a bold new contemporary home directly on the British coastline is a tall order. Aside from the logistics of designing a house that functions successfully in such an unforgiving setting, planning permission is likely to make it a nonstarter. But on the shore of Loch Long on the Rosneath peninsula, 40 miles north-west of Glasgow, John MacKinnon and his wife Lau]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/clean-lines-and-a-connection-with-nature-the-modernist-beach-house-jutting-out-over-a-scottish-loch/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/clean-lines-and-a-connection-with-nature-the-modernist-beach-house-jutting-out-over-a-scottish-loch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homes for sale in England with a grand design – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[From a multi award-winning treehouse, to a sleek glass-clad home built by architectural pioneers of new Brutalism Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/homes-for-sale-in-england-with-a-grand-design-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 08:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/homes-for-sale-in-england-with-a-grand-design-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diversity in architecture has taken a backwards step | Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Murray on how one London borough championed female and ethnic minority staff in management positions 30 years ago Up to the 1990s, local authorities and public sector design services provided positive opportunities for women and ethnic minorities to flourish in departments of architecture (&lsquo;Stark displays of sexism&rsquo; driving women out of architecture, report finds, 20 October).For example, in Haringey&rsquo;s building design service, which developed ideas from the New Architectur]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/diversity-in-architecture-has-taken-a-backwards-step-letter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/diversity-in-architecture-has-taken-a-backwards-step-letter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Dictator-for-life vibes’: our architecture critic on Trump’s bulletproof ballroom bling]]></title><description><![CDATA[He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler&rsquo;s changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would feel at home. Why did he pick an architect whose speciality is Catholic churches?As if truffling thuggishly in pursuit of the Nobel peace prize wasn&rsquo;t enough, the spectacle of bulldozers ripping into the White House is yet more evidence of Donald Trump&rsquo;s unstinting quest for epic self-aggrandisement. Having decreed the East Wing not fit for purpose &]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dictator-for-life-vibes-our-architecture-critic-on-trumps-bulletproof-ballroom-bling/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dictator-for-life-vibes-our-architecture-critic-on-trumps-bulletproof-ballroom-bling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stuart Gulliver obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Economic development strategist who helped make Glasgow a cultural centre of international standing in the 1980s and 90sWhen Stuart Gulliver arrived in Glasgow in 1978 to work as an economic development strategist, the city was desperately in need of a plan. Its population had crashed by almost 25% in the previous 20 years. Its swagger as the empire&rsquo;s second city, with a Manhattan-style grid and a wealth of grandiloquent but by then decaying architecture, had evaporated. Its factories, shi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stuart-gulliver-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stuart-gulliver-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repair bills could force hundreds of UK churches to close within five years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two in five say their roof is at risk and one in three are using reserves for basics,National Churches Trust survey findsHundreds of Britain&rsquo;s churches may be forced to close in the next five years as the cost of maintaining heritage buildings becomes unmanageable, a conference at the V&amp;A in London has heard.Many of the UK&rsquo;s 20,000-plus listed places of worship contain important heritage treasures, such as stained glass windows, and monuments of historic significance. They are al]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/repair-bills-could-force-hundreds-of-uk-churches-to-close-within-five-years/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/repair-bills-could-force-hundreds-of-uk-churches-to-close-within-five-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protecting the crown jewels in pilates classes | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pilates and the male psyche | Targeted for tax | Hot designs | Carving up the USAs the (frequently) sole male in pilates classes, I wonder if the reason &ldquo;pilates and the male psyche don&rsquo;t seem to connect&rdquo; (Letters, 19 October) is that the language is directed towards women and their anatomy. On more than one occasion, when I have clearly been confused as to what bit of myself I am meant to be concentrating on, female instructors have whispered &ldquo;crown jewels&rdquo; in my e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/protecting-the-crown-jewels-in-pilates-classes-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/protecting-the-crown-jewels-in-pilates-classes-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden, lost and dramatic: tour Melbourne’s most treasured heritage interiors – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new book by interior designer and heritage consultant Kristine Slawinski and graphic designer Phil Campbell showcases the fabulous Victorian, art moderne and mid-century styled interiors of Melbourne&rsquo;s city centre buildings, drawn from archival and present-day images&bull; Melbourne Heritage Interiors by Kristine Slawinski and Phil Campbell is out now (A$99)<br />
&bull; A rare glimpse inside Melbourne&rsquo;s most captivating buildings Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hidden-lost-and-dramatic-tour-melbournes-most-treasured-heritage-interiors-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hidden-lost-and-dramatic-tour-melbournes-most-treasured-heritage-interiors-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Stark displays of sexism’ driving women out of architecture, report finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[The RIBA and Fawcett Society survey finds many are afraid to report bullying, sexual harassment and unequal payTwo decades after a seminal report on sexism in architecture, women are still abandoning the profession because of &ldquo;toxic workplace cultures&rdquo;, sexual harassment, long hours and unequal pay, according to a report from the Royal Institute of British Architects (the RIBA).Female architects still faced intractable barriers, including &ldquo;long hours being glori&#64257;ed, an i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stark-displays-of-sexism-driving-women-out-of-architecture-report-finds/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stark-displays-of-sexism-driving-women-out-of-architecture-report-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spa vibes with a grow-your-own-dinner option: Britain’s best new building is a revamped almshouse]]></title><description><![CDATA[With its shimmering ginkgo trees, tinkling pools and a rooftop garden, the Appleby Blue Almshouse housing complex for older people is a worthy winner of RIBA&rsquo;s prestigious Stirling prizeDescribed as &ldquo;a provision of pure delight&rdquo;, Appleby Blue Almshouse, a social housing complex for older people has been named this year&rsquo;s winner of the RIBA Stirling prize. With a vibe that has more in common with an Alpine spa hotel than the poky rooms and grim corridors usually associated]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/spa-vibes-with-a-grow-your-own-dinner-option-britains-best-new-building-is-a-revamped-almshouse/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/spa-vibes-with-a-grow-your-own-dinner-option-britains-best-new-building-is-a-revamped-almshouse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From glorified sheds to sleek sci-fi palaces: how architecture put the zing into football grounds]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new exhibition in Liverpool tells the story of the grassy arenas, from churning tribal terraces to hyper-modern, wedding-cake-like structures with retractable pitches. And let&rsquo;s hear it for the world&rsquo;s first all-timber stadium!Bill Shankly, a man so beloved by Liverpool that there is now a hotel in the city named after him, once famously observed: &ldquo;Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is muc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-glorified-sheds-to-sleek-sci-fi-palaces-how-architecture-put-the-zing-into-football-grounds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-glorified-sheds-to-sleek-sci-fi-palaces-how-architecture-put-the-zing-into-football-grounds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream of turning empty office blocks into apartments appears over. What went wrong?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Strict planning rules and soaring refit costs are deterring landlords and developers, amid calls for government intervention to alleviate housing crunchFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo years ago, state and local governments pushed to fast-track conversions of near-empty offices into much-needed apartments to alleviate a housing crunch.The promised panacea never eventuated. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-dream-of-turning-empty-office-blocks-into-apartments-appears-over-what-went-wrong/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-dream-of-turning-empty-office-blocks-into-apartments-appears-over-what-went-wrong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get Cartier! How Jean Novel turned an old Paris department store into a museum to rival the Louvre]]></title><description><![CDATA[The exterior may be a bit Apple store. But inside &ndash; upending the very notion of galleries &ndash; the new Fondation Cartier can reconfigure its spaces with thrillingly movable platforms. And as for the lecture theatre, it&rsquo;s blood redCome what may, Jean Nouvel will always have Paris. The City of Lights has been the stage and stomping ground of French architecture&rsquo;s vieux terrible since the early 1980s. Yet the building that first made his name &ndash; the Institut du Monde Arabe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/get-cartier-how-jean-novel-turned-an-old-paris-department-store-into-a-museum-to-rival-the-louvre/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/get-cartier-how-jean-novel-turned-an-old-paris-department-store-into-a-museum-to-rival-the-louvre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[&lsquo;Like time-travelling&rsquo;: readers tell of unexpected joys of V&amp;A East Storehouse]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some visitors get close to their chosen items through the &lsquo;order an object&rsquo; service as others describe being affected by the displaysThe V&amp;A has launched a new exhibition space, the V&amp;A East Storehouse in Hackney, east London, which houses more than 250,000 objects and offers immersive experiences alongside more than 100 small, curated displays. As well as browsing the exhibits that are on show, visitors have the option to choose up to five via the &ldquo;order an object&rdqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lsquolike-time-travellingrsquo-readers-tell-of-unexpected-joys-of-vampa-east-storehouse/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lsquolike-time-travellingrsquo-readers-tell-of-unexpected-joys-of-vampa-east-storehouse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a Utah church to a Denver museum: the man who found 75 pyramids in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over a decade, Ian James captured an array of pyramid structures across 20 US states, now documented in a new bookOn a summer afternoon in 2017, Los Angeles-based artist Ian James found himself at the Pain Reliever Bar &amp; Grill, the only functioning establishment in Nekoma, North Dakota.Lingering until midnight, while trying not to look too much like a Californian in a town of less than 30 residents, James struck up a conversation with a local couple who explained how to gain access to the St]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-a-utah-church-to-a-denver-museum-the-man-who-found-75-pyramids-in-the-us/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-a-utah-church-to-a-denver-museum-the-man-who-found-75-pyramids-in-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thumping ambition – and demolition: 10 high-rises that changed modern Britain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eyesores and scandalously unsafe? Or utopian housing for the working classes? Here are the stories and scandals behind some of the UK&rsquo;s most revolutionary homes&lsquo;There is nothing, it seems to me, more appalling, more deadening in the urban landscape than a uniform mass of low buildings covering acres and acres &hellip; High dwellings &ndash; I think, really very high dwellings &ndash; are an enormous enhancement of the scene.&rdquo; So said Evelyn Sharp, civil servant and powerhouse w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/thumping-ambition-and-demolition-10-high-rises-that-changed-modern-britain/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/thumping-ambition-and-demolition-10-high-rises-that-changed-modern-britain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ‘floating university’ and a pink mosque: Dhaka builds for a wetter future – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Across the Bangladeshi megacity, designers are adapting to the climate crisis Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-floating-university-and-a-pink-mosque-dhaka-builds-for-a-wetter-future-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-floating-university-and-a-pink-mosque-dhaka-builds-for-a-wetter-future-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘As thrilling as driving a sports car’: the Tokyo capsule tower that gave pod-living penthouse chic]]></title><description><![CDATA[They had portholes, cutting edge mod cons &ndash; and the ultra luxurious models even came with a free calculator. As Japan&rsquo;s beloved Nakagin Capsule Tower resurfaces, we celebrate an architectural marvelLooking like a teetering stack of washing machines perched on the edge of an elevated highway, the Nakagin Capsule Tower was an astonishing arrival on the Tokyo skyline in 1972. It was the heady vision of Kisho Kurokawa, a radical Japanese architect who imagined a high-rise world of compac]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/as-thrilling-as-driving-a-sports-car-the-tokyo-capsule-tower-that-gave-pod-living-penthouse-chic/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/as-thrilling-as-driving-a-sports-car-the-tokyo-capsule-tower-that-gave-pod-living-penthouse-chic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trevor Hendy obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend Trevor Hendy, who has died aged 89, was director of development at United Kingdom Housing Trust (UKHT) in the 1980s, a period in which, among other things, he brought back to life its Arlington House property, a 900-bed hostel for working men in north London that had fallen into squalor under private ownership. Trevor oversaw much-needed improvements to living conditions there, and the hostel (of which I was a board member) is still operating.He left UKHT in the late 80s to set up a ho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/trevor-hendy-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/trevor-hendy-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charred chimneys are all that’s left of these LA midcentury homes. Inside the quest to save them]]></title><description><![CDATA[A piece of history burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires. Project Chimney is salvaging what&rsquo;s left to honor the architecture &ndash; and eventually create a memorialBy mid-morning last Thursday, Evan Hall was standing near the top of Monument Street in Los Angeles&rsquo;s Pacific Palisades, looking out over the Pacific Ocean. He was running out of time.Hall stood in the charred ruins of a 1953 home designed by the modernist architect Richard Neutra. Beside him, a handful of hard-hat-cla]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/charred-chimneys-are-all-thats-left-of-these-la-midcentury-homes-inside-the-quest-to-save-them/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/charred-chimneys-are-all-thats-left-of-these-la-midcentury-homes-inside-the-quest-to-save-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Forgotten’ designer of art nouveau Métro entrances to get Paris museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fans say opening of museum honouring Hector Guimard, whose work went out of fashion, will right a historic wrongThe &ldquo;forgotten&rdquo; designer of Paris&rsquo;s most iconic M&eacute;tro station entrances and art nouveau buildings is to be given his rightful place in the city&rsquo;s history with a museum dedicated to his work.Hector Guimard left a distinctive mark across the French capital in the early 1900s, creating elaborate and monumental M&eacute;tro entrances whose fans of iron and gl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/forgotten-designer-of-art-nouveau-mtro-entrances-to-get-paris-museum/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/forgotten-designer-of-art-nouveau-mtro-entrances-to-get-paris-museum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enchanted car park: how a ruined multi-storey became a garden paradise loved by lizards and dog-walkers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once a hangout for sex workers and drug addicts, a parking lot in Medell&iacute;n, Colombia, has been reborn as a green haven for all. We meet the &lsquo;social urbanists&rsquo; credited with reducing crime &ndash; and even temperaturesLilac-flowering creepers engulf an abandoned house on a street corner in Medell&iacute;n, Colombia, spilling from the roof and smothering most of the upstairs windows. A giant fan palm is visible through one opening, while a knotty tangle of aerial roots cascades]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-enchanted-car-park-how-a-ruined-multi-storey-became-a-garden-paradise-loved-by-lizards-and-dog-walkers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-enchanted-car-park-how-a-ruined-multi-storey-became-a-garden-paradise-loved-by-lizards-and-dog-walkers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victoria’s best new residential architecture – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well crafted family homes, a beach house that invites the outside in and a stunning concrete bunker in a high-risk fire zone are just some of the winners in the 2025 Victorian Architecture awards&rsquo; category for new residential properties, presented on 27 June. Hamish Lyon, chair of juries, says these homes represent &lsquo;thoughtful architecture working with its environment&rsquo; Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/victorias-best-new-residential-architecture-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/victorias-best-new-residential-architecture-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solar power: Kangaroo Point Bridge leads winners as Queensland architecture awards put spotlight on sustainability]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bridge that spans Brisbane River and includes solar panels and shade along itslength hailed as a transformative piece of urban infrastructureGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe newest bridge spanning the Brisbane River &ndash; the longest cable-stayed pedestrian bridge in the country &ndash; has taken out top honours in the 2025 Australian Institute of Architects Queensland awards.A week after Sydney&rsquo;s new network of city metro stations collected architecture&rsq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/solar-power-kangaroo-point-bridge-leads-winners-as-queensland-architecture-awards-put-spotlight-on-sustainability/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/solar-power-kangaroo-point-bridge-leads-winners-as-queensland-architecture-awards-put-spotlight-on-sustainability/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Léon Krier obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Visionary architect appointed master-planner by King Charles for his model new town of Poundbury in DorsetA colonnade of doric columns flanks the entrance to the neoclassical Waitrose building in Poundbury, Dorchester, in Dorset, facing on to the congested car park of Queen Mother Square. Across the plaza stands a creamy yellow palazzo, crowned with a royal crested-pediment, and a Palladian hotel named the Duchess of Cornwall. A gigantic brick campanile rises above the Royal Pavilion from a triu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lon-krier-obituary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lon-krier-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nathan Silver obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, Nathan Silver, who has died aged 89, was a distinguished architect, educator and author. His most enduring contribution to architectural history was Lost New York (1967), which was nominated for a US National Book award. It became a cultural phenomenon and helped establish the framework for New York&rsquo;s landmarks law (1965) and similar preservation efforts worldwide.Nathan also co-authored Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation (1972) with Charles Jencks, and wrote several other inf]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/nathan-silver-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/nathan-silver-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Excessively wasteful and giving off Swarovski vibes’: our critic on the ‘tiara bridge’ for the late queen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Norman Foster&rsquo;s cast glass design to honour Queen Elizabeth II will see a perfectly decent bridge destroyed and vast sums squandered at great ecological cost. And how will it stay sparkly?&bull; Translucent bridge to form centrepiece of national memorial to Elizabeth IIIs a &pound;46m glass tiara the right way to remember the UK&rsquo;s late queen? The Elizabeth II memorial selection committee certainly think so, in their choice of a glitzy glass bridge designed by Norman Foster for her pe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/excessively-wasteful-and-giving-off-swarovski-vibes-our-critic-on-the-tiara-bridge-for-the-late-queen/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/excessively-wasteful-and-giving-off-swarovski-vibes-our-critic-on-the-tiara-bridge-for-the-late-queen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Tate Modern to Grimsby docks: the team saving Britain’s cherished buildings from the wrecking ball]]></title><description><![CDATA[Can you imagine Liverpool without its Welsh Streets or London without Battersea Power Station? For 50 years, one small band of activists have been finding creative alternative uses for great buildings their owners couldn&rsquo;t seeIt&rsquo;s hard to imagine London without the mighty riverside citadels of Tate Modern and Battersea power station, or bereft of the ornate Victorian market halls of Smithfield and Billingsgate. It is equally difficult to picture Yorkshire without its majestic sandsto]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-tate-modern-to-grimsby-docks-the-team-saving-britains-cherished-buildings-from-the-wrecking-ball/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-tate-modern-to-grimsby-docks-the-team-saving-britains-cherished-buildings-from-the-wrecking-ball/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Translucent bridge to form centrepiece of national memorial to Elizabeth II]]></title><description><![CDATA[Norman Foster wins contest to transform St James&rsquo;s Park in tribute to late queen&rsquo;s &lsquo;unifying force&rsquo;The national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II will include a new bridge in St James&rsquo;s Park designed by Norman Foster.The peer, who was once among architects to accuse King Charles of using his &ldquo;privileged position&rdquo; to &ldquo;skew the course&rdquo; of the Chelsea barracks development, described being awarded the project as an honour. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/translucent-bridge-to-form-centrepiece-of-national-memorial-to-elizabeth-ii/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/translucent-bridge-to-form-centrepiece-of-national-memorial-to-elizabeth-ii/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vertical forest growing in the Netherlands: in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new tower brings apartments, office space and tens of thousands of plants to the heart of Utrecht Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-vertical-forest-growing-in-the-netherlands-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-vertical-forest-growing-in-the-netherlands-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this the antidote to the housing crisis? The YouTube series showcasing chic – and tiny – abodes]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Never Too Small, there are cabins that split in two and apartments straight out of Wes Anderson. It feels like we&rsquo;re all one reclaimed wood table away from complete blissRead more in the Internet wormhole seriesI&rsquo;ve been invited into the homes of architects in Buenos Aires, voguish designers in Hong Kong, community organisers in Sydney and writers in Paris &ndash; except that I haven&rsquo;t, not really.Really what I&rsquo;m doing is watching episodes of Never Too Small on YouTube]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/is-this-the-antidote-to-the-housing-crisis-the-youtube-series-showcasing-chic-and-tiny-abodes/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/is-this-the-antidote-to-the-housing-crisis-the-youtube-series-showcasing-chic-and-tiny-abodes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Legacy-making’ Sydney metro stations take out top prize in NSW Architecture awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Transformative&rsquo; project wins the 2025 architecture medallion as town centres, industrial restorations and residential homes collect other awards of noteGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSydney&rsquo;s recently opened network of city metro stations have taken out one of the top prizes at the Australian Institute of Architects&rsquo; 2025 NSW Architecture awards, announced on Friday night.Dozens of Australian architecture firms, engineering companies, landscap]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/legacy-making-sydney-metro-stations-take-out-top-prize-in-nsw-architecture-awards/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/legacy-making-sydney-metro-stations-take-out-top-prize-in-nsw-architecture-awards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Parker obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, John Parker, who has died aged 91, was inspired by his art teacher at South East London Technical College (SELTEC, now Lewisham College) to become an architect, and had a career spanning 65 years.In public service, he worked with the London county council (LCC) from 1962 to 1965, developing the concept of two-storey schools with roof gardens for children with special educational needs. And at the London borough of Lambeth (1965-70), he led designs for Brixton town centre. Continue rea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-parker-obituary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-parker-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liverpool’s Catholic cathedral has listing upgraded to Grade I]]></title><description><![CDATA[Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, AKA &lsquo;the Wigwam&rsquo;, recognised as one of UK&rsquo;s most important buildingsIt&rsquo;s known locally as the &ldquo;Wigwam&rdquo; or the &ldquo;Mersey Funnel&rdquo;, although one architect also likened it to &ldquo;a gargantuan concrete aberration from the Apollo space programme&rdquo;.Love it or not, Liverpool&rsquo;s Catholic cathedral can now be regarded as one of the most important buildings in the UK. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/liverpools-catholic-cathedral-has-listing-upgraded-to-grade-i/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/liverpools-catholic-cathedral-has-listing-upgraded-to-grade-i/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A dazzling concrete crown’: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral gets long overdue appreciation]]></title><description><![CDATA[A genius response bridging of history and modernity with daring interior and exterior, it is shocking it wasn&rsquo;t already Grade I-listedLiverpool&rsquo;s Catholic cathedral has listing upgraded to Grade ILiverpool&rsquo;s majestic cosmic wigwam has always faced a hard time from critics. Classicists lamented that it replaced an earlier swollen baroque design by Edwin Lutyens, which was cut short by the second world war and rising costs. Modernists found it too prissy, a brittle British versio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-dazzling-concrete-crown-liverpool-metropolitan-cathedral-gets-long-overdue-appreciation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-dazzling-concrete-crown-liverpool-metropolitan-cathedral-gets-long-overdue-appreciation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Algae bricks and oyster shell walls: what’s on the horizon for eco-friendly building in Australia?]]></title><description><![CDATA[From fungi-based wall panels to 3D printed bricks made of seaweed, biomaterials are increasingly being used in construction. But how close are they to a home near you?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe average person might simply see green goop, but when Ben Hankamer looks at microalgae, he sees the building blocks of the future.Prof Hankamer, from the Institute of Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland, is one of a growing number of people around the wo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/algae-bricks-and-oyster-shell-walls-whats-on-the-horizon-for-eco-friendly-building-in-australia/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2025 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/algae-bricks-and-oyster-shell-walls-whats-on-the-horizon-for-eco-friendly-building-in-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honourable course on Gaza | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Foreign Office staff | Children&rsquo;s books | Persnicketiness | Present participles | Pure tennis poetry | Shag carpetThree hundred Foreign Office staff with consciences, and concerns about UK policy on Gaza that they raised in a letter to the foreign secretary, should not be told by their Whitehall superiors that &ldquo;an honourable course&rdquo; is to resign from the civil service (Report, 10 June). No. The honourable course for the government is to act on these informed concerns and on our]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-honourable-course-on-gaza-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-honourable-course-on-gaza-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Made for sex’: the hedonistic party palaces of New York’s Fire Island – and the blond bombshell who made them]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is a &lsquo;queer Xanadu&rsquo;, a sliver of sand where weekend-long revelling takes place in fabulous modernist beach-houses. As Fire Island gets its mojo back, we celebrate the Speedos-wearing architect who defined its lookPosters advertising a &ldquo;bear weekend&rdquo; cling to the utility poles on Fire Island, punctuating the wooden boardwalks that meander through a lush dune landscape of beach grass and pitch pine. It&rsquo;s not a celebration of grizzlies, by the looks of the flyers, b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/made-for-sex-the-hedonistic-party-palaces-of-new-yorks-fire-island-and-the-blond-bombshell-who-made-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/made-for-sex-the-hedonistic-party-palaces-of-new-yorks-fire-island-and-the-blond-bombshell-who-made-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tskaltubo, Stalin’s spa resort: the decay of a Soviet past in Georgia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tskaltubo enjoyed years of prosperity as a jewel of Soviet architecture. But after the collapse of the USSR in December 1991 the sanatoriums were abandoned, and in 1992 people fleeing the war in Abkhazia found refuge here. While efforts continue to restore the spa town to its former glory, silence and greenery prevail as a few families hold out amid the rubbleThe right to rest for workers was enshrined in the 1936 constitution of the Soviet Union. Article 119 guaranteed &ldquo;annual vacations w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tskaltubo-stalins-spa-resort-the-decay-of-a-soviet-past-in-georgia/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tskaltubo-stalins-spa-resort-the-decay-of-a-soviet-past-in-georgia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Like an expanding crepe-paper ornament’: Serpentine unveils its first movable pavilion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marina Tabassum has built emergency homes for the delta-dwellers of the Ganges using grass and bamboo. Her Serpentine pavilion &ndash; part tropical glasshouse, part 70s office block &ndash; is a chic, meditative place for an overpriced coffeePast pavilions have taken the form of inflatable balloons, teetering plastic pyramids and cork-lined lairs dug into the ground. We have seen a fibreglass cocoon perched on boulders, a wildflower garden enclosed by tar-daubed walls, and an assortment of undu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-an-expanding-crepe-paper-ornament-serpentine-unveils-its-first-movable-pavilion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-an-expanding-crepe-paper-ornament-serpentine-unveils-its-first-movable-pavilion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indonesia’s stunning microlibraries draw young readers – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Using passive design and local materials such as ice cream buckets, these modern community spaces offer a respite from urban heat and hustle Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/indonesias-stunning-microlibraries-draw-young-readers-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/indonesias-stunning-microlibraries-draw-young-readers-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New eco-hotel at Everglades national park built for age of super hurricanes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flamingo Lodge &ndash; constructed from repurposed shipping containers on stilts &ndash; replaces Florida facility battered by hurricanes Katrina and WilmaA collection of repurposed shipping containers, welded together and fitted out to create an innovative new eco-hotel inside one of the country&rsquo;s most popular national parks, offers a vision of revival and resilience at the beginning of another potentially active Atlantic hurricane season.The containers exist as the elevated 24-room Flami]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-eco-hotel-at-everglades-national-park-built-for-age-of-super-hurricanes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-eco-hotel-at-everglades-national-park-built-for-age-of-super-hurricanes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[&lsquo;The national museum of absolutely everything&rsquo;: new V&amp;A outpost is an architectural delight]]></title><description><![CDATA[Poison darts, a dome from Spain, priceless spoons and Frank Lloyd Wright furniture &hellip; our architecture critic is wowed by how the V&amp;A East Storehouse lets visitors &lsquo;breathe the same air&rsquo; as its 250,000 artefacts&bull; &lsquo;Pop a masterpiece in your basket&rsquo;: our art critic reviews the Storehouse&lsquo;We used to have something called social housing,&rdquo; you will be able to tell your grandchildren, should you ever take them to V&amp;A East Storehouse, the Victoria]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lsquothe-national-museum-of-absolutely-everythingrsquo-new-vampa-outpost-is-an-architectural-delight/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lsquothe-national-museum-of-absolutely-everythingrsquo-new-vampa-outpost-is-an-architectural-delight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fancy a masterpiece? Just pop one in your basket! V&amp;A&rsquo;s new open-access outpost will thrill art-lovers]]></title><description><![CDATA[V&amp;A East Storehouse, London<br />
The Victoria &amp; Albert&rsquo;s new warehouse boasts a mind-boggling 250,000 artefacts. Our art critic tries its &lsquo;order an object&rsquo; service and gets intimate with some national treasures &ndash; including &lsquo;the biggest Picasso in the world&rsquo;&bull; &lsquo;The national museum of absolutely everything&rsquo;: our architecture critic visits the StorehouseOn a table in a study room at the new V&amp;A East Storehouse, a silk-embroidered Alexander]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/fancy-a-masterpiece-just-pop-one-in-your-basket-vamparsquos-new-open-access-outpost-will-thrill-art-lovers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/fancy-a-masterpiece-just-pop-one-in-your-basket-vamparsquos-new-open-access-outpost-will-thrill-art-lovers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adelaide’s first skyscraper criticised as ‘profound mistake’ and ‘hugely questionable’ by opponents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Critics say &lsquo;phallic&rsquo; 38-storey commercial tower next to state parliament is &lsquo;the wrong building in the wrong place&rsquo;Australia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAdelaide&rsquo;s first skyscraper will be a &ldquo;phallic&rdquo; construction overshadowing the birthplace of women&rsquo;s suffrage, critics say.The Walker Corporation has begun work on a 38-storey commercial building next to Parliament House on North Ter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/adelaides-first-skyscraper-criticised-as-profound-mistake-and-hugely-questionable-by-opponents/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/adelaides-first-skyscraper-criticised-as-profound-mistake-and-hugely-questionable-by-opponents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California gardeners plant native species in parks to prevent wildfire spread – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Volunteers, organized by landscape architecture firm Terremoto, clear invasive plants and restore native fauna: &lsquo;It&rsquo;s a years-long relationship with the land&rsquo; Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/california-gardeners-plant-native-species-in-parks-to-prevent-wildfire-spread-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/california-gardeners-plant-native-species-in-parks-to-prevent-wildfire-spread-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pros and cons of Passivhaus buildings | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alan and Jane Hill&rsquo;s home-building project is stymied by soaring costs, while a community centre renovated to Passivhaus standard is celebrated by Jenny LittlewoodRegarding Adrian Birch&rsquo;s letter (Britain should adopt the Passivhaus standard to cut energy costs in new homes, 21 May), we have been attempting to build a Passivhaus standard home. However, we cannot justify building to that standard because the cost has risen over the past two years to &pound;3,800 per sq metre for a 165-]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-pros-and-cons-of-passivhaus-buildings-letters/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-pros-and-cons-of-passivhaus-buildings-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Quite an upgrade from our porta-potties!’ Storm King sculpture park’s sublime $53m rebirth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Monumental works by the likes of Alexander Calder and Andy Goldsworthy draw huge crowds to the verdant landmark in New York&rsquo;s Hudson Valley. Now these visitors can have a &lsquo;restroom experience&rsquo; on a par with its spectacular sculpturesUnless they have been signed by a mischievous surrealist, it is not often that toilets qualify as works of art. But at the Storm King Art Center, an outdoor sculpture park that rolls across 200 edenic hectares of New York&rsquo;s Hudson Valley, visi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/quite-an-upgrade-from-our-porta-potties-storm-king-sculpture-parks-sublime-53m-rebirth/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/quite-an-upgrade-from-our-porta-potties-storm-king-sculpture-parks-sublime-53m-rebirth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bedrock in the bedroom and an indoor stream: is this Arizona’s strangest home?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sidewinder Ranch, a 40-acre property built over natural rock formations, comes with desert views and a bulldozerWant to commune with nature? Bring the outside in? Ditch your white-noise machine for a babbling brook going through your living room?A home that went on the market last month in Arizona offers all this and more. Sidewinder Ranch is a 40-acre hillside property built over natural rock formations. Every room is of geological interest, with a TV shelf perched on rock and boulders creeping]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bedrock-in-the-bedroom-and-an-indoor-stream-is-this-arizonas-strangest-home/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bedrock-in-the-bedroom-and-an-indoor-stream-is-this-arizonas-strangest-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Car-free streets, geothermal heating and solar panels: Paris’s new eco-district – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clichy-Batignolles, in the city&rsquo;s north-west, is emblematic of the &lsquo;15-minute&rsquo; city approach to urban planning Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/car-free-streets-geothermal-heating-and-solar-panels-pariss-new-eco-district-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/car-free-streets-geothermal-heating-and-solar-panels-pariss-new-eco-district-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bridge too far: Brisbane grapples with the multimillion-dollar cost of revitalising an icon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cash-strapped council may seek to raise funds from ratepayers, state and federal governments, or road users to fix 85-year-old Story BridgeGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen the ribbon was cut on Brisbane&rsquo;s Story Bridge on 6 July 1940, it was not an auspicious time to open a new bridge. Five days earlier, the infamous Tacoma Narrows Bridge had opened in Washington State.In just four months that structure would make engineering history by dramatically swinging i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-bridge-too-far-brisbane-grapples-with-the-multimillion-dollar-cost-of-revitalising-an-icon/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-bridge-too-far-brisbane-grapples-with-the-multimillion-dollar-cost-of-revitalising-an-icon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Precious crafts of thatching and violin-making are under threat | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Graham Cook points to shared styles of thatching across England and Wales, and John Dilworth highlights two recent setbacks for violin-making Your article on the sad decline in some British crafts (Welsh thatching and ship figurehead carving added to UK crafts red list, 13 May) noted that &ldquo;thatched roofs in Wales are becoming &lsquo;more similar to English styles of thatch&rsquo;. The Welsh style is different, with a rounder outside appearance.&rdquo; There is in fact no such thing as &ldq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/precious-crafts-of-thatching-and-violin-making-are-under-threat-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 19:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/precious-crafts-of-thatching-and-violin-making-are-under-threat-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From ‘architecturally tricky’ to ‘awe-inspiring’: winners of NSW’s 2025 National Trust heritage awards revealed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Country hospital brought back from the ashes wins top heritage prizeAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA colonial country hospital almost totally destroyed by fire more than two decades ago has won the top prize in the National Trust of Australia (NSW) heritage awards.The recognition of heritage architecture and conservation projects in the built and natural environment takes place across each state annually. New South Wales sta]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-architecturally-tricky-to-awe-inspiring-winners-of-nsws-2025-national-trust-heritage-awards-revealed/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 07:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-architecturally-tricky-to-awe-inspiring-winners-of-nsws-2025-national-trust-heritage-awards-revealed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hagia Sophia restoration to protect 1,500-year-old Unesco ‘masterpiece’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Istanbul landmark&rsquo;s most extensive works in years will include efforts to prevent earthquake damageStanding beneath the stone archways, grand murals and filagree lamps of the Hagia Sophia, the architect Hasan F&#305;rat Diker reflects on his vocation: the protection of a fragile structure that is both Turkey&rsquo;s grandest mosque and perhaps its most contentious building. He is overseeing some of the most intense restoration and preservation works in the Hagia Sophia&rsquo;s nearly 1,500]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hagia-sophia-restoration-to-protect-1500-year-old-unesco-masterpiece/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hagia-sophia-restoration-to-protect-1500-year-old-unesco-masterpiece/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim Wallis obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, Tim Wallis, who has died aged 86, was a senior architect for Avon county and Bristol city councils. He specialised first in public housing but spent the majority of his career designing schools and colleges. Some of his better known buildings are the Michael Tippett Centre at Bath Spa University, and the Ralph Allen Building at Bath College.Tim studied architecture at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in the late 1950s, learning under Colin St John Wilson. There Tim explored painting, art and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tim-wallis-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tim-wallis-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s best new sustainable homes of 2025 – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[A pre-fab cabin and a beach house designed for a growing family are among the properties shortlisted in the sustainability category of the Houses awards, Australia&rsquo;s premier residential design prize. This year&rsquo;s seven-panel jury noted &lsquo;the radical idea of doing less&rsquo;, with low-impact renovations that prove you don&rsquo;t need to demolish to make something remarkable Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/australias-best-new-sustainable-homes-of-2025-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/australias-best-new-sustainable-homes-of-2025-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dara Birnbaum obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pioneering American video, installation and media artist who used television as her enduring materialDara Birnbaum&rsquo;s reinvention of video art was born of frustration. In 1977 the American artist was reading Screen magazine, then full of academic essays deconstructing the language of cinema.While she was keen on applying psychoanalysis to understand moving image, and felt a strong kinship with the burgeoning feminist discourse, Birnbaum, who has died aged 78, became exasperated by the lack]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dara-birnbaum-obituary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dara-birnbaum-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E.1027 - Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea review – extraordinary architect’s story told (again)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The third film in a decade about Gray tells &ndash; with an exasperating lack of passion &ndash; a story of explosive emotion, creativity and betrayalThere is some exasperatingly passionless and obtuse direction in this detached, sometimes almost somnolent drama-documentary about the extraordinary Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray, played here with a distracted air by Natalie Radmall-Quirke. (This film comes after another odd docudrama about Gray, Mary McGuckian&rsquo;s The Price of Desir]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/e1027-eileen-gray-and-the-house-by-the-sea-review-extraordinary-architects-story-told-again/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/e1027-eileen-gray-and-the-house-by-the-sea-review-extraordinary-architects-story-told-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A lot of pride and joy’: the First Nations team representing Australia at the Venice Biennale of Architecture]]></title><description><![CDATA[These seven architects hope to show First Nations design and connection to Country at the world&rsquo;s most prestigious architecture exhibitionGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAustralia&rsquo;s participation in next year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale remains under a cloud. With Creative Australia holding fast to its decision to cancel its commission of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino, it&rsquo;s becoming increasingly likely that the Australian Pavilion might remain dark]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-lot-of-pride-and-joy-the-first-nations-team-representing-australia-at-the-venice-biennale-of-architecture/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-lot-of-pride-and-joy-the-first-nations-team-representing-australia-at-the-venice-biennale-of-architecture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can robots make the perfect Aperol spritz? – Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 review]]></title><description><![CDATA[From 3D-printing with bacteria to cocktail-mixing humanoids, from the future of space suits to reassurances about climate change, this mind-boggling rollercoaster of a show could do with a more focused curatorial visionA teetering wall of gungy green bricks greets visitors to this year&rsquo;s Venice Architecture Biennale, forming an imposing blockade near the start of the show. The blocks are made of bio-cement, incorporating fishing nets and algae dredged from the depths of the Venetian lagoon]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/can-robots-make-the-perfect-aperol-spritz-venice-architecture-biennale-2025-review/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/can-robots-make-the-perfect-aperol-spritz-venice-architecture-biennale-2025-review/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statues, bridges, soundscapes: Queen Elizabeth II memorial designs unveiled]]></title><description><![CDATA[Giant canopy of stone lilies and exact cast of Windsor oak tree among ideas for commemoration in St James&rsquo;s ParkHow best to capture the enduring essence of Queen Elizabeth II is the question behind innovative designs shortlisted for a national memorial planned for Britain&rsquo;s longest-serving monarch.An exact cast of a Windsor oak tree, a giant canopy of stone lilies and a &ldquo;graceful and strong&rdquo; stone bridge symbolising her as the bedrock of the nation are among shortlisted d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/statues-bridges-soundscapes-queen-elizabeth-ii-memorial-designs-unveiled/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 16:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/statues-bridges-soundscapes-queen-elizabeth-ii-memorial-designs-unveiled/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Tranquillising good taste’: can the National Gallery’s airy new entrance exorcise its demons?]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the Sainsbury Wing opened, it was called &lsquo;vulgar pastiche&rsquo;. Now, after an &pound;85m revamp, it has become the famous gallery&rsquo;s main entrance. But have its spiky complexities been tamed? And why all the empty space?Few parts of any city have seen so many style wars waged over their future as the north-west corner of Trafalgar Square. Nelson may be safely ensconced on his column, but another Battle of Trafalgar has been rumbling for decades beneath his feet, seeing architec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tranquillising-good-taste-can-the-national-gallerys-airy-new-entrance-exorcise-its-demons/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tranquillising-good-taste-can-the-national-gallerys-airy-new-entrance-exorcise-its-demons/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We’re having sex inside Moby Dick! The wild architectural world of Japan’s love hotels]]></title><description><![CDATA[From cruise ships to UFOs, from King Kong to a giant whale, half the sex in Japan may take place in its dazzlingly imaginative love hotels. But have some become just too seedy? Our writer checks inDo whales make you horny? How about UFOs? Maybe you&rsquo;ve always dreamed of having a tryst in a fairytale castle, or making love inside a gigantic biscuit tin? Whatever your weird fantasy may be, it can probably be catered for on a roadside somewhere in Japan, if a new book on the curious phenomenon]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/were-having-sex-inside-moby-dick-the-wild-architectural-world-of-japans-love-hotels/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 17:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/were-having-sex-inside-moby-dick-the-wild-architectural-world-of-japans-love-hotels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Alienation Effect by Owen Hatherley review – meet the brutalists]]></title><description><![CDATA[The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by &eacute;migr&eacute; architects, filmmakers and writersThe Englishness of English Art&nbsp;sounds like something a parish-pump little Englander might like to bang on about, but it is in fact the title of an arresting study by the German Jewish &eacute;migr&eacute; Nikolaus Pevsner. &ldquo;Neither English-born nor&nbsp;English-bred,&rdquo; as he put it in his foreword, he nevertheless pinned down with startling precision the qualities]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-alienation-effect-by-owen-hatherley-review-meet-the-brutalists/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-alienation-effect-by-owen-hatherley-review-meet-the-brutalists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosmic metros, UFO circus tops and a 3,000C sun gun: the mesmerising architecture of Tashkent]]></title><description><![CDATA[From its cavernous domed bazaar to its ravishingly muscular museum, the Uzbek capital has one of the world&rsquo;s wildest collections of modernist gems. Will its bid for world heritage status succeed?A pair of huge turquoise domes swell up on the skyline of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, perching on the jumbled horizon like two upturned bowls. One gleams with ceramic tiles, glazed in traditional Uzbek patterns. The other catches the light with a pleated canopy of azure metal ribs. Both re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cosmic-metros-ufo-circus-tops-and-a-3000c-sun-gun-the-mesmerising-architecture-of-tashkent/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cosmic-metros-ufo-circus-tops-and-a-3000c-sun-gun-the-mesmerising-architecture-of-tashkent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[North Yorkshire’s film-star stately home set to earn its keep by hosting paying guests]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wealthy fans of Brideshead Revisited or Bridgerton may soon be able to stay at newly refurbished Castle HowardLaurence Olivier&rsquo;s elderly Lord Marchmain in Brideshead Revisited died in it and a pair of hot young newlywed aristocrats in Bridgerton made out in it.Now someone with deep pockets may be able to occupy that same 18th-century canopy bed at Castle Howard. In the morning they might take breakfast in a room with Canaletto paintings on the wall and Meissen plates on which to butter the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/north-yorkshires-film-star-stately-home-set-to-earn-its-keep-by-hosting-paying-guests/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/north-yorkshires-film-star-stately-home-set-to-earn-its-keep-by-hosting-paying-guests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It shapes the whole experience’: what happens when you build a city from wood?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Transforming a former industrial area in Sweden will bring psychological benefits for future residents and reduce construction&rsquo;s climate impactAlthough activity is high, it is surprisingly quiet inside the construction site of a high school extension in Sickla, a former industrial area in south Stockholm that is set to become part of the &ldquo;largest mass timber project in the world&rdquo; according to the Swedish urban property developer Atrium Ljungberg.Just a few months remain until s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-shapes-the-whole-experience-what-happens-when-you-build-a-city-from-wood/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-shapes-the-whole-experience-what-happens-when-you-build-a-city-from-wood/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Ours was inspired by the Empire State Building!’ The chaotic brilliance of the UK’s biggest self-build town]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is a place where a Disney-ish castle, complete with turrets, sits near a scaly &lsquo;pangolin&rsquo; house. But is Graven Hill now straying from the DIY vision that made its anarchic jumble of styles so mesmerising?What would the world look like if Kevin McCloud had his way? What if each of us had the chance to build our very own Grand Design, letting our streets be lined with personal visions, liberated from the identikit brick boxes offered by the usual big housebuilders?A glimpse of this]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ours-was-inspired-by-the-empire-state-building-the-chaotic-brilliance-of-the-uks-biggest-self-build-town/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ours-was-inspired-by-the-empire-state-building-the-chaotic-brilliance-of-the-uks-biggest-self-build-town/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you’re not a person of faith, there are reasons to see Antoni Gaudí as a saint | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Catholic church has taken the first steps to canonise the architect of Barcelona&rsquo;s extraordinary Sagrada Fam&iacute;liaI don&rsquo;t understand the processes by which people become saints, but the case for the canonisation of the great Catalan architect Antoni Gaud&iacute;, now progressing with the blessing of the pope, seems strong. He was devout &ndash; he tried to go without food for 40 days in emulation of Jesus Christ, until a bishop friend talked him out of likely death. The unpr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/even-if-youre-not-a-person-of-faith-there-are-reasons-to-see-antoni-gaud-as-a-saint-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/even-if-youre-not-a-person-of-faith-there-are-reasons-to-see-antoni-gaud-as-a-saint-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The radical plan for a futuristic age-friendly neighbourhood in Manchester]]></title><description><![CDATA[&pound;1.5bn of funding has been granted to transform a hospital into a neighbourhood designed for people to thrive as they ageFuturistic planning for spaces where people can age well and live in an area designed for them to grow old in is accelerating in the UK with a radical project backed by &pound;1.5bn of funding.The plan to transform a hospital into the first neighbourhood in the country designed for people to thrive as they age will be a national testbed for holistic health and social car]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-radical-plan-for-a-futuristic-age-friendly-neighbourhood-in-manchester/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-radical-plan-for-a-futuristic-age-friendly-neighbourhood-in-manchester/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vatican puts ‘God’s architect’ Antoni Gaudí on path to sainthood]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pope Francis recognises the &lsquo;heroic virtues&rsquo; of the creator of Barcelona&rsquo;s Sagrada Fam&iacute;lia basilica in first step of processHe&rsquo;s long been nicknamed &ldquo;God&rsquo;s architect&rdquo; by those who point to his piety and the religious imagery woven through his soaring spires, colourful ceramics and undulating lines.Now it seems the Vatican may be ready to make it official. It said on Monday that Antoni Gaud&iacute;, the Catalan architect behind Barcelona&rsquo;s Sa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/vatican-puts-gods-architect-antoni-gaud-on-path-to-sainthood/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/vatican-puts-gods-architect-antoni-gaud-on-path-to-sainthood/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Cities trigger our imagination’: why a walk in town can be just as good for you as a stroll in the countryside]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wandering among historic buildings, cemeteries and winding back streets can lift your spirits as effectively as communing with nature, according to author Annabel Streets. Let&rsquo;s put that to the test &hellip;When I arrange to meet Annabel Streets, the appropriately named author of a new book, The Walking Cure, I&rsquo;m presented with a challenge. She wants me to choose a London location I am unfamiliar with, so I can experience her ideas about the upsides of urban landscapes. In the book,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cities-trigger-our-imagination-why-a-walk-in-town-can-be-just-as-good-for-you-as-a-stroll-in-the-countryside/</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cities-trigger-our-imagination-why-a-walk-in-town-can-be-just-as-good-for-you-as-a-stroll-in-the-countryside/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s unjust’: charity fights to save UK’s at-risk modern buildings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millennium-era buildings &ndash; including Sheffield&rsquo;s &lsquo;kettle building&rsquo; &ndash; among a number of landmarks facing demolitionWhat happened to UK&rsquo;s millennium projects?Sheffielders describe it as &ldquo;alien-shaped&rdquo; and like a &ldquo;kettle&rdquo; but it seems the former National Centre for Popular Music may soon be consigned to history, with the distinctive building at risk of being bulldozed.The Marmite structure &ndash; soon to be vacated by its current occupant]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-unjust-charity-fights-to-save-uks-at-risk-modern-buildings/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-unjust-charity-fights-to-save-uks-at-risk-modern-buildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lewis Braithwaite obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, Lewis Braithwaite, who has died aged 87, was influential in the 1970s and 80s in town planning, saving historic buildings and street patterns, and in considering canals as urban assets. Many of his ideas are taken for granted now, but were radical at the time.Lewis wrote three books for A&amp;C Black. The first, Canals in Towns (1976), argued that cities should embrace their canals, and advocated new flats and warehouse conversions facing the canal. The Historic Towns of Britain (1981]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lewis-braithwaite-obituary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lewis-braithwaite-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Something to be proud of’: how an Irish town got a sewage makeover – and stopped discharging its waste into the sea]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arklow&rsquo;s sleek new wastewater treatment plant is a collaborative triumph between engineers, contractors and architects Clancy Moore. And it&rsquo;s amazingly unsmelly&hellip;&ldquo;Who&rsquo;d want to live next to a sewage treatment plant?&rdquo; asks the architect Andrew Clancy, who with his business partner Colm Moore runs the Dublin-based practice Clancy Moore. Who indeed, yet they have had to find a way to overcome precisely this difficulty. In the coastal town of Arklow, 40 miles sout]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/something-to-be-proud-of-how-an-irish-town-got-a-sewage-makeover-and-stopped-discharging-its-waste-into-the-sea/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/something-to-be-proud-of-how-an-irish-town-got-a-sewage-makeover-and-stopped-discharging-its-waste-into-the-sea/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Cathedral of crap’: is this the world’s most beautiful sewage treatment plant?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Its inspiration was Sydney Opera House and its paper-thin louvre windows are reminiscent of a luxury ocean-liner. More importantly, the people of Arklow in Ireland can finally go swimming without fear of floatersIt is not often that the arts section of a newspaper finds itself concerned with the aesthetic merits of a sewage works. But then there are few facilities designed with the finesse of the new &euro;139m (&pound;117m) wastewater treatment plant in Arklow, which stands like a pair of minty]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cathedral-of-crap-is-this-the-worlds-most-beautiful-sewage-treatment-plant/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cathedral-of-crap-is-this-the-worlds-most-beautiful-sewage-treatment-plant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John McNeill obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend John McNeill, who has died aged 67 after a short illness, was one of the UK&rsquo;s leading scholars of romanesque architecture and sculpture. He published articles on romanesque architecture from across Europe, especially monastic buildings, with an interest in elements often overlooked: the beasts inhabiting romanesque arches were a particular passion.Many of those publications were for the British Archaeological Association (BAA), though he produced two excellent volumes in the Blue]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-mcneill-obituary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-mcneill-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tower topped with a pangolin! The Oxford university building inspired by Tolkien … and the pandemic]]></title><description><![CDATA[A chubby, rhubarb and custard-coloured tower bedecked with anteaters and moles make a fun neighbour to the city&rsquo;s dreaming spires. It&rsquo;s left some locals lost for wordsA carved stone pangolin clings to the top of the tower, its scaly tail curled into the crevice of a cornice, as if holding on for dear life. It crowns an arresting arrival to Oxford, the city of dreaming spires, the anteater taking its place on this skyline of slender steeples and gurning gargoyles, up there at the summ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-tower-topped-with-a-pangolin-the-oxford-university-building-inspired-by-tolkien-and-the-pandemic/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-tower-topped-with-a-pangolin-the-oxford-university-building-inspired-by-tolkien-and-the-pandemic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[March design news: Maurzio Cattelan goes Greek, art teapots and house paint that changes colour]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exhibitions at this year&rsquo;s Milan Furniture Fair, a guide to green wood carving and funeral urns by AlessiThis is the final monthly design news round-up, so we&rsquo;ve made it a bumper edition. As well as previewing some shows that will be this year&rsquo;s Salone del Mobile in Milan, there&rsquo;s pyjamas from Grayson Perry and Greek mythology reinterpreted by conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan. Enjoy. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/march-design-news-maurzio-cattelan-goes-greek-art-teapots-and-house-paint-that-changes-colour/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/march-design-news-maurzio-cattelan-goes-greek-art-teapots-and-house-paint-that-changes-colour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whom the bell tolls: hunt for missing piece of Shrewsbury’s industrial history]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quest to restore sound that called child workers to Flaxmill Maltings building, which paved way for modern high-risesFor almost 200 years, the bell tolled to mark the start and end of the working day at one of the UK&rsquo;s most remarkable industrial sites &ndash; but it vanished when the buildings became derelict in the late 1980s or early 90s.As English Heritage prepares to welcome visitors to the Flaxmill Maltings building in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, a hunt for the missing bell has been launc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/for-whom-the-bell-tolls-hunt-for-missing-piece-of-shrewsburys-industrial-history/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/for-whom-the-bell-tolls-hunt-for-missing-piece-of-shrewsburys-industrial-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the architect who made modern Brisbane shaped the city’s 2032 Olympics stadium plans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael Rayner, who designed city&rsquo;s skyscrapers, bridges and cultural venues, says new stadium will revitalise &lsquo;rarely used&rsquo; parkAs plans for the 2032 Olympic Games were thrown into limbo last year, architect Michael Rayner began to bend the ear of local politicians and Olympics officials about his idea for Victoria Park.Rayner &ndash; a prolific designer who has been described as one of the makers of modern Brisbane &ndash; proposed Victoria Park as an Olympics precinct in a 2]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/how-the-architect-who-made-modern-brisbane-shaped-the-citys-2032-olympics-stadium-plans/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/how-the-architect-who-made-modern-brisbane-shaped-the-citys-2032-olympics-stadium-plans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style review – lidos, Speedos and atomic bombs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Design Museum, London<br />
Swimming&rsquo;s deep and shallow ends are granted equal weight in an engaging show that ranges from Pamela Anderson&rsquo;s Baywatch cossie to South Korea&rsquo;s female free divers and the explosive naming of the bikiniAt the end of Splash!, the Design Museum&rsquo;s new exhibition on &ldquo;a century of swimming and style&rdquo;, there&rsquo;s a film about the haenyeo &ndash; women on the South Korean island of Jeju who for centuries have been diving for seafood and seaw]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/splash-a-century-of-swimming-and-style-review-lidos-speedos-and-atomic-bombs/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/splash-a-century-of-swimming-and-style-review-lidos-speedos-and-atomic-bombs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the roof off: outside meets inside in a radically artistic Italian home]]></title><description><![CDATA[A creative couple&rsquo;s house in the Romagna countryside is where sculptural simplicity meets curated eclecticismTucked into the rolling hills between Bertinoro and Cesena, Marcantonio Raimondi Malerba&rsquo;s home is not just a place to live, it is a testament to the seamless fusion of art, nature and design. For the celebrated sculptor, artist and designer, whose whimsical creations have captivated the design world, this sanctuary is both a refuge and a continuous source of inspiration.&ldqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/take-the-roof-off-outside-meets-inside-in-a-radically-artistic-italian-home/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/take-the-roof-off-outside-meets-inside-in-a-radically-artistic-italian-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold leaf and Gatsby: Brussels lays claim to birth of art deco with year of celebrations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Throughout 2025, the Belgian capital is marking 100 years of the movement with events, exhibitions and film screeningsThe gold leaf around the window and door frames ripples, reflected in the water of the swimming pool. Elegant, spare, pristine, the Villa Empain in south Brussels seems little changed since it was built over 90 years ago.Yet this art deco masterpiece reopened only in 2010 after falling into ruin. Illegal ravers had scrawled on its marble walls and stolen its treasures, from radia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/gold-leaf-and-gatsby-brussels-lays-claim-to-birth-of-art-deco-with-year-of-celebrations/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 12:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/gold-leaf-and-gatsby-brussels-lays-claim-to-birth-of-art-deco-with-year-of-celebrations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fears for Bagan’s towering Buddhist temples after Myanmar earthquake]]></title><description><![CDATA[City is close to Sagaing faultline and monuments were significantly damaged after the last earthquake in 2016Rising through the mist of the forest at dawn, with spires reaching more than 200ft, few sights on earth have impressed travellers like the temples and pagodas of Bagan. &ldquo;Jerusalem, Rome, Kiev, Benares,&rdquo; wrote the Scottish journalist and colonial administrator James George Scott in 1910, &ldquo;none of them can boast the multitude of temples, and the lavishness of design and o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/fears-for-bagans-towering-buddhist-temples-after-myanmar-earthquake/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/fears-for-bagans-towering-buddhist-temples-after-myanmar-earthquake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘No more velvet rope’: how New York’s beloved Frick museum opened up – and will now even sell coffee]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is a Gilded Age gem full of Old Masters, from Vermeer to Holbein. Now, after a ravishing $300m revamp, it is even more welcoming. Our writer revels in its silk-clad walls and the freshly trickling fountain of its light-filled sculpture court&lsquo;If I could have a pound for every person who&rsquo;s told me that the Frick is their favourite museum, I&rsquo;d be able to retire already,&rdquo; says Axel R&uuml;ger, the new director of the New York institution, who has just moved there from lead]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/no-more-velvet-rope-how-new-yorks-beloved-frick-museum-opened-up-and-will-now-even-sell-coffee/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/no-more-velvet-rope-how-new-yorks-beloved-frick-museum-opened-up-and-will-now-even-sell-coffee/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The battle for Glasgow’s Wyndford estate – photo essay]]></title><description><![CDATA[A carbon crime or bright new future? For nearly four years, a fierce debate raged over demolishing the site&rsquo;s high-rise flatsFor nearly four years, a fierce debate raged over the future of the Wyndford estate in Glasgow, dividing residents and sparking wider national controversy. Was the demolition of its high-rises an environmental travesty or the first step toward much-needed regeneration?The dispute began in November 2021, days after the city hosted the UN climate conference Cop26, at w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-battle-for-glasgows-wyndford-estate-photo-essay/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:44:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-battle-for-glasgows-wyndford-estate-photo-essay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovering Jewish Country Houses review – crumbling symbols of staggering success]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire<br />
H&eacute;l&egrave;ne Binet&rsquo;s haunted photographs of spectacular country residences built by Jewish people across Europe are filled with the melancholic grandeur of fallen empiresAll things considered, we Jews haven&rsquo;t done too bad. Not that you need reminding. Every corner of the internet, from Reddit to X, is desperate to point out that Jewish people are apparently in control of the banks, Hollywood, the government and, ahem, art criticism. That&rsquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/discovering-jewish-country-houses-review-crumbling-symbols-of-staggering-success/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:17:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/discovering-jewish-country-houses-review-crumbling-symbols-of-staggering-success/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A place you remember for the rest of your life’: why Dutch architects are giving new life to old schools]]></title><description><![CDATA[The inspiring makeover of a 1960s Utrecht college at less than half the cost of a new building and a third the carbon footprint is among projects in the Netherlands that can teach the UK vital lessons in sustainability&lsquo;The greenest building,&rdquo; to quote a slogan now popular among architects, &ldquo;is one that is already built.&rdquo; It sums up the belated realisation that the carbon impact and energy consumption of demolition and new building can be more significant than those of hea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-place-you-remember-for-the-rest-of-your-life-why-dutch-architects-are-giving-new-life-to-old-schools/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-place-you-remember-for-the-rest-of-your-life-why-dutch-architects-are-giving-new-life-to-old-schools/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A temple to extravagance. And that goes for Manchester United’s new stadium, too | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Could Norman Foster&rsquo;s &pound;2bn design for the club, which will be seen 25 miles away, turn out to be a case of hubris before ruin? There&rsquo;s a phenomenon in architectural history whereby great empires build their grandest monuments just before they fall. The Parthenon was completed just before Athens embarked on the devastating Peloponnesian War. Manhattan&rsquo;s most celebrated skyscrapers went up on the brink of the Great Depression. The British inaugurated the imposing government]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-temple-to-extravagance-and-that-goes-for-manchester-uniteds-new-stadium-too-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-temple-to-extravagance-and-that-goes-for-manchester-uniteds-new-stadium-too-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’m still here, in case you were wondering | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Birthday blues | Historic sites | The T-word | Mythical posties | Chiffchaff firstAfter more than 30 years of appearing in it, I have to confess I felt a little disappointed to see that I was omitted from your list (Birthdays, print edition, 15 March). I would like to reassure anyone who might care that I&rsquo;m still here, and 76 this year. By the way, who is Howard Devoto?<br />
John Duttine<br />
Worthing, West Sussex&bull; While we marvelled at Amiens Cathedral in France, our son, then eight, commented]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/im-still-here-in-case-you-were-wondering-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/im-still-here-in-case-you-were-wondering-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Like a game of black-belt level Jenga’: inside the ancient art of Japanese carpentry]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the earthquake-defying joints that support a 13th-century temple to the delicacy of sashimono puzzle boxes, a new exhibition shows off the myriad possibilities of this centuries-old craftDo you know your ant&rsquo;s head from your shell mouth? Or your cogged lap from your scarfed gooseneck? These are just some of the mind-boggling array of timber jointing techniques on display in a new exhibition spotlighting the meticulous craft of Japanese carpentry. The basement gallery of London&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-a-game-of-black-belt-level-jenga-inside-the-ancient-art-of-japanese-carpentry/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-a-game-of-black-belt-level-jenga-inside-the-ancient-art-of-japanese-carpentry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New designers to look out for in 2025 – from 3D printed buildings to fuzzy chairs made from agave]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK&rsquo;s top creatives have put together a list of makers who put sustainabilityfirst. Using everything from reclaimed rattan and bacteria-dyed fabrics to algorithmic design, these trailblazers are making positive steps forward for people and planetI feel hopeful about the impact of design on the world,&rdquo; says fashion designer Foday Dumbuya, &ldquo;It has the power to drive change by addressing social issues, promoting sustainability, and enhancing quality of life.&rdquo;In September]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-designers-to-look-out-for-in-2025-from-3d-printed-buildings-to-fuzzy-chairs-made-from-agave/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-designers-to-look-out-for-in-2025-from-3d-printed-buildings-to-fuzzy-chairs-made-from-agave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘They goggled and gawped’: Bahrain gives its pearl-divers a sci-fi wonder – and four ‘filo pastry’ car parks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The kingdom&rsquo;s old capital is a world heritage site &ndash; and it has now honoured its once-biggest industry with a &lsquo;pearling path&rsquo; wending through two miles of architectural marvels. But did its car parks really have to be so lavish?Think of contemporary architecture in the Gulf and you might think of gilded towers rising from the desert, eye-popping &ldquo;iconic&rdquo; museums, and artificial islands carved into ever more fanciful shapes. But, sandwiched between the petrodol]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/they-goggled-and-gawped-bahrain-gives-its-pearl-divers-a-sci-fi-wonder-and-four-filo-pastry-car-parks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/they-goggled-and-gawped-bahrain-gives-its-pearl-divers-a-sci-fi-wonder-and-four-filo-pastry-car-parks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Zippos circus is in town!’ Can Man Utd really raise £2bn for a throbbing big top?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Local lad Norman Foster&rsquo;s plan envisions an enormous canopy over a new stadium and a &lsquo;mixed-use mini-city&rsquo;. But, given the club&rsquo;s &pound;1bn debts, the idea seems as flimsy as its own tensile membrane&lsquo;What Manchester does today,&rdquo; Benjamin Disraeli once proclaimed, &ldquo;the world does tomorrow.&rdquo; So begins the breathless promotional video for Manchester United&rsquo;s proposed &pound;2bn football stadium, summoning the words of the Victorian prime minist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/zippos-circus-is-in-town-can-man-utd-really-raise-2bn-for-a-throbbing-big-top/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/zippos-circus-is-in-town-can-man-utd-really-raise-2bn-for-a-throbbing-big-top/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outside in: the extraordinary home inside a giant greenhouse in Norway]]></title><description><![CDATA[An architect has designed a sustainable home inside a glass box, where fruit and veg grow, and their family can thriveSituated on the family farmstead, surrounded by trees and pasture, stands the extraordinary glasshouse where architect Margit Klev and her young family have made their home. Here, Klev has created a house within a house, placing her bespoke building inside a vast glass barn, delivered as a kit from Denmark and erected on site in just two weeks. This glass shell not only protects]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/outside-in-the-extraordinary-home-inside-a-giant-greenhouse-in-norway/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/outside-in-the-extraordinary-home-inside-a-giant-greenhouse-in-norway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to Upper Lawn, the 60s Wiltshire retreat of brutalism’s first couple]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pioneering architects Alison and Peter Smithson&rsquo;s no-frills glass box near the ruins of a grand 18th-century folly was an experiment, a second home and a &lsquo;fairy story&rsquo; &ndash; all of which awaits whoever buys it next&hellip;Upper Lawn is a weekend retreat in Wiltshire built by the late architects Alison and Peter Smithson for themselves and their family and used by them from 1959 to 1982. It&rsquo;s a place of obvious delight, thanks to a garden enclosed by old stone walls in w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/welcome-to-upper-lawn-the-60s-wiltshire-retreat-of-brutalisms-first-couple/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/welcome-to-upper-lawn-the-60s-wiltshire-retreat-of-brutalisms-first-couple/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Streaming: Steven Soderbergh’s Presence and the best haunted house films]]></title><description><![CDATA[The director&rsquo;s witty supernatural thriller joins Psycho, Hereditary, The Brutalist and more &ndash; films in which buildings are characters in their own rightThe first more-or-less horror movie in the lengthy, genre-skimming career of director Steven Soderbergh, Presence is a film about grief, trauma, familial dysfunction and abusive masculinity. But it&rsquo;s also, to a significant and compelling extent, about property. Beginning with a family&rsquo;s first viewing of a handsome Victoria]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/streaming-steven-soderberghs-presence-and-the-best-haunted-house-films/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/streaming-steven-soderberghs-presence-and-the-best-haunted-house-films/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my 70s bar job was a Babychambles | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Babycham revival | Wurlitzer wonders | School report | Kant touch thisHannah Crosbie writes about Babycham&rsquo;s potential revival as though it lived up to its original marketing hype as a sophisticated drink for the ladies (Liquid optimism: why Babycham is ripe for a revival, 28 February). As a barman in the 70s, I remember the frequent orders of triple brandy and Babycham. They were often followed by devastation, and I can remember suggesting to the landlord that, if we stopped serving this]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/when-my-70s-bar-job-was-a-babychambles-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:17:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/when-my-70s-bar-job-was-a-babychambles-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I aspire to be like water’: the exquisite buildings of Liu Jiakun, winner of architecture’s top prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[He turns steelworks into parks and makes &lsquo;rebirth bricks&rsquo; from earthquake rubble. As the novelist, meditator and &lsquo;accidental architect&rsquo; wins the Pritzker prize, we look at the masterful temples, caves and public spaces of this one-man antidote to Chinese bombastPensioners take their evening stroll on an elevated walkway, surrounded by lush thickets of bamboo, as a game of five-a-side football kicks off on a sunken pitch below. Around them, forming a huge C-shaped courtyar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-aspire-to-be-like-water-the-exquisite-buildings-of-liu-jiakun-winner-of-architectures-top-prize/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-aspire-to-be-like-water-the-exquisite-buildings-of-liu-jiakun-winner-of-architectures-top-prize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘There’s a poetry to her work’: why the British Museum chose Lina Ghotmeh for their grand revamp]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Beirut-born, Paris-based architect has beaten a list of top candidates to redesign the museum&rsquo;s Western Range. It will be the latest in a series of compelling creations which &lsquo;get all the senses engaged&rsquo;The British Museum, behind its purposeful and orderly front, gets more and more complicated the deeper in you go. It has grand spaces &ndash; the white stone and shadowless light of the Norman Foster-designed Great Court, the classical halls designed by its original architec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/theres-a-poetry-to-her-work-why-the-british-museum-chose-lina-ghotmeh-for-their-grand-revamp/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/theres-a-poetry-to-her-work-why-the-british-museum-chose-lina-ghotmeh-for-their-grand-revamp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘There’s a poetry to her work’: why Lina Ghotmeh is the right person to remake one-third of the British Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Beirut-born, Paris-based architect has beaten a list of top candidates to redesign the museum&rsquo;s Western Range. It will be the latest in a series of compelling creations which &lsquo;get all the senses engaged&rsquo;The British Museum, behind its purposeful and orderly front, gets more and more complicated the deeper in you go. It has grand spaces &ndash; the white stone and shadowless light of the Norman Foster-designed Great Court, the classical halls designed by its original architec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/theres-a-poetry-to-her-work-why-lina-ghotmeh-is-the-right-person-to-remake-one-third-of-the-british-museum/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/theres-a-poetry-to-her-work-why-lina-ghotmeh-is-the-right-person-to-remake-one-third-of-the-british-museum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We cleared rubble with our bare hands’: Iraqis rejoice as shattered Mosul rises from the ruins]]></title><description><![CDATA[City damaged during occupation by Islamic State group reopens 850-year-old mosque in time for Ramadan as reconstruction gathers paceIn the small courtyard of Sara&rsquo;s grandmother&rsquo;s house, children are running and playing as if time had never passed. &ldquo;The house kept our memories,&rdquo; Sara says, sitting on the sofa of the courtyard. &ldquo;It seems like we never left. On the contrary, when we came back, we felt we belonged to this house.&rdquo;Located in the old Iraqi city of Mo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-cleared-rubble-with-our-bare-hands-iraqis-rejoice-as-shattered-mosul-rises-from-the-ruins/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2025 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-cleared-rubble-with-our-bare-hands-iraqis-rejoice-as-shattered-mosul-rises-from-the-ruins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brutalist and modernist homes for sale in England – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[From an apartment in London&rsquo;s famous Barbican to a penthouse in a former office block in Norwich Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brutalist-and-modernist-homes-for-sale-in-england-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brutalist-and-modernist-homes-for-sale-in-england-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Save our pipe organs – they provided the chest-thumping heavy metal of their day  | Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bravo to the musician Mark Mynett for calling out the loss of these instruments as churches close, writes Stephen WilcoxMark Mynett is right &ndash; there is a risk that, as churches close and are repurposed, we lose their pipe organs along with them (UK churches need open-mindedness to preserve heritage says heavy metal musician, 23 February).It&rsquo;s not surprising that a metal musician is calling this out: until the invention of electronic amplification, previous generations who loved loud]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/save-our-pipe-organs-they-provided-the-chest-thumping-heavy-metal-of-their-day-letter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/save-our-pipe-organs-they-provided-the-chest-thumping-heavy-metal-of-their-day-letter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Ambition beyond words’: How Siena’s art revolution brought heaven down to earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before the Black Death devastated Siena, the city thrummed with energy, expressed in art and architecture designed to dazzle its audience &ndash; and which still astonishes 800 years laterIf you want to know the moment of a medieval Italian city&rsquo;s greatest prosperity, look at the year it began work on its cathedral. In Siena, the magic year was 1226, the start of some 85 years of construction of the duomo, a remarkable gothic structure with an intricately complex, creamy pink facade and st]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ambition-beyond-words-how-sienas-art-revolution-brought-heaven-down-to-earth/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:38:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ambition-beyond-words-how-sienas-art-revolution-brought-heaven-down-to-earth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Nasa, please send me to Mars! The photographer who showed Britain – and space – in colour]]></title><description><![CDATA[From ghost trains to backstreet weddings, from demolition sites to &lsquo;alien&rsquo;s eye views&rsquo; of Leeds, groundbreaking photographer Peter Mitchell captures our changing world with his trusty &lsquo;Blad&rsquo; &ndash; and once even tried to leave itThe Quarry Hill flats in Leeds were once the largest social housing complex in the UK. A utopian vision of homes for 3,000 people. Built in the 1930s, they were modelled on the Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna and La Cit&eacute; de la Muette in Pari]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dear-nasa-please-send-me-to-mars-the-photographer-who-showed-britain-and-space-in-colour/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:08:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dear-nasa-please-send-me-to-mars-the-photographer-who-showed-britain-and-space-in-colour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Brutalist is about a great architect. Columbus is a heartfelt tribute to great architecture]]></title><description><![CDATA[This critically acclaimed drama about how spaces can haunt and heal us is the finest work of John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson and director Kogonada&rsquo;s careersGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailBrady Corbet&rsquo;s Oscar hopeful The Brutalist offers a somewhat skewed depiction of architectural intent, one where public demonstrations of genius and private catharses have an outsized impact on a building&rsquo;s design. Grand gestures and hidden intentions make for good drama but physical]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-brutalist-is-about-a-great-architect-columbus-is-a-heartfelt-tribute-to-great-architecture/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-brutalist-is-about-a-great-architect-columbus-is-a-heartfelt-tribute-to-great-architecture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norman Foster on shortlist to design Queen Elizabeth II memorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect who was once highly critical of King Charles is part of team that is one of five finalists for schemeThe shortlist of teams competing to design a national memorial to the late Queen Elizabeth II has been unveiled and includes an architect once highly critical of King Charles.Five finalists are in the running for what has been described as one of the most significant design initiatives in modern British history, in tribute to the UK&rsquo;s longest-serving monarch. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/norman-foster-on-shortlist-to-design-queen-elizabeth-ii-memorial/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 01:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/norman-foster-on-shortlist-to-design-queen-elizabeth-ii-memorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Copper Bottom review – a green marvel in every sense]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adrian James&rsquo;s copper-clad, energy-generating new home on the outskirts of Oxford is a triumph of style and sustainabilityWe&rsquo;re used by now to buildings that declare their greenness; that proudly display their timber construction or hemp panels or wind turbines for the world to see; that make an architectural story out of their care for the atmosphere. And why not. But a striking aspect of Copper Bottom, a new house by the architect Adrian James, is that, apart from being in the most]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/copper-bottom-review-a-green-marvel-in-every-sense/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/copper-bottom-review-a-green-marvel-in-every-sense/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientistsAs an eternal testament of humanity, plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones are not a glorious legacy. But two scientists exploring which items from our technological civilisation are most likely to survive for many millions of years as fossils have reached an ironic but instructive conclusion: fast food and fast fashion will be our everlasting geological signature.&ldquo;Plastic wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/technofossils-how-humanitys-eternal-testament-will-be-plastic-bags-cheap-clothes-and-chicken-bones/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/technofossils-how-humanitys-eternal-testament-will-be-plastic-bags-cheap-clothes-and-chicken-bones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizmo! The Colombian architects overturning colonialist ‘sustainability’ ideas]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 30-acre construction lab is helping reshape Colombia&rsquo;s architecture with ancestral knowledge and direct ecological action. We head inside their smoking doughnutA curious doughnut-shaped structure rises from an overgrown field on the outskirts of Tenjo, a rural town in central Colombia. It looks like a thatched UFO. Bamboo lattice walls curve up from the ground to form its bulging shell, tapering to a central chimney where wisps of smoke waft into the sky. Through the mesh walls, it is po]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/organizmo-the-colombian-architects-overturning-colonialist-sustainability-ideas/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/organizmo-the-colombian-architects-overturning-colonialist-sustainability-ideas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s mineral grab has all the elements of an earworm | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trumped by Tom Lehrer | The wrong don | Gulf names | Cork house | DogeYour article, referring to rare earth elements including europium, dysprosium, gadolinium, praseodymium, holmium and ytterbium, was very enlightening (What are Ukraine&rsquo;s critical minerals &ndash; and why does Trump want them?, 17 February). However, it was difficult for me to read, owing to the persistent intrusion of the earworm of a certain song by Tom&nbsp;Lehrer.<br />
John O&rsquo;Dwyer<br />
Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire&bu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/trumps-mineral-grab-has-all-the-elements-of-an-earworm-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/trumps-mineral-grab-has-all-the-elements-of-an-earworm-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country diary: Looking under lichen for a stranger’s name | Derek Niemann]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beckington, Somerset: We&rsquo;re digging up the past in a rural churchyard, connecting people to their long-lost family membersA &ldquo;ten-pound pom&rdquo; left Glasgow for Australia after the war and never saw her family again. My gran&rsquo;s little sister occupied an empty space for me until last year, when a couple of enterprising women posted a photograph online that they had taken of a tombstone in a Tasmanian cemetery. It would bring me in touch with a second cousin I never knew existed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-looking-under-lichen-for-a-strangers-name-derek-niemann/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-looking-under-lichen-for-a-strangers-name-derek-niemann/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country diary: Looking for names before time takes them away | Derek Niemann]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beckington, Somerset: We&rsquo;re digging up the past in a rural churchyard, connecting people to their long-lost family membersA &ldquo;ten-pound pom&rdquo; left Glasgow for Australia after the war and never saw her family again. My gran&rsquo;s little sister occupied an empty space for me until last year, when a couple of enterprising women posted a photograph online that they had taken of a tombstone in a Tasmanian cemetery. It would bring me in touch with a second cousin I never knew existed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-looking-for-names-before-time-takes-them-away-derek-niemann/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-looking-for-names-before-time-takes-them-away-derek-niemann/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It feels enveloping and calming’: the London house wrapped in cork]]></title><description><![CDATA[Designer Nina Woodcroft has created an energy-efficient family home that is also a useful conversation starterFor most homeowners a request from a passerby to touch the exterior of their house would probably raise eyebrows. But for the owner of Nina&rsquo;s House, which is covered with unusual and striking cork insulation panels, it is not only a common occurrence but is welcomed.The conversations may start with curiosity but much of the time lead to lengthy, passionate discussions on how to mak]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-feels-enveloping-and-calming-the-london-house-wrapped-in-cork/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-feels-enveloping-and-calming-the-london-house-wrapped-in-cork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architects warn post-Brexit visa rules hindering recruitment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Firms want review of decision to remove architecture from shortage occupation list and raise salary thresholdArchitecture firms are calling on the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, to urgently review the post-Brexit visa salary rules, claiming they are choking an industry that is trying to help meet Labour&rsquo;s housing targets.They say there were hit by a double recruitment whammy when the rules changed last April, with architecture removed from the shortage occupation list and the minimum salar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architects-warn-post-brexit-visa-rules-hindering-recruitment/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:38:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architects-warn-post-brexit-visa-rules-hindering-recruitment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘What a project, what a challenge!’: Africa’s leading architect gives Thomas Sankara a proper place of rest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pritzker prize-winner Francis K&eacute;r&eacute; has designed a memorial to honour &lsquo;Africa&rsquo;s Che Guevara&rsquo;, Burkina Faso&rsquo;s visionary president who was assassinated in 1987Francis K&eacute;r&eacute; was the first African architect to win the Pritzker prize when he scooped the &ldquo;Nobel prize of architecture&rdquo; in 2022. A native of Gando, a small village in Burkina Faso&rsquo;s Central-East region, K&eacute;r&eacute; was once criticised by his neighbours for building]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/what-a-project-what-a-challenge-africas-leading-architect-gives-thomas-sankara-a-proper-place-of-rest/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/what-a-project-what-a-challenge-africas-leading-architect-gives-thomas-sankara-a-proper-place-of-rest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soane and Modernism: Make it New review – red phone boxes, Sydney Opera House and a prophet of modern architecture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sir John Soane&rsquo;s Museum, London<br />
The links between Le Corbusier and co and the inspirational architect of Dulwich Picture Gallery and the old Bank of England are explored in a fascinating exhibition in his own house of treasuresIf John Soane had only created the combined house and museum that bears his name in Lincoln&rsquo;s Inn Fields, London &ndash; a domestic-scaled pharaoh&rsquo;s tomb with Alice in Wonderland tricks of scale and perception &ndash; his place in history would be assured]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/soane-and-modernism-make-it-new-review-red-phone-boxes-sydney-opera-house-and-a-prophet-of-modern-architecture/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/soane-and-modernism-make-it-new-review-red-phone-boxes-sydney-opera-house-and-a-prophet-of-modern-architecture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swing time: playgrounds at their most artful – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Play and art have a lot more in common than we might think,&rdquo; writes Emmy Watts, author of a new book highlighting more than 80 brilliantly imaginative play areas around the world, some of them designed by notable artists including Niki de Saint Phalle and Yayoi Kusama. Too often, playgrounds are orderly, enclosed spaces with identikit slides, swings and climbing frames. In The Art of Play, Watts celebrates examples &ndash; rocks on wheels in Melbourne, a sprawling multi-level hammoc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/swing-time-playgrounds-at-their-most-artful-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/swing-time-playgrounds-at-their-most-artful-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buying or building a home in Australia? Here are the energy efficiency features worth paying for | Peter Mares]]></title><description><![CDATA[As climate change makes heatwaves more dangerous, here&rsquo;s how homeowners can mitigate extreme heatChange by Degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household&rsquo;s carbon footprintGot a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at changebydegrees@theguardian.comWhen the summer sun hits the west-facing windows of our 20th floor apartment in Melbourne, my resistance to switching on the air-con soon wilts.This generally happens]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/buying-or-building-a-home-in-australia-here-are-the-energy-efficiency-features-worth-paying-for-peter-mares/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/buying-or-building-a-home-in-australia-here-are-the-energy-efficiency-features-worth-paying-for-peter-mares/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists decry ‘irresponsible’ plans to demolish brutalist Midlands tower]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conservation groups say University of Wolverhampton&rsquo;s proposals overlook historical significance of art schoolArtists and conservation groups have decried the &ldquo;irresponsible&rdquo; plan to tear down a brutalist arts tower at a Midlands university, saying the proposed redevelopment is overlooking the &ldquo;massive historical significance&rdquo; of the structure.The University of Wolverhampton has earmarked the nine-storey School of Art, which is also known as the George Wallis buildi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/artists-decry-irresponsible-plans-to-demolish-brutalist-midlands-tower/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/artists-decry-irresponsible-plans-to-demolish-brutalist-midlands-tower/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Highgate Newtown Community Centre review – if you’re looking for design that humanises, here it is]]></title><description><![CDATA[Highgate, London<br />
An old Territorial Army hall has been transformed into an inspiring mixed-used development &ndash; workshops, social hub, sports pitch, refugee accommodation &ndash; that&rsquo;s more than the sum of its partsI recently heard the designer Thomas Heatherwick talk about his ongoing project to &ldquo;humanise&rdquo; our physical environment. The event was under the Chatham House rule, but I don&rsquo;t think it would betray any confidences to report that he called for care, craft a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/highgate-newtown-community-centre-review-if-youre-looking-for-design-that-humanises-here-it-is/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/highgate-newtown-community-centre-review-if-youre-looking-for-design-that-humanises-here-it-is/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praised, then razed: why is UK’s best building of 1996 being demolished?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Centenary Building in Salford was described as &lsquo;dynamic and sophisticated&rsquo; when it won the first Stirling prize. Now it is to be knocked down as part of a huge developmentRowan Moore&rsquo;s viewWhen judges awarded Salford&rsquo;s Centenary Building the inaugural Stirling prize in 1996, they declared it &ldquo;a dynamic, modern and sophisticated exercise in steel, glass and concrete&rdquo;.The recognition as Britain&rsquo;s best new building from the Royal Institute of British Ar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/praised-then-razed-why-is-uks-best-building-of-1996-being-demolished/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/praised-then-razed-why-is-uks-best-building-of-1996-being-demolished/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if France’s budget doesn’t tackle the public deficit, let’s give thanks it exists | Agnès Poirer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Politics have sunk so low since Emmanuel Macron&rsquo;s snap election, we&rsquo;re just grateful when foretold catastrophes don&rsquo;t materialiseHoura! Or rather, hurrah! On Monday, the French government, led by Fran&ccedil;ois Bayrou, our fourth prime minister in a year, did not fall. Our expectations have sunk so low since the July 2024 snap elections derailed our politics that we are grateful when catastrophes foretold don&rsquo;t materialise. When Michel Barnier&rsquo;s government fell bef]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/even-if-frances-budget-doesnt-tackle-the-public-deficit-lets-give-thanks-it-exists-agns-poirer/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/even-if-frances-budget-doesnt-tackle-the-public-deficit-lets-give-thanks-it-exists-agns-poirer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t throw Salford’s groundbreaking Centenary Building in the bin | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first winner of the Stirling Prize is a moment of ambition and distinctiveness in what might otherwise be an ocean of blandness. Let&rsquo;s not demolish it, says the Observer&rsquo;s architecture criticWhen the Stirling prize was launched nearly 30 years ago, the Royal Institute of British Architects wanted to create an award that would match the high level of media attention that the Turner prize for art and the Booker prize for fiction then attracted. It could hardly have expected that it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dont-throw-salfords-groundbreaking-centenary-building-in-the-bin-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dont-throw-salfords-groundbreaking-centenary-building-in-the-bin-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the sublime to the cringeworthy: Tim Ross on Australia’s housing dream (and nightmare)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The presenter and comedian&rsquo;s live show feeds his obsession with the nation&rsquo;s post-second world war suburban architectureGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAustralia&rsquo;s state libraries have opened their archives to writer, TV presenter and half of the Merrick and Rosso comedy duo, Tim Ross, to feed his passion for post-second world war suburban architecture and an ongoing exploration of Australia&rsquo;s obsession with home ownership.The trove of photographs the instituti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-the-sublime-to-the-cringeworthy-tim-ross-on-australias-housing-dream-and-nightmare/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-the-sublime-to-the-cringeworthy-tim-ross-on-australias-housing-dream-and-nightmare/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English Heritage and its portfolio are national treasures | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dr Scott Allan Orr says prehistoric and medieval sites deserve greater respect and funding. Dr Nick Merriman sets the record straight on staffing. Plus a letter from Philip RutnamTo call English Heritage a &ldquo;less-glamorous cousin&rdquo; of the National Trust (Editorial, 3 February) is an insult to the history of heritage protection in England. English Heritage has a portfolio of more than 880 historical places collected by the government from the 1880s to the 1970s to form a national collec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/english-heritage-and-its-portfolio-are-national-treasures-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/english-heritage-and-its-portfolio-are-national-treasures-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thin is the new thick: Japanese masters of minimalism win RIBA gold medal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japanese practice Sanaa&rsquo;s slender, stripped-back buildings boast walls that are just 16mm thick and concrete canopies that look as if they could float awayIt is not often as an architecture critic that you find yourself referring to the dimensions of a building in millimetres. But then few buildings are as slender, stripped back and meticulously honed as those designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, founders of the Japanese practice Sanaa, who have been announced as this year&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/thin-is-the-new-thick-japanese-masters-of-minimalism-win-riba-gold-medal/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/thin-is-the-new-thick-japanese-masters-of-minimalism-win-riba-gold-medal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture film sparks new call to list Southbank Centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twentieth Century Society wants London landmark to get listed status with brutalism in Oscars spotlight The Southbank Centre was once voted Britain&rsquo;s ugliest building, but fresh interest in its architecture after the success of The Brutalist has prompted a renewed call to get it listed.For 34 years successive governments have resisted proposals to list the centre &ndash; a set of concrete buildings that include the Hayward Gallery, the Purcell Rooms and Queen Elizabeth Hall. Continue readi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architecture-film-sparks-new-call-to-list-southbank-centre/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:12:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architecture-film-sparks-new-call-to-list-southbank-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tate Liverpool ‘flings open windows’ to first phase of £30m revamp]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gallery, whose success its director says others have learned from, is now expected to reopen in spring 2027&ldquo;We want to fling open the windows, let the light bounce in,&rdquo; said the architect Stephanie Macdonald in a building that has been known for being the opposite.&ldquo;You will get spectacular views of the Mersey,&rdquo; said Helen Legg, the director of Tate Liverpool. &ldquo;It is going to be magical for people.&rdquo; Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tate-liverpool-flings-open-windows-to-first-phase-of-30m-revamp/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:03:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tate-liverpool-flings-open-windows-to-first-phase-of-30m-revamp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After The Brutalist: our readers name their favourite brutalist buildings]]></title><description><![CDATA[From London&rsquo;s Barbican to Berlin&rsquo;s Corbusierhaus, urban concrete edifices continue to inspire us &ndash; whether they be art spaces, apartment blocks or even car parksModernist architecture enthusiasts hope The Brutalist, the film nominated for 10 Oscars about a fictional architect, will help revive interest in 20th-century brutalist heritage &ndash; and stimulate people to protect buildings under threat from demolition.Hundreds of people got in touch with the Guardian to share their]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/after-the-brutalist-our-readers-name-their-favourite-brutalist-buildings/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 15:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/after-the-brutalist-our-readers-name-their-favourite-brutalist-buildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born of prosperity, sunlight and optimism, California’s dream homes now lie in ashes | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Magnificent, irreplaceable 20th-century architecture made with craft and imagination was destroyed in the Palisades wildfiresPacific Palisades and its surrounding neighbourhoods, which have burned so ferociously over the past three weeks, happen to be the location of some beautiful and magnificent 20th-century architecture. Or were, as the fire has taken a terrible toll.Houses by the &eacute;migr&eacute; Austrian modernist Richard Neutra have gone, as have most of the Park Planned Homes of 1948,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/born-of-prosperity-sunlight-and-optimism-californias-dream-homes-now-lie-in-ashes-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/born-of-prosperity-sunlight-and-optimism-californias-dream-homes-now-lie-in-ashes-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Backlash builds: why the architecture world hates The Brutalist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brady Corbet&rsquo;s Oscar-tipped film is clearly based on real-life modernist master Marcel Breuer but brazenly misrepresents him and his revered modernism&bull; This article contains spoilers for The BrutalistIt has graced tea towels and cushions, mugs and socks, and spawned numerous Instagram accounts and coffee table books galore. Now brutalism, the once-maligned postwar architectural style of chiselled concrete forms, has finally reached Hollywood, in the form of an epic three-and-a-half-ho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/backlash-builds-why-the-architecture-world-hates-the-brutalist/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:29:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/backlash-builds-why-the-architecture-world-hates-the-brutalist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Elephant droppings’ critique of the Tricorn Centre wasn’t Prince Charles’s | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Celia Clark credits Catherine Gladdis with a description of a brutalist landmark in Portsmouth that is often attributed to the then Prince of WalesYour article says that Prince Charles (as&nbsp;he then was) called Portsmouth&rsquo;s Tricorn Centre, one of the country&rsquo;s first multi-use multistoreys, &ldquo;a mildewed lump of elephant droppings&rdquo; (Experts hope The Brutalist will revive interest in UK&rsquo;s modernist buildings, 17 January). It was actually Catherine Gladdis who describ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/elephant-droppings-critique-of-the-tricorn-centre-wasnt-prince-charless-letters/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:24:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/elephant-droppings-critique-of-the-tricorn-centre-wasnt-prince-charless-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The banks thought we were mad’: coral castles and look-at-me loos reinvent New York housing]]></title><description><![CDATA[With building codes strict and land values high, Big Apple apartment blocks tend to be grim. But two firms, SO-IL and Tankhouse, are fighting back with lush courtyards, breezy landings &ndash; and glass-walled toilets 15 storeys upFor all its metropolitan dynamism and heady sense of possibility, New York is not a city that produces good housing. Its building codes are so strict, its land values so high, and its construction practises so intractable, that the results tend towards grim stacks of c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-banks-thought-we-were-mad-coral-castles-and-look-at-me-loos-reinvent-new-york-housing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-banks-thought-we-were-mad-coral-castles-and-look-at-me-loos-reinvent-new-york-housing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Design news: a vertical forest, cat robots and Midlands craft]]></title><description><![CDATA[The profound documentary on building, a celebration of Milan&rsquo;s Bosco Verticale and a Czech museum dedicated to MuchaThis month&rsquo;s news celebrates heat-sensitive tongues, forests in the air and the mind-blowing potential of stone. Everything you need to know about design this month. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/design-news-a-vertical-forest-cat-robots-and-midlands-craft/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:06:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/design-news-a-vertical-forest-cat-robots-and-midlands-craft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wholesome escape from the housing crisis: the Facebook group dedicated to retro Australian homes]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m obsessed with the fantasy of fixing up a midcentury house &ndash; and furious at the people who&rsquo;ve painted them white See more from our column Internet wormhole, where writers share their favourite corner of the internetThere is one thing that unites the members of my favourite Facebook group: a shared hatred of white paint.In the comments, people moan about mid-century homes being visited by &ldquo;the white fairy&rdquo;. Some discuss whether it&rsquo;s possible to undo the horr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-wholesome-escape-from-the-housing-crisis-the-facebook-group-dedicated-to-retro-australian-homes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-wholesome-escape-from-the-housing-crisis-the-facebook-group-dedicated-to-retro-australian-homes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away with Anthony Burke: ‘We did yoga twice a day and listened to the monkeys and elephants at night’]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Guardian Australia&rsquo;s weekly interview about travel, the Grand Designs Australia host reveals why he always packs a sketchbook, and welcomes things &lsquo;not working out&rsquo;Read more Away with interviewsMore summer essentialsWhichever destination he&rsquo;s travelling to, Anthony Burke makes a point of seeking out the best local architecture. As the host of Grand Designs Australia and an architecture professor at University of Technology Sydney, it&rsquo;s a holiday ritual he says is]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/away-with-anthony-burke-we-did-yoga-twice-a-day-and-listened-to-the-monkeys-and-elephants-at-night/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/away-with-anthony-burke-we-did-yoga-twice-a-day-and-listened-to-the-monkeys-and-elephants-at-night/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A slice of 1970s Babylon restored’: living the office dream at the Hanging Gardens of Basingstoke]]></title><description><![CDATA[With its lush terraces, themed gardens and calm interiors, this trailblazing office building by Arup Architects has been treated to a subtle &pound;32m makeover that still has wellness at its heart&ldquo;Wellness&rdquo; is all the rage at the fancier end of modern office development. Anxious to entice valuable employees away from the comforts of working from home, or from defecting to rivals, companies offer them spas, gyms and views of greenery. Proposals for gigantic office blocks in the City]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-slice-of-1970s-babylon-restored-living-the-office-dream-at-the-hanging-gardens-of-basingstoke/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-slice-of-1970s-babylon-restored-living-the-office-dream-at-the-hanging-gardens-of-basingstoke/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Brutalist review – Brady Corbet’s audacious architecture drama is a monumental achievement]]></title><description><![CDATA[The director&rsquo;s Adrien Brody-starring tale of a Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor building a new future in the US moves him into the big leagueBold, confrontational and oversized in every way imaginable, Brady Corbet&rsquo;s wildly ambitious three-and-a-half-hour-plus epic The Brutalist represents a near-perfect symbiosis of subject with film-making style. It&rsquo;s a huge, uncompromising cinematic statement about the creation of a huge, uncompromising architectural statement. It&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-brutalist-review-brady-corbets-audacious-architecture-drama-is-a-monumental-achievement/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-brutalist-review-brady-corbets-audacious-architecture-drama-is-a-monumental-achievement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brutal honesty about Preston bus station | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bus station blues | Sharp pencils | Peanut butter | Prince Harry | Meat-free chilliIn your print edition, Oliver Wainwright describes Preston bus station, opened in 1969, as &ldquo;a gleaming monument to the days when bus travel was as thrilling as space flight&rdquo; (Four&nbsp;of Britain&rsquo;s brutalist gems, 18 January). Clearly he never had to wait for hours back then in that soulless, draughty hangar of misery, on a cold, dark, rainy Monday evening in November, for the Ribble bus that nev]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brutal-honesty-about-preston-bus-station-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brutal-honesty-about-preston-bus-station-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brasil! Brasil! review – no fun and no funk in this baffling morass of mediocrity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Royal Academy, London<br />
Brazil produces incredible artists, too few of whom appear in this deluded show, which sadly fails to live up to its own hyperbolic guffWhat words would you use to describe the design of this exhibition of Brazilian modernist art? &ldquo;Chic bombast&rdquo; perhaps. The biggest room in the main galleries of Burlington House is painted bold yellow with the names of its two featured artists in huge black graphics and, for visitors to sit on, funky curving furniture. But there]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brasil-brasil-review-no-fun-and-no-funk-in-this-baffling-morass-of-mediocrity/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:53:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brasil-brasil-review-no-fun-and-no-funk-in-this-baffling-morass-of-mediocrity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Share pictures and stories of your favourite brutalist buildings]]></title><description><![CDATA[We want to see people&rsquo;s most loved brutalist buildings around the world and why people treasure themThe Brutalist, Brady Corbet&rsquo;s film about a fictional modernist architect in postwar America, has become a hotly anticipated film release.Architecture experts hope the movie will renew interest in brutalist heritage. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/share-pictures-and-stories-of-your-favourite-brutalist-buildings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 12:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/share-pictures-and-stories-of-your-favourite-brutalist-buildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weatherwatch: How living underground can drastically cut energy bills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Subterranean homes stay cool in summer and warm in winter and can save about 80% in energy costsImagine highly energy-efficient homes that use natural insulation, are resistant to whatever the weather throws at them and blend in with the surrounding landscape, even in areas of outstanding beauty. These are underground homes.The Earth&rsquo;s temperature below the surface is stable because the ground absorbs and stores large amounts of heat. Just a few dozen centimetres below the surface, the tem]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/weatherwatch-how-living-underground-can-drastically-cut-energy-bills/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/weatherwatch-how-living-underground-can-drastically-cut-energy-bills/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landmarks destroyed, masterpieces incinerated, communities razed: how the LA fires ravaged culture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost 200 artists in the Altadena neighbourhood have had their homes or studios burned down, while modernist buildings and irreplaceable collections have been destroyedFires are a seasonal recurrence in the dry chaparral region of Los Angeles. Often fanned by the Santa Anas, gales known as the &ldquo;devil winds,&rdquo; they spark easily in the long, hot months of summer and autumn. But on 7 January, when those winds blew at 85 mph through areas parched from winter drought, a hurricane of fire]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/landmarks-destroyed-masterpieces-incinerated-communities-razed-how-the-la-fires-ravaged-culture/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 13:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/landmarks-destroyed-masterpieces-incinerated-communities-razed-how-the-la-fires-ravaged-culture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lost mansions of Chettinad: festival showcases opulent homes turned heritage hotels]]></title><description><![CDATA[In its heyday, Chettinad in southern India was a thriving hub of international traders. Today, the grandeur of their homes is being restored by a community keen to celebrate the houses&rsquo; cultural importance and promote them to touristsThe single-stone granite pillars and Burmese teak beams of Chettinad&rsquo;s heritage hotels are adorned with strands of marigolds, while the verandas and corridors are hung with small, handmade palm-leaf parrots that sway gracefully among fragrant blooms. Six]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-lost-mansions-of-chettinad-festival-showcases-opulent-homes-turned-heritage-hotels/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-lost-mansions-of-chettinad-festival-showcases-opulent-homes-turned-heritage-hotels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We need people to recognise the urgency’: Peterborough Cathedral faces financial ruin]]></title><description><![CDATA[Its dean has launched an emergency appeal to raise &pound;300k by the end of March as costs climb to over &pound;2m a yearBeneath the breathtaking oak ceiling of Peterborough Cathedral, on which images of kings, saints, bishops and a monkey riding a goat were painted nine centuries ago, the Very Rev Chris Dalliston pondered how to keep this magnificent edifice afloat in the face of financial calamity.Dalliston, the cathedral&rsquo;s de facto CEO in a dog collar, has done his best to avert the lo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-need-people-to-recognise-the-urgency-peterborough-cathedral-faces-financial-ruin/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-need-people-to-recognise-the-urgency-peterborough-cathedral-faces-financial-ruin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sprawling megacity of multi-level madness: why Chongqing in China is my wonder of the world]]></title><description><![CDATA[This megacity is like Hong Kong on steroids &ndash; a vertically sprawling, astonishing urban phenomenon that can only be understood in three dimensionsGoogle Maps can be unreliable at the best of times when you&rsquo;re travelling in China, but in the southern megacity of Chongqing, a map of any kind turns out to be almost entirely useless. Built across a series of impossibly steep mountainsides and vertiginous valleys at the dramatic confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers, it is an aston]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-sprawling-megacity-of-multi-level-madness-why-chongqing-in-china-is-my-wonder-of-the-world/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-sprawling-megacity-of-multi-level-madness-why-chongqing-in-china-is-my-wonder-of-the-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lights, camera, concrete! How Hollywood is playing a part in brutalism’s redemption]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oscar-tipped film The Brutalist is the latest stage in the cultural rehabilitation of what was once architecture&rsquo;s most reviled style but is now winning a new generation of admirersThis week an Oscar-tipped film, The Brutalist, opens in Britain. It&rsquo;s a three-and-a-half-hour-plus saga in which Adrien Brody plays the brilliant but tormented fictional Hungarian architect L&aacute;szl&oacute; T&oacute;th, a Holocaust survivor struggling to make a life in the postwar US. He&rsquo;s a sing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lights-camera-concrete-how-hollywood-is-playing-a-part-in-brutalisms-redemption/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lights-camera-concrete-how-hollywood-is-playing-a-part-in-brutalisms-redemption/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It was built for this’: how design helped spare some homes from the LA wildfires]]></title><description><![CDATA[As fires set LA ablaze, some houses are left standing amid ashes thanks to concrete walls, class A wood &ndash; and luckWhen last week&rsquo;s fires in Los Angeles set parts of the city ablaze, one viral image was of a lone house in Pacific Palisades that was left standing while all of the homes around it were destroyed.Architect Greg Chasen said luck was the main factor in the home&rsquo;s survival, but the brand-new build had some design features that also helped: a vegetation-free zone around]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-was-built-for-this-how-design-helped-spare-some-homes-from-the-la-wildfires/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-was-built-for-this-how-design-helped-spare-some-homes-from-the-la-wildfires/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experts hope The Brutalist will revive interest in UK’s modernist buildings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architectural historians say success of Brady Corbet&rsquo;s film could help in fight to protect heritage of divisive style&ldquo;A mildewed lump of elephant droppings&rdquo; is how King Charles, then Prince of Wales, described the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth after a visit to one of the UK&rsquo;s most notable examples of brutalist architecture.His verdict was typical of those who take issue with the modernist architectural movement, characterised by imposing forms of raw concrete, whose buildi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/experts-hope-the-brutalist-will-revive-interest-in-uks-modernist-buildings/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/experts-hope-the-brutalist-will-revive-interest-in-uks-modernist-buildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citigroup commits to office working with £1bn Canary Wharf tower revamp]]></title><description><![CDATA[US bank will spend almost as much to renovate Citi Tower skyscraper as it paid for site in the first placeThe US bank Citigroup is to spend &pound;1bn to renovate its skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London, the latest firm to signal its commitment to office working.The Wall Street lender will end up spending nearly as much on renovating the 130,000 sq metre (1.4m sq ft) building as it did on buying the site. Many City firms tend to lease their office space, but the bank bought what is now Citi Tower]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/citigroup-commits-to-office-working-with-1bn-canary-wharf-tower-revamp/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/citigroup-commits-to-office-working-with-1bn-canary-wharf-tower-revamp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Criminally reckless’: why LA’s urban sprawl made wildfires inevitable – and how it should rebuild]]></title><description><![CDATA[A century of foolhardy development, including public subsidies for rebuilding in the firebelt, hugely contributed to this tragedy, writes our architecture critic. LA must rethink &ndash; and build upwards not outwards&lsquo;Crime don&rsquo;t climb&rdquo; is one of the glib mottoes long used by Los Angeles real estate agents to help sell the multimillion dollar homes in the hills that surround the sprawling metropolis. Residents of the lush ridges and winding canyons can rest assured, in their el]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/criminally-reckless-why-las-urban-sprawl-made-wildfires-inevitable-and-how-it-should-rebuild/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:49:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/criminally-reckless-why-las-urban-sprawl-made-wildfires-inevitable-and-how-it-should-rebuild/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richard Gibson obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[London architect who moved to Shetland and created buildings sympathetic to the islands&rsquo; landscape and traditions In 1969 Richard Gibson, who has died aged 89, was appointed deputy county architect in Shetland. Moving with his family from north London to the northernmost islands of the United Kingdom enabled him to keep alive the ideals of modern architecture &ndash; in particular that good design should serve the public benefit &ndash; long after they went out of fashion elsewhere in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/richard-gibson-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/richard-gibson-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politically historic Kingsley Hall in Bristol awarded £4.7m for renovation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Building with links to Labour and Tories earmarked for disadvantaged young people wins National Lottery fundingA 319-year-old Grade II-listed building in the heart of Bristol that was the headquarters of the precursor to the modern Labour party has been awarded &pound;4.7m for a major renovation.Kingsley Hall is deeply woven into Bristol&rsquo;s history and has been witness to various social movements. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/politically-historic-kingsley-hall-in-bristol-awarded-47m-for-renovation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/politically-historic-kingsley-hall-in-bristol-awarded-47m-for-renovation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecton review – poetic study of humankind’s bricks-and-mortar impact on the Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Victor Kossakovsky&rsquo;s follow-up to Gunda is a gorgeously shot reverie about our use of materials such as stone and concreteThe granite face of a quarry shatters into boulders, cascading in mesmerising slow motion; a man with a wheelbarrow potters around the Roman ruins at Baalbek in Lebanon; bulldozers and diggers pick over the shattered fragments of a bombed-out Ukrainian housing complex; an Italian architect commissions a stone circle for his garden, hovering fretfully as the landscapers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architecton-review-poetic-study-of-humankinds-bricks-and-mortar-impact-on-the-earth/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architecton-review-poetic-study-of-humankinds-bricks-and-mortar-impact-on-the-earth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadler’s Wells East review – all the right moves]]></title><description><![CDATA[East Bank, Stratford, London<br />
Built in Italian red brick by acclaimed Irish practice O&rsquo;Donnell + Tuomey, Sadler&rsquo;s Wells&rsquo;s vibrant new sister theatre provides six dance studios, elegant auditorium &ndash; and a big welcome to allThere&rsquo;s an idea among some architects that a building should somehow resemble the purposes it serves: that an airport should evoke flight; a democratic building should be transparent; an art museum should look like a piece of sculpture. It doesn&rsq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sadlers-wells-east-review-all-the-right-moves/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sadlers-wells-east-review-all-the-right-moves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane Austen’s plates or the woods near her home? I know which I’d rather save | Martha Gill]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why this hierarchy of heritage? Our obsession with buildings and artefacts is blinding us to the value of natureI was struck last week by a story about Alton, a town in Hampshire, where residents have hit on a new basis for object to development in the area: Jane Austen sometimes used to walk there from nearby Chawton. The surrounding landscape, a petition reads, is therefore an important part of our literary heritage and must not be built on.On the one hand, this is a story about nimbyism and t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/jane-austens-plates-or-the-woods-near-her-home-i-know-which-id-rather-save-martha-gill/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 20:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/jane-austens-plates-or-the-woods-near-her-home-i-know-which-id-rather-save-martha-gill/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glasgow needs an economy strong enough to sustain its heritage | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[It needs to realise its Victorian buildings are an asset rather than a liability, writes Richard Owen; plus a letter from Douglas AndersonI read Libby Brooks&rsquo;s article (&lsquo;Left&nbsp;to rot&rsquo;: Glasgow&rsquo;s crumbling heritage comes into focus for 850th anniversary, 2&nbsp;January) on the bus home from Glasgow city centre, and there was depressingly little in its summary of&nbsp;Glasgow&rsquo;s architectural woes that I could disagree with.However, Glasgow&rsquo;s problem with its]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/glasgow-needs-an-economy-strong-enough-to-sustain-its-heritage-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:53:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/glasgow-needs-an-economy-strong-enough-to-sustain-its-heritage-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islamesque by Diana Darke review – the diverse roots of medieval architecture]]></title><description><![CDATA[A beautifully-illustrated account of the Middle Eastern influence on Europe&rsquo;s great buildingsFrom Cairo to Istanbul, the ancient cities of the eastern Mediterranean tell a story of conquest, trade and coexistence written in stone. Jerusalem&rsquo;s seventh-century Dome of the Rock and its surroundings are dotted with recycled Persian, Greek, Hasmonean and Roman stonework, along with choice fragments from churches. In Damascus, the eighth-century Umayyad Mosque features intricately carved c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/islamesque-by-diana-darke-review-the-diverse-roots-of-medieval-architecture/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/islamesque-by-diana-darke-review-the-diverse-roots-of-medieval-architecture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Escape from the terrordome: how Netherlands panopticon prisons are being reborn as stunning arts hubs]]></title><description><![CDATA[They were built to instil fear. Now these giant domed jails, which date back to the 1700s, are being turned into creative centres &ndash; complete with cells for rent and escape roomsOne of the architectural features that marks out the skyline of Haarlem, a small Dutch city, is a 37.6m-high dome, crowning a rotunda. You might assume it was built for religious purposes &ndash; until you notice the bars covering its 230 windows.&#8203;&#8203;Operating as a prison from 1899 until 2016, the Koepelge]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/escape-from-the-terrordome-how-netherlands-panopticon-prisons-are-being-reborn-as-stunning-arts-hubs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/escape-from-the-terrordome-how-netherlands-panopticon-prisons-are-being-reborn-as-stunning-arts-hubs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecton review – immersive and imposing meditation on concrete and stone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Victor Kossakovsky&rsquo;s documentary offers awesome drone-shot sequences of wrecked and ruined buildings, but could have been constructed more solidlyVictor Kossakovsky is the author of some ambitious and immersively sensory documentaries, including Aquarela from 2018, about the climate crisis, and Gunda from 2020, about the consciousness of animals. Now he has created this monolithic, almost wordless and vehement meditation on concrete and stone; the building materials which are so substantia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architecton-review-immersive-and-imposing-meditation-on-concrete-and-stone/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architecton-review-immersive-and-imposing-meditation-on-concrete-and-stone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tudor psychedelia for £35 a night! Is this rescued Yorkshire pile Britain’s most thrilling holiday let?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s got triple-height splendour and 1550s wall paintings likely inspired by Emperor Nero&rsquo;s villa in Rome. Our writer plays lord of the manor at Calverley Hall &ndash; once home to knights, weavers, stonemasons and murderersA ghostly bearded face peers out from the wall of a bedroom, flanked by a pair of winged, snake-like beasts baring their teeth, their necks chained to an ermine roundel. The pattern repeats around the room like psychedelic wallpaper, featuring slithery creatures w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tudor-psychedelia-for-35-a-night-is-this-rescued-yorkshire-pile-britains-most-thrilling-holiday-let/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tudor-psychedelia-for-35-a-night-is-this-rescued-yorkshire-pile-britains-most-thrilling-holiday-let/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Office-to-homes conversions: London blocks hold fresh allure since shift to home-working]]></title><description><![CDATA[Interest has surged since relaxation of planning rules last March, but technical difficulties often loom largeOn a busy high street in Balham, south London, stands a boxy, beige-fronted building. Built in the 1940s, for decades the four-storey office block was home to hundreds of civil servants until Department for Work and Pensions officials moved out in 2020.Now, Irene House boasts 77 one- and two-bedroom upmarket apartments with seven more homes inside a roof extension. It still has its art d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/office-to-homes-conversions-london-blocks-hold-fresh-allure-since-shift-to-home-working/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 16:37:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/office-to-homes-conversions-london-blocks-hold-fresh-allure-since-shift-to-home-working/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s Dungeness first’: panel to decide fate of new Mr Doodle house]]></title><description><![CDATA[Award-winning architect says planned renovation on behalf of millionaire artist is &lsquo;respectful&rsquo; of area&rsquo;s heritageDungeness, on the Kent coast, has long championed pioneering architecture, welcoming the distinctive black and yellow home of the artist and film-maker Derek Jarman. But a proposal for a house clad in the rusty scrawls of the millionaire artist Mr Doodle has tested the open-mindedness of those who live there &ndash; and failed to win over the parish council.Mr Doodl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-dungeness-first-panel-to-decide-fate-of-new-mr-doodle-house/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:31:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-dungeness-first-panel-to-decide-fate-of-new-mr-doodle-house/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour must get asbestos out of schools urgently | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dr Gill Reed says the UK has the highest incidence of mesothelioma in the world due to asbestos exposure, while Ed Campbell says underfunding made buildings&rsquo; deterioration inevitable. Plus a letter from Colin PorteousThe Guardian&rsquo;s investigation of underinvestment in public buildings vividly shows its detrimental impact&nbsp;(Revealed: 1.5m children in England studying in unfit school buildings, 27 December). It is therefore heartening that a government spokesperson has stated that &]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/labour-must-get-asbestos-out-of-schools-urgently-letters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:43:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/labour-must-get-asbestos-out-of-schools-urgently-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pharaohs, masks and bronze age boats: six standout new museums around the world in 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[Openings across Africa and Asia offer new cultural experiences in stunning architectural surroundingsFrom a noisy, performative and unapologetically non-European Yor&ugrave;b&aacute; cultural centre in Lagos, Nigeria, to the much-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, 2024 was a big year for museums opening in the developing world. A number of projects will also be inaugurated in 2025, offering an abundance of new museums to visit in 2025. Here are some of the best of them: Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pharaohs-masks-and-bronze-age-boats-six-standout-new-museums-around-the-world-in-2025/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pharaohs-masks-and-bronze-age-boats-six-standout-new-museums-around-the-world-in-2025/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Testament to Spain’s golden age to open up its secret spaces after €6m revamp]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unesco-listed San Lorenzo de El Escorial was fulfilment of Philip II&rsquo;s dream of raising monastery in a &lsquo;desert&rsquo;Despite perching imperiously on a mountainside near Madrid for the better part of five centuries, the royal monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial has yet to give up all its treasures &ndash; or all its secrets.Forty years after it was included on Unesco&rsquo;s World Heritage list, Philip II&rsquo;s austere monument to power, piety and patronage is undergoing a major]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/testament-to-spains-golden-age-to-open-up-its-secret-spaces-after-6m-revamp/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/testament-to-spains-golden-age-to-open-up-its-secret-spaces-after-6m-revamp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people’s ancestors are kings or poets. I’m proud my family invented … the corridor]]></title><description><![CDATA[I always thought genealogy was as dull as looking at other people&rsquo;s holiday snaps &ndash; until I found out about a 16th-century architect who transformed the stately homes of his eraFriends and family, back in the 1970s, would often aggravate each other with a lengthy holiday slideshow, presenting a string of identical beach views and nameless hillside vistas over the course of a dull evening. Today, there is a new phrase that can freeze the heart just as easily as the sight of a slide pr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/some-peoples-ancestors-are-kings-or-poets-im-proud-my-family-invented-the-corridor/</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/some-peoples-ancestors-are-kings-or-poets-im-proud-my-family-invented-the-corridor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Ludicrous’: bitter row erupts over plan to replace windows at Notre Dame]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fury as President Macron reveals the new &lsquo;contemporary gesture&rsquo; for cathedral devastated by 2019 fireIn the wake of the April 2019 fire that devastated Notre Dame, the French president Emmanuel Macron promised that the monument would be rebuilt with a &ldquo;contemporary gesture&rdquo;.There followed all manner of madcap ideas: a glass spire; a 300ft &shy;carbon-fibre flame; a swimming pool on the roof; a covered garden. In the end, Notre Dame was restored to its original former glor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ludicrous-bitter-row-erupts-over-plan-to-replace-windows-at-notre-dame/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:36:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ludicrous-bitter-row-erupts-over-plan-to-replace-windows-at-notre-dame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Ludicrous’: bitter row erupts over plan to replace original Notre Dame windows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fury as President Macron reveals the new &lsquo;contemporary gesture&rsquo; for cathedral devastated by 2019 fireIn the wake of the April 2019 fire that devastated Notre Dame, the French president Emmanuel Macron promised that the monument would be rebuilt with a &ldquo;contemporary gesture&rdquo;.There followed all manner of madcap ideas: a glass spire; a 300ft &shy;carbon-fibre flame; a swimming pool on the roof; a covered garden. In the end, Notre Dame was restored to its original former glor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ludicrous-bitter-row-erupts-over-plan-to-replace-original-notre-dame-windows/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:36:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ludicrous-bitter-row-erupts-over-plan-to-replace-original-notre-dame-windows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘When I show people this, they think it’s Mordor’: the landscape architect viewing the West Midlands as a national park]]></title><description><![CDATA[Birmingham City University thinktank imagines new approach to urban areas and land use across the region &ldquo;When I show people this, they think it&rsquo;s Mordor,&rdquo; says landscape architecture professor Kathryn Moore with a smile.She is pointing at a map of the West Midlands. But instead of buildings, roads and a sprawling canal network, this map shows the natural hills and undulations that lie below the human-made architecture. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/when-i-show-people-this-they-think-its-mordor-the-landscape-architect-viewing-the-west-midlands-as-a-national-park/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/when-i-show-people-this-they-think-its-mordor-the-landscape-architect-viewing-the-west-midlands-as-a-national-park/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘When I show people this, they think it’s Mordor’: the architect viewing the West Midlands as a national park]]></title><description><![CDATA[Birmingham City University thinktank imagines new approach to urban areas and land use across the region &ldquo;When I show people this, they think it&rsquo;s Mordor,&rdquo; says landscape architecture professor Kathryn Moore with a smile.She is pointing at a map of the West Midlands. But instead of buildings, roads and a sprawling canal network, this map shows the natural hills and undulations that lie below the human-made architecture. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/when-i-show-people-this-they-think-its-mordor-the-architect-viewing-the-west-midlands-as-a-national-park/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/when-i-show-people-this-they-think-its-mordor-the-architect-viewing-the-west-midlands-as-a-national-park/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘If we don’t look after this treasure, we’re going to lose it’: the fight to restore one of the UK’s most historic streets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Home to choir singers for 650 years, Grade-1 listed Vicar&rsquo;s Close by Wells Cathedral is in need of funding to keep its medieval houses liveable &ndash; and its unique history aliveChoir singers have lived in two handsome terraces of silvery-pink-stoned medieval houses beside Wells Cathedral for more than 650 years. But the gated close &ndash; which is thought to be the most complete and continuously occupied medieval street in Europe &ndash; is now in desperate need of restoration.&ldquo;I]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/if-we-dont-look-after-this-treasure-were-going-to-lose-it-the-fight-to-restore-one-of-the-uks-most-historic-streets/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:27:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/if-we-dont-look-after-this-treasure-were-going-to-lose-it-the-fight-to-restore-one-of-the-uks-most-historic-streets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensual surrealism, Kiefer’s delights and Gehry’s Guggenheim: the best art and architecture shows to visit in 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anselm Kiefer&rsquo;s homage to Van Gogh, Ithell Colquhoun&rsquo;s seaside of surrealism and Gilbert &amp; George fill the galleries, while the V&amp;A opens its archives at the illustrious new East Storehouse<br />
&bull; More from the 2025 culture preview Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sensual-surrealism-kiefers-delights-and-gehrys-guggenheim-the-best-art-and-architecture-shows-to-visit-in-2025/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sensual-surrealism-kiefers-delights-and-gehrys-guggenheim-the-best-art-and-architecture-shows-to-visit-in-2025/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blueprint for success: how Australian architects made the world take notice in 2024]]></title><description><![CDATA[Incorporating First Nations cultures and history, and embracing sustainable design have earned local builds global acclaimWhen an unassuming public primary school tucked away in an inner-city Sydney suburb took out the grand prize at the world&rsquo;s largest architecture festival last month, it made international headlines. Crowned world building of the year, Darlington public school was the second major triumph for FJC Studio in 2024. Two months earlier, the Australian architecture firm had pu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/blueprint-for-success-how-australian-architects-made-the-world-take-notice-in-2024/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/blueprint-for-success-how-australian-architects-made-the-world-take-notice-in-2024/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King’s Christmas message to focus on healthcare workers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Monarch, who is undergoing cancer treatment, sought venue with strong health connections and community presenceThe king&rsquo;s Christmas message will focus on the efforts of healthcare workers after a year in which Charles and the Princess of Wales were treated for cancer.Charles will also use his annual address to the nation to hail communities who came together in solidarity in the aftermath of rioting, following the fatal Southport stabbings of three young girls. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/kings-christmas-message-to-focus-on-healthcare-workers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:37:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/kings-christmas-message-to-focus-on-healthcare-workers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Locals win fight to save mysterious, medieval Spanish chapel from oblivion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Home to vivid 16th-century frescoes, the Ermita de San Jorge is on the brink of being saved from centuries of decayA mysterious, dilapidated and exquisitely painted Spanish chapel into which knights on horseback may have ridden centuries ago to receive a wet and most unusual blessing could be on the verge of salvation after a decades-long campaign by local heritage groups.No one knows much about the crumbling and semi-subterranean Ermita de San Jorge, which sits in a hollow 7 miles (12km) from t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/locals-win-fight-to-save-mysterious-medieval-spanish-chapel-from-oblivion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 09:32:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/locals-win-fight-to-save-mysterious-medieval-spanish-chapel-from-oblivion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture: Rowan Moore’s five best projects of 2024]]></title><description><![CDATA[A front garden makeover with dinosaurs, a playful addition to a Scottish castle and the latest from Shard architect Renzo Piano all caught the eye1. Urban Nature Project, Natural History Museum, London SW7<br />
J&amp;L Gibbons and Feilden Fowles<br />
A magical embodiment of evolution and geological time, given spatial and physical form by rocks, plants and buildings. The remaking of the front garden of the country&rsquo;s second most popular visitor attraction also provides such useful things as a cafe, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architecture-rowan-moores-five-best-projects-of-2024/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architecture-rowan-moores-five-best-projects-of-2024/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court clears way for ‘the Slab’ office block to be built on London’s South Bank]]></title><description><![CDATA[Judge dismisses challenge that argued development failed to provide housing and could damage London landmarksThe building of a controversial 25-storey office block nicknamed the Slab on London&rsquo;s South Bank is to go ahead after the high court upheld a decision by the former communities secretary Michael Gove to approve the development.Mr Justice Mould dismissed a legal challenge by the Save Our South Bank group, which has been fighting the development since planning permission was first sub]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/court-clears-way-for-the-slab-office-block-to-be-built-on-londons-south-bank/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/court-clears-way-for-the-slab-office-block-to-be-built-on-londons-south-bank/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t be fooled. Copenhagen is not that green | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tobias Jespersen says be careful before describing the city as sustainable and a role model. Morten Iversen laments its soulless expansionWhile the urge to write positive stories about solutions to the climate crisis must be strong, and they are needed, Copenhagen should not be one (The five-minute city: inside Denmark&rsquo;s revolutionary neighbourhood, 10 December). Nordhavn may be a revolutionary neighbourhood, but to say that Copenhagen is a green city is based on false premises.Near Nordha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dont-be-fooled-copenhagen-is-not-that-green-letters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dont-be-fooled-copenhagen-is-not-that-green-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best art and architecture of 2024]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our critics&rsquo; highlights include magnificently rough portraits by the late Frank Auerbach, Caravaggio&rsquo;s final painting and a 1930s silo reborn as a museum of modern artMore on the best culture of 2024 Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-best-art-and-architecture-of-2024/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-best-art-and-architecture-of-2024/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tintin and the terrific tomb: Essex heritage listing is thrill for Hergé fans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rare stone chest linked to comic-book hero joins church above supermarket under Historic England&rsquo;s protectionBlistering barnacles! Thundering typhoons! Blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon! Who knew there was a 300-year-old tomb in Essex that can be linked to Tintin&rsquo;s boozy best friend Captain Haddock?The little-known tomb of Mary Haddock, in a churchyard in Leigh-on-Sea, has been named as one of the quirkier places given listed status in 2024 by Historic England. Contin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tintin-and-the-terrific-tomb-essex-heritage-listing-is-thrill-for-herg-fans/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 06:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tintin-and-the-terrific-tomb-essex-heritage-listing-is-thrill-for-herg-fans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘People should feel there’s more than doom and gloom’: Monument Valley 3’s environmentalist hope-punk]]></title><description><![CDATA[How the pandemic and climate migration have influenced this third outing of a formerly sterile architectural puzzle gameArchitectural surrealism is Monument Valley&rsquo;s signature. Austere, beautiful structures transform and rotate at the player&rsquo;s touch, creating new paths and staircases for its minimalist characters to traverse. Doorways can lead anywhere. Switches cause columns to rise out of the ground, a perspective shift can reveal a cache of hidden pathways. Since 2014 these games]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/people-should-feel-theres-more-than-doom-and-gloom-monument-valley-3s-environmentalist-hope-punk/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:54:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/people-should-feel-theres-more-than-doom-and-gloom-monument-valley-3s-environmentalist-hope-punk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Design highlights 2024: ‘This is sorcery level craft!’]]></title><description><![CDATA[From nan ornaments to an African pounding table, our panel of creative experts pick their favourite designs from the last 12 monthsChosen by Charlene Prempeh, founder of creative agency A Vibe Called Tech Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/design-highlights-2024-this-is-sorcery-level-craft/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/design-highlights-2024-this-is-sorcery-level-craft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It was so fragile, we weren’t certain it wouldn’t collapse’: the architect who sketched Notre Dame’s ancient insides]]></title><description><![CDATA[After disaster struck Notre Dame in 2019, Axelle Ponsonnet began to draw parts of the cathedral exposed by the fire, some not seen for centuries. A new book documents what she discoveredWhen Notre Dame de Paris went up&nbsp;in flames in April 2019, architecture student Axelle Ponsonnet was just one of the French capital&rsquo;s 2.1 million residents to witness a disaster unfolding in her own city. Ponsonnet had no inkling that a year later, she would be joining the workforce tasked with rebuildi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-was-so-fragile-we-werent-certain-it-wouldnt-collapse-the-architect-who-sketched-notre-dames-ancient-insides/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-was-so-fragile-we-werent-certain-it-wouldnt-collapse-the-architect-who-sketched-notre-dames-ancient-insides/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding beauty in Brutalism: a flat in Milan provides a haven for creativity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art defines the space in an apartment in an iconic building whose Brutalist architecture once led to protestsSome people buy their dream home for the location, others for the space it affords them; for Italian fashion designer Massimo Giorgetti, it was a&nbsp;love affair with Brutalism.His one-bedroom Milan apartment is housed in the former L&rsquo;Istituto Mobiliare Italiano residential complex in the city&rsquo;s Porta Romana district. Externally untouched since it was finished in 1966, this c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/finding-beauty-in-brutalism-a-flat-in-milan-provides-a-haven-for-creativity/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/finding-beauty-in-brutalism-a-flat-in-milan-provides-a-haven-for-creativity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Notre Dame reverberates with light: it’s impossible not to be moved]]></title><description><![CDATA[An extraordinary restoration has swept away the lead dust and made the cathedral vivid, but thankfully not kitsch. Our architecture critic takes a look inside&ldquo;This cathedral is a happy metaphor of what a nation is and what the world should be,&rdquo; said President Macron. Yet, in an obvious mismatch, the unity and harmony of the restored Notre Dame de Paris, the collective achievement of thousands of craftspeople, builders, firefighters, engineers, architects, clergy, funders and administ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/now-notre-dame-reverberates-with-light-its-impossible-not-to-be-moved/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/now-notre-dame-reverberates-with-light-its-impossible-not-to-be-moved/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restore, destroy or leave to rot? Battle lines drawn over west Africa’s architectural heritage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uncompleted or abandoned buildings are a regular feature of the landscape. Now calls for restorations are increasingBeneath mango trees in the lush garden of the Palais de Lom&eacute;, an oceanside estate in the Togolese capital, dozens of students from the African School of Architecture and Urban Planning (EAMAU) were taking sessions on archiving.Established in 1905, the palace housed German, French and British colonial governors in succession and then the Togolese presidency before falling int]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/restore-destroy-or-leave-to-rot-battle-lines-drawn-over-west-africas-architectural-heritage/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2024 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/restore-destroy-or-leave-to-rot-battle-lines-drawn-over-west-africas-architectural-heritage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shard to share title of tallest building in UK as new skyscraper gets green light]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new building, 1 Undershaft, will be 309.6m tall, matching the height of the Shard to the centimetreThe Shard is going to have to share its title of the UK&rsquo;s tallest building after planning permission was granted for a new skyscraper in the City of London.When it is completed early next decade, 1 Undershaft will be 309.6 metres tall, matching the height of the Shard to the centimetre, the maximum allowed due to civil aviation rules. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/shard-to-share-title-of-tallest-building-in-uk-as-new-skyscraper-gets-green-light/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:27:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/shard-to-share-title-of-tallest-building-in-uk-as-new-skyscraper-gets-green-light/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘They wouldn’t do this to Shakespeare’: the pioneers of postmodern architecture, as seen by their son]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jim Venturi&rsquo;s new film follows his parents Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, bringing scrappy wit and colour to chilly modernism as they battle the establishment and wind-up traditionalists at the National GalleryWhen Denise Scott Brown visited Las Vegas for the first time in the 1960s, she was overwhelmed with emotions. But she wasn&rsquo;t quite sure which ones. &ldquo;The first thing I felt was a kind of shiver,&rdquo; she recalls in a new documentary. &ldquo;Was it horror or was i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/they-wouldnt-do-this-to-shakespeare-the-pioneers-of-postmodern-architecture-as-seen-by-their-son/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:59:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/they-wouldnt-do-this-to-shakespeare-the-pioneers-of-postmodern-architecture-as-seen-by-their-son/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bob Carr is up for a debate: can Australia treasure its historic buildings without romanticising them?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The former premier is on a new quest for civic literacy and fair representations of the past as he becomes chair of Museums of History NSWFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAfter years in the public eye, Bob Carr is turning his attention to historic buildings &ndash; and he says we should be prepared to have a debate.As New South Wales premier, Carr led the state for more than a decade, serving as its arts minister thr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bob-carr-is-up-for-a-debate-can-australia-treasure-its-historic-buildings-without-romanticising-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 03:42:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bob-carr-is-up-for-a-debate-can-australia-treasure-its-historic-buildings-without-romanticising-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brisbane is deciding on a 2032 Olympics stadium: how do the options stack up?]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the river city&rsquo;s international reputation on the line, a 100-day review period hopes to cut through the political posturing and land on a main venue befitting of the GamesThe 2032 Olympics have for a long time felt far away but it took Gout Gout to show they are just around the corner. The Brisbane teenager&rsquo;s barely believable 200m national record on Saturday has upped the urgency for organisers to get Games planning right, as Queenslanders dream of an Olympic sprinting medal fr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brisbane-is-deciding-on-a-2032-olympics-stadium-how-do-the-options-stack-up/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brisbane-is-deciding-on-a-2032-olympics-stadium-how-do-the-options-stack-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From brutalist school to space-age church: the architectural oasis deep in Trump country]]></title><description><![CDATA[Columbus, Indiana, is a mecca of modernism that still embodies the progressive ideals of its founders and star designers. Our writer explores &lsquo;the Athens of the prairie&rsquo;Imagine growing up in a place where every stage of your life was framed by the best architecture of its day. You start out in an experimental elementary school, learning on a multi-level landscape of open-plan terraces connected by slides, before moving to a junior school where little towers of classrooms are linked b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-brutalist-school-to-space-age-church-the-architectural-oasis-deep-in-trump-country/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-brutalist-school-to-space-age-church-the-architectural-oasis-deep-in-trump-country/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notre Dame rises from the ashes at last: world leaders join embattled Macron for grand reopening]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ceremony gives French president moment of glory in company of Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he delivers on promise to restore cathedral It was like stepping back into a medieval age and reliving the breathtaking awe Notre Dame cathedral would have inspired in the 14th century when the light from the rose windows threw a kaleidoscope of colours on its pale creamy walls before hundreds of years of liturgical smoke and city pollution blackened them.This is how the church would have appear]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/notre-dame-rises-from-the-ashes-at-last-world-leaders-join-embattled-macron-for-grand-reopening/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 21:29:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/notre-dame-rises-from-the-ashes-at-last-world-leaders-join-embattled-macron-for-grand-reopening/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notre Dame review – glorious resurrection is as close to time travel as it gets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Five years since it was gutted by fire, the soul of Paris is about to reopen its doors. Our critic is wowed by the buttery stonework, gleaming lead and gawp-inducing gildingWith France plunged into political turmoil, and president Emmanuel Macron&rsquo;s approval ratings at an all time low, the country might be thankful to have a distraction of epic proportions this weekend. All eyes will be on Notre Dame tomorrow, as Paris prepares to unveil the interior of its hallowed cathedral, &ldquo;the so]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/notre-dame-review-glorious-resurrection-is-as-close-to-time-travel-as-it-gets/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/notre-dame-review-glorious-resurrection-is-as-close-to-time-travel-as-it-gets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Henry I’s luxurious tower at Corfe Castle reopens to visitors after 378 years]]></title><description><![CDATA[A National Trust viewing platform at Corfe Castle offers visitors a glimpse into the king&rsquo;s royal quarters in DorsetA luxurious suite of &ldquo;rooms with a view&rdquo;, built for the son of William the Conquerer but partly destroyed in the English Civil War, has become accessible to visitors for the first time in almost 400 years, thanks to a new viewing platform at one of England&rsquo;s most dramatically situated castles.The King&rsquo;s Tower was built in 1107 for William&rsquo;s son H]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/henry-is-luxurious-tower-at-corfe-castle-reopens-to-visitors-after-378-years/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/henry-is-luxurious-tower-at-corfe-castle-reopens-to-visitors-after-378-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hawking Building review – the Science Museum’s giant new shed of the weird and wonderful]]></title><description><![CDATA[Science and Innovation Park, Wroughton, Swindon<br />
On an old RAF airfield, a no-frills metal barn has been built to house the reserve collections of the London museum and its associates, with 300,000 objects ranging from a 1960s nuclear missile to Stephen Hawking&rsquo;s voice synthesiserMuseum storage facilities are unseen wonders, dark troves of material in little-publicised locations. They might hold 95% or more of an institution&rsquo;s collections, with some objects as fascinating and beautifu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hawking-building-review-the-science-museums-giant-new-shed-of-the-weird-and-wonderful/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hawking-building-review-the-science-museums-giant-new-shed-of-the-weird-and-wonderful/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What connects Huddersfield’s 1990s football stadium and Notre Dame? Beauty]]></title><description><![CDATA[From a rail terminal to a high-tech house, modern buildings now eligible for listing are a delight anyone can enjoy &ndash; even traditionalists1994 was a vintage year for architecture. The year&rsquo;s popular and posh classics included a dynamic football stadium (for Huddersfield Town), a stately opera house (at Glyndebourne) and the wiggly greenhouse that was the Eurostar terminal in Waterloo station.As there&rsquo;s a government rule that says buildings normally have to be 30 years old to be]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/what-connects-huddersfields-1990s-football-stadium-and-notre-dame-beauty/</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/what-connects-huddersfields-1990s-football-stadium-and-notre-dame-beauty/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Macron visits newly restored Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris – video]]></title><description><![CDATA[The restoration of the Notre-Dame in Paris after its partial destruction by fire in April 2019 will give the world a 'shock of hope', Emmanuel Macron has said, as he marked the medieval cathedral&rsquo;s imminent reopening with a televised walking tour. Alongside the first lady, Brigitte Macron, and the archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, the French president was shown around the rebuilt medieval masterpiece by Philippe Villeneuve, the chief architect of France&rsquo;s national monumentsNotre D]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/macron-visits-newly-restored-notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris-video/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:08:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/macron-visits-newly-restored-notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris-video/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside the restored Notre Dame Cathedral – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[First look at the Gothic building, which has been undergoing extensive restoration work since a devastating fire in 2019. The French president has praised the reconstruction effort during a visit to the cathedral just days before its official reopeningNotre Dame reopening offers &lsquo;shock of hope&rsquo;, says Emmanuel Macron Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/inside-the-restored-notre-dame-cathedral-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:32:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/inside-the-restored-notre-dame-cathedral-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brighton’s ‘vertical pier’ i360 files for administration]]></title><description><![CDATA[Company blames &lsquo;escalating costs, bad summer weather and the cost-of-living crisis&rsquo; for the tourist attraction&rsquo;s &pound;51m debtIt was meant to be Brighton&rsquo;s answer to the London Eye. A 162-metre tall &ldquo;vertical pier&rdquo; perched on the seafront, the Brighton i360 was designed to pull in hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, offering panoramic views of the Sussex coastline and the bustling seaside city.But eight years after opening, and saddled with &pound;51m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brightons-vertical-pier-i360-files-for-administration/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:59:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brightons-vertical-pier-i360-files-for-administration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hoshyar Nooshin obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, Hoshyar Nooshin, who has died aged 90, was a pioneering figure in the field of spatial structures and director of the University of Surrey&rsquo;s Spatial Structures Research Centre for 28 years.Hoshyar taught at Surrey University from its foundation in 1966, having joined its predecessor, the Battersea College of Technology, as a lecturer in 1963. There he became renowned for his research into computer-aided design and as the originator of Formex algebra, a branch of mathematics that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hoshyar-nooshin-obituary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:56:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hoshyar-nooshin-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marble marvel: natural stone takes centre stage in historic Milan]]></title><description><![CDATA[An apartment in the Italian city is transformed into an elegant home and showcase for natural stone interiorsIn the early noughties, Gabriele Salvatori was still enduring a long commute between Tuscany, where Salvatori, the family business was launched, and Milan where the opportunities for growth lay. He was looking for a pied-&agrave;-terre and also a showroom for the company, which specialises in stone for interiors. When he saw the first-floor space he was initially hesitant because of the c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/marble-marvel-natural-stone-takes-centre-stage-in-historic-milan/</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/marble-marvel-natural-stone-takes-centre-stage-in-historic-milan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Strictly Ballroom to Sydney’s saviour: how heritage town halls are staging a comeback]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inner West council has thrown open the doors of seven town halls to arts organisations free of charge as it tries to revive its buildings and address a performing arts crisisFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIt&rsquo;s been more than three decades since Baz Luhrmann&rsquo;s Strictly Ballroom was filmed in Petersham town hall. But earlier this year, the 82-year-old building in Sydney opened its doors to the Inner West]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-strictly-ballroom-to-sydneys-saviour-how-heritage-town-halls-are-staging-a-comeback/</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-strictly-ballroom-to-sydneys-saviour-how-heritage-town-halls-are-staging-a-comeback/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegant, quirky and unique: New Zealand architecture awards 2024 – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Winners were chosen by a panel of architects and are spread across 11 categories, including housing, commercial, heritage, interior and international architecture. Several unusual projects, including a church refurbishment in Wellington and a visitor centre in Nepal, received awards. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/elegant-quirky-and-unique-new-zealand-architecture-awards-2024-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/elegant-quirky-and-unique-new-zealand-architecture-awards-2024-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celebrated, reviled, reborn: Paul Rudolph, the brutalist architect with a party streak]]></title><description><![CDATA[He preferred caves to goldfish bowls and had a transparent-bottomed bath poking through his kitchen ceiling &ndash; but most of his audacious work has been demolished. In a new exhibition, it rises againA striking matrix of slender steel struts and intersecting planes of glass stands on a street in midtown Manhattan, forming a crystalline tower amid a regular row of townhouses. The layered elements of the facade appear to slip and slide past each other, puncturing a vertiginous stack of interior]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/celebrated-reviled-reborn-paul-rudolph-the-brutalist-architect-with-a-party-streak/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/celebrated-reviled-reborn-paul-rudolph-the-brutalist-architect-with-a-party-streak/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[German architecture award rescinded over British artist’s Israel boycott vow]]></title><description><![CDATA[Schelling Architecture Foundation refuses to give James Bridle the &euro;10k prize after signing of open letterA German architecture foundation has rescinded one of its &euro;10,000 (&pound;8,360) awards from a British artist over the signing of an open letter promising a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions, citing the German parliament&rsquo;s controversial antisemitism resolution as a factor behind the decision.The Athens-based artist and author James Bridle, who uses they/them pronouns,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/german-architecture-award-rescinded-over-british-artists-israel-boycott-vow/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:27:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/german-architecture-award-rescinded-over-british-artists-israel-boycott-vow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When bigger isn’t better: do Australian houses need to be the largest in the world?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two homes have been built at the National Gallery of Victoria to show how space can be used lazily &ndash; and smartlyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAustralians like our space; it&rsquo;s a good thing we have a lot of it. But do we always use it smartly? Australians now build and live in the biggest homes in the world, outstripping even the US and Canada. In the last 60 years, our houses have more than doubled in size &ndash; from 100 sq metres to 236 sq metres &ndash; while the numb]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/when-bigger-isnt-better-do-australian-houses-need-to-be-the-largest-in-the-world/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/when-bigger-isnt-better-do-australian-houses-need-to-be-the-largest-in-the-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Short History of British Architecture by Simon Jenkins review – Doric columns and grand designs: the greatest hits]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a book of two halves, Jenkins seeks to educate readers in the &lsquo;language&rsquo; of style as well as offer a polemic on the ravages visited upon our cities by modernist planners&ldquo;My dream is that people&rsquo;s eyes will be opened instinctively to their surroundings,&rdquo; says Simon Jenkins at the end of his new book. &ldquo;I want people to point at buildings, laugh, cry or get angry. I want them to hate and to love what they see. I want them to speak architecture.&rdquo; So he ha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-short-history-of-british-architecture-by-simon-jenkins-review-doric-columns-and-grand-designs-the-greatest-hits/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-short-history-of-british-architecture-by-simon-jenkins-review-doric-columns-and-grand-designs-the-greatest-hits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning designs: the terraces and apartments designed to fast-track NSW housing]]></title><description><![CDATA[State&rsquo;s housing pattern book, launching in 2025, seeks to cut red tape and reduce development application times with pre-approved designsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFive winning terrace and apartment designs will be pre-approved in a new NSW government &ldquo;pattern book&rdquo; in a bid to fast-track housing development in the state.The designs were selected from more than 200 in the state government&rsquo;s Pattern Book Design Competition, submitted by arch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/winning-designs-the-terraces-and-apartments-designed-to-fast-track-nsw-housing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:42:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/winning-designs-the-terraces-and-apartments-designed-to-fast-track-nsw-housing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘That damned kitchen!’ How the inventor of the fitted kitchen eventually saw it as a curse]]></title><description><![CDATA[Her splashbacked, single-surfaced, cubbyholed, foldaway paradise revolutionised kitchen design. But Austrian architect Margarete Sch&uuml;tte-Lihotzky grew to regret her world-conquering creationOn the sixth floor of a quiet residential street in central Vienna, a tiny kitchen offers a masterclass in stylish functionalism. Every inch has been designed for efficiency, yet the first impression is one of warmth and comfort. The kitchen&rsquo;s deep orange splashback and the dark green cabinets with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/that-damned-kitchen-how-the-inventor-of-the-fitted-kitchen-eventually-saw-it-as-a-curse/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:23:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/that-damned-kitchen-how-the-inventor-of-the-fitted-kitchen-eventually-saw-it-as-a-curse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘In China, builders don’t look at drawings’: the architect challenging his country’s rampant urban obsession]]></title><description><![CDATA[China is moving mountains and flattening neighbourhoods. But Dong Gong is sparking a revolution &ndash; by working slowly with what&rsquo;s already there. As a book of his great projects appears, he shares his philosophyArtificial boulders fill the studio of Vector architects in Beijing, like the result of a dramatic landslide, their craggy polystyrene surfaces rendered with chalky grey plaster. One rock has a striking house sprouting from its summit, a group of intersecting cubic volumes crowne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/in-china-builders-dont-look-at-drawings-the-architect-challenging-his-countrys-rampant-urban-obsession/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/in-china-builders-dont-look-at-drawings-the-architect-challenging-his-countrys-rampant-urban-obsession/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country diary: The finest autumn colour we’ve had for years | Susie White]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whitfield, Northumberland: Even if you know the science behind it, the sight of beech and sycamore trees in full blaze can still astoundLast week, it was village fireworks that lit up the Whitfield Valley. Today, the woodlands are glowing with reds, oranges and yellows in a&nbsp;dazzling display. Wet weather has&nbsp;kept the trees hydrated, while warm temperatures have held back leaf-drop. The woods around Cupola Bridge are a place to slow down and experience the best autumn colour for years.Th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-the-finest-autumn-colour-weve-had-for-years-susie-white/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 06:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-the-finest-autumn-colour-weve-had-for-years-susie-white/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sydney’s ‘little school project’ named World Building of the Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Darlington public school in Chippendale wins major building design prize at 2024 World Architectural festival in SingaporeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Sydney public school has been crowned the World Building of the Year, beating competition from towering skyscrapers, museums and major transport hubs to claim the title.Darlington public school in Chippendale won the major building design prize at the 2024 World]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sydneys-little-school-project-named-world-building-of-the-year/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:46:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sydneys-little-school-project-named-world-building-of-the-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful, eco-friendly and fire resistant: why architects are choosing walls made of hemp]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sumptuously textured, carbon negative and just a bit more expensive, hempcrete is being increasingly used in eco-friendly buildingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMichael Leung first came across hempcrete after a family tragedy.When his father-in-law died from asbestos-related mesothelioma, Leung, an architect, swore off using toxic materials in building. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/beautiful-eco-friendly-and-fire-resistant-why-architects-are-choosing-walls-made-of-hemp/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/beautiful-eco-friendly-and-fire-resistant-why-architects-are-choosing-walls-made-of-hemp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homes alone: abandoned buildings of the Italian Apennines – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Landscape and architecture photographer Vincenzo Pagliuca was always fascinated by the empty, isolated houses scattered around the Campania region of southern Italy where he grew up. Since 2016 he has travelled along the Apennine mountain range that runs almost the length of the country, photographing uninhabited rural houses and abandoned holiday homes linked to ski tourism &ndash; now unused due to lack of snow. These images, collected in the book M&oacute;nos, were shot during the winter mont]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/homes-alone-abandoned-buildings-of-the-italian-apennines-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/homes-alone-abandoned-buildings-of-the-italian-apennines-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden in plain sight: a converted stable in Italy]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 250-year-old animal stable nestled in an Italian mountain village is now a family home &ndash; with a see-if-you-can-spot-it mirrored looSheer Alpine mountains and forested valleys are both neighbour and inspiration for Italian designer and architect Riccardo Monte. His home, a 250-year-old former animal shed, is tucked into a tiny Italian village in the Ossola valley, not far from the Swiss border and Lake Maggiore.Riccardo lives with his English partner, photographer and filmmaker Katie May,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hidden-in-plain-sight-a-converted-stable-in-italy/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hidden-in-plain-sight-a-converted-stable-in-italy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo: who is the greatest of the Renaissance masters?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ahead of a new exhibition at London&rsquo;s Royal Academy of Arts, writers make a case for each of Renaissance art&rsquo;s big three, from the secretive genius of Leonardo and Raphael&rsquo;s beguiling brilliance, to the space-filling majesty of MichelangeloBy Charles Nicholl, biographer of Leonardo da Vinci Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/leonardo-raphael-and-michelangelo-who-is-the-greatest-of-the-renaissance-masters/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 12:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/leonardo-raphael-and-michelangelo-who-is-the-greatest-of-the-renaissance-masters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘They look like homes for rich people’: why Britain should look to Europe for its council housing revolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the continent, stylish, sustainable, community-minded social housing is a given, and nowhere more so than in Spain &ndash; from an elegant Barcelona women&rsquo;s refuge to cool, solid stone houses in MallorcaIn Britain, as our government has promised, we&rsquo;re going to have a &ldquo;council housing revolution&rdquo;, the building of as yet unknown numbers of homes at genuinely affordable rents, a return to policies of 50 and more years ago in order to address the well-known housing crisis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/they-look-like-homes-for-rich-people-why-britain-should-look-to-europe-for-its-council-housing-revolution/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/they-look-like-homes-for-rich-people-why-britain-should-look-to-europe-for-its-council-housing-revolution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The best cinema that was ever built’: the Capitol, Melbourne’s hidden architectural treasure, turns 100]]></title><description><![CDATA[These days it sits awkwardly above a Subway on a busy Melbourne street, but head inside and find a truly spectacular space that has survived a centuryIt sits in the centre of Melbourne, arguably on its most prominent street, and yet the Capitol theatre feels like the most overlooked building in the state. The beloved but strangely occluded Chicago-Gothic cinema, designed by married American architects Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin, turns 100 years old this week. It seems the perfect ti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-best-cinema-that-was-ever-built-the-capitol-melbournes-hidden-architectural-treasure-turns-100/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-best-cinema-that-was-ever-built-the-capitol-melbournes-hidden-architectural-treasure-turns-100/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power station turned event space lights up Australian architecture awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mildura&rsquo;s Powerhouse Place wins for sustainable architecture and urban design, while Sydney renovation for Atlassian boss takes top awardFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWith its whirring engines and towering smoke stacks, Mildura&rsquo;s power station was hailed as a technological marvel of the early 20th century.When a new engine was installed to help light up the regional Victorian city in June 1925, the loc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/power-station-turned-event-space-lights-up-australian-architecture-awards/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:53:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/power-station-turned-event-space-lights-up-australian-architecture-awards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Max Dupain: A Portrait by Helen Ennis review – the man who took Australia’s most famous photo]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this very readable and moving biography, the Sunbaker photographer comes across as someone who spoke against his myth &ndash; but also traded on it until the endGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailDuring the summer of 1937-38, at Culburra beach, in Dharawal and Dhurga country on the south coast of New South Wales, a young man emerges from the surf and lies face-first on the sand. His friend, who is holding a Rolleiflex camera, exposes two negatives, one of which he&rsquo;ll dismiss due]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/max-dupain-a-portrait-by-helen-ennis-review-the-man-who-took-australias-most-famous-photo/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/max-dupain-a-portrait-by-helen-ennis-review-the-man-who-took-australias-most-famous-photo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country Diary: All of life takes place in a rural village hall | Nicola Chester]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inkpen, West Berkshire: The &lsquo;old girl&rsquo; is 100 years old &ndash; as are many others built around Britain after the first world war. We give it the celebration it deservesI&rsquo;m not sure I&rsquo;ve ever sung Happy Birthday to a building before. Something caught in my throat &ndash; and looking round at my fellow villagers, I could see I wasn&rsquo;t the only one. Our village hall is a hundred years old &ndash; one of many around the country sharing a surprisingly radical, rural cent]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-all-of-life-takes-place-in-a-rural-village-hall-nicola-chester/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 06:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-all-of-life-takes-place-in-a-rural-village-hall-nicola-chester/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joseph Rykwert obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architectural writer who believed that buildings not be considered in isolation but as part of the fabric of a cityJoseph Rykwert, who has died aged 98, was a historian and critic of architecture of exceptional intellect, cultural breadth and distinctive outlook. His books and his teaching changed the understanding of his discipline and helped to move the design and planning of cities and buildings away from the functionalist mindset that dominated postwar building. In 2014 he was awarded Britai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/joseph-rykwert-obituary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:59:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/joseph-rykwert-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dracula’s Castle, a monument to 1980s excess, is about to be cruelly defanged | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Minster Court, which once served as Cruella de Vil&rsquo;s HQ, faces a bland redevelopment to provide more office space in the CityMinster Court, a pink granite-and-marble neo-gothic office block in the City of London, a work of 1980s excess sometimes known as Monster Court or Dracula&rsquo;s Castle, is to be defanged. Its owner M&amp;G Real Estate is going to obliterate its pointy bits and &ldquo;reimagine&rdquo; its entrance, in order to create &ldquo;a landmark in sustainable design&rdquo;, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/draculas-castle-a-monument-to-1980s-excess-is-about-to-be-cruelly-defanged-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/draculas-castle-a-monument-to-1980s-excess-is-about-to-be-cruelly-defanged-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Urban planning and the long legacy of brutalism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Readers respond to Simon Jenkins&rsquo; analysis of shifting architectural trends Simon Jenkins provides a timely account of how, from the 1960s onwards, plans for wholesale demolition of large parts of urban areas began to be challenged (The ransacking of Britain: why the people finally rose up against &lsquo;sod you architecture&rsquo;, 28 October). He cites the 1974 Covent Garden revolt, which saw citizens, enlightened planners such as Ian Robert Christie &ndash; whose legacy is to be honoure]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/urban-planning-and-the-long-legacy-of-brutalism/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:56:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/urban-planning-and-the-long-legacy-of-brutalism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ransacking of Britain: why the people finally rose up against ‘sod you architecture’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inspired by Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier, who believed streets fostered disease, a vision of Britain was cooked up that would see historic city centres flattened for flats and ring roads. But the public decided they&rsquo;d had enough &ndash; and took to the streetsThe interview did not go well. I was in Liverpool as a journalist being shown a model for the city&rsquo;s future by its proud architect, Graeme Shankland. I told him I regarded his city as the most magnificent port in Europe. He]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-ransacking-of-britain-why-the-people-finally-rose-up-against-sod-you-architecture/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-ransacking-of-britain-why-the-people-finally-rose-up-against-sod-you-architecture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Places to heal, not to harm’: why brutal prison design kills off hope – podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[From razor-wire fences and crumbling cells to no windows and overcrowding, conditions in most jails mean rehabilitation is a nonstarter. Here&rsquo;s how we can create better spaces for prisoners. By Yvonne Jewkes Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/places-to-heal-not-to-harm-why-brutal-prison-design-kills-off-hope-podcast/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/places-to-heal-not-to-harm-why-brutal-prison-design-kills-off-hope-podcast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Lauren Halsey: ‘So much of what I make is in response to the context of funk’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The LA artist says her musically inspired, architectural works are deeply rooted in her South Central neighbourhood as she opens her debut solo UK show&ldquo;Funk is oxygen. It&rsquo;s life,&rdquo; according to Lauren Halsey. The Los Angeles artist can recall the day that funk music changed her life. It was the early 00s and she was on her parents&rsquo; computer, downloading music from the filesharing website LimeWire, as she did every night, when she happened upon the entire discography of the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/artist-lauren-halsey-so-much-of-what-i-make-is-in-response-to-the-context-of-funk/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/artist-lauren-halsey-so-much-of-what-i-make-is-in-response-to-the-context-of-funk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Row erupts over plan to charge €5 to enter fire-hit Notre Dame]]></title><description><![CDATA[Catholic church condemns idea of charging entrance fee when rebuilt cathedral reopens in December after five yearsWeeks before its scheduled grand reopening after a devastating fire, Notre Dame has become embroiled in an escalating row over whether to charge future visitors a fee to enter the 12th-century gothic masterpiece.France&rsquo;s culture minister, Rachida Dati, proposed this week that tourists visiting the Paris cathedral, known as &ldquo;the soul of France&rdquo; and one of the world&r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/row-erupts-over-plan-to-charge-5-to-enter-fire-hit-notre-dame/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 09:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/row-erupts-over-plan-to-charge-5-to-enter-fire-hit-notre-dame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring on the Vegas glitz! How Roma families are defying their persecutors with bling palaces]]></title><description><![CDATA[Keen to show off their newfound riches, and to kick back at a society that suppressed them, Roma families are filling rural Romania with exuberant symbols of wealth &ndash; boasting gilded turrets and gleaming staircases that lead to nowhereIn the village of H&#259;&#537;dat in the heart of rural Romania, geese roam the dusty streets, bonfires burn in back gardens, and the houses are not quite what you would expect. Not at all. One sports a pair of golden Versace Medusa heads and Rolex crown emb]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bring-on-the-vegas-glitz-how-roma-families-are-defying-their-persecutors-with-bling-palaces/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bring-on-the-vegas-glitz-how-roma-families-are-defying-their-persecutors-with-bling-palaces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Bowie collection among draws at vast V&amp;A archives in east London]]></title><description><![CDATA[V&amp;A East Storehouse in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will give public extensive access behind the scenesIt looks like the Hangar 51 store room from the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark: row after row of boxes and artefacts kept in climate-controlled conditions. The V&amp;A East Storehouse is not off limits, though. The team behind it hope 250,000 people a year will visit and gain access to archives such as its recently acquired David Bowie collection.Delayed because of the pandemic, the storeho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/david-bowie-collection-among-draws-at-vast-vampa-archives-in-east-london/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/david-bowie-collection-among-draws-at-vast-vampa-archives-in-east-london/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on investing in public transport: it’s time, finally, to look north | Editorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[London&rsquo;s award-winning Elizabeth line is an example of what can be achieved. Labour needs to deliver the same ambition elsewhereWhen London&rsquo;s new 73-mile Elizabeth line won the prestigious Stirling prize for architecture last week, the judges&rsquo; choice proved a popular one. Spacious, fast and pleasing on the eye, the east-west addition to the capital&rsquo;s underground network is a triumphant example of modern civic infrastructure. As this newspaper&rsquo;s architecture and desi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-investing-in-public-transport-its-time-finally-to-look-north-editorial/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-investing-in-public-transport-its-time-finally-to-look-north-editorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up in smoke: a former charcoal factory in Chicago]]></title><description><![CDATA[The industrial building, originally used to make charcoal, has been minimally restored and adapted into a stunning homeApproaching Stuart Grannen&rsquo;s home is an experience in itself, marked by the unexpected. Tucked down an unremarkable alley in the industrial heart of Chicago, this 1900s former charcoal factory stands in quiet contrast to its surroundings. Draped in creeping ivy and raw steel, the concrete structure, hidden in plain sight, exudes an original and raw kind of charm. It&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/up-in-smoke-a-former-charcoal-factory-in-chicago/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/up-in-smoke-a-former-charcoal-factory-in-chicago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet your makers: the artisans who help make eating out magical]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bespoke ceramics, evocative music playlists, handmade leather aprons &ndash; we may not always notice them, but these are the things that make eating out magicalWhen visitors to Alice Blogg&rsquo;s home discover her family eat from wooden plates, it often elicits a &ldquo;that&rsquo;s so cute&rdquo; response, although she is not trying to be. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/meet-your-makers-the-artisans-who-help-make-eating-out-magical/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/meet-your-makers-the-artisans-who-help-make-eating-out-magical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tight corners, red tape and amazing grace – why architects love a tricky site]]></title><description><![CDATA[RIBA, London<br />
Dodging railway lines, squeezed into historic sites, or down a Highland lane&hellip; how building design responds to constraints, on projects from the British Library to the Eden Project, makes for a fascinating exhibitionThere&rsquo;s a concrete building on the right, as you head into London Euston station by train, that&rsquo;s brooding, impressive in an almost-Roman way, and a bit mysterious. Its upper levels jetty towards the tracks, as if they were the outside of a stadium, but]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tight-corners-red-tape-and-amazing-grace-why-architects-love-a-tricky-site/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tight-corners-red-tape-and-amazing-grace-why-architects-love-a-tricky-site/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patrick Warren obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, Patrick Warren, who has died aged 85, was principal design and conservation officer for the city of Durham, where he masterminded a strategic restructuring of the city over three decades.Much of Pat&rsquo;s work focused on the city centre, in particular the pedestrianisation of Elvet Bridge and the old marketplace, which had become a rather large car park but which is now a lovely space that is much better connected to the adjacent streets. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/patrick-warren-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 19:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/patrick-warren-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A triumph’: London’s £19bn Elizabeth line is named best new architecture in Britain]]></title><description><![CDATA[With its futuristic panels, airy tunnels and elegantly unified design, the 73-mile addition to the tube is a worthy winner of the prestigious Stirling prize &ndash; and puts the rest of the creaking, sooty network to shameWith the longest platforms, the biggest tunnels and the fastest trains on the entire London underground, the Elizabeth line boasts a dizzying list of superlatives, carrying more people a day than any other train line in the country. It is now deemed to have the best design, too]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-triumph-londons-19bn-elizabeth-line-is-named-best-new-architecture-in-britain/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-triumph-londons-19bn-elizabeth-line-is-named-best-new-architecture-in-britain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could Aboriginal-designed housing help solve the health crisis in remote communities?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tennant Creek residents say the hot, overcrowded homes built by government contractors are not fit for purpose, so they&rsquo;ve drawn up their own plansSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterIt&rsquo;s hotter inside than out in many of the homes in the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, where the Warumungu man Jimmy Frank Jupurrurla and his family live. Most lack insulation and guttering. At Drive-in Camp outside town, the homes are tin sheds, disconnected from services sin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/could-aboriginal-designed-housing-help-solve-the-health-crisis-in-remote-communities/</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2024 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/could-aboriginal-designed-housing-help-solve-the-health-crisis-in-remote-communities/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colin Fournier obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend Colin Fournier, who has died aged 79, was an architect and planner. His two best known projects were Bernard Tschumi&rsquo;s vast Parc de la Villette in Paris, which he helped to implement (1984-87), and the Kunsthaus building in Graz, Austria (2003-04), co-designed with Sir Peter Cook.La Villette, one of Fran&ccedil;ois Mitterrand&rsquo;s grands projets, captured a unique tension between grid-like geometry and naturalistic landscaping that concurred with Colin&rsquo;s way of applying]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/colin-fournier-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/colin-fournier-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘You’re a girl?’ The duo taking on the male-dominated plastering world]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the early days of Kamp Studios, Kim Collins and Amy Morgenstern were barely making rent. Now they&rsquo;re a favorite of interior designers across the countryIf there was a low point in the history of Kamp Studios, it had to have been the day in 2010 when Kim Collins and Amy Morgenstern found themselves lugging every single quarter, dime, nickel and penny they had scrounged up from their apartment to pour into a coin-counting machine at a Brooklyn branch of TD Bank. The women, then partners i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/youre-a-girl-the-duo-taking-on-the-male-dominated-plastering-world/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/youre-a-girl-the-duo-taking-on-the-male-dominated-plastering-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Like the Guggenheim!’ Inside Zurich’s staggering, revolutionary new hospital for kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the chalet-style patient &lsquo;cottages&rsquo; to the walls designed for scribbling on, Herzog &amp; de Meuron&rsquo;s Kinderspital is a stylish, healing, child-friendly miracle &ndash; and it cost less than UK equivalents&lsquo;Hospitals are the ugliest places in the world,&rdquo; says Jacques Herzog. &ldquo;They are a product of blind functionalist thinking, while neglecting basic human needs.&rdquo; The Swiss architect has a point. With their low ceilings, windowless corridors and harsh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-the-guggenheim-inside-zurichs-staggering-revolutionary-new-hospital-for-kids/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-the-guggenheim-inside-zurichs-staggering-revolutionary-new-hospital-for-kids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sydney entry beaten by ‘spectacular’ Beijing building in library of the year award]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liverpool mayor Ned Mannoun just shrugs and smiles after his council&rsquo;s &lsquo;magnificent&rsquo; Yellamundie is outshone by $300m Beijing LibraryFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIt was always going to be competition of David and Goliath proportions.Liverpool&rsquo;s new public library Yellamundie, in Sydney&rsquo;s south-west, made international news last month when it became one of four finalists in the annual]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sydney-entry-beaten-by-spectacular-beijing-building-in-library-of-the-year-award/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sydney-entry-beaten-by-spectacular-beijing-building-in-library-of-the-year-award/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I make architects’ dreams come true’: Hanif Kara, the magician who makes impossible buildings stay up]]></title><description><![CDATA[He has had a hand in some of the 21st-century&rsquo;s most daring structures &ndash; including Zaha Hadid&rsquo;s Phaeno science centre. We meet the Uganda-born engineer, who has just won architecture&rsquo;s prestigious Soane medalFrom the wayward columns of Will Alsop, to the gravity-defying curves of Zaha Hadid, there has always been someone in the background making architects&rsquo; improbable visions stand up. More often than not, in the case of the 21st-century&rsquo;s most unlikely struct]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-make-architects-dreams-come-true-hanif-kara-the-magician-who-makes-impossible-buildings-stay-up/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-make-architects-dreams-come-true-hanif-kara-the-magician-who-makes-impossible-buildings-stay-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul Rudolph: the artful architect who inspired Foster and Rogers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US architect designed brutalist buildings vast and small across Asia and America &ndash; including his own 27-floor Manhattan apartment. A new exhibition highlights a queer sensibility beneath the crewcutPaul Rudolph, the US&rsquo;s greatest brutalist, had a career in four overlapping acts. First, starting in the 1950s, he designed private houses, delightful Florida getaways where modernist glassiness was tempered by screens and shutters. In the next decade he designed monumental concrete fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/paul-rudolph-the-artful-architect-who-inspired-foster-and-rogers/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/paul-rudolph-the-artful-architect-who-inspired-foster-and-rogers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Our houses are too big’: Grand Designs’ Anthony Burke on the best and worst of Australian architecture]]></title><description><![CDATA[The architecture professor on homes with more bathrooms than occupants &ndash; and how the Sydney metro might renew confidence in the benefits of good designGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAnthony Burke knows good design. And he knows why it matters. The UTS architecture professor is the host of the ABC&rsquo;s Grand Designs Australia and has spent a career examining and celebrating the best that design has to offer. So Guardian Australia asked him about his personal bugbears and favo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/our-houses-are-too-big-grand-designs-anthony-burke-on-the-best-and-worst-of-australian-architecture/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/our-houses-are-too-big-grand-designs-anthony-burke-on-the-best-and-worst-of-australian-architecture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touching distance: an apartment in a Brussels brutalist block]]></title><description><![CDATA[A remote makeover during Covid pays off handsomely for an interior designer and her partnerCan you imagine buying a flat without ever actually stepping inside it? And then doing up the entire place &ndash; bashing down walls, jettisoning fittings and reshuffling the floorplan &ndash; remotely? For most of us the answer would be an emphatic, &ldquo;Of course not!&rdquo;Kim Verbist would say otherwise. The Belgian interior designer did all of the above when she embarked on the convention-defying t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/touching-distance-an-apartment-in-a-brussels-brutalist-block/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/touching-distance-an-apartment-in-a-brussels-brutalist-block/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mansion of mysticism: Paris opens glittering home to Sufi art and beliefs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Featuring peacock-shaped padlocks and a holographic Sufi master, a new museum explores the religion&rsquo;s influence on Western culture &ndash; and leaves visitors wondering how the giant begging bowls were installedAmong the most emblematic paraphernalia of the Sufis is their &ldquo;begging bowl&rdquo;, known as the kashkul. That&rsquo;s why nearly a dozen are at the centre of a new museum dedicated to Sufi culture and art, the Mus&eacute;e d&rsquo;Art et de Culture Soufis MTO, which has just]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mansion-of-mysticism-paris-opens-glittering-home-to-sufi-art-and-beliefs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 16:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mansion-of-mysticism-paris-opens-glittering-home-to-sufi-art-and-beliefs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money-saving hacks helped a first-time buyer turn a humdrum 1960s house into a graceful modern home]]></title><description><![CDATA[The stylish conversion of this two-up two-down shows how investing in an interior designer can end up saving you moneyAs a first-time buyer with no renovation experience, Ed Colston, 32, could have been forgiven for choosing a shiny new-build flat that he could move straight into. However, Colston knew it was in his best interests to play the long game. After moving to London after graduating, he flat-hopped his way around the city for the best part of a decade while saving for a place of his ow]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/money-saving-hacks-helped-a-first-time-buyer-turn-a-humdrum-1960s-house-into-a-graceful-modern-home/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/money-saving-hacks-helped-a-first-time-buyer-turn-a-humdrum-1960s-house-into-a-graceful-modern-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prisons need more than an architecture of hope | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joe Sim on reforming prisoners through a compassionate philosophy, Malcolm Fowler on the sensory memories of his prison visits, and Sue Beaumont on the demoralising effect of stepping inside a jailBefore modernising prisons through new architecture, as discussed by Yvonne Jewkes, there are other issues to consider (&lsquo;Places to heal, not to harm&rsquo;: why brutal prison design kills off hope, 24 September). There are examples of places that have radically transformed prisoners that have not]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/prisons-need-more-than-an-architecture-of-hope-letters/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/prisons-need-more-than-an-architecture-of-hope-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this a mountain? A multistorey car park? Or both? Inside Shanghai’s audacious £225m summit]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s got winding trails, a gushing waterfall, some 7,000 trees &ndash; and room inside for 1,500 cars. We explore the astonishing Twin Hills project, which isn&rsquo;t even the city&rsquo;s first manmade mountainscapeChina is no stranger to moving mountains. It has levelled hundreds of peaks in Gansu for urban expansion, blasted away hills in Yunnan to build railway stations, and bulldozed bluffs in Hubei for economic development zones. This insatiable lust for terraforming is simply a cas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/is-this-a-mountain-a-multistorey-car-park-or-both-inside-shanghais-audacious-225m-summit/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/is-this-a-mountain-a-multistorey-car-park-or-both-inside-shanghais-audacious-225m-summit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green roofs and solar chimneys are here – experts say it’s time to use them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Builders already have the tools needed to build cooler homes for an increasingly hotter worldThe US sweltered under record-breaking heat this year, with new research suggesting that air conditioning is no longer enough to keep homes cool. Spiraling energy demands and costs of indoor cooling now have planners looking to alternative ways to keep buildings cool &ndash; some fresh out of the lab, others centuries old.&ldquo;The amount of buildings we expect to go up in the next couple decades is jus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/green-roofs-and-solar-chimneys-are-here-experts-say-its-time-to-use-them/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/green-roofs-and-solar-chimneys-are-here-experts-say-its-time-to-use-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America’s first ‘carbon positive’ hotel comes to Denver – but do its climate claims stack up?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The stylish Populus hotel boasts eco-friendly construction and tree planting for every guest. Is this the hospitality of the future &ndash; or hot air?Travelers to Denver, Colorado, will soon have the opportunity to spend the night in what promises to be &ldquo;the first carbon positive hotel in America&rdquo;. So say the creators behind Populus, a new 265-room, stylish, yet climate-conscious luxury hotel in the heart of the city.Set to open in mid-October, the building is a striking addition to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/americas-first-carbon-positive-hotel-comes-to-denver-but-do-its-climate-claims-stack-up/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/americas-first-carbon-positive-hotel-comes-to-denver-but-do-its-climate-claims-stack-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occult? Try upstairs! Inside the world’s weirdest library, now open to the public]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has folders marked &lsquo;Grasping the victim&rsquo;s head&rsquo; and now &ndash; after a &pound;15m revamp and some help from Albert Einstein and the patron saint of the internet &ndash; the extraordinary Warburg Institute is letting passersby in to view its &lsquo;books emanating sorcery&rsquo;A mysterious cosmic emblem hangs over the entrance to a building in Bloomsbury, at the heart of London&rsquo;s university quarter. Depicting concentric circles bound by intertwined arcs, it represents]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/occult-try-upstairs-inside-the-worlds-weirdest-library-now-open-to-the-public/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/occult-try-upstairs-inside-the-worlds-weirdest-library-now-open-to-the-public/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occult? Try upstairs! Inside the world’s weirdest library]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has folders marked &lsquo;Grasping the victim&rsquo;s head&rsquo; and now &ndash; after a &pound;15m revamp and some help from Albert Einstein and the patron saint of the internet &ndash; the extraordinary Warburg Institute has a new gallery space to showcase its &lsquo;books emanating sorcery&rsquo;A mysterious cosmic emblem hangs over the entrance to a building in Bloomsbury, at the heart of London&rsquo;s university quarter. Depicting concentric circles bound by intertwined arcs, it repres]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/occult-try-upstairs-inside-the-worlds-weirdest-library/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/occult-try-upstairs-inside-the-worlds-weirdest-library/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Wheatley obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, John Wheatley, who has died aged 86, was an architect with a remarkably diverse range of work.He established John Wheatley Architects in 1968, running the practice from home alongside his teaching commitments, and his students made good use of this, through field visits or on placements. Some of them went on to become employees and partners as the practice expanded over the years. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-wheatley-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-wheatley-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Places to heal, not to harm’: why brutal prison design kills off hope]]></title><description><![CDATA[From razor-wire fences and crumbling cells to no windows and overcrowding, conditions in most jails mean rehabilitation is a nonstarter. Here&rsquo;s how we can create better spaces for prisonersArriving at a prison &ndash; any prison &ndash; still makes my heart race a little faster. I have been to more than 100 prisons for my research into how architecture and design can assist in rehabilitating offenders. But my first visit after 18 months of lockdown, to a prison deep in one of England&rsquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/places-to-heal-not-to-harm-why-brutal-prison-design-kills-off-hope/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/places-to-heal-not-to-harm-why-brutal-prison-design-kills-off-hope/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stephen Bond obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend Stephen Bond, who has died aged 69 of heart failure, was a groundbreaking heritage consultant and conservation surveyor.Stephen&rsquo;s reputation as a leading heritage practitioner was cemented by his directorship of the Tower Environs Scheme (TES), which ran from 1997 to 2005. A regeneration initiative for the area surrounding the Tower of London, TES was innovative in pioneering a holistic understanding of heritage assets within their historical, cultural and built environments. Con]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stephen-bond-obituary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stephen-bond-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football-mad Morocco dreams of a World Cup final in its own ark]]></title><description><![CDATA[Buoyed by the team&rsquo;s success in 2022, the kingdom is eyeing a bigger goalThe rendering is dramatic, a vast white stadium inspired by the design of a Maghrebi communal tent, known as a moussem.The language used to describe it is no less flowery: think of it as &ldquo;almost like a Noah&rsquo;s Ark, a place for all nature and animals to come together&rdquo;, says Tarik Oualalou, head of Paris architecture firm Oualalou + Choi, one of five teams in the design consortium. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/football-mad-morocco-dreams-of-a-world-cup-final-in-its-own-ark/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/football-mad-morocco-dreams-of-a-world-cup-final-in-its-own-ark/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Students want to stay here now rather than disappear to London’: how design transformed the city of Dundee]]></title><description><![CDATA[Its biennial arts festival this week will celebrate a decade of being the UK&rsquo;s first and only Unesco-designated &lsquo;design city&rsquo;The city of Dundee, about 60 miles north of Edinburgh on Scotland&rsquo;s east coast, was once best known for its industry: whaling and shipbuilding in the 19th century, then its celebrated &ldquo;three Js&rdquo; &ndash; jute, jam and journalism. But in recent years, Dundee has developed another reputation: as an arts and culture hub, and the UK&rsquo;s f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/students-want-to-stay-here-now-rather-than-disappear-to-london-how-design-transformed-the-city-of-dundee/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/students-want-to-stay-here-now-rather-than-disappear-to-london-how-design-transformed-the-city-of-dundee/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crystal Palace’s radical gardeners | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Claudius Loudon and Joseph Paxton | Fearful poetry | Train horror | Lost Consonants | Starmer&rsquo;s new clothesIt was not just standard nuts and bolts that made the Crystal Palace possible (Solved: the mystery of how Victorians built Crystal Palace in just 190 days, 16 September). The whole building was built from interchangeable parts, many prefabricated, by methods designed not by engineers but by two gardeners, John Claudius Loudon and Joseph Paxton (the architect of the Palace), and p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/crystal-palaces-radical-gardeners-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/crystal-palaces-radical-gardeners-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tracey Emin among hundreds opposing changes to Margate ‘brutalist masterpiece’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Managers of building in which Emin owns a flat want to replace windows but opponents say they are a key featureThe 18-storey Arlington House in Margate has long been considered a brutalist masterpiece. It inspired the English rock band Hawkwind&rsquo;s song High Rise and recently featured in Sam Mendes&rsquo;s Bafta-nominated film Empire of Light.But now, the building, which sits on Margate seafront next to the railway station and the amusement park Dreamland, has become the cause of a bitter di]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tracey-emin-among-hundreds-opposing-changes-to-margate-brutalist-masterpiece/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tracey-emin-among-hundreds-opposing-changes-to-margate-brutalist-masterpiece/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifteen architecture firms shortlisted for NSW competition aimed at alleviating housing crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six student teams named as finalists in pattern book contest to develop pre-approved designs and cut red tapeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than a dozen architecture firms from across Australia and overseas will vie to design homes for five Sydney sites set aside by the New South Wales government to help alleviate the state&rsquo;s housing crisis.The 15 finalists in the government&rsquo;s pattern book design c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/fifteen-architecture-firms-shortlisted-for-nsw-competition-aimed-at-alleviating-housing-crisis/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/fifteen-architecture-firms-shortlisted-for-nsw-competition-aimed-at-alleviating-housing-crisis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solved: the mystery of how Victorians built Crystal Palace in just 190 days]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rapid assembly of structure for 1851 Great Exhibition in London was possible thanks to nut-and-bolt revolutionIt was built at unprecedented speed to exhibit the globe&rsquo;s greatest treasures and manufacturing achievements to the world. Now, the mystery of how the Victorians managed to erect the Crystal Palace so quickly in 1851 has finally been solved.Experts have discovered that the answer to this 173-year-old riddle lies in the first known use of standardised nuts and bolts in construction]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/solved-the-mystery-of-how-victorians-built-crystal-palace-in-just-190-days/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/solved-the-mystery-of-how-victorians-built-crystal-palace-in-just-190-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Sell obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, John Sell, who has died aged 79, spent his career championing the protection of historic buildings and spaces. After qualifying as an architect in the 1960s, John attended a course at the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), which informed his direction for the rest of his career.He became a vigorous advocate and expert in the restoration and protection of old buildings. Throughout his life and career John cared passionately about creating and preserving beautiful s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-sell-obituary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-sell-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architects Caruso St John: ‘Developers are too powerful in this country. Everything is upped in terms of crudity and brashness’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Stirling prize-winning duo&rsquo;s new St Pancras Campus of homes and offices in London is a triumph of attention to detail. It could also be their last new-build, they tell us, as they focus on renovation projects &ndash; such as a turreted arts centre in Arbroath&hellip;Many architects like to say that they practise attention to detail. (As, you may say, they should.) Sometimes this statement is a form of faint self-praise, a signal not to expect too much more from their work, an excuse fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architects-caruso-st-john-developers-are-too-powerful-in-this-country-everything-is-upped-in-terms-of-crudity-and-brashness/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architects-caruso-st-john-developers-are-too-powerful-in-this-country-everything-is-upped-in-terms-of-crudity-and-brashness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From straw hats to milk bottles: why genius design doesn’t need to be expensive]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experts were invited to pick their hero products for London Design Festival show that redefines &lsquo;well made&rsquo; for todayVisitors to this year&rsquo;s London design festival can expect to see everything from an installation inspired by Barbie&rsquo;s Dreamhouse to an exhibition devoted to the late furniture designer Robin Day.At the Yorkton Workshops in Hackney, east London, however, the cutting-edge show features clothes pegs, hammers, smart cards and a case for carrying Pringles crisps]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-straw-hats-to-milk-bottles-why-genius-design-doesnt-need-to-be-expensive/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2024 16:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-straw-hats-to-milk-bottles-why-genius-design-doesnt-need-to-be-expensive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sydney’s Yellamundie library among the world’s most beautiful as finalists for annual award revealed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liverpool council&rsquo;s new public building includes public art gallery spaces and a Stem centreFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA public building in the heart of Sydney&rsquo;s south-west is one of the most beautiful new libraries in the world, according to the international arbiters of temples to literature.Liverpool council&rsquo;s new library, which opened in December last year as part of the Yellamundie Civic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sydneys-yellamundie-library-among-the-worlds-most-beautiful-as-finalists-for-annual-award-revealed/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 07:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sydneys-yellamundie-library-among-the-worlds-most-beautiful-as-finalists-for-annual-award-revealed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Total bollards: the iconic ‘eco-Blade Runner’ roundabout that became a grim £132m ‘abomination’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Boasting hovering haloes and futuristic forests, Old Street roundabout was meant to be a shining beacon for Britain&rsquo;s very own Tech City. Instead, we have120 hefty bollards and paving built to deter rough sleepersComputer-generated PR images often outshine reality, but rarely has so much been promised and so little delivered as at Old Street roundabout in east London, finally complete after more than a decade in the works. It was supposed to be the radiant hub of the UK&rsquo;s very own Te]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/total-bollards-the-iconic-eco-blade-runner-roundabout-that-became-a-grim-132m-abomination/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/total-bollards-the-iconic-eco-blade-runner-roundabout-that-became-a-grim-132m-abomination/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country diary: A forgotten church that’s being returned to the earth | Alexandra Pearce-Broomhead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Merther, Cornwall: For centuries, a small local population worshipped at St Cohan&rsquo;s. Now it&rsquo;s the ivy and thistles, ferns and avens that take their nourishment hereIn the hamlet of Merther, nature is concealing a secret. Wrapped in robes of ivy and traveller&rsquo;s joy, the ruins of a 14th-century church are hidden among a small copse. Little remains of the original building; the&nbsp;crumbling outer walls have been slowly succumbing to wildlife ever since the church closed 80-odd y]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-a-forgotten-church-thats-being-returned-to-the-earth-alexandra-pearce-broomhead/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-a-forgotten-church-thats-being-returned-to-the-earth-alexandra-pearce-broomhead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grenfell inquiry has shone a light on architecture profession’s flaws | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kerr Robertson and Catherine Brownell on the structural defects in the training and fees of architectsOliver Wainwright&rsquo;s article about the Grenfell Tower inquiry report was spot-on (&lsquo;Professional buck-passers&rsquo;: why the excoriating Grenfell report was right to damn architects, 5 September). He could also have added that the Royal Institute of British Architects&rsquo; complacency on continuing professional development (CPD) has been another factor. On the point about architects]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/grenfell-inquiry-has-shone-a-light-on-architecture-professions-flaws-letters/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 18:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/grenfell-inquiry-has-shone-a-light-on-architecture-professions-flaws-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A genius in pink jandals: Rewi Thompson, the Māori architect who shocked his neighbours]]></title><description><![CDATA[He was one of the boldest and most influential M&#257;ori architects, whose outfits were as eye-catching as his buildings. A new book captures his creations, from his own defiant home to a &lsquo;healing&rsquo; correctional facilityIn the leafy Auckland suburb of Kohimarama, where pitch-roofed clapboard homes line well-kept streets, a striking grey ziggurat rises from the subtropical foliage. It looks like a defensive fortification, greeting the road with a monolithic, windowless facade. Narrow]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-genius-in-pink-jandals-rewi-thompson-the-mori-architect-who-shocked-his-neighbours/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-genius-in-pink-jandals-rewi-thompson-the-mori-architect-who-shocked-his-neighbours/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grenfell brought back memories of Summerland fire | Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deborah Gahan remembers a fire on the Isle of Man in 1973 and says the Grenfell Tower inquiry shows how little has changedDo you remember Summerland? I&nbsp;did, on 14 June 2017, when I saw the images of Grenfell Tower burning on the news. Summerland was a holiday complex on the Isle of Man that burned down on 2 August 1973, killing 50 people and&nbsp;seriously injuring a further 80.It was designed as an all&#8209;weather&nbsp;tourist attraction with a capacity of 10,000, but its walls were clad]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/grenfell-brought-back-memories-of-summerland-fire-letter/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/grenfell-brought-back-memories-of-summerland-fire-letter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stairways to modernist heaven – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architecture obsessive Adam &Scaron;t&#283;ch has photographed the interiors of over 5,000 modern gems around the globe, from hunting lodges to high-rises. Ahead of a new exhibition, he shares his favourite flights of fancy Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stairways-to-modernist-heaven-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stairways-to-modernist-heaven-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flood the golf courses, demolish the freeways: what could Melbourne look like in 2070?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The NGV&rsquo;s first landscape architecture exhibition has invited eight visionaries to picture the future of different sites along Birrarung &ndash; the Yarra RiverGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIn half a century, should Melbourne&rsquo;s golf courses be flooded and transformed into wetlands? Could the city&rsquo;s freeways be replaced with public parks? Will underwater robotic drones have a part to play in ridding our waterways of invasive species?These are some of the questions e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/flood-the-golf-courses-demolish-the-freeways-what-could-melbourne-look-like-in-2070/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2024 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/flood-the-golf-courses-demolish-the-freeways-what-could-melbourne-look-like-in-2070/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simon Verity obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Master sculptor and stone carver who created grottoes, public memorials and ecclesiastial work in the UK and the USA 1983 poster for the Victoria and Albert Museum shows a letter cutter with corduroy trousers, braces and a shapeless hat standing at the base of an inscription cut into the terracotta wall announcing in flaming gilded capitals its opening as the Henry Cole Wing, now sadly obscured by the new entrance paving. The artist appearing in the photograph was Simon Verity, who has died aged]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/simon-verity-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2024 13:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/simon-verity-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Professional buck-passers’: why the excoriating Grenfell report was right to damn architects]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ultimate responsibility for the tower&rsquo;s safety lay with its architect, said the 1,700-page report, which highlighted a &lsquo;widespread failure among the profession&rsquo;. Why are so many architects now utterly detached from the realities of construction?Lying manufacturers, incompetent inspectors, muddled regulations, contemptuous landlords &ndash; the blame for the Grenfell Tower fire has been hurled in all directions, exposing a housing and construction industry that is rotten at]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/professional-buck-passers-why-the-excoriating-grenfell-report-was-right-to-damn-architects/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/professional-buck-passers-why-the-excoriating-grenfell-report-was-right-to-damn-architects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California home thought to have inspired Sydney Opera House sells for US$20m less than asking price]]></title><description><![CDATA[The six-bedroom Wave House in Malibu was designed by Harry Gesner, whose son says it inspired J&oslash;rn Utzon&rsquo;s Sydney landmarkGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAn iconic California beach house thought to have inspired J&oslash;rn Utzon&rsquo;s design for the Sydney Opera House has sold for US$20m less than its original asking price.Malibu&rsquo;s Wave House, designed by the American architect Harry Gesner in the late 1950s, was bought by the former Victoria&rsquo;s Secret model]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/california-home-thought-to-have-inspired-sydney-opera-house-sells-for-us20m-less-than-asking-price/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/california-home-thought-to-have-inspired-sydney-opera-house-sells-for-us20m-less-than-asking-price/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘There’s a lot to be built still’: the architect Mariam Issoufou on excavating the past to build Africa’s future]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the continent&rsquo;s most-sought after designers draws inspiration from the traditional mud-brick building to create modern, sustainable structuresGrowing up near the historic mud-brick city of Agadez, Niger&rsquo;s gateway to the Sahara, Mariam Issoufou was always inspired by the majestic adobe structures around her. The 27-metre-high minaret of the city&rsquo;s mosque, the tallest mud-brick structure in the world, has stood on the sandy horizon since the 16th century. But Issoufou neve]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/theres-a-lot-to-be-built-still-the-architect-mariam-issoufou-on-excavating-the-past-to-build-africas-future/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/theres-a-lot-to-be-built-still-the-architect-mariam-issoufou-on-excavating-the-past-to-build-africas-future/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going up: Can Britain’s empty department stores be brought back to life?]]></title><description><![CDATA[With many branches of famous chains lying empty, work is under way to transform them into housing, hotels, offices, independent shops and more. Could this be the key to revitalising the high street?Department stores, once palaces of delight and theatres of modernity, enclosed commercial town squares where you might meet, fall in love, get married and furnish your new home, are now none of these things. Empty, cold and bulky, they occupy town centres like fridge freezers that no one will take awa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/going-up-can-britains-empty-department-stores-be-brought-back-to-life/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/going-up-can-britains-empty-department-stores-be-brought-back-to-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Antony Gormley joins fight against ‘destruction’ of historic King’s Cross site]]></title><description><![CDATA[Angel of the North artist is among residents objecting to development plans for Coal Drops Yard in LondonSir Antony Gormley, the artist who created the Angel of the North, is among King&rsquo;s Cross residents &shy;objecting to proposals that could see Coal Drops Yard, a grade II-listed industrial site, divided into streets of shops and &ldquo;grab-and-go&rdquo; food retailers.Gormley and his artist &shy;partner, Vicken Parsons, who live in the nearby Gasholders building, said in a submission to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/antony-gormley-joins-fight-against-destruction-of-historic-kings-cross-site/</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2024 16:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/antony-gormley-joins-fight-against-destruction-of-historic-kings-cross-site/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milwaukee plans to build tallest timber building in the world]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wisconsin city &ndash; already home to world&rsquo;s tallest wooden building &ndash; announces proposal for tower with 55 floorsThe city of Milwaukee in Wisconsin is currently home to the tallest timber building in the world, but this summer the city announced a new proposal to build an even taller one.Designed by the Vancouver-based architecture firm, Michael Green Architecture, the tower, once completed, would become the tallest mass timber structure in the world with 55 floors &ndash;&nbsp;ab]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/milwaukee-plans-to-build-tallest-timber-building-in-the-world/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2024 17:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/milwaukee-plans-to-build-tallest-timber-building-in-the-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monstrous carbuncles to talking columns: the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing is still a controversy magnet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prince Charles detested the plans for its extension. Now its major donor has criticised it from beyond the grave. So what&rsquo;s coming next? Something that looks a lot like an airport lounge &hellip;If buildings could speak, would they always object to their demolition? In the case of the National Gallery&rsquo;s Sainsbury Wing, now undergoing a controversial redevelopment, a voice from the grave heartily approves of the arrival of the wrecking ball.It has emerged that, during the demolition o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/monstrous-carbuncles-to-talking-columns-the-national-gallerys-sainsbury-wing-is-still-a-controversy-magnet/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/monstrous-carbuncles-to-talking-columns-the-national-gallerys-sainsbury-wing-is-still-a-controversy-magnet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Builders renovating National Gallery find funder’s letter commending demolition]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Sainsbury hid note in 1990 inside false column he objected to, anticipating foyer would one day be remodelled to his likingWhy the building is still a controversy magnetBuilders knocking down a column at the National Gallery were surprised to find a long-lost note amid the rubble thanking them for demolishing the &ldquo;unnecessary&rdquo; pillar.While removing a column in the gallery&rsquo;s Sainsbury Wing, demolition workers discovered a letter dating back to 1990 from its funder, John Sai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/builders-renovating-national-gallery-find-funders-letter-commending-demolition/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/builders-renovating-national-gallery-find-funders-letter-commending-demolition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gimme shelter… how social housing in stormy Shetland was transformed by a modernist fleeing 60s London]]></title><description><![CDATA[The architect Richard Gibson, a contemporary of Richard Rogers, left forward-thinking Camden council in 1969 for the UK&rsquo;s northernmost isles. There, he says, he refined his ideas about well-made homes for all, in work that feels newly relevantRichard Gibson and I turn up unannounced at a primary school in Hamnavoe, Shetland &ndash; a light, airy, steel-framed structure of repeating shallow-pitched roofs designed by him more than 40 years ago. We are enthusiastically welcomed by the headtea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/gimme-shelter-how-social-housing-in-stormy-shetland-was-transformed-by-a-modernist-fleeing-60s-london/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/gimme-shelter-how-social-housing-in-stormy-shetland-was-transformed-by-a-modernist-fleeing-60s-london/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Out of this world’: free app will offer tour of modernist Manchester]]></title><description><![CDATA[Developers hope guide to 20th-century buildings will soon be available in other cities&ldquo;As a prewar building it must have blown people&rsquo;s minds,&rdquo; says Jack Hale, admiring the glassy magnificence of the Express building in Manchester. &ldquo;In the same period you were still getting stone, classical buildings and then this appears.&rdquo;His colleague Eddy Rhead agrees. &ldquo;It must have been like a space-ship landing. To the average Mancunian it would have been out of this worl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/out-of-this-world-free-app-will-offer-tour-of-modernist-manchester/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/out-of-this-world-free-app-will-offer-tour-of-modernist-manchester/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splashing in the Seine, diving in the Danube: the drive to make cities swimmable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campaigners and architects around the world are turning previously polluted rivers and harbours into the perfect places for a refreshing dip. So will we soon be swimming to work?On a summer morning in the Swiss city of Basel, groups of commuters bob merrily down the Rhine. They&rsquo;re not on boats but in their trunks, clutching fish-shaped waterproof bags that double as floats as they drift to work alongside cargo ships and gravel barges.At lunchtime in Copenhagen, the harbour walls are packed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/splashing-in-the-seine-diving-in-the-danube-the-drive-to-make-cities-swimmable/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/splashing-in-the-seine-diving-in-the-danube-the-drive-to-make-cities-swimmable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vaults of ambition: shock find under London Museum enchants its builders]]></title><description><![CDATA[Discovery of Victorian network hiding under some of city&rsquo;s busiest streets set &lsquo;magical&rsquo; new challenge for multimillion pound projectWhen a contractor working on the site of the new London Museum at Smithfield market knocked a tentative hole in a bricked-up basement wall, all he could see, peering in with a torch, was a muddy pile of rubble and some scurrying rats.That unpromising beginning, however, would lead to an &ldquo;unparalleled&rdquo; discovery. Behind the wall, once t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/vaults-of-ambition-shock-find-under-london-museum-enchants-its-builders/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/vaults-of-ambition-shock-find-under-london-museum-enchants-its-builders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolutely prefabulous: a vision of the future]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Italian architect teamed up with her father on the prototype of a very special project on the family hill in Lombardy, then they built 50 of themWhen the 43-year-old Italian architect Valentina Moretti returned to Italy from living in Switzerland and the US to help her father, Vittorio, in his construction company, she seized the chance to work on the prototype of her vision for the future of prefabricated homes.&ldquo;After many years working with famous architects, I understood that I reall]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/absolutely-prefabulous-a-vision-of-the-future/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/absolutely-prefabulous-a-vision-of-the-future/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zigzag patterns on walls could help cool overheated buildings, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[An architectural zigzag design can limit how much heat is absorbed by buildings &ndash; and emitted back to spaceIncorporating zigzag patterns into building walls could help cool overheated buildings, research has found.Buildings are now responsible for approximately 40% of global energy consumption, contributing more than a third of global carbon dioxide emissions. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/zigzag-patterns-on-walls-could-help-cool-overheated-buildings-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/zigzag-patterns-on-walls-could-help-cool-overheated-buildings-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cities are tackling rising heat – but they have to avoid a dangerous trap]]></title><description><![CDATA[With modern solutions such as air-con aggravating the problem, ancient heat-management techniques can offer answersClimate scientists baffled by unexpected pace of heatingBeneath the streets of Seville &ndash; the city nicknamed &ldquo;El Sart&eacute;n&rdquo;, the frying pan of Europe, where summer temperatures regularly top 40C &ndash; a &euro;5m (about &pound;4m ) cooling strategy is taking the city back in time.The millennium-old Persian technique of &ldquo;qanat&rdquo; features underground c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cities-are-tackling-rising-heat-but-they-have-to-avoid-a-dangerous-trap/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cities-are-tackling-rising-heat-but-they-have-to-avoid-a-dangerous-trap/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘What they threw away, I used’: the story behind Nek Chand’s 25-acre outsider art masterpiece]]></title><description><![CDATA[This forest of intricately decorated statues was begun in secret by a man who never considered himself an artist but built what became India&rsquo;s most visited tourist site after the Taj Mahal, the Rock Garden of ChandigarhA forest of curious cement statues stands on the edge of the city of Chandigarh in northern India, their bodies dressed in colourful costumes made from beads and broken glass bangles. There are figures of women carrying baskets on their heads, alongside dancers and athletes,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/what-they-threw-away-i-used-the-story-behind-nek-chands-25-acre-outsider-art-masterpiece/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/what-they-threw-away-i-used-the-story-behind-nek-chands-25-acre-outsider-art-masterpiece/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Casual decommunisation’: seeking to save Ukraine’s Soviet-era modernist masterpieces]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dmytro Soloviov is campaigning to protect Ukraine&rsquo;s USSR architectural past from the double threat of Russian bombs and &lsquo;blind fury&rsquo; at MoscowAs Russian bombs rain down on Ukraine, one young Ukrainian activist is trying to halt destruction of a different kind: the neglect of, and damage to, modernist buildings and public art.Nearly a decade ago, in 2015, Ukraine instituted laws demanding the removal of monuments and street names glorifying the country&rsquo;s communist past, wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/casual-decommunisation-seeking-to-save-ukraines-soviet-era-modernist-masterpieces/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/casual-decommunisation-seeking-to-save-ukraines-soviet-era-modernist-masterpieces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty pylons can add character to England’s industrial landscape | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[New designs mean the structures don&rsquo;t necessarily have to be eyesores, writes John Dinneen. Plus letters from Holly Nicholson and Matt AtkinsonThe photo published with your article (&lsquo;There&rsquo;ll be no countryside left&rsquo;: Opposition to pylons puts UK carbon targets at risk, 3 August) shows a row of traditional lattice tower pylons. These types of pylons are used all over the UK and generally regarded as ugly by many people, especially if they live near them.However, in 2011, t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pretty-pylons-can-add-character-to-englands-industrial-landscape-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pretty-pylons-can-add-character-to-englands-industrial-landscape-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Postwar new towns like Milton Keynes offer Labour a masterclass in planning | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dr Alistair Fair and Ellie Brown respond to comments by the RIBA president, Muyiwa Oki, on Labour&rsquo;s housebuilding plans. Plus Laura Steel on growing up in Washington, Tyne and WearMuyiwa Oki, the president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, is right to say that the new generation of new towns planned by the government should learn from the planning mistakes of the past (Labour&rsquo;s &lsquo;grey belt&rsquo; plans could result in isolated communities, warns leading architect, 2]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/postwar-new-towns-like-milton-keynes-offer-labour-a-masterclass-in-planning-letters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 19:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/postwar-new-towns-like-milton-keynes-offer-labour-a-masterclass-in-planning-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted a tiny house – and a big life. Could I have it all in 25 square metres?]]></title><description><![CDATA[At 50, home ownership was out of reach for Louise Southerden. When she decided to build a tiny house on tyres, it promised liberation from Australia&rsquo;s rental hamster wheelGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhat does it mean to come home? To have a place of your own that feels safe in all the important ways? That wraps its arms around you when you arrive at the doorstep drenched in the problems of the world?For decades, whenever I thought of home, I didn&rsquo;t picture the houses I]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-wanted-a-tiny-house-and-a-big-life-could-i-have-it-all-in-25-square-metres/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-wanted-a-tiny-house-and-a-big-life-could-i-have-it-all-in-25-square-metres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A renovated Queenslander with a home office in a former laundry wins Houses awards top prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[A revamped Brisbane worker&rsquo;s cottage measuring less than 200 sq metres has been capped the best new home in the countryGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA renovation of a 1910 Brisbane worker&rsquo;s cottage, which focuses on compact space, has won the Australian house of the year in the 2024 Houses awards.Red Hill House and Studio is the home and office of architect Nicholas Skepper, designer Zuzana Kovar and their two young children. The renovation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-renovated-queenslander-with-a-home-office-in-a-former-laundry-wins-houses-awards-top-prize/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2024 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-renovated-queenslander-with-a-home-office-in-a-former-laundry-wins-houses-awards-top-prize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour’s ‘grey belt’ plans could result in isolated communities, warns leading architect]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Muyiwa Oki, president of the RIBA, says new estates must be high quality and have access to shops, schools, transport and green spaceLabour&rsquo;s plans to boost housebuilding by allowing the construction of thousands of homes on green belt land could have the unintended consequence of producing isolated communities, the president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has warned.Muyiwa Oki said the government should avoid making the mistakes of the past, which have led]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/labours-grey-belt-plans-could-result-in-isolated-communities-warns-leading-architect/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2024 14:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/labours-grey-belt-plans-could-result-in-isolated-communities-warns-leading-architect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Botched Spanish church makeover leaves cherubim looking startled]]></title><description><![CDATA[Professional restorers want explanation for changes in Soria, which have been likened to &lsquo;Monkey Christ&rsquo; workProfessional restorers in Spain are demanding explanations after a historic church in the north-eastern city of Soria was given a bold makeover that has left the building&rsquo;s cherubim looking startled and local heritage lovers up in arms.The attentions lavished on the Ermita de Nuestra Se&ntilde;ora del Mir&oacute;n, which was built in 1725 on the ruins of a romanesque and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/botched-spanish-church-makeover-leaves-cherubim-looking-startled/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/botched-spanish-church-makeover-leaves-cherubim-looking-startled/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new town I grew up in radically improved life for my family. Labour is right to champion them | George Clarke]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Washington, Tyne and Wear, we found space, security and community. It shows the power of good planningGeorge Clarke is an architect and television presenterI was born in Sunderland in the 1970s, and my mam and dad lived in a small flat in an old brick Victorian terrace just a short walk from Sunderland general hospital. At that time, all the shipyards and coalmines that employed thousands of people were closing and a once-thriving industrial town was on the decline.Just eight miles away from]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-new-town-i-grew-up-in-radically-improved-life-for-my-family-labour-is-right-to-champion-them-george-clarke/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-new-town-i-grew-up-in-radically-improved-life-for-my-family-labour-is-right-to-champion-them-george-clarke/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The City of London’s tallest skyscraper could look like a toilet seat in the sky – and that’s not even the worst thing about it| Oliver Wainwright]]></title><description><![CDATA[As more and more giant towers are squeezed in by developers, open spaces and natural light are becoming things of the pastFrom some angles, it looks like a giant toilet seat in the sky. From others, it looks like a big tongue, sticking out to lick crumbs off the neighbouring Cheesegrater. Or, in the words of William Upton KC, member of the City of London Corporation&rsquo;s planning committee: &ldquo;It looks like one of those plastic spoons we used to get in cheap station cafes that you sort of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-city-of-londons-tallest-skyscraper-could-look-like-a-toilet-seat-in-the-sky-and-thats-not-even-the-worst-thing-about-it-oliver-wainwright/</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-city-of-londons-tallest-skyscraper-could-look-like-a-toilet-seat-in-the-sky-and-thats-not-even-the-worst-thing-about-it-oliver-wainwright/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain’s best new building: can a tiny dairy farm beat the epic Elizabeth Line?]]></title><description><![CDATA[From increasing the National Portrait Gallery&rsquo;s wall space to revitalising a notorious estate, this year&rsquo;s finalists for the RIBA Stirling architecture prize couldn&rsquo;t be more differentIt is like trying to compare a Hollywood blockbuster with an indie documentary, or a symphony orchestra with a busker. This year&rsquo;s RIBA Stirling prize for the best building in the the country sees the &pound;19bn Elizabeth line and the 67-acre regeneration of King&rsquo;s Cross go head to he]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/britains-best-new-building-can-a-tiny-dairy-farm-beat-the-epic-elizabeth-line/</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/britains-best-new-building-can-a-tiny-dairy-farm-beat-the-epic-elizabeth-line/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country diary: Mending the last thatched roof in the village | Tom Allan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ardersier, Moray Firth: I&rsquo;ve come all the way from south Devon and my colleague from the Outer Hebrides, such is the dearth of thatchers in Scotland nowI have come across many ways of securing thatch to a roof, from pointed hazel spars to heather rope, iron crooks to old-fashioned tarred twine. But this 17th-century roof in the fishing village of Ardersier offers something I haven&rsquo;t seen before: everything has been tied down with orange baler twine.As basic as the technique may seem,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-mending-the-last-thatched-roof-in-the-village-tom-allan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 06:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-mending-the-last-thatched-roof-in-the-village-tom-allan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Welcome to Wrexham!’ Is my old hometown about to become a hothouse of culture?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our critic returns to the place of his birth to find the rough old town where he grew up has been transformed &ndash; and not just by Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds buying the football teamThe actor Rob McElhenney, reclining and bare-chested, gives a come-hither look as you enter the T&#375; Pawb (&ldquo;Everybody&rsquo;s House&rdquo;) art gallery/market in Wrexham, Wales. McElhenney, famously, co-owns Wrexham football club with Ryan Reynolds and, clearly, you can&rsquo;t get away from their g]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/welcome-to-wrexham-is-my-old-hometown-about-to-become-a-hothouse-of-culture/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/welcome-to-wrexham-is-my-old-hometown-about-to-become-a-hothouse-of-culture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who’s on the 2024 RA Dorfman prize shortlist? A lingerie factory turned weekend home, Ukrainian volunteer roofers – and more]]></title><description><![CDATA[The four disparate projects shortlisted for the annual prize add up to a heartening display of style, beauty, collaboration and force-for-good ambitionThe &pound;10,000 RA Dorfman prize, given each year by the Royal Academy of Arts in London, is broad in its aims and global in its ambition. It &ldquo;champions new talent&rdquo;, from anywhere in the world, found with the help of 150 nominators and judged by a panel of academicians. The prize takes into consideration &ldquo;geographical and socio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/whos-on-the-2024-ra-dorfman-prize-shortlist-a-lingerie-factory-turned-weekend-home-ukrainian-volunteer-roofers-and-more/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/whos-on-the-2024-ra-dorfman-prize-shortlist-a-lingerie-factory-turned-weekend-home-ukrainian-volunteer-roofers-and-more/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic British seaside hotels are glorious white elephants, but perhaps they can have new lives | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Giant structures in an array of far-fetched architectural styles rose with coming of railways and declined with popularity of air travel&bull; Faded no more: the return of British seaside resorts&rsquo; grand hotelsAt their peak, in the second half of the 19th century, British seaside hotels were Vegas-like in their brash pursuit of profit. They were big stacks of accommodation, packing as much bedroom space as they could behind their cliff-like facades, none-too-sensitive to their prominent loc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/historic-british-seaside-hotels-are-glorious-white-elephants-but-perhaps-they-can-have-new-lives-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2024 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/historic-british-seaside-hotels-are-glorious-white-elephants-but-perhaps-they-can-have-new-lives-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faded no more: the return of British seaside resorts’ grand hotels]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many coastal towns are seeing a post-pandemic resurgence, with new builds and stately piles being returned to their former grandeur&bull; Rowan Moore: Historic British seaside hotels are glorious white elephants, but perhaps they can have new livesThe Grand is a dog-eared Cluedo board of a hotel. The art deco ballroom, its sprung dancefloor covered by carpet, opens into a library used for community events, which in turn leads to an enormous dining room, while the other wing has a billiards room.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/faded-no-more-the-return-of-british-seaside-resorts-grand-hotels/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2024 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/faded-no-more-the-return-of-british-seaside-resorts-grand-hotels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up on the roof: the homespun art of rural Punjab – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Mumbai-based photographer Rajesh Vora travelled to Punjab state in 2014, he was struck by the enormous cartoonish sculptures that adorned rooftops across the region&rsquo;s rural villages. Known as &ldquo;showpieces&rdquo;, the artworks double as water tanks and are part of a custom beginning in the 1970s, wherein Punjabi citizens who had immigrated to other parts of the world erected them on top of the homes they&rsquo;d kept in their native country as a symbol of prosperity. &ldquo;I was]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/up-on-the-roof-the-homespun-art-of-rural-punjab-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2024 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/up-on-the-roof-the-homespun-art-of-rural-punjab-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paris’s department stores transformed urban life. What can they teach today’s struggling shops?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inspired by opera houses, the grands magasins were astonishing spectacles, built on a pharaonic scale. A new exhibition in the French capital charts the golden age of a dying conceptOn the top floor of the fabled La Samaritaine department store in Paris, an empty row of champagne-branded deckchairs is arranged on an artificial beach, facing a wall-sized digital screen of the sun setting over a sparkling sea. Downstairs, at the &ldquo;beauty light bar&rdquo;, futuristic face masks glow with red L]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pariss-department-stores-transformed-urban-life-what-can-they-teach-todays-struggling-shops/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pariss-department-stores-transformed-urban-life-what-can-they-teach-todays-struggling-shops/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffordshire review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly 80 years after it was conceived, an update to a peerless series of guides to the country&rsquo;s architecture concludes with a detailed Staffordshire handbook that, typically, isn&rsquo;t just an exercise in nostalgiaIn the 1940s, a refugee from Nazi Germany called Nikolaus Pevsner started travelling round the lanes and streets of England, armed with sheaves of notes compiled in advance from lengthy research, cataloguing the noteworthy structures in meticulous-going-on-obsessive detail. I]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pevsner-architectural-guides-buildings-of-england-staffordshire-review-the-final-word-on-the-nations-finest-buildings/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pevsner-architectural-guides-buildings-of-england-staffordshire-review-the-final-word-on-the-nations-finest-buildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Urban Nature Project at the Natural History Museum review – it’s a wondrous jungle out there]]></title><description><![CDATA[The museum&rsquo;s newly transformed gardens are a collaborative triumph, offering a walk through geological time in a landscape of ancient rocks and Jurassic planting that&rsquo;s a haven for wildlife, Londoners and dinosaurs alikeThe Urban Nature Project, the Natural History Museum&rsquo;s transformation of the five-acre open space in front of it, is a triumph of cultural and architectural multitasking. It educates, surprises and delights. It is a living laboratory for expert research. It make]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/urban-nature-project-at-the-natural-history-museum-review-its-a-wondrous-jungle-out-there/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/urban-nature-project-at-the-natural-history-museum-review-its-a-wondrous-jungle-out-there/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It is our destiny’: Meet the people who rebuilt Notre Dame]]></title><description><![CDATA[In April 2019, Agn&egrave;s Poirier watched a fire almost destroy the Paris cathedral. For the past five years, she has had unique access to the army of artisans tasked with rebuilding the 12th-century &lsquo;soul of France&rsquo;The yellow-brown plumes of smoke coiling upwards filled my entire kitchen window. A few moments earlier the sky had been bright blue. I rushed down the stairs on to Quai de la Tournelle. Everything was still and eerily silent: passersby looked stunned, rooted to the gro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-is-our-destiny-meet-the-people-who-rebuilt-notre-dame/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-is-our-destiny-meet-the-people-who-rebuilt-notre-dame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putting design first: six social housing projects from around the world]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia&rsquo;s commitment to social housing is far outstripped by rising demand. With greater opportunity, architects could deliver world class designsThe social housing of last century often calls to mind towering blocks of flats, poorly maintained with dark, pokey and cold units. But alongside a rise in community living, the 21st century has brought quality construction, sustainability, and quality of life to the forefront of social housing design.Australia&rsquo;s commitment to and funding]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/putting-design-first-six-social-housing-projects-from-around-the-world/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/putting-design-first-six-social-housing-projects-from-around-the-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canary Wharf Group to carve chunks out of HSBC tower after bank leaves]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revamp of 42-storey block when bank moves out in 2027 will include new terraces and leisure facilitiesBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesCanary Wharf Group has unveiled plans to remove large chunks from the HSBC tower as part of a revamp of the 42-storey office block when the bank moves out in 2027, in a reflection of the changing face of the east London financial district after the pandemic.The property company said it would carve out sections of the tower&rsquo;s facade to create terraces as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/canary-wharf-group-to-carve-chunks-out-of-hsbc-tower-after-bank-leaves/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/canary-wharf-group-to-carve-chunks-out-of-hsbc-tower-after-bank-leaves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘You travel five million years a metre’: inside the Natural History Museum’s mind-boggling new garden]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has giddying cliffs, three-billion-year-old rocks, a prehistoric forest &ndash; and a giant bronze dinosaur called Fern. Our writer hurtles back through millennia as the beloved museum&rsquo;s five-year revamp comes to fruitionQueueing for three billion years might sound like an ordeal, but the Natural History Museum has made it a thrill. When the daily stampede of visitors in their thousands now exits the pedestrian tunnel connecting South Kensington station to the grand London institution,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/you-travel-five-million-years-a-metre-inside-the-natural-history-museums-mind-boggling-new-garden/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/you-travel-five-million-years-a-metre-inside-the-natural-history-museums-mind-boggling-new-garden/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where tourists seldom tread, part 10: four more towns with hidden histories]]></title><description><![CDATA[We continue our series on towns the guidebook writers skip with visits to Gillingham, Camborne, East Kilbride and Stockport<br />
Where tourists seldom tread, parts 1-9Chy? I wasn&rsquo;t familiar with the Ordnance Survey abbreviation for chimneys until I set off to walk around the ghost mines of Camborne. On every tump stand houses for engines built to raise ore from, and drop men into, the Great Flat Lode &ndash; a rock field that coughed up 90,000 tonnes of tin, worth $3 billion at today&rsquo;s ra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/where-tourists-seldom-tread-part-10-four-more-towns-with-hidden-histories/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/where-tourists-seldom-tread-part-10-four-more-towns-with-hidden-histories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plastic-bottle seats and wooden pools: can Paris deliver the leanest, greenest Olympics yet?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Paris Olympics vowed to build as little as possible, using the city&rsquo;s landmarks as a backdrop instead. Has it worked? We check out the bold new venues, upgraded old ones &ndash; and the athletes&rsquo; candy-coloured villageParis&rsquo;s Place de la Concorde is no stranger to scaffolding, as the site of more than 1,000 beheadings during the French Revolution. Two centuries on, the scaffold has returned. Teetering mountains of metal poles now fill the ceremonial square, forming a dozen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/plastic-bottle-seats-and-wooden-pools-can-paris-deliver-the-leanest-greenest-olympics-yet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/plastic-bottle-seats-and-wooden-pools-can-paris-deliver-the-leanest-greenest-olympics-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven ways to experience the best of Switzerland]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the turquoise waters of Bernese Oberland to toothsome Ticino and musical Montreux, Switzerland caters for every tasteEurope&rsquo;s best crossroads city, Basel, is a short tram ride from both Germany and France. Every person who stays in a hotel or guest house here gets free public travel &ndash; from the moment you arrive, your reservation counts as your ticket from the airport. Basel isn&rsquo;t just brilliant for transport nerds, it&rsquo;s also an art-filled, leisure-focused haven, espe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/seven-ways-to-experience-the-best-of-switzerland/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/seven-ways-to-experience-the-best-of-switzerland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cockpit Deptford review – the subtle art of making do]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deptford, London<br />
The architects behind Peckham&rsquo;s pioneering Bold Tendencies car park venue have renovated a block of artists&rsquo; studios housed in a 60s council office building, with a few deft additions maximising what was already thereCities are not made by housing alone. Nor, even, by the cafes and retail units and light garnish of landscape that tend to come with speculative residential developments. They also need places such as Cockpit Arts, a social enterprise providing studio sp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cockpit-deptford-review-the-subtle-art-of-making-do/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cockpit-deptford-review-the-subtle-art-of-making-do/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cars paired with buildings of the same vintage – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architectural photographer Daniel Hopkinson and architect John Piercy Holroyd realised they had a shared passion for modernist buildings and car design when they separately turned up to photograph a building, both driving an Alfa Romeo 159. From there began a two-year collaboration, A Time a Place, which pairs every European Car of the Year of the past 60 years with a building of the same vintage. &ldquo;The project aims to present everyday vehicles that used to be a common sight but have now al]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cars-paired-with-buildings-of-the-same-vintage-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cars-paired-with-buildings-of-the-same-vintage-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rouen Cathedral fire brought under control in Normandy]]></title><description><![CDATA[City authorities say blaze in spire contained after plume of smoke seen rising from 12th-century gothic buildingFirefighters in the Normandy city of Rouen have managed to bring a fire in its world-famous gothic cathedral under control, calming fears of another disaster at one of France&rsquo;s architectural jewels five years after the devastation of Notre Dame.Initial television images showed a dark plume of smoke rising from the cathedral spire and people in the streets below looking up in horr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/rouen-cathedral-fire-brought-under-control-in-normandy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/rouen-cathedral-fire-brought-under-control-in-normandy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire at Normandy’s Rouen Cathedral extinguished with no major damage reported]]></title><description><![CDATA[Normandy fire services say blaze in spire extinguished, with all works of art saved, says French culture ministerFirefighters in the Normandy city of Rouen have managed to extinguish a fire in its world-famous gothic cathedral, calming fears of another disaster at one of France&rsquo;s architectural jewels five years after the devastation of Notre Dame. Local fire services said no major damage was reported.A section of plastic sheeting covering renovation work 120 metres (400 feet) up the cathed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/fire-at-normandys-rouen-cathedral-extinguished-with-no-major-damage-reported/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/fire-at-normandys-rouen-cathedral-extinguished-with-no-major-damage-reported/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rouen’s cathedral spire on fire during renovation work – video]]></title><description><![CDATA[During renovation efforts, the spire of Rouen's Gothic cathedral in Normandy has ignited, evoking memories of the 2019 Notre Dame fire in Paris.Rouen's cathedral, considered one of France's architectural masterpieces, was famously depicted multiple times by the 19th-century impressionist painter Claude MonetRouen&rsquo;s cathedral spire on fire in NormandyEmergency services battle to extinguish fire in Rouen&rsquo;s gothic cathedral &ndash; Europe live Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/rouens-cathedral-spire-on-fire-during-renovation-work-video/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/rouens-cathedral-spire-on-fire-during-renovation-work-video/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cornish ‘tin tabernacle’ church linked to 1907 sea rescue given listed status]]></title><description><![CDATA[First vicar of tiny St Mary&rsquo;s church in Cadgwith took part in RNLI rescue of 456 people from stricken liner SuevicA tiny church speedily built from corrugated iron more than a century ago and synonymous with one of the UK&rsquo;s most famous sea rescues has been given protected status.Historic England has declared that St Mary&rsquo;s in the Cornish fishing village of Cadgwith is important both for its architectural worth and its link to the rescue of 456 passengers and crew from the Suevi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cornish-tin-tabernacle-church-linked-to-1907-sea-rescue-given-listed-status/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cornish-tin-tabernacle-church-linked-to-1907-sea-rescue-given-listed-status/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architects asked to design ‘powerful’ memorial to Grenfell Tower victims]]></title><description><![CDATA[Design brief invites shortlist of five firms to create a &lsquo;powerful homage to those at the heart of the tragedy&rsquo;Architects are being invited to compete to design a &ldquo;powerful&rdquo; memorial to the victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster, which will feature the names of those who died in the fire and be of &ldquo;significant stature&rdquo;.A design brief was published on Wednesday starting a search for firms from the UK or abroad to draft concepts for a &ldquo;bold&rdquo; memorial]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architects-asked-to-design-powerful-memorial-to-grenfell-tower-victims/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architects-asked-to-design-powerful-memorial-to-grenfell-tower-victims/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Architecture festival 2024 shortlist – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The World Architecture festival&rsquo;s 2024 shortlist has been announced, revealing projects from around the world spanning categories such as childcare, energy, transport and science. The live event will take place in Singapore from 6 - 8 November 2024. This year&rsquo;s finalists represent 71 countries, with five shortlisted: Australia, China, India, Singapore and the United Kingdom Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/world-architecture-festival-2024-shortlist-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/world-architecture-festival-2024-shortlist-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My bricklayer’s gone viral! Why construction workers are the new social media stars]]></title><description><![CDATA[From pirouetting diggers to dazzling displays of plastering, astonishing professional skills from unsung experts are winning millions of views<br />
Among the endless makeup tutorials, coordinated dances and people cutting things open to see if they are made of cake, there is one genre of social media video that has proved to be an unexpected hit: life on building sites.On Instagram, there is a pair of Dutch brickies who, with cameras strapped to their helmets and microphones attached to their tools,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/my-bricklayers-gone-viral-why-construction-workers-are-the-new-social-media-stars/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/my-bricklayers-gone-viral-why-construction-workers-are-the-new-social-media-stars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westminster coroner’s court extension review – an extension of deep sympathy]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Beatrix Potter-meets-ancient-Rome aesthetic brings and dignity and intimacy to Patrick Lynch&rsquo;s addition to the coroner&rsquo;s court that held the hearings into Grenfell and the Westminster Bridge attacksWestminster coroner&rsquo;s court is a pretty, playful building from 1893 by the little-known architect GRW Wheeler, red brick with stone trimmings, pertly symmetrical, its style sort of Jacobean. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a bit Beatrix Potter,&rdquo; says the architect of its new extension, Pat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/westminster-coroners-court-extension-review-an-extension-of-deep-sympathy/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/westminster-coroners-court-extension-review-an-extension-of-deep-sympathy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I may have reacted too far’: architect Roger Walker on his groundbreaking buildings]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New Zealander is known for his use of colour as well as turrets, towers, cylinders, cubes and pyramid shapesRadically inventive Wellington architect Roger Walker remembers being at a party a few years ago and overhearing two people who thought he was out of earshot talking about him. One of them asked the other if he would ever use Walker to design something for him. The reply was a firm, &ldquo;No, I wouldn&rsquo;t. You can&rsquo;t tell Roger what to do.&rdquo;Walker, an architect who has a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-may-have-reacted-too-far-architect-roger-walker-on-his-groundbreaking-buildings/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-may-have-reacted-too-far-architect-roger-walker-on-his-groundbreaking-buildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sydney firm scoops top NSW architecture prize for rebuild of North Head viewing platforms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Judges praise &lsquo;poetic, generous&rsquo; design , while awarding apartment building in Sydney&rsquo;s inner-west the prize for architecture that benefits the people of NSWGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA structure arising from the ashes of a hazard reduction burn that went horribly wrong in 2020 has taken out New South Wales&rsquo; top architecture honours.The new North Head viewing platforms on Sydney&rsquo;s heritage-listed headland overlooking Port Jackson were awarded the NSW]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sydney-firm-scoops-top-nsw-architecture-prize-for-rebuild-of-north-head-viewing-platforms/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sydney-firm-scoops-top-nsw-architecture-prize-for-rebuild-of-north-head-viewing-platforms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A nearby farmer took the whole herd’: how a couple turned a cowshed into a dream home for artists]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former dairy business now hosts a thriving artistic community &ndash; and a spectacular converted barnSuzanne Blank Redstone and her husband, Peter Redstone, have lived on the same Devon farm, nestled in a tree-fringed valley a&nbsp;mile from the sea, for 50 years. The couple&rsquo;s current home was once&nbsp;their cowshed, a simple, functional structure that they built in 1979 to shelter their herd of&nbsp;Jerseys over winter.Today, it&rsquo;s an architectural statement, albeit a very livabl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-nearby-farmer-took-the-whole-herd-how-a-couple-turned-a-cowshed-into-a-dream-home-for-artists/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-nearby-farmer-took-the-whole-herd-how-a-couple-turned-a-cowshed-into-a-dream-home-for-artists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[June design news: forgotten modernist gems, wonky watches and inside Noma’s kitchen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fresh talent at London&rsquo;s graduate design show, the history of Parisian flea markets and innovative talent in CopenhagenThis month we celebrate the old and the new. There&rsquo;s a report on graduate show New Designers, where you can see the latest ideas coming out of the UK&rsquo;s universities, but also a new book that celebrates the largest concentration of second-hand dealers in the world, Les Puces de Paris. Something for everyone. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/june-design-news-forgotten-modernist-gems-wonky-watches-and-inside-nomas-kitchen/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/june-design-news-forgotten-modernist-gems-wonky-watches-and-inside-nomas-kitchen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Marks &amp; Spencer building will be a showcase for low-carbon design | Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fred Pilbrow on why the much-touted retrofitting of the flagship store on Oxford Street would be worse for the environment and commercially unviableI write in response to Oliver Wainwright&rsquo;s piece about our proposed building for Marks &amp; Spencer on London&rsquo;s Oxford Street (&lsquo;Public vandalism&rsquo;: M&amp;S wants to flatten its art deco flagship store &ndash; here are six alternative options, 7 June). As architects, we understand the benefits of retrofit, but at Oxford Street]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-marks-amp-spencer-building-will-be-a-showcase-for-low-carbon-design-letter/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-marks-amp-spencer-building-will-be-a-showcase-for-low-carbon-design-letter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change? If only. Labour’s housing plans are built on flimsy foundations, fantasies and fudge]]></title><description><![CDATA[The manifesto promises minor common-sense reforms to the planning system. But the headline proposal for new towns won&rsquo;t amount to much. Where is the bold modernism of the postwar Labour government?With his sleeves rolled up, his hands in his pockets and the frown of a building inspector encountering flammable cladding panels for the umpteenth time, Keir Starmer stares out in black and white from the cover of Labour&rsquo;s election manifesto next to a single word: &ldquo;Change.&rdquo;The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/change-if-only-labours-housing-plans-are-built-on-flimsy-foundations-fantasies-and-fudge/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/change-if-only-labours-housing-plans-are-built-on-flimsy-foundations-fantasies-and-fudge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art museum and mosque among Australian projects recognised in UK’s RIBA architecture awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Judges praise disaster-resistant gallery and bridge on Arthur Boyd&rsquo;s NSW estate and &lsquo;profoundly moving&rsquo; place of worship in Sydney&rsquo;s PunchbowlFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTwo Australian architecture projects have been recognised in the UK&rsquo;s prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) international awards for excellence.The Bundanon Art Museum and bridge and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/art-museum-and-mosque-among-australian-projects-recognised-in-uks-riba-architecture-awards/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/art-museum-and-mosque-among-australian-projects-recognised-in-uks-riba-architecture-awards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild ting: why a chattel house now sits on a manicured Scottish lawn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two years in the making, and drawing on themes of healing, the slave trade and even Vikings, the latest show by Alberta Whittle, who represented Scotland at Venice, has taken over a grand mansion on a holiday isleOn the sweeping manicured grounds of Mount Stuart, a neo-gothic stately home on the Scottish Isle of Bute, sits a most incongruous sight: a bright yellow and green Caribbean chattel house. It&rsquo;s the creation of Barbadian-Scottish artist Alberta Whittle, who had originally planned t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/wild-ting-why-a-chattel-house-now-sits-on-a-manicured-scottish-lawn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/wild-ting-why-a-chattel-house-now-sits-on-a-manicured-scottish-lawn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why are Australian houses so cold, and how can we build 1.2m new ones without trashing the environment? | Philip Oldfield]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here&rsquo;s how Australia can build new homes that not only keep us warm but cut emissions and avoid climate catastropheThe federal government has set a target of building 1.2m new homes in Australia by 2029.If we construct these homes the same way as we do today, their materials will contribute to millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, while our poorly performing existing homes will remain freezing in the winter. We need to change the way we design, build and retrofit housing to avoid]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/why-are-australian-houses-so-cold-and-how-can-we-build-12m-new-ones-without-trashing-the-environment-philip-oldfield/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/why-are-australian-houses-so-cold-and-how-can-we-build-12m-new-ones-without-trashing-the-environment-philip-oldfield/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why are Australian houses so cold, and how can we build 1.2m new ones that won’t trash the environment? | Philip Oldfield]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here&rsquo;s how Australia can build new homes that not only keep us warm but cut emissions and avoid climate catastropheThe federal government has set a target of building 1.2m new homes in Australia by 2029.If we construct these homes the same way as we do today, their materials will contribute to millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, while our poorly performing existing homes will remain freezing in the winter. We need to change the way we design, build and retrofit housing to avoid]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/why-are-australian-houses-so-cold-and-how-can-we-build-12m-new-ones-that-wont-trash-the-environment-philip-oldfield/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/why-are-australian-houses-so-cold-and-how-can-we-build-12m-new-ones-that-wont-trash-the-environment-philip-oldfield/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From social housing to $1.5m for a studio: minister hits out at ‘dud deal’ sale of Sydney’s Sirius building]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Rose Jackson says losing public housing in expensive central suburbs leaves society worse off, and this week&rsquo;s state budget will address issueGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA decade ago the only way to secure a bed in Sydney&rsquo;s brutalist icon, the Sirius building, was a proven need and time on the social housing waitlist. Now the price of admission starts at $1.55m &ndash; for a studio apartment.The last of the 76 apartments in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-social-housing-to-15m-for-a-studio-minister-hits-out-at-dud-deal-sale-of-sydneys-sirius-building/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-social-housing-to-15m-for-a-studio-minister-hits-out-at-dud-deal-sale-of-sydneys-sirius-building/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green space could be even better for young brains than we realised]]></title><description><![CDATA[Science on specific benefits for children&rsquo;s behaviour and thinking is catching up with established wellbeing claimsRevealed: private schools have 10 times more green space than state schoolsHow England&rsquo;s top private schools came to own 38,000 acres of landBeagling, golf and jolly hockey sticks: outdoor life at England&rsquo;s largest private schoolsThe public schools are on to something when they usher their students out of the classroom and into fresh air.Exposure to green space red]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/green-space-could-be-even-better-for-young-brains-than-we-realised/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/green-space-could-be-even-better-for-young-brains-than-we-realised/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architect David Chipperfield: ‘We used to know what progress was. Now we’re not so sure’]]></title><description><![CDATA[He&rsquo;s renowned for big-budget museums and galleries. But the architect&rsquo;s long-term project in Galicia, northern Spain is all about fundamental, low-key ways to change communities for the better&ldquo;We find ourselves doing workshops on seaweed growth,&rdquo; says David Chipperfield, the much-honoured and acclaimed British architect, and &ldquo;there are moments when you&rsquo;re thinking: &lsquo;Remind me, what has this got to do with architecture? What am I doing here?&rsquo;&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-david-chipperfield-we-used-to-know-what-progress-was-now-were-not-so-sure/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-david-chipperfield-we-used-to-know-what-progress-was-now-were-not-so-sure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sawdust toilets and chairs that crash cars: inside Copenhagen’s radical design festival]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 11th edition of 3daysofdesign favours family businesses over tech startups, with over 400 designers (including a Norwegian postman) exhibiting workAt the Verpan showroom, a space dedicated to the work of Verner Panton, the renowned Danish designer&rsquo;s daughter Carin Panton von Halem regaled a rapt audience with an anecdote. Apparently when Panton&rsquo;s cone chair was displayed in a New York shop window in the late 1950s, it had to be removed by the police after drivers distracted by th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sawdust-toilets-and-chairs-that-crash-cars-inside-copenhagens-radical-design-festival/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sawdust-toilets-and-chairs-that-crash-cars-inside-copenhagens-radical-design-festival/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tokyo developer will demolish a building for spoiling the view. Why doesn’t Britain care about beauty? | Simon Jenkins]]></title><description><![CDATA[Politicians and planners are allowing the Thames to become an urban canyon &ndash; greed always seems to win out A Japanese developer has announced it will demolish a new tower of luxury flats in Tokyo it was weeks from completing. The reason? The 10-storey development was blocking beautiful views of Mount Fuji. The idea a developer would reach such a decision in Britain is inconceivable. In London, flats are usually built to make a profit. If they have a beautiful view, good luck to those buyin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-tokyo-developer-will-demolish-a-building-for-spoiling-the-view-why-doesnt-britain-care-about-beauty-simon-jenkins/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-tokyo-developer-will-demolish-a-building-for-spoiling-the-view-why-doesnt-britain-care-about-beauty-simon-jenkins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A show you want to pick up and fondle’: Assemble electrify the RA’s Summer Exhibition]]></title><description><![CDATA[The architecture room of the Royal Academy&rsquo;s annual event has been turned into a mesmerising &lsquo;museum of making&rsquo; by the Turner-prize winners, full of intriguing insights and mind-boggling exhibitsSlimy curtains made of seaweed and hog guts dangle from the ceiling in the central rotunda of the Royal Academy, with the look of slippery skins shed by some reptilian creature. They hang above a busy scene, where workbenches brim with half-finished maquettes and material samples, next]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-show-you-want-to-pick-up-and-fondle-assemble-electrify-the-ras-summer-exhibition/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-show-you-want-to-pick-up-and-fondle-assemble-electrify-the-ras-summer-exhibition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serpentine pavilion 2024 review – Minsuk Cho’s multi-use design is bold and playful]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kensington Gardens, London<br />
The South Korean architect has incorporated a climbing structure, a cafe and a library into an unpredictable space meant for coming together&ldquo;Do a belly flop.&rdquo; &ldquo;Spread your arms like Jesus and then jump.&rdquo; The photographers at the press view for the Serpentine pavilion are calling to me: I&rsquo;ve ascended a rope climbing structure that is part of the design, and they fancy a shot of a moderately respectable gent flying on to a net underneath. If]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/serpentine-pavilion-2024-review-minsuk-chos-multi-use-design-is-bold-and-playful/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/serpentine-pavilion-2024-review-minsuk-chos-multi-use-design-is-bold-and-playful/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Centre forward: Sunderland sets sights on a revival by bringing homes and jobs to its inner city]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the 1980s Thatcher helped attract the likes of Nissan to the region, but it could not revitalise the city itself. Now a new industrial strategy, backed by the local council, is aiming for more sustainable resultsWhen Richard Marsden looks across the Wear gorge to the centre of Sunderland, he has never seen so many cranes. His design and build firm, BDN, is rushing to renovate an old stable block in the shadow of the city&rsquo;s football stadium.&ldquo;Now there&rsquo;s a bit of a resurgence,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/centre-forward-sunderland-sets-sights-on-a-revival-by-bringing-homes-and-jobs-to-its-inner-city/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/centre-forward-sunderland-sets-sights-on-a-revival-by-bringing-homes-and-jobs-to-its-inner-city/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About-face: how Australian architects rethought the ‘wild west’ facade as a nod to conservation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The desire to retain a building&rsquo;s heritage features can lead to what designers call &lsquo;empty facadism&rsquo; &ndash; but some are taking a more imaginative approachGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIn the 1980s an odd kind of construction began to appear in Australia&rsquo;s city centres. In response to pleas to retain heritage structures amid a building boom, compromises were struck that preserved the facade of an old building typically two or th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/about-face-how-australian-architects-rethought-the-wild-west-facade-as-a-nod-to-conservation/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2024 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/about-face-how-australian-architects-rethought-the-wild-west-facade-as-a-nod-to-conservation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[&lsquo;Public vandalism&rsquo;: M&amp;S wants to flatten its art deco flagship store &ndash; here are six alternative options]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marks and Spencer&rsquo;s decision to demolish its 1920s Oxford Street landmark hasn&rsquo;t just infuriated campaigners. It has also sparked a design competition for how the building could be savedAs the trusted purveyor of pants and socks to the nation since 1884, Marks &amp; Spencer makes for an unlikely villain in one of the most high-profile planning battles of the century. But, since the venerable retailer announced plans to flatten its 1920s art deco flagship store on Oxford Street in Lon]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lsquopublic-vandalismrsquo-mamps-wants-to-flatten-its-art-deco-flagship-store-ndash-here-are-six-alternative-options/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lsquopublic-vandalismrsquo-mamps-wants-to-flatten-its-art-deco-flagship-store-ndash-here-are-six-alternative-options/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I plumbed in our bath – and it works!’ The DIY diehards who built 36 affordable homes from scratch]]></title><description><![CDATA[They laid floors, installed piping, hung ceilings and erected frames &ndash; and that was just the easy bit. Our writer reports on a miraculous 15-year self-build that promises capped-price housing for everKareem Dayes&rsquo;s story will be familiar to many millennials. Moving between rented house shares, with stints in leaky warehouses and spells back home with the parents, Dayes led a precarious existence &ndash; going from one temporary set-up to the next, continually subject to evictions and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-plumbed-in-our-bath-and-it-works-the-diy-diehards-who-built-36-affordable-homes-from-scratch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-plumbed-in-our-bath-and-it-works-the-diy-diehards-who-built-36-affordable-homes-from-scratch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stirling prize 2024: a two-horse race?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The big beasts of London&rsquo;s Elizabeth line and King&rsquo;s Cross redevelopment loom large, but newly announced regional contenders for this year&rsquo;s prize should include a classy Cambridge dining hall, an all-timber office block and a wheelchair-friendly rural retreatThe longlist for this year&rsquo;s Stirling prize consists of two very big projects &ndash; achievements of generational significance whose impact will endure for lifetimes &ndash; and, as in other years, a more variegated]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stirling-prize-2024-a-two-horse-race/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stirling-prize-2024-a-two-horse-race/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landslides force dismantling of Frank Lloyd Wright Jr’s celebrated glass chapel: ‘It’s a crying shame’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Relocation of the Wayfarers Chapel on the Pacific coast shows the vulnerability of cultural sites in an increasingly volatile climateFor 73 years it reigned, unique and serene, on a high plateau overlooking the Pacific Ocean: the Wayfarers Chapel, Frank Lloyd Wright Jr&rsquo;s midcentury reinvention of what a church could be.The photogenic, see-through sanctuary framed in a canopy of redwoods was beloved long before it became Instagram-famous. Jayne Mansfield was married there, Brian Wilson too.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/landslides-force-dismantling-of-frank-lloyd-wright-jrs-celebrated-glass-chapel-its-a-crying-shame/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 02:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/landslides-force-dismantling-of-frank-lloyd-wright-jrs-celebrated-glass-chapel-its-a-crying-shame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A glass chapel framed by redwoods is coming down, piece by piece: ‘It’s a crying shame’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dismantling of Frank Lloyd Wright Jr&rsquo;s Wayfarers Chapel after landslides shows the vulnerability of cultural sites in an increasingly volatile climateFor 73 years it reigned, unique and serene, on a high plateau overlooking the Pacific Ocean: the Wayfarers Chapel, Frank Lloyd Wright Jr&rsquo;s midcentury reinvention of what a church could be.The photogenic, see-through sanctuary framed in a canopy of redwoods was beloved long before it became Instagram-famous. Jayne Mansfield was marri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-glass-chapel-framed-by-redwoods-is-coming-down-piece-by-piece-its-a-crying-shame/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-glass-chapel-framed-by-redwoods-is-coming-down-piece-by-piece-its-a-crying-shame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stewart McGough obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend Stewart McGough, who has died aged 74, was an architect with a special focus on access for people with disabilities. He worked on Wembley Stadium and was employed as an expert on design for disabled people during the London 2012 Olympic Games.Stewart&rsquo;s career began in the architects&rsquo; department at Manchester city council (1974-79). From there he went on to design house adaptations for disabled people in the building control department at Meirionnydd district council (1979-8]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stewart-mcgough-obituary/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stewart-mcgough-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divisive, ugly, gloomy: when will the City of London see the light on tall towers?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The proposed 1 Undershaft skyscraper is meant to help woo workers, but it&rsquo;ll make the Square Mile worse for everyoneSt Helen&rsquo;s Square is a nice spot in the City of London, sometimes thronged with lunching office workers, at other times a good place to pause and catch your breath. It captures more sunshine than you&rsquo;d expect, given the towers around. It is surrounded by beautiful architecture that tells the rich history of the Square Mile: medieval churches, Richard Rogers&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/divisive-ugly-gloomy-when-will-the-city-of-london-see-the-light-on-tall-towers/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/divisive-ugly-gloomy-when-will-the-city-of-london-see-the-light-on-tall-towers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spas, bars and luxury hotels: how Britain’s historic buildings are being sold off to the highest bidder]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Churchill&rsquo;s old War Office to Liverpool&rsquo;s Municipal Buildings, the government and cash-starved local authorities have been selling off valuable assets to plug budget shortfalls. But should pieces of the nation&rsquo;s soul ever be put up for sale?Outside the Box is a cafe in the scenic spa town of Ilkley, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales; a good-natured, relaxing place where you can enjoy a reasonably priced enchilada at the tables that spill out on to the pavement. It&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/spas-bars-and-luxury-hotels-how-britains-historic-buildings-are-being-sold-off-to-the-highest-bidder/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/spas-bars-and-luxury-hotels-how-britains-historic-buildings-are-being-sold-off-to-the-highest-bidder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Our parents did all the hard work. We don’t have to’: China’s seaside haven for the ‘lying flat’ generation]]></title><description><![CDATA[With its magnificently tranquil art gallery, its &lsquo;lonely library&rsquo; and its pointy white chapel, Aranya is a blissful oasis for burnt-out urbanites &ndash; and architecture firms are now clambering to build thereEvery summer, since the days of Mao Zedong, the leaders of China&rsquo;s Communist party have decamped to the coastal resort of Beidaihe to debate the country&rsquo;s future from the comfort of luxurious seaside villas hidden behind high walls. Four hours&rsquo; drive from the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/our-parents-did-all-the-hard-work-we-dont-have-to-chinas-seaside-haven-for-the-lying-flat-generation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/our-parents-did-all-the-hard-work-we-dont-have-to-chinas-seaside-haven-for-the-lying-flat-generation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mackintosh building restoration should be taken out of Glasgow art school’s hands, say experts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architectural gem has twice been badly damaged by fire and rebuild has suffered a string of setbacksThe responsibility for restoring Glasgow&rsquo;s Mackintosh building should be taken out the hands of the city&rsquo;s art school and placed with an independent body, according to leading architects, politicians and heritage experts who have expressed dismay at the lack of progress.Thursday marks 10 years since the building &ndash; which houses Glasgow School of Art &ndash; was first badly damaged]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mackintosh-building-restoration-should-be-taken-out-of-glasgow-art-schools-hands-say-experts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mackintosh-building-restoration-should-be-taken-out-of-glasgow-art-schools-hands-say-experts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romans in togas, shepherds in saunas and the Bridgerton garden in bloom … my wild day at Chelsea flower show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Has architecture taken over the bloom bonanza? Our critic finds an elfin treehouse, a pixie grotto, a Roman villa and a &pound;160,000 shepherd&rsquo;s hut (with spa) now competing with the delphiniumsA gigantic Chinese dragon made of gnarled chunks of driftwood towers over a display of bog plants, puffing steam from its nostrils and clutching a ceramic pearl that gushes with water. Nearby, men dressed in togas patrol the courtyard of a pretend Roman villa, where simulated rain pours into the ga]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/romans-in-togas-shepherds-in-saunas-and-the-bridgerton-garden-in-bloom-my-wild-day-at-chelsea-flower-show/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 16:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/romans-in-togas-shepherds-in-saunas-and-the-bridgerton-garden-in-bloom-my-wild-day-at-chelsea-flower-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’m passionate about the future of Glasgow School of Art’s glorious Mackintosh building, not just its past | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[My call for action to rebuild isn&rsquo;t &lsquo;sentimental&rsquo;, it&rsquo;s an appreciation of brilliant designMy call last week for a more vigorous approach to restoring the Mackintosh building at the Glasgow School of Art received an almost entirely positive response from readers, who shared my dismay at the slow progress in restoring this fire-ravaged marvel. There were, though, one or two dissenting voices, who accused me of &ldquo;excessive sentiment&rdquo; and asked whether the desire]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/im-passionate-about-the-future-of-glasgow-school-of-arts-glorious-mackintosh-building-not-just-its-past-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/im-passionate-about-the-future-of-glasgow-school-of-arts-glorious-mackintosh-building-not-just-its-past-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the world could have looked: the most spectacular buildings that were never made]]></title><description><![CDATA[A mega egg in Paris, a hovering hotel in Machu Picchu, an hourglass tower in New York, a pleasure island in Baghdad &hellip; we reveal the architectural visions that were just too costly &ndash; or too weirdDid you know that, if things had gone differently, the Pompidou Centre could have been an egg? In the 1969 competition for the Paris art centre &ndash; ultimately won by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, with their inside-out symphony of pipework &ndash; a radical French architect called Andr&e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/how-the-world-could-have-looked-the-most-spectacular-buildings-that-were-never-made/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 14:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/how-the-world-could-have-looked-the-most-spectacular-buildings-that-were-never-made/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘An incredible phallic landmark!’ The grain silo gallery, a gift from the trillion dollar man]]></title><description><![CDATA[Le Corbusier called grain silos &lsquo;the magnificent first fruits of the new age&rsquo;. But what can be done with these soaring industrial cathedrals when they&rsquo;re redundant? A Norwegian tycoon has the answerIf you&rsquo;ve ever wondered what it would feel like to be as insignificant as a kernel of corn, you can now get a good idea in Kristiansand, a city in southern Norway. Standing on the fourth floor of its new Kunstsilo art museum, carved out of an old 1930s grain silo, you can peer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/an-incredible-phallic-landmark-the-grain-silo-gallery-a-gift-from-the-trillion-dollar-man/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/an-incredible-phallic-landmark-the-grain-silo-gallery-a-gift-from-the-trillion-dollar-man/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul Gross obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My partner, Paul Gross, who has died aged 86, was a musician, artist, architect and occasional activist. He was part of the Rakes band, formed in 1956 with his friends Reg Hall and Michael Plunkett. They played a mixture of Irish, Scottish and English traditional music, each bringing their own family experience of music-making as well as exploring the traditional Irish music scene in London, which in the 1950s was little known beyond its participants.Paul (fiddle), Michael (fiddle and flute) an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/paul-gross-obituary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 17:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/paul-gross-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These Melburnians dreamt of a ‘communal approach’ to housing. The local council had other ideas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Victoria&rsquo;s planning tribunal said the Eltham development &lsquo;should have been supported&rsquo; as an &lsquo;innovative approach&rsquo; to the housing crisisGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWhen a group of Melburnians banded together with a plan to build their dream homes, they did not envision the barriers they would face from local council.The proposed development of 21 townhouses overlooking a creek in Eltham, on Melbourne&rsquo;s fringe, promis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/these-melburnians-dreamt-of-a-communal-approach-to-housing-the-local-council-had-other-ideas/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2024 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/these-melburnians-dreamt-of-a-communal-approach-to-housing-the-local-council-had-other-ideas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These Melburnians dreamed of a ‘communal approach’ to housing. The local council had other ideas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Victoria&rsquo;s planning tribunal said the Eltham development &lsquo;should have been supported&rsquo; as an &lsquo;innovative approach&rsquo; to the housing crisisFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWhen a group of Melburnians banded together with a plan to build their dream homes, they did not envision the barriers they would face from local council.The proposed development of 21 townhouses overlooking]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/these-melburnians-dreamed-of-a-communal-approach-to-housing-the-local-council-had-other-ideas/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2024 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/these-melburnians-dreamed-of-a-communal-approach-to-housing-the-local-council-had-other-ideas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eco-brutalism: when angular concrete meets the wonder of nature – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[On her @brutalistplants Instagram page, Olivia Broome collects photographs that combine the angular shapes of raw concrete with the greenery of the natural world. &ldquo;I really enjoy the aesthetic of eco-brutalism and tropical modernism,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;I love mezzanines and ziggurats, and when you pair them with plants it softens them up. Brutalism can be this quite harsh, austere architecture style, but with nature involved, it balances it all out.&rdquo; Now collected in a book, the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/eco-brutalism-when-angular-concrete-meets-the-wonder-of-nature-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2024 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/eco-brutalism-when-angular-concrete-meets-the-wonder-of-nature-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glasgow’s burned-out marvel: will the restoration of Mackintosh’s School of Art ever happen?]]></title><description><![CDATA[People wept in the street when the magnificent Mackintosh building was nearly destroyed by two fires. So why, 10 years on and despite overwhelming support for restoration, is there still no plan &ndash; or funding &ndash; for its repair?Where to start with the Mackintosh building of the Glasgow School of Art? With its fearless originality? With its ability to run many gamuts &ndash; dark, light, massive, intimate, crafted, industrial, refined, rough, its spaces long, narrow, high and wide, its c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/glasgows-burned-out-marvel-will-the-restoration-of-mackintoshs-school-of-art-ever-happen/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2024 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/glasgows-burned-out-marvel-will-the-restoration-of-mackintoshs-school-of-art-ever-happen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tunnels, treehouses and tensegrity towers: landmarks in protest architecture, from UCLA to Hong Kong]]></title><description><![CDATA[How did UK activists outfox 700 police? Why was Hong Kong traffic stopped by &lsquo;mini Stonehenges&rsquo;? And could an octagonal treehouse and a crow&rsquo;s nest really have saved a German forest? Our writer enjoys a 200-year history of resistance architectureIn his 1868 street-fighting manual, Instructions for an Armed Uprising, the French revolutionary Auguste Blanqui sets out meticulous instructions for how to build a good barricade. Such defences, he wrote, must no longer be thrown toget]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tunnels-treehouses-and-tensegrity-towers-landmarks-in-protest-architecture-from-ucla-to-hong-kong/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tunnels-treehouses-and-tensegrity-towers-landmarks-in-protest-architecture-from-ucla-to-hong-kong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bauhaus Nazis: the collaborators – and worse – among the design icons]]></title><description><![CDATA[They were seen as heroes and martyrs who defied the Nazis. But a new show in Weimar reveals horrifying details about some Bauhauslers, one of whom designed the crematoriums at AuschwitzIf the day of Otti Berger&rsquo;s death is not known, its place and cause are. In April 1944, Berger &ndash; part deaf, Jewish, a communist &ndash; was arrested in her home town of Zmajevac, in German-occupied Yugoslavia. On 29 May, she was put on a transport to Auschwitz. After that, nothing.Of the eight Bauhaus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-bauhaus-nazis-the-collaborators-and-worse-among-the-design-icons/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-bauhaus-nazis-the-collaborators-and-worse-among-the-design-icons/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[X-ray visions, stately sculptures and swelling seas – the week in art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tony Cragg&rsquo;s cosmic forms grace a Yorkshire manor, while the Lion of the Punjab roars back to life &ndash; all in your weekly dispatchTony Cragg<br />
Wobbly cosmic abstract forms materialise around one of Britain&rsquo;s most spectacular stately homes.<br />
&bull; Castle Howard, North Yorkshire, until 22 September Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/x-ray-visions-stately-sculptures-and-swelling-seas-the-week-in-art/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/x-ray-visions-stately-sculptures-and-swelling-seas-the-week-in-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s best new sustainable homes of 2024 – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[A pocket-sized city terrace extension and a multigenerational riverside property inspired by a country shed are among the innovative dwellings shortlisted in the sustainability category of the Houses awards, Australia&rsquo;s premier residential design prize. This year&rsquo;s five-panel jury noted a number of new sustainable design trends, including a move towards net-zero housing, abodes that accommodate adult children, innovative multi-use spaces for working from home, a growing appreciation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/australias-best-new-sustainable-homes-of-2024-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/australias-best-new-sustainable-homes-of-2024-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A 007 paradise – or lads holiday in Marbella? Inside Aston Martin’s lavish Miami penthouses]]></title><description><![CDATA[The British brand has entered the booming market in luxury &lsquo;car-chitecture&rsquo;, opening a themed tower in Miami boasting ballroom, helipad and infinity pool &ndash; all offering millionaires a perfect view of our choking, collapsing worldMove over, James Bond &ndash; a new Aston Martin has rolled into town, brimming with more flashy features than Q could ever dream of. Parked ostentatiously on the Miami waterfront, overlooking a private marina brimming with superyachts, its streamlined]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-007-paradise-or-lads-holiday-in-marbella-inside-aston-martins-lavish-miami-penthouses/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-007-paradise-or-lads-holiday-in-marbella-inside-aston-martins-lavish-miami-penthouses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘One of the most racist things I’ve ever seen’: how RIBA is decolonising its HQ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Royal Institute of British Architects has been taking stock of the disturbingly imperial decoration of its palatial home &ndash; with a new show telling a larger, more unsettling storyPart Egyptian tomb, part masonic temple, the 1930s headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects has always exuded a cultish air. Sited on London&rsquo;s illustrious Portland Place, among embassies, consulates and oligarchs&rsquo; pieds-&agrave;-terre, it is a fittingly regal headquarters for a char]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/one-of-the-most-racist-things-ive-ever-seen-how-riba-is-decolonising-its-hq/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/one-of-the-most-racist-things-ive-ever-seen-how-riba-is-decolonising-its-hq/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters: John Miller obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Having not built a theatre, John Miller missed the competition shortlist in 1997 for one in Runcorn. But the night before the interviews a practice dropped out, so he and Su Rogers came, without the rehearsed presentation of their competitors.Photographs of previous work &ndash; close-ups of a beautifully formed banister, or a brickwork detail &ndash; swiftly made John the unanimous and excited choice of the panel. The resulting Brindley theatre is a masterpiece of quiet authority, beauty and we]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/letters-john-miller-obituary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/letters-john-miller-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats, cuddly toys and a portrait of Stalin: the last lift lady guarding Tbilisi’s brutalist skybridge]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the Georgian capital, 70-year-old Mzia Sabanadze manually operates the pay-as-you go elevator to the bridge connecting the once-futuristic Nutsubidze apartment blocksThe three blocks of flats which step up a Tbilisi hill, linked by a metal bridge, are a concrete reminder of Georgia&rsquo;s Soviet past.The state-owned Nutsubidze apartments and their skybridge opened in 1978, the 140 flats distributed to blue- and white-collar workers as part of a USSR effort to expand urban housing in its terr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cats-cuddly-toys-and-a-portrait-of-stalin-the-last-lift-lady-guarding-tbilisis-brutalist-skybridge/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cats-cuddly-toys-and-a-portrait-of-stalin-the-last-lift-lady-guarding-tbilisis-brutalist-skybridge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infinity According to Florian review - mission to save Ukraine’s extraordinary modernist masterpiece]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oleksiy Radynski chronicles the visionary architect Florian Yuriev&rsquo;s drive to rescue Kyiv&rsquo;s Institute of Information from destruction after he was given weeks to live The extraordinary mind of Florian Yuriev, a visionary Ukrainian architect and artist, visualises an astonishingly holistic view of the world. His abstract paintings brim with geometric colourful shapes and patterns that also carry a sonic component, as each shade has their own tonality. On his piano, whose keys are mark]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/infinity-according-to-florian-review-mission-to-save-ukraines-extraordinary-modernist-masterpiece/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/infinity-according-to-florian-review-mission-to-save-ukraines-extraordinary-modernist-masterpiece/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Nervous of its own boldness’: the (almost) radical rebirth of King’s Cross]]></title><description><![CDATA[The two-decade transformation of the industrial site north of King&rsquo;s Cross station in London, once notorious, now a pleasant enclave of offices, homes, shops, bars and boulevards, is essentially complete. It&rsquo;s a huge success &ndash; and yet is there something missing?The near quarter-century, kilometre-long, 67-acre project to redevelop King&rsquo;s Cross in London is a monument of its age. It is the urban embodiment of the Blair era in which it was conceived, of the third way, of th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/nervous-of-its-own-boldness-the-almost-radical-rebirth-of-kings-cross/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/nervous-of-its-own-boldness-the-almost-radical-rebirth-of-kings-cross/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It should feel like an extension of the living room’: radical study centre is named best building in Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[A &lsquo;non-hierarchical&rsquo; university space that can be continually altered or even moved has won the EU&rsquo;s biennial prize for contemporary architecture A lightweight university study centre designed to be easily disassembled has won the prize for the best building in Europe. Longevity, permanence and a sense of immutability might be the ambition of most architects, but Gustav D&uuml;sing and Max Hacke would be delighted to see their building adapted and reconfigured, or ultimately di]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-should-feel-like-an-extension-of-the-living-room-radical-study-centre-is-named-best-building-in-europe/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-should-feel-like-an-extension-of-the-living-room-radical-study-centre-is-named-best-building-in-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost New York: remembering the city’s forgotten landmarks]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society looks back on years of radical change in the city for better and worseIn recent decades New York City has changed dramatically, transforming from the lows of the crime and drug epidemics that ravaged the city in the 1970s and 80s to the resurgence and optimism that typified the 90s and the surge in gentrification that has been a source of debate more recently. Amid all of this transformation, one might make the assumption that these are new for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lost-new-york-remembering-the-citys-forgotten-landmarks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lost-new-york-remembering-the-citys-forgotten-landmarks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clock this delightful paean to dandelions | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Country diary | Isfahan&rsquo;s sights | Dilyn the dog&rsquo;s fleas | Bald truths | Pate expectationsI concur with Val Kirby&rsquo;s letter (18 April) about Jim Perrin&rsquo;s prose &ldquo;in praise of celandines&rdquo; and her wish that he could turn his silver pen to extolling the virtues of the dandelion. I refer her to a Country Diary from 28 February 2012 by Paul Evans about the dandelion&rsquo;s &ldquo;ephemeral solar system&rdquo;. It&rsquo;s a paean to that much-maligned &ldquo;astronom]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/clock-this-delightful-paean-to-dandelions-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/clock-this-delightful-paean-to-dandelions-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘This one’s like a castle!’ The hunt for the world’s wildest, daftest and most beautiful hedges]]></title><description><![CDATA[They can swallow road signs and trigger lethal neighbour feuds. From suburban Britain to industrial Germany and parched Arizona, we explore a show celebrating green bordersSomewhere in the leafy depths of British suburbia, a thick circular hedge sprouts from the top of a grassy hill in the middle of a roundabout. The top of the hedge is carefully trimmed with rectangular crenellations, giving it the look of a motte-and-bailey castle, while a second more threadbare hedge encircles the foot of the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/this-ones-like-a-castle-the-hunt-for-the-worlds-wildest-daftest-and-most-beautiful-hedges/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/this-ones-like-a-castle-the-hunt-for-the-worlds-wildest-daftest-and-most-beautiful-hedges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why are celebrities destroying multimillion dollar mansions?  | Arwa Mahdawi]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Kanye West to Chris Pratt, the celebrity approach to housing is more out of touch than everLooking for a bargain beach house? Then you&rsquo;re in luck. Kanye West has just lowered the price on his minimalist mansion in Malibu, California, to a mere $39m (&pound;31.5m) &ndash; a $14m discount on its original listing price. There is a catch though: the house has no windows, doors, electricity, plumbing or interior finishes. It&rsquo;s completely uninhabitable, unless you happen to be a gull.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/why-are-celebrities-destroying-multimillion-dollar-mansions-arwa-mahdawi/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/why-are-celebrities-destroying-multimillion-dollar-mansions-arwa-mahdawi/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Kent ready for the Duchy of Cornwall’s next Poundbury?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plans for 2,500 new homes outside the historic market town of Faversham have gone down badly with some residents. But the UK needs housing, and this is a promising site&hellip;&ldquo;We&rsquo;re all proud to have a king,&rdquo; laments a resident of Faversham in Kent, &ldquo;but we thought he was going to be a custodian of the land and look after it.&rdquo; &ldquo;Disgusting&rdquo;, says a passerby, walking her dog, when asked her opinion of proposals by the Duchy of Cornwall to build almost 2,5]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/is-kent-ready-for-the-duchy-of-cornwalls-next-poundbury/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/is-kent-ready-for-the-duchy-of-cornwalls-next-poundbury/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was billed as a futuristic, glass-walled city, but was only ever realised in the digital sphere &ndash; where it should remainThe second least surprising piece of recent news &ndash; the first being that yet more Tory MPs are reportedly embroiled in bizarre sexual and financial scandals &ndash; is that the Line, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman&rsquo;s 105-mile-long (170km) vanity project in Saudi Arabia, is being scaled back. In an act of what is known in the construction industry as value e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/saudi-arabias-105-mile-long-line-city-has-been-cut-a-little-short-by-1035-miles-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/saudi-arabias-105-mile-long-line-city-has-been-cut-a-little-short-by-1035-miles-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On my radar: CMAT’s cultural highlights]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Irish musician on her favourite traditional pub, converting to the cult of baseball, and gigs in a western movie setCiara Mary-Alice Thompson, who performs as CMAT, was born in Dublin in 1996 and grew up in nearby Dunboyne. She formed a band at 18 but quit after three years and later reinvented herself as a solo artist blending country music with pop and other influences. Her 2022 debut, If My Wife New I&rsquo;d Be Dead, won the RT&Eacute; Choice music prize for Irish album of the year. The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/on-my-radar-cmats-cultural-highlights/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/on-my-radar-cmats-cultural-highlights/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s seaside home – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prospect Cottage on the beach at Dungeness, Kent was a home and sanctuary for the artist and film-maker Derek Jarman. The gardens are world famous, but the interior, shielded from public view by net curtains hung by his partner, Keith Collins, after his death, has been largely unseen. This haven has been photographed by Gilbert McCarragher, and Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman&rsquo;s House is published by Thames &amp; Hudson Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/prospect-cottage-derek-jarmans-seaside-home-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/prospect-cottage-derek-jarmans-seaside-home-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[June Holroyd obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend June Holroyd was an architect who, late in her career, established with her husband and elder son a Hispanic-Mediterranean style centred on Santa Barbara, California, having moved to the US with her family in the 1960s.June, who has died aged 97, met Geoffrey Holroyd when they were both architecture students at Sheffield University, where she enrolled in 1944 &ndash; she was one of only three women in a class of 80. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/june-holroyd-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 18:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/june-holroyd-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artworks carried to safety as fire blazes at Copenhagen’s old stock exchange]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spire collapsed as fire engulfed landmark in Danish capital, which houses one of country&rsquo;s most valuable art collectionsEurope live: Copenhagen old stock exchange fire &ndash; as it happenedFirefighters at Copenhagen&rsquo;s historic former stock exchange have been battling a huge blaze that has engulfed the 17th-century building&rsquo;s roof, toppled its distinctive spire and threatened one of Denmark&rsquo;s most valuable art collections.&ldquo;We are witnessing a terrible spectacle. The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/artworks-carried-to-safety-as-fire-blazes-at-copenhagens-old-stock-exchange/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/artworks-carried-to-safety-as-fire-blazes-at-copenhagens-old-stock-exchange/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moment spire collapses at Copenhagen's old stock exchange &ndash; video]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fire has broken out at Copenhagen&rsquo;s old stock exchange, one of the Danish capital&rsquo;s most famous buildings, engulfing its spire, which collapsed on to the roof. There were no reports of injuries. The historic building, whose spire is shaped as the tails of four dragons entwined, had been under renovation when the blaze broke out. The Dutch Renaissance-style building no longer houses the Danish stock exchange but serves as headquarters for the Danish Chamber of CommerceSpire collapse]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/moment-spire-collapses-at-copenhagens-old-stock-exchange-ndash-video/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/moment-spire-collapses-at-copenhagens-old-stock-exchange-ndash-video/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spire collapses after fire breaks out at Copenhagen’s old stock exchange]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plumes of black smoke rise as blaze engulfs one of Danish capital&rsquo;s most famous landmarksEurope live: Copenhagen old stock exchange fire &ndash; latest updatesA huge fire has broken out at Copenhagen&rsquo;s 17th-century former stock exchange, one of the Danish capital&rsquo;s most famous landmarks, engulfing the historic building&rsquo;s roof and toppling its distinctive spire.&ldquo;We are witnessing a terrible spectacle. The Bourse is on fire,&rdquo; the Chamber of Commerce, which occup]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/spire-collapses-after-fire-breaks-out-at-copenhagens-old-stock-exchange/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/spire-collapses-after-fire-breaks-out-at-copenhagens-old-stock-exchange/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has it come to this? We must act now to save Birmingham’s culture from cuts]]></title><description><![CDATA[The austerity-hit council's decision to stop funding the arts is a calamity for a city whose rich contribution to the UK &ndash; from the Rep, the Royal Ballet and Tolkien to heavy metal and the Streets &ndash; is such a vital source of civic prideThe Birmingham Rep altered the course of Britain&rsquo;s cultural history. Opened in 1913 by the dramatist Billie Lester, the company&rsquo;s ambition to champion formally innovative work and new writing attracted the likes of Laurence Olivier, who joi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/has-it-come-to-this-we-must-act-now-to-save-birminghams-culture-from-cuts/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/has-it-come-to-this-we-must-act-now-to-save-birminghams-culture-from-cuts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[End of the Line? Saudi Arabia ‘forced to scale back’ plans for desert megacity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Crown prince&rsquo;s pet project was sold as a 105-mile-long city of the future, but finances may have led to a rethinkIt was billed as a glass-walled city of the future, an ambitious centrepiece of the economic plan backed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to transition Saudi Arabia away from oil dependency.Now, however, plans for the mirror-clad desert metropolis called the Line have been scaled down and the project, which was envisaged to stretch 105 miles (170km) is now expected to reach j]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/end-of-the-line-saudi-arabia-forced-to-scale-back-plans-for-desert-megacity/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/end-of-the-line-saudi-arabia-forced-to-scale-back-plans-for-desert-megacity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nuclear reactor or medieval castle? Brutal Welsh architecture – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new title in Simon Phipps&rsquo; bestselling brutalist series, this photographic exploration of Wales features over 60 extraordinary buildings, including many lesser-known examples of modernist architecture Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/nuclear-reactor-or-medieval-castle-brutal-welsh-architecture-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/nuclear-reactor-or-medieval-castle-brutal-welsh-architecture-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London cab shelter is last of remaining 13 to be listed by Historic England]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wooden structure in St John&rsquo;s Wood joins 12 other surviving shelters out of the original 60 built between 1875 and 1950The last of 13 surviving green cab shelters providing rest and refreshment to generations of drivers in London has been listed by Historic England in recognition of its architectural and historical significance.The wooden shelters were built by the Cabmen&rsquo;s Shelter Fund from 1875 onwards, when cabs were horse-drawn. Many had a rail fixed to the exterior so cabbies co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/london-cab-shelter-is-last-of-remaining-13-to-be-listed-by-historic-england/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/london-cab-shelter-is-last-of-remaining-13-to-be-listed-by-historic-england/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London cab shelter is last of remaining 13 to be given listed status]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wooden structure in St John&rsquo;s Wood joins 12 other surviving shelters out of the original 60 built between 1875 and 1950The last of 13 surviving green cab shelters providing rest and refreshment to generations of drivers in London has been listed by the government in recognition of its architectural and historical significance.The wooden shelters were built by the Cabmen&rsquo;s Shelter Fund from 1875 onwards, when cabs were horse-drawn. Many had a rail fixed to the exterior so cabbies coul]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/london-cab-shelter-is-last-of-remaining-13-to-be-given-listed-status/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/london-cab-shelter-is-last-of-remaining-13-to-be-given-listed-status/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let’s move to Disney town! Will life in its 2,000 themed homes be a dream or a nightmare?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starting at $1m, a Disney home offers Disney art classes, Disney dinners, a Disney clubhouse and a Disney lake that never changes colour. We explore the House of Mouse&rsquo;s plans for curated livingIt seems fitting that, in a Californian desert city named Rancho Mirage, there should be an improbable fantasy world rising from the parched, sandy ground. At the starry intersection of Frank Sinatra Drive and Bob Hope Drive &ndash; named after two Hollywood celebrities who used to frequent the area]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lets-move-to-disney-town-will-life-in-its-2000-themed-homes-be-a-dream-or-a-nightmare/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lets-move-to-disney-town-will-life-in-its-2000-themed-homes-be-a-dream-or-a-nightmare/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Greenest ever Games’: how the Paris Olympics hopes to inspire a new era of global sporting events]]></title><description><![CDATA[Organisers say they are setting a precedent by using existing or temporary venues for most events and focusing on low-carbon building for the restBeneath the undulating wooden roof of the Paris Olympics&rsquo; new aquatics centre, the architect Laure M&eacute;riaud hoped the groundbreaking low carbon building would bring a kind of calm to the intersection of motorways near the Stade de France stadium in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not just about technical innovation,&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/greenest-ever-games-how-the-paris-olympics-hopes-to-inspire-a-new-era-of-global-sporting-events/</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 13:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/greenest-ever-games-how-the-paris-olympics-hopes-to-inspire-a-new-era-of-global-sporting-events/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Clarke: ‘I’m 50 soon. I will have lived 24 years longer than my dad, so I live every day to the max’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The presenter on his love of architecture, being too shy for TV, and losing his dad aged seven Born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, in 1974,&nbsp;George Clarke is&nbsp;an architect and television presenter. After gaining a first-class degree from the School of Architecture at Newcastle University and a postgraduate diploma from the&nbsp;Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, his media career began in 2005 as&nbsp;the host of Channel 5&rsquo;s Build a New Life in the Country. He has since launched a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/george-clarke-im-50-soon-i-will-have-lived-24-years-longer-than-my-dad-so-i-live-every-day-to-the-max/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/george-clarke-im-50-soon-i-will-have-lived-24-years-longer-than-my-dad-so-i-live-every-day-to-the-max/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We live in the best house in the world’: five design experts on how to live better in small homes]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Ikea storage to the benefits of a solidly built table, architects from Paris to Tokyo share their tips and philosophy for living beautifully in smaller spacesAustralia has some of the largest homes in the world. Many who do live small aspire to one day live big. But around the world, limited space is not always seen as a sacrifice.From Sweden, where the average size of an apartment is 68 sq metres, to Hong Kong&rsquo;s micro flats as small as 18 sq metres, globally architects are used to ge]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-live-in-the-best-house-in-the-world-five-design-experts-on-how-to-live-better-in-small-homes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-live-in-the-best-house-in-the-world-five-design-experts-on-how-to-live-better-in-small-homes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthony Barnes obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend Anthony Barnes, who has died aged 92, was an executive in the soft drinks and chemicals industry until he changed tack to become director of the Redundant Churches Fund, now the Churches Conservation Trust. Later he joined the Norfolk Churches Trust as its secretary, helping to care for and conserve a number of ecclesiastical buildings across the county.Both with the Trust and later as a volunteer, Anthony rescued a number of Norfolk churches and prevented St Peter Hungate in Norwich f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/anthony-barnes-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/anthony-barnes-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ron’s Place: Birkenhead flat of outsider art granted grade-II listing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Victory for campaigners and conservators as elaborately decorated property is honoured with protected statusA ground-floor rented flat in Birkenhead which was crafted over a period of 30 years into an extraordinary palace of outsider art has been given Grade II-listed status.The flat in Wirral, known as Ron&rsquo;s Place, is thought to be the UK&rsquo;s only example of outsider art to be nationally listed. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/rons-place-birkenhead-flat-of-outsider-art-granted-grade-ii-listing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 06:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/rons-place-birkenhead-flat-of-outsider-art-granted-grade-ii-listing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perth Museum review – a new-look leveller for the ancient seat of kings]]></title><description><![CDATA[The mythic Stone of Destiny, used in Scottish and British coronations for centuries, is the star attraction of the &pound;27m redeveloped Perth Museum &ndash; now brighter, easier to access and as eclectic as everIt&rsquo;s hard to think of a piece of masonry more charged with history, myth and emotion, per cubic inch, than the Stone of Destiny. This battered suitcase-sized object, on which Scottish and English kings have been inaugurated and crowned for centuries, has been abducted and re-abduc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/perth-museum-review-a-new-look-leveller-for-the-ancient-seat-of-kings/</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/perth-museum-review-a-new-look-leveller-for-the-ancient-seat-of-kings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Richards obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[The role of the local authority conservation officer is much misunderstood and maligned. My father, Peter Richards, who has died aged 94, did much to place the discipline on a proper professional footing and demonstrate what it could achieve. He headed a multidisciplinary team at Essex county council from 1974 to 1994 and led the restoration of important historic buildings and their gardens for public use, such as the Grade-I medieval barns at Cressing Temple near Witham &ndash; one of which is]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/peter-richards-obituary/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:04:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/peter-richards-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Owners of Crooked House pub appeal against order to rebuild]]></title><description><![CDATA[ATE Farms had been issued with enforcement notice for unlawful demolition after fire gutted building The owners of the Crooked House pub in Himley have appealed against an order to rebuild the 18th-century building, which was demolished days after a fire last year.The blaze on 5 August, which is being treated by police as arson, and the subsequent demolition of the famously wonky Staffordshire pub prompted a national outcry. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/owners-of-crooked-house-pub-appeal-against-order-to-rebuild/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:44:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/owners-of-crooked-house-pub-appeal-against-order-to-rebuild/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yorkshire estate known as world’s first nature reserve gets Grade II listing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eccentric Victorian owner of Waterton Park, near Wakefield, made pioneering decisions to protect wildlifeA Yorkshire parkland regarded as the world&rsquo;s first nature reserve &ndash; which was created by an eccentric pioneering 19th-century environmentalist &ndash; has been given a Grade II listing.Historic England said Waterton Park, near Wakefield, was the earliest known example of a landscape designed specifically to attract and protect native wildlife. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/yorkshire-estate-known-as-worlds-first-nature-reserve-gets-grade-ii-listing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/yorkshire-estate-known-as-worlds-first-nature-reserve-gets-grade-ii-listing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lynn Kinnear obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Landscape architect whose work ranged from urban playgrounds to wetland parks and who was committed to working with local communitiesLynn Kinnear, who has died of cancer aged 64, was one of the outstanding landscape architects of her generation. Her work ranged from urban playgrounds to natural parks such as Walthamstow Wetlands in east London. She collaborated with a number of leading architects and artists, including the Richard Rogers Partnership. Burntwood school in Wandsworth, south London,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lynn-kinnear-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lynn-kinnear-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘This is our beautiful castle’: the stunning new buildings expressing Māori pride]]></title><description><![CDATA[From facial tattoos to TV stations, young M&#257;ori are enthusiastically embracing tribal cultural identity in Aotearoa New Zealand. Now a new wave of Indigenous architects are making their markA bright red ribbon of metal buckles out of the ground in suburban Auckland, ramping up at a sharp angle before cranking over in a lopsided arc. It frames a big glass wall, folded in a diagonal crease, whose striped surface is covered in a riot of patterns, with abstract motifs of waves, fish and stars s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/this-is-our-beautiful-castle-the-stunning-new-buildings-expressing-mori-pride/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/this-is-our-beautiful-castle-the-stunning-new-buildings-expressing-mori-pride/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sagrada Familia in Barcelona ‘will be completed in 2026’]]></title><description><![CDATA[New date for Antoni Gaud&iacute;&rsquo;s basilica announced but enormous, controversial stairway will take another eight yearsBarcelona&rsquo;s Sagrada Familia basilica has a new completion date of 2026, which will come 144 years after the first stone was laid.The president of the organisation tasked with completing Antoni Gaud&iacute;&rsquo;s masterwork announced the date last Wednesday, which coincides with the centenary of the death of the building&rsquo;s architect. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sagrada-familia-in-barcelona-will-be-completed-in-2026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sagrada-familia-in-barcelona-will-be-completed-in-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Costa’s Barbers: the shop-to-home conversion that’s a cut above]]></title><description><![CDATA[Battersea, London<br />
An old barber shop redesigned by architects Brisco Loran as their own live-work space is the latest project from developer Duncan Blackmore, a man on a mission to repurpose quirky urban spaces in a positive wayEveryone knows that high streets are under threat, caught in spirals of decline driven by the rise of online shopping. It&rsquo;s also obvious, or should be, that the government&rsquo;s big idea for responding to this crisis, which is to make it possible to convert shops]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/costas-barbers-the-shop-to-home-conversion-thats-a-cut-above/</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/costas-barbers-the-shop-to-home-conversion-thats-a-cut-above/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the political ethics of eyesores, a lumpen London office block trumps clean energy | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[The government believes a solar farm&rsquo;s &lsquo;visual harm&rsquo; outweighs its economic benefits; with the Mitsubishi tower it&rsquo;s the reverseLast week the government decided to refuse planning permission for a solar farm in Northamptonshire. This is the same government that last month, possibly encouraged by a letter from the developers Mitsubishi to Rishi Sunak, approved 72 Upper Ground, a prominent, lumpen office block on the South Bank in London.In the first case they decided that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/in-the-political-ethics-of-eyesores-a-lumpen-london-office-block-trumps-clean-energy-rowan-moore-2/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 19:56:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/in-the-political-ethics-of-eyesores-a-lumpen-london-office-block-trumps-clean-energy-rowan-moore-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the political ethics of eyesores a lumpen London office block trumps clean energy | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[The government deems a solar array&rsquo;s &lsquo;visual harm&rsquo; outweighs its economic benefits, with the Mitsubishi tower it&rsquo;s the reverseLast week the government decided to refuse planning permission for a solar farm in Northamptonshire.This is the same government that last month, possibly encouraged by a letter from the developers Mitsubishi to Rishi Sunak, approved 72 Upper Ground, a prominent, lumpen office block on the South Bank in London. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/in-the-political-ethics-of-eyesores-a-lumpen-london-office-block-trumps-clean-energy-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/in-the-political-ethics-of-eyesores-a-lumpen-london-office-block-trumps-clean-energy-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We are dealing with fundamentalist rightwingers’: Berlin statues are latest battleground in Germany’s culture wars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Monuments erected on the Stadtschloss are an &lsquo;infiltration&rsquo; of the city and its skyline by nationalists, say criticsSilently towering into the grey Berlin sky, the latest addition to the German capital&rsquo;s skyline is easily missed by passengers passing along the Unter den Linden boulevard below. Eight statues of Old Testament prophets, each more than 3 metres tall and weighing 3 tonnes, were installed last week in a circular formation around the cupola of the palace in the centre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-are-dealing-with-fundamentalist-rightwingers-berlin-statues-are-latest-battleground-in-germanys-culture-wars/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-are-dealing-with-fundamentalist-rightwingers-berlin-statues-are-latest-battleground-in-germanys-culture-wars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theo Matoff obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My husband, Theo Matoff, who has died aged 92, was a lecturer in architecture who rose to become head of the schools of architecture at two polytechnics &ndash; in Plymouth and then Leicester.Theo was born in Vancouver, Canada, to Miriam (nee Lando) and her husband, Conrad, and went to Magee high school in the city. His parents jointly owned a fur company, but when he was 19 they moved to Los Angeles to run a department store and he went with them. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/theo-matoff-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:49:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/theo-matoff-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LA’s graffiti-tagged skyscraper: a work of art – and symbol of city’s wider failings]]></title><description><![CDATA[After its Chinese backers pulled out, Oceanwide Plaza stands abandoned &ndash; could it be turned over to those who need it most?An asparagus patch is how the architect Charles Moore described the lackluster skyline of downtown Los Angeles in the 1980s. &ldquo;The tallest stalk and the shortest stalk are just alike, except that the tallest has shot father out of the ground.&rdquo;This sprawling city of bungalows has never been known for the quality of its high-rise buildings, and not much has ch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/las-graffiti-tagged-skyscraper-a-work-of-art-and-symbol-of-citys-wider-failings/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/las-graffiti-tagged-skyscraper-a-work-of-art-and-symbol-of-citys-wider-failings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Phoenix, Lewes: a new riverside neighbourhood that sounds almost too good to be true]]></title><description><![CDATA[A dream team of architects has planning permission to convert a former ironworks in the old Sussex market town into a sustainable new community for all, with low-rise flats, courtyard gardens, electric car share and more. If built, it could spearhead a transformation of British housingImagine a new district of an old town, made up of multiple good things. Its blocks of flats, mostly four or five storeys high, would achieve what&rsquo;s called &ldquo;gentle density&rdquo;, which means getting a g]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-phoenix-lewes-a-new-riverside-neighbourhood-that-sounds-almost-too-good-to-be-true/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-phoenix-lewes-a-new-riverside-neighbourhood-that-sounds-almost-too-good-to-be-true/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architectural adventures in the Alps – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[After months of isolation in 2020, the Leipzig photographer Albrecht Voss asked his oldest friend to join him on an adventure through the Alps taking pictures of modern architecture. With just 20 days to capture 28 buildings in Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland and Germany, the project involved scaling glaciers in the dark and sleeping in empty chapels. &ldquo;We would aim to be on top of the mountain for golden hour, when the light is very beautiful,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Then we&rsquo;d wait unt]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architectural-adventures-in-the-alps-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2024 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architectural-adventures-in-the-alps-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A tipping point for the city’: anger in Birmingham as Electric cinema closes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campaign to save UK&rsquo;s oldest working cinema and designate Station Street &lsquo;a historic asset&rsquo; launched amid redevelopment plansThere are growing calls to protect a street in Birmingham that was home to the UK&rsquo;s first purpose-built repertory theatre, a pub that hosted Black Sabbath&rsquo;s first gig and the country&rsquo;s oldest working cinema, with two of the three venues now closed down.The closure last week of the Electric cinema on Station Street, 114 years after it ope]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-tipping-point-for-the-city-anger-in-birmingham-as-electric-cinema-closes/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-tipping-point-for-the-city-anger-in-birmingham-as-electric-cinema-closes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New River Wing, Clare College, Cambridge review – a perfect fit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Built offsite in Yorkshire and carefully squeezed into its narrow riverside site, the oak-framed extension to Cambridge&rsquo;s second oldest college combines Tudor-tech spirit and cutting-edge, ship-in-a-bottle engineeringThere&rsquo;s a lot of talk around about &ldquo;beauty&rdquo;. Social media is littered with posts of golden, old, sun-drenched buildings, in which some self-appointed wise man hands down aphorisms on their &ldquo;spiritual significance&rdquo;. They come with lamentations that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-river-wing-clare-college-cambridge-review-a-perfect-fit/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-river-wing-clare-college-cambridge-review-a-perfect-fit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Miller obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect who modified Tate Britain and other institutions sympathetically and designed discreet new structuresWhen the Tate Gallery split in half at the turn of the millennium, John Miller was the architect who turned its original Millbank home into Tate Britain. The new development, Tate Modern, carved out of the brick cliff of the former Bankside power station by Herzog &amp; de Meuron, attracted larger crowds. But in architectural terms the remodelling of the somewhat underpowered classicism]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-miller-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-miller-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tropical storm, an ancient sisterhood and Toni Morrison sculptures – the week in art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Postcolonial architecture in Ghana, fresh responses to an all-female medieval community and sculptures inspired by radical writing &ndash; all in your weekly dispatchTropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence<br />
An atmospheric look at how high modernist architecture was reinvented as the style of postcolonial Ghana and India in the 1950s and 60s.<br />
&bull; V&amp;A, London, until 22 September Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-tropical-storm-an-ancient-sisterhood-and-toni-morrison-sculptures-the-week-in-art/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-tropical-storm-an-ancient-sisterhood-and-toni-morrison-sculptures-the-week-in-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I am not very good at design’: architecture’s top honour goes to Riken Yamamoto]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Pritzker prize has been won by the 78-year-old Japaneses master whose whose work ranges from an open-access Hiroshima fire station to a building seemingly made of booksFrom rows of public housing connected by elevated walkways and shared terraces, to sleek glass university buildings designed for maximum transparency between departments, the architecture of Riken Yamamoto has always been about seeing and being seen. Now it&rsquo;s his turn to be put in the spotlight, as the 78-year-old Japane]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-am-not-very-good-at-design-architectures-top-honour-goes-to-riken-yamamoto/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-am-not-very-good-at-design-architectures-top-honour-goes-to-riken-yamamoto/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Yorkers rail against luxury tower blocking Empire State Building: ‘The mighty dollar rules the sky’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amid a nationwide housing crisis, residents say 262 Fifth Avenue &ndash; a batch of condos for the wealthiest &ndash; is ruining the view downtownTom Clark&rsquo;s Lower East Side apartment comes with a prime view of the Empire State Building. &ldquo;I can see it from my couch,&rdquo; he said. Well, he used to be able to catch a glance &ndash; before an ultra-thin luxury tower dubbed 262 Fifth Avenue came along.Now the 860ft residential tower, which is still under construction, blocks the Empire]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-yorkers-rail-against-luxury-tower-blocking-empire-state-building-the-mighty-dollar-rules-the-sky/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-yorkers-rail-against-luxury-tower-blocking-empire-state-building-the-mighty-dollar-rules-the-sky/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s a monkey’s puzzle’: is it possible to rebuild the Crooked House pub?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The venue&rsquo;s owners have been told to put it back to its wonky glory after it was gutted by a fire and bulldozedRebuilding a 260-year-old building that was burned to a shell and then bulldozed to a pile of rubble is no mean feat in any scenario. But rebuilding the Crooked House pub, a lopsided structure that had sunk 4ft into the ground, is even trickier.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a bit of a monkey&rsquo;s puzzle, with no right angles,&rdquo; said Stephen Levrant, who runs a heritage architecture fi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-a-monkeys-puzzle-is-it-possible-to-rebuild-the-crooked-house-pub/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-a-monkeys-puzzle-is-it-possible-to-rebuild-the-crooked-house-pub/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tropical Modernism review – a complex story of power, freedom, craft… and cows]]></title><description><![CDATA[V&amp;A, London<br />
Modernist architecture&rsquo;s arrival in India and colonial west Africa, and how, post-independence, a new generation of local architects made the style their own, is explored in an intriguing new exhibitionIn Chandigarh, northern India, in 1957, a road inspector called Nek Chand started building a fantasy world, alone and with his bare hands, in a secluded wooded area. He constructed palaces and waterfalls and an evocation of his home village in what was now Pakistan, from whic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tropical-modernism-review-a-complex-story-of-power-freedom-craft-and-cows/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tropical-modernism-review-a-complex-story-of-power-freedom-craft-and-cows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architects use local materials and merge traditional techniques with modern technology to make schools and orphanages cool, welcoming placesIf architects are people who like to think their way around challenges, building schools in Burkina Faso must be the dream job. The challenges, after all, are legion: scorching temperatures in the high seasons, limited funds, materials, electricity and water, and clients who are vulnerable and young. How do you keep a building cool under a baking sun when th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-dont-need-air-con-how-burkina-faso-builds-schools-that-stay-cool-in-40c-heat/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:43:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-dont-need-air-con-how-burkina-faso-builds-schools-that-stay-cool-in-40c-heat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-buried Atlas statue raised to guard Temple of Zeus in Sicily once more]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eight-metre statue dating from fifth century BC restored and assembled piece-by-piece to be displayed in Valley of the TemplesA colossal statue of Atlas that lay buried for centuries among ancient ruins has been reconstructed to take its rightful place among the Greek temples of Agrigento in Sicily, after a 20-year research and restoration project.The statue, standing at eight metres (26ft) tall and dating back to the fifth century BC, was one of nearly 38 that adorned the Temple of Zeus, consid]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/long-buried-atlas-statue-raised-to-guard-temple-of-zeus-in-sicily-once-more/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:32:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/long-buried-atlas-statue-raised-to-guard-temple-of-zeus-in-sicily-once-more/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I get looks of disbelief’: the visionary women shaking up architecture worldwide]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why are talented women still so shunned by the profession? From an epic New Zealand railway to a mirrored Kyiv tower with a helipad, a new book celebrates the thrilling work of 100 groundbreakersIt is unusual for authors to announce that they can&rsquo;t wait for the day when their book is rendered obsolete. But then the researchers behind 100 Women: Architects in Practice hope that its title will ultimately sound as strange as a book about 100 left-handed architects, or 100 who happen to have g]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-get-looks-of-disbelief-the-visionary-women-shaking-up-architecture-worldwide/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-get-looks-of-disbelief-the-visionary-women-shaking-up-architecture-worldwide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Africa’s largest mosque inaugurated in Algeria after years of delays]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prayer room of Great Mosque of Algiers, beset by political wrangling and cost overruns, accommodates 120,000 peopleAlgeria has inaugurated a gigantic mosque on its Mediterranean coastline after years of political upheaval transformed the project from a symbol of state-sponsored strength and religiosity to one of delays and cost overruns.Built by a Chinese construction firm throughout the 2010s, the Great Mosque of Algiers features the world&rsquo;s tallest minaret, measuring 265 metres (869ft).]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/africas-largest-mosque-inaugurated-in-algeria-after-years-of-delays/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/africas-largest-mosque-inaugurated-in-algeria-after-years-of-delays/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Post-colonial party pads! The architects who got Ghana back in the groove]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the African country gained independence, its architecture exploded as the race to create a new identity began. We go behind the scenes at a show celebrating the builders of this fledgling nationDeep inside the workshops of the Victoria and Albert Museum, a specialist is painstakingly dabbing the back of a torn drawing with a cotton bud. After spending hours carefully removing strips of ageing sticky tape, she is delicately repairing the paper properly, to reveal a dashing modernist building]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/post-colonial-party-pads-the-architects-who-got-ghana-back-in-the-groove/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/post-colonial-party-pads-the-architects-who-got-ghana-back-in-the-groove/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s BT Tower is to be ‘repurposed’ – let’s just hope no one messes with its 60s perfection | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[The futuristic landmark is to become a hotel: fine. In charge of the project? A designer who likes to put his mark on thingsIn his 1994 movie London, a classic of poetical-geographical film-making, its director-writer Patrick Keiller speculates that the BT tower, that rises on the site that once contained a flat inhabited by Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, is a secret monument to the French poets&rsquo; love. This is one of many instances of this structure&rsquo;s ability to generate myths &nd]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/londons-bt-tower-is-to-be-repurposed-lets-just-hope-no-one-messes-with-its-60s-perfection-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2024 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/londons-bt-tower-is-to-be-repurposed-lets-just-hope-no-one-messes-with-its-60s-perfection-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Post Office Tower opens: ‘the 20th century Big Ben’ – archive, 9 Oct 1965]]></title><description><![CDATA[On 8 October 1965, prime minister Harold Wilson officially opened what was then Britain&rsquo;s tallest building BT Tower to become hotel as London landmark sold for &pound;275mThe tallest building in London &ndash; and in Britain &ndash; the 620ft Post Office Tower, off the Tottenham Court Road, was yesterday officially opened by the prime minister.It was, as Mr Wilson emphasised, an operational opening and to prove the point he picked up a white telephone receiver and spoke to the lord mayor o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-post-office-tower-opens-the-20th-century-big-ben-archive-9-oct-1965/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-post-office-tower-opens-the-20th-century-big-ben-archive-9-oct-1965/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BT Tower: a history of the London landmark – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Grade II-listed building, once the tallest structure in Britain and famous for its revolving restaurant, has been sold to a US hotel group for &pound;275mBT Tower to become hotel as London landmark soldShare your memories of the BT Tower Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bt-tower-a-history-of-the-london-landmark-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bt-tower-a-history-of-the-london-landmark-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Share your memories of the BT Tower]]></title><description><![CDATA[We want to hear people&rsquo;s memories of the BT Tower following the news that it will be converted into a hotel. Did you visit the restaurant or work there?The BT Tower is to be converted into an upmarket hotel. The telecom company has agreed to sell the building for &pound;275m to MCR hotels, a company which owns some of New York&rsquo;s most luxurious and well known hotels.BT Group said the deal with MCR Hotels would still preserve the Grade II-listed building for the future. Continue readin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/share-your-memories-of-the-bt-tower/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:28:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/share-your-memories-of-the-bt-tower/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the archive: Penthouses and poor doors: how Europe’s ‘biggest regeneration project’ fell flat – podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2021: Few places have seen such turbocharged luxury development as Nine Elms in London. So why are prices tumbling, investors melting away and promises turning to dust? By Oliver Wainwright Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-the-archive-penthouses-and-poor-doors-how-europes-biggest-regeneration-project-fell-flat-podcast/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-the-archive-penthouses-and-poor-doors-how-europes-biggest-regeneration-project-fell-flat-podcast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘You can change the view’: rotating house goes up for sale in New Zealand]]></title><description><![CDATA[Engineer Don Dunick took years to conceptualise and build &lsquo;the lighthouse&rsquo;, which can turn 360 degrees to offer views of the sea or native bushlandA house in New Zealand that can rotate continuously like a carousel has been listed for sale for the first time since its owner designed and built it 35 years ago.The building, nicknamed &lsquo;the lighthouse&rsquo;, perches on Auckland&rsquo;s coastal Maraetai hillside atop a two metre-wide cylindrical steel base and is believed to be the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/you-can-change-the-view-rotating-house-goes-up-for-sale-in-new-zealand/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/you-can-change-the-view-rotating-house-goes-up-for-sale-in-new-zealand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nifty shades of grey: the fashion college where students inject the colour]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is a love letter to the wonders of needlework, a multi-storey mill for the 21st century. Our writer enters an orange peel lobby and ascends some Harry Potter stairs at the new London College of FashionIt must be the ironing board with the best view in the capital. On the top floor of the new London College of Fashion, in a prime corner of the kind usually reserved for a boardroom, a student is busy pressing their garments in front of a rolling panorama of the Olympic Park and the towers of th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/nifty-shades-of-grey-the-fashion-college-where-students-inject-the-colour/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 17:19:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/nifty-shades-of-grey-the-fashion-college-where-students-inject-the-colour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is up the only way for Manchester?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tower blocks and skyscrapers are rising all over Manchester, hailed by some as signs of a thriving metropolis, slammed by others as out of all proportion to the character of the city. But there is a middle ground&hellip;On Oldham Road in Manchester there&rsquo;s a new 12-storey block of 144 flats to rent, called Poplin, designed by local 19-year-old practice Tim Groom Architects. It has character and presence, with vertical rhythms of brick pillars and horizontal concrete bands every other store]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/is-up-the-only-way-for-manchester/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/is-up-the-only-way-for-manchester/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LA ‘glass church’ designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son shuts amid landslide fears]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Wayfarers Chapel, designed by eldest son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, was completed in 1951 and hosted star weddingsThe Wayfarers Chapel, a glass-walled, mid-century marvel that sits beneath a canopy of redwoods in Los Angeles, has closed indefinitely due to &ldquo;accelerated land movement&rdquo; in the area.Known locally as the &ldquo;glass church&rdquo;, the building was designed by architect Lloyd Wright and designated a national historic landmark just two months ago. But the structu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/la-glass-church-designed-by-frank-lloyd-wrights-son-shuts-amid-landslide-fears/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/la-glass-church-designed-by-frank-lloyd-wrights-son-shuts-amid-landslide-fears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bryan Thomas obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My stepfather, Bryan Thomas, who has died aged 95, was an architect and designer who was responsible for the design of many houses in north-east Essex during his long career.Bryan&rsquo;s practice also designed schools, churches, community centres, a Quaker meeting room and buildings at Essex University. The largest of his churches stands in Alresford, Essex, where he also designed and built two &ldquo;upside-down&rdquo; houses in the 1970s. There, bedrooms on the ground floor and living rooms o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bryan-thomas-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:48:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bryan-thomas-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skyscrapers are wrong on so many levels]]></title><description><![CDATA[High-rise buildings | Brexit tackles | Evictions | Keir Starmer | Dear prudenceI hope Frank DM Wilson was joking in recommending the building of a 500-metre-high tower in Waterloo and the replacement of the current South Bank buildings on a similar scale (Letters, 13 February). I live further upstream on the Thames at&nbsp;Vauxhall, and the jumble of high&#8209;rises between here and Battersea is a solid reminder of how&nbsp;such developments are the very opposite of &ldquo;inspiring&rdquo; and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/skyscrapers-are-wrong-on-so-many-levels/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:06:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/skyscrapers-are-wrong-on-so-many-levels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build a 500-metre tower in London as a backdrop to ‘the Slab’ on the South Bank | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bringing Europe&rsquo;s tallest building back to London would be an inspiring and visionary project, says Frank DM Wilson, while Francis Bown says &lsquo;the Slab&rsquo; will further blight the cityscapeLondon&rsquo;s South Bank area is desperately in need of rejuvenation. While I agree with Simon Jenkins that the proposed &ldquo;pile of boxes&rdquo; is somewhat unimaginative, I disagree with his dislike of its size (Expensive and loathed, &lsquo;the Slab&rsquo; will be a terrible monument. It&r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/build-a-500-metre-tower-in-london-as-a-backdrop-to-the-slab-on-the-south-bank-letters/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 18:59:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/build-a-500-metre-tower-in-london-as-a-backdrop-to-the-slab-on-the-south-bank-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skylights? They’re from fighter jets! The anarchic architect who transformed Belgium]]></title><description><![CDATA[Derided by the architectural establishment, Marcel Raymaekers used salvaged materials from ships, planes and slaughterhouses &ndash; to create riotous buildings that made people rethink their livesShimmering skylights bulge from the pitched roof of a house in rural Belgium, like an army of slugs slithering up the terracotta tiles. It turns out that these bulbous glass cupolas once served as the cockpits of Lockheed fighter jets, but they&rsquo;re now bringing light into this astonishing, pyramid]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-skylights-theyre-from-fighter-jets-the-anarchic-architect-who-transformed-belgium/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-skylights-theyre-from-fighter-jets-the-anarchic-architect-who-transformed-belgium/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art deco density: what we learned from Australia’s first apartment boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Originally demonised, early 20th-century apartments in Australia&rsquo;s capitals are now considered heritage treasuresSign up for a weekly email featuring our best readsAlmost 100 years ago Sydney was in dire peril from &ldquo;the ravages of barbarians&rdquo; &ndash; or so the newspaper reports would have had you believe.The perceived danger was one that echoes the current debate raging over density, as Australia&rsquo;s capital cities struggle to reconcile competing demands for affordable hous]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/art-deco-density-what-we-learned-from-australias-first-apartment-boom/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2024 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/art-deco-density-what-we-learned-from-australias-first-apartment-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Churches must diversify and adapt to stop the rot | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Readers respond to an editorial on crumbling churches and reveal how they can better serve communities todayYour editorial (2 February) was right to highlight the importance of using churches as&nbsp;&ldquo;local anchor institutions&rdquo; and&nbsp;to praise the National Churches Trust report calling for an expansion of the secular uses of church buildings.In Droxford, a small Hampshire village, we have rescued our Grade I Norman church from the brink of ruin to become a thriving community hub.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/churches-must-diversify-and-adapt-to-stop-the-rot-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/churches-must-diversify-and-adapt-to-stop-the-rot-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We always dreamed of building our own house – so we did’]]></title><description><![CDATA[How architect duo Surman Weston created a striking family home &ndash; complete with a greenhouse on the roofA striking red-brick cube stands on a backstreet corner in Peckham, south London, its walls appearing to dissolve as they rise towards the top, where trailing plants spill through the brickwork, their dangling foliage giving it&nbsp;the&nbsp;air of an overgrown ruin.Part monolithic block, part gossamer screen, this&nbsp;arresting house is the work of Surman Weston, a&nbsp;pair of young ar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-always-dreamed-of-building-our-own-house-so-we-did/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-always-dreamed-of-building-our-own-house-so-we-did/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cultural manifesto to breathe new life into our dying high streets | Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flexible auditoriums and art displays from museums could help to revive urban community spaces, says Peter HigginsEs Devlin&rsquo;s provocation opens a fascinating debate on large, empty retail sites (&lsquo;Engage their curiosity&rsquo;: immersive art can boost UK high streets, says artist, 28 January) . The deal breaker is, of course, about a funding model: the financial imperative of landlords and managing agents, and the demise of local authority support are critical blockages. We need to in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-cultural-manifesto-to-breathe-new-life-into-our-dying-high-streets-letter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-cultural-manifesto-to-breathe-new-life-into-our-dying-high-streets-letter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expensive and loathed, ‘the Slab’ will be a terrible monument. It’s being called Gove Towers and he deserves it | Simon Jenkins]]></title><description><![CDATA[The London megabuilding given the go-ahead this week is a giant symbol of profit over communityThe Slab is to rise after all. What is clearly intended as the most prominent office block in central London will dominate the bend in the River Thames directly opposite Somerset House and the Temple. Two glass and concrete slabs, one rising 20 storeys, will replace the London Studios tower between the National Theatre and the Oxo Tower. They will form the fulcrum of every view between St Paul&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/expensive-and-loathed-the-slab-will-be-a-terrible-monument-its-being-called-gove-towers-and-he-deserves-it-simon-jenkins/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/expensive-and-loathed-the-slab-will-be-a-terrible-monument-its-being-called-gove-towers-and-he-deserves-it-simon-jenkins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baroque’s off: my mission to seek out Vienna’s modernist masterpieces]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vienna&rsquo;s art nouveau movement inspired buildings &ndash; from villas to underground stations &ndash; that should receive as many plaudits as its imperial palacesThe 20th century was unkind to Vienna. The capital of the Habsburg empire until 1918, it was, by early 1989, a bleak and battered outpost within touching distance of the iron curtain. Now that the city has undeniably recaptured its glory of old (symbolically, its population grew to two million last year, its pre-first world war imp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/baroques-off-my-mission-to-seek-out-viennas-modernist-masterpieces/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/baroques-off-my-mission-to-seek-out-viennas-modernist-masterpieces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Gove approves ‘derided’ £400m development on London’s South Bank]]></title><description><![CDATA[Office complex nicknamed the Slab given go-ahead despite fierce opposition from green and modernist architecture campaigners A &pound;400m office complex nicknamed &ldquo;the Slab&rdquo; has been given the go-ahead to replace ITV&rsquo;s former headquarters on London&rsquo;s South Bank despite fierce opposition from green campaigners and modernist architecture fans.Opponents said the proposals ofthe 72 Upper Ground scheme would generate more carbon emissions in its construction than if the 4,000]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/michael-gove-approves-derided-400m-development-on-londons-south-bank/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 21:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/michael-gove-approves-derided-400m-development-on-londons-south-bank/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attacked by an ice-cream scoop? The story of London’s ‘gouged’ building]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a rare instance of love-thy-neighbour design, a new building enables people to enjoy the view of a nearby church window. No wonder it&rsquo;s been stopping passersby in their tracksLurking down a side street, in the tangled maze of lanes and railway viaducts south of the River Thames, stands one of the strangest new sights in the capital. Look up on the corner of Union Street and O&rsquo;Meara Street, and you will see a white brick building with a great furrow gouged out of its facade, as if]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/attacked-by-an-ice-cream-scoop-the-story-of-londons-gouged-building/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 15:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/attacked-by-an-ice-cream-scoop-the-story-of-londons-gouged-building/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Everything beautiful has been destroyed’: Palestinians mourn a city in tatters]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 200 buildings of cultural and historical significance have been reduced to rubble in Gaza, including mosques, cemeteries and museumsIts walls collapsed and its minaret cut short, Gaza&rsquo;s Omari mosque remains standing but vastly diminished. Around it, the historic old city is also in tatters. The 7th-century mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Gaza, was Gaza&rsquo;s most famous and its surroundings a focal point of the Palestinian enclave&rsquo;s history and culture, but the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/everything-beautiful-has-been-destroyed-palestinians-mourn-a-city-in-tatters/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2024 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/everything-beautiful-has-been-destroyed-palestinians-mourn-a-city-in-tatters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Time caught up with his visions’: Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s New Zealand legacy]]></title><description><![CDATA[A series of unfortunate events led to muted coverage of the architect&rsquo;s eye-opening gallery in regional New Zealand. But 24 years after his death, Hundertwasser&rsquo;s work is more prescient than everFrom a distance, the building looks like a toddler&rsquo;s birthday cake: bright, clashing colours crowned by a golden cupola that sparkles in the sun. Up close, its curvaceous form, detailed tile work and joyful colour choices are instantly recognisable as the work of the late Friedensreich]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/time-caught-up-with-his-visions-friedensreich-hundertwassers-new-zealand-legacy/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/time-caught-up-with-his-visions-friedensreich-hundertwassers-new-zealand-legacy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovingly reconstructed miniatures of Tokyo houses – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Swedish artist Christopher Robin Nordstr&ouml;m had wanted to visit Tokyo since he was a child and, when he finally went in 2018, he loved it. &ldquo;If you like Star Wars and Blade Runner, Tokyo is as close as you get,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;but I was really struck by how small the city felt, especially the houses with not more than 40 sq metres of living space.&rdquo; At the time he was looking for a &ldquo;kitchen-table hobby&rdquo;. So he decided to recreate Tokyo&rsquo;s houses in intri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lovingly-reconstructed-miniatures-of-tokyo-houses-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lovingly-reconstructed-miniatures-of-tokyo-houses-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on crumbling churches: a social vocation can save them for the nation | Editorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[A vital part of Britain&rsquo;s architectural heritage is at risk. But the future need not be one of terminal declineIn The Voices of Morebath, a groundbreaking study of the life of a 16th-century West Country parish, the eminent historian Prof Eamon Duffy vividly evokes the fundraising &ldquo;ales&rdquo; which helped pay for building upkeep in churches across the country.Home-brewed beer and music from travelling minstrels were frequently on offer at these raucous occasions, which were &ldquo;a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-crumbling-churches-a-social-vocation-can-save-them-for-the-nation-editorial/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-crumbling-churches-a-social-vocation-can-save-them-for-the-nation-editorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I’m devastated it’s closing’: London shoppers say farewell to Fenwick]]></title><description><![CDATA[Department store on New Bond Street, which opened in 1890s, closes its doors this weekendMore than 130 years after it opened, the London flagship Fenwick department store will close its doors for the last time on Saturday.The four-storey shop in New Bond Street, Mayfair, is shutting after the retailer &ndash; which is owned by more than 40 descendants of John James Fenwick, who founded the company with a single store in Newcastle in 1882 &ndash; sold the property to developers for &pound;430m. C]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/im-devastated-its-closing-london-shoppers-say-farewell-to-fenwick/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 12:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/im-devastated-its-closing-london-shoppers-say-farewell-to-fenwick/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ‘vertical community’: Le Corbusier’s project at Marseille – archive, 2 Feb 1949]]></title><description><![CDATA[2 February 1949: Cit&eacute; Radieuse will be more like a town than an apartment building, says the Swiss-French architectIn France today, Le Corbusier, professionally speaking, is having the time of his life. His new housing project at Marseille has probably aroused more determined opposition than anything he has built, or tried to build before. He is not the man to shrink from public controversy, nor has he conceived his latest and, in some ways, his most daring designs in order to allay his c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-vertical-community-le-corbusiers-project-at-marseille-archive-2-feb-1949/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 06:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-vertical-community-le-corbusiers-project-at-marseille-archive-2-feb-1949/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home truths: TV’s Kevin McCloud thinks Australia should stop building such big houses]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Grand Designs presenter on how the yimby mantra and infill development can solve the housing shortageKevin McCloud has a message for Australians &ndash; stop building such big houses.The nation&rsquo;s love affair with large homes &ndash; especially unimaginative McMansions that defy their environmental surroundings &ndash; means size is coming at the expense of exciting architecture, affordable and well-built housing supply, and ultimately the liveability of our cities, the British host of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/home-truths-tvs-kevin-mccloud-thinks-australia-should-stop-building-such-big-houses/</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/home-truths-tvs-kevin-mccloud-thinks-australia-should-stop-building-such-big-houses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The £20m renovation of Rochdale town hall – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rochdale town hall in Greater Manchester will open to the public on Sunday 3 March after a four-year renovation project. Some of the most dramatic changes were in the Great Hall, where specialists painstakingly restored the 350 panels that cover the room&rsquo;s hammerbeam ceiling Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-20m-renovation-of-rochdale-town-hall-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-20m-renovation-of-rochdale-town-hall-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We just held hands and jumped!’ How one of Britain’s happiest, healthiest communes was built]]></title><description><![CDATA[It took 13 years of dreaming, peril and hard graft before the first residents moved into Cannock Mill &ndash; an eco-village that tackles both the climate crisis and loneliness&lsquo;Look at this &ndash; can you see what it is?&rdquo; The architect Anne Thorne is showing me around Cannock Mill, the eco-village on the outskirts of Colchester, Essex, that she designed in collaboration with a group of her friends who had grown tired of London life. We are standing behind a terrace of terracotta and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-just-held-hands-and-jumped-how-one-of-britains-happiest-healthiest-communes-was-built/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-just-held-hands-and-jumped-how-one-of-britains-happiest-healthiest-communes-was-built/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex scenes and feasibility studies: architect and racy novelist Lesley Lokko wins RIBA gold medal]]></title><description><![CDATA[The unstoppable Ghanaian Scot, who shook up the Venice Biennale with a focus on the scars of postcolonial Africa, has now made history by winning architecture&rsquo;s prestigious award Among the names of mostly white men and a few women that have been carved into the marble walls of the Royal Institute of British Architects since 1848, this year will see a first. Lesley Lokko, a Ghanaian-Scottish architect and academic, has been announced as the winner of RIBA&rsquo;s gold medal, becoming the fi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sex-scenes-and-feasibility-studies-architect-and-racy-novelist-lesley-lokko-wins-riba-gold-medal/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 01:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sex-scenes-and-feasibility-studies-architect-and-racy-novelist-lesley-lokko-wins-riba-gold-medal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at this beautiful Japanese toilet and tell me – why is Britain so useless at public loos? | Alberte Lauridsen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our once vast network of civic lavatories has been abandoned or sold, leaving gaping holes in basic sanitary provisionAlberte Lauridsen is an architect and co-founder of the feminist architecture practice EditAs an architect, I often attend community consultation meetings to hear what members of the public feel that their neighbourhoods lack. One frustration is always bitterly clear: why are there no public toilets any more?There are few issues more emblematic of the deterioration of civic infra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/look-at-this-beautiful-japanese-toilet-and-tell-me-why-is-britain-so-useless-at-public-loos-alberte-lauridsen/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/look-at-this-beautiful-japanese-toilet-and-tell-me-why-is-britain-so-useless-at-public-loos-alberte-lauridsen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain’s 45 remaining cooling towers are architectural gems. Let’s save them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cooling towers are some of the most majestic structures in Britain &ndash; form and function in perfect harmony &ndash; yet exempt from listed status. Even as they become redundant, those that remain deserve to be preserved as much as any church or castleConsider cooling towers. They are monuments of industry, built at the size (and more) of pyramids and cathedrals, graceful in their geometry, the perfect marriage of form and function, that come not alone but in concrete choirs of up to 12 in nu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/britains-45-remaining-cooling-towers-are-architectural-gems-lets-save-them/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/britains-45-remaining-cooling-towers-are-architectural-gems-lets-save-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Parthenon of Macedonia’: site where Alexander the Great was proclaimed king reopens]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thousands flock to see the Palace of Aigai, the largest surviving classical Greek building, after 16-year reconstruction completedFor 2,170 years it had lain in ruins: a palace that symbolised the golden age of antiquity, three times bigger than the Parthenon, unprecedented in architectural ambition, unparalleled in beauty.It was here in 336BC that the king of ancient Macedonia, Philip II, was murdered; and here in the great peristyle &ndash; or columned courtyard &ndash; around which its banque]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/parthenon-of-macedonia-site-where-alexander-the-great-was-proclaimed-king-reopens/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:26:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/parthenon-of-macedonia-site-where-alexander-the-great-was-proclaimed-king-reopens/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasons for the housing crisis go beyond the green belt | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Readers respond to the building design tsar&rsquo;s comments on housebuilding In arguing for more building on land within green belts, Nicholas Boys Smith seems not to appreciate their actual purpose (England&rsquo;s green belt can&rsquo;t stay entirely untouched for ever, building design tsar says, 2 January). He fails to recognise that green belts are there to prevent most new development as a matter of principle, irrespective of its design quality.Green belts were not established to protect a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-reasons-for-the-housing-crisis-go-beyond-the-green-belt-letters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 18:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-reasons-for-the-housing-crisis-go-beyond-the-green-belt-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hadn’t skied for 10 years. Could a trip to the French Alps reignite my enthusiasm?]]></title><description><![CDATA[As well as a good selection of gentle pistes, the modernist resort of Flaine offers an education in architecture, art and sustainabilityWhen it comes to organising ski trips, finding the &ldquo;happy intermediate&rdquo; level can be tricky. Friends will say things like, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s fine, I&rsquo;ll ski blues&rdquo;, then lead you down a steep red, leaving you broken and weeping before elevenses.I&rsquo;ll sometimes push myself down tough slopes, but I&rsquo;m just as happy cruising serpent]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-hadnt-skied-for-10-years-could-a-trip-to-the-french-alps-reignite-my-enthusiasm/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-hadnt-skied-for-10-years-could-a-trip-to-the-french-alps-reignite-my-enthusiasm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look back in wonder: an infrared journey around Victoria – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Photographer Sean Paris has used his camera to capture the essence of rural Victoria: country towns full of quirky architecture and garish holiday attractions; wheat silos standing sentry on wide open roads; and motor inns that hark back to the halcyon days of the family road trip. Using a converted DSLR camera to capture the 590 nanometers spectrum that embraces visible and infrared light, Paris explores the cultural and social features we so often take for granted. The camera&rsquo;s modificat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/look-back-in-wonder-an-infrared-journey-around-victoria-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2024 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/look-back-in-wonder-an-infrared-journey-around-victoria-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm memories of Jim Bennett, whose work on Christopher Wren inspired many | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prof Anthony Geraghty and Jenny Woodhouse salute the work and the kindness of the historian and museum curatorJim Bennett (Obituary, 19 December) made a deep and enduring contribution to the study of Sir Christopher Wren. Wren was an astronomer of international repute before he became the architect of St Paul&rsquo;s Cathedral, and it was Bennett who first demonstrated the&nbsp;essential&nbsp;unity of these things.In his PhD thesis, and then in his subsequent book The Mathematical Science of Chr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/warm-memories-of-jim-bennett-whose-work-on-christopher-wren-inspired-many-letters/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2024 19:04:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/warm-memories-of-jim-bennett-whose-work-on-christopher-wren-inspired-many-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics are driving the city’s green revolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Next year&rsquo;s Paris Olympics aim to be most sustainable ever. But can the plans to be pro-pedestrian, pro-bike, pro-tree and anti-car succeed?Every four years, when the summer Olympics and Paralympics come round, a parade of architectural baubles &ndash; stadiums, velodromes, symbolic whatnots such as London 2012&rsquo;s ArcelorMittal Orbit &ndash; is offered to the more or less fascinated gaze of the world. Each time, the question of legacy arises. What use will these structures have when t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/how-the-paris-2024-summer-olympics-are-driving-the-citys-green-revolution/</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/how-the-paris-2024-summer-olympics-are-driving-the-citys-green-revolution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US buildings kill up to a billion birds a year. These architects want to save them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Highly transparent glass can lead to devastating collisions. But innovations in design are creating safer skylines &ndash; without sacrificing beautyChicago&rsquo;s 82-story Aqua Tower appears to flutter with the wind. Its unusual, undulating facade has made it one of the most unique features of Chicago&rsquo;s skyline, distinct from the many right-angled glass towers that surround it.In designing it, the architect Jeanne Gang thought not only about how humans would see it, dancing against the s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/us-buildings-kill-up-to-a-billion-birds-a-year-these-architects-want-to-save-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/us-buildings-kill-up-to-a-billion-birds-a-year-these-architects-want-to-save-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buildings kill a billion US birds a year. These architects want to save them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Highly transparent glass can lead to devastating collisions. But innovations in design are creating safer skylines &ndash; without sacrificing beautyChicago&rsquo;s 82-story Aqua Tower appears to flutter with the wind. Its unusual, undulating facade has made it one of the most unique features of Chicago&rsquo;s skyline, distinct from the many right-angled glass towers that surround it.In designing it, the architect Jeanne Gang thought not only about how humans would see it, dancing against the s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/buildings-kill-a-billion-us-birds-a-year-these-architects-want-to-save-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/buildings-kill-a-billion-us-birds-a-year-these-architects-want-to-save-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain’s roofs can be a huge resource for solar energy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thousands of hectares of rooftops could be converted to help country achieve climate goalsRoofs occupy an enormous amount of surface area in our cities and yet only a small fraction of this space is used for solar panels &ndash; and even less for green roofs, despite the obvious benefits.When designed primarily to shelter buildings from the rain, wind and sun, roofs may not always be easy to adapt for greener uses &ndash; but many can. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/britains-roofs-can-be-a-huge-resource-for-solar-energy/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/britains-roofs-can-be-a-huge-resource-for-solar-energy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Leonard obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend Peter Leonard, who has died aged 69 of cancer, was a designer of both visionary and traditional sensibilities. He enjoyed huge success with his company Peter Leonard Associates (now Peter Leonard and Company) from 1980 onwards, working from a studio on Poland Street, Soho, in central London. Overseeing his team of 30, he created vibrant interior and product designs for residential and commercial clients.Peter&rsquo;s ethos was catholic in its approach, encompassing interiors and archit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/peter-leonard-obituary/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:33:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/peter-leonard-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sidcup library and cinema review – William Morris meets the multiplex]]></title><description><![CDATA[With notes of art deco and Arts and Crafts, Sidcup&rsquo;s vibrant new library and cinema, designed by classy minimalists DRDH, brings new energy to a suburban high street against considerable oddsSidcup is an outer London suburb of the kind that grew up between the two world wars, as part of a rapid expansion of the capital that saw it double in area. Its buildings had a bit of front &ndash; a store and apartment block with a giant order of shallow Ionic pilasters; a now-lost art deco cinema: e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sidcup-library-and-cinema-review-william-morris-meets-the-multiplex/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sidcup-library-and-cinema-review-william-morris-meets-the-multiplex/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restoration expert broke planning laws with work to his Cotswolds farmhouse]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Evetts convicted after admitting to carrying out unauthorised work at Grade II-listed propertyFor more than 40 years he has helped return some of Britain&rsquo;s most extraordinary buildings to their former glory and is celebrated for his sensitivity and attention to detail.But a key adviser to the restoration charity the Landmark Trust has been convicted of breaching planning laws by carrying out unauthorised work on his own property, an 18th-century farmhouse in the Cotswolds. Continue re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/restoration-expert-broke-planning-laws-with-work-to-his-cotswolds-farmhouse/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/restoration-expert-broke-planning-laws-with-work-to-his-cotswolds-farmhouse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drive-by culture: monuments you can see by road, rail or water]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Welsh castles to an unearthly Soviet monument in Bulgaria, these beautiful sites can be viewed on your travels for freeStonehenge campaigners&rsquo; last-chance bid to save site from road tunnelCampaigners will come together in the high court on Tuesday in a bid to thwart the government&rsquo;s plan to build a two-mile road tunnel close to the great circle of Stonehenge.If the bid is unsuccessful, the stones will no longer be visible from the road. Here are some sites you can still see on y]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/drive-by-culture-monuments-you-can-see-by-road-rail-or-water/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2023 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/drive-by-culture-monuments-you-can-see-by-road-rail-or-water/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal on the joy of reusing buildings rather than knocking them down]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French architect duo, winners of the 2023 Soane medal, whose work has ranged from straw huts to social housing, talk about the freedom of working with what&rsquo;s already there &ndash; and how to step back from perfectionThe French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are famous for their belief in keeping existing buildings whenever possible, no matter how unpromising or unloved they may be. They follow, in effect, an architectural version of the Hippocratic oath &ndash; first,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architects-anne-lacaton-and-jean-philippe-vassal-on-the-joy-of-reusing-buildings-rather-than-knocking-them-down/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architects-anne-lacaton-and-jean-philippe-vassal-on-the-joy-of-reusing-buildings-rather-than-knocking-them-down/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fixing leaning tower of Bologna will take at least 10 years and €20m, says mayor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Matteo Lepore compares project to save 12th century Garisenda tower from collapse to 10-year effort to preserve the tower of PisaWork to prevent the collapse of a leaning medieval tower in the heart of the northern Italian city of Bologna will cost &euro;20m ($21.5m) and take 10 years at least, its mayor has said.Last weekend, the city unveiled a &euro;4.3m (&pound;3.7m) project to shore up the Garisenda tower &ndash; one of the city&rsquo;s two towers that look out over central Bologna, providi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/fixing-leaning-tower-of-bologna-will-take-at-least-10-years-and-20m-says-mayor/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 06:27:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/fixing-leaning-tower-of-bologna-will-take-at-least-10-years-and-20m-says-mayor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obelisk celebrating pioneering Lady Mary Wortley Montagu given highest listing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aristocrat introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, saving many lives, yet remains largely unknownIt is a monument that celebrates the achievements of someone who would, her supporters say, be far better known if she had been a man.But now a 300-year-old obelisk is being given one of England&rsquo;s highest listings because of the remarkable story it tells of an overlooked medical pioneer. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/obelisk-celebrating-pioneering-lady-mary-wortley-montagu-given-highest-listing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/obelisk-celebrating-pioneering-lady-mary-wortley-montagu-given-highest-listing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obelisk celebrating pioneering Lady Mary Wortley Montagu given higher listing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aristocrat introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, saving many lives, yet remains largely unknownIt is a monument that celebrates the achievements of someone who would, her supporters say, be far better known if she had been a man.But now a 300-year-old obelisk is being given one of England&rsquo;s highest listings because of the remarkable story it tells of an overlooked medical pioneer. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/obelisk-celebrating-pioneering-lady-mary-wortley-montagu-given-higher-listing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/obelisk-celebrating-pioneering-lady-mary-wortley-montagu-given-higher-listing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a 100-mile city to a desert ski resort: why is Saudi Arabia spending billions on architectural ‘gigaprojects’?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Saudi crown prince is creating wildly ambitious projects masterminded by renowned architects, curators and designers. The upshot is either progressive modernisation or image-laundering, depending who you ask&ldquo;We think we can help change the situation here,&rdquo; says Iwona Blazwick, who for 21 years was director of the Whitechapel art gallery in London, &ldquo;particularly for women.&rdquo; She&rsquo;s wearing, like many westerners working in Saudi Arabia, a stylish version of the abay]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-a-100-mile-city-to-a-desert-ski-resort-why-is-saudi-arabia-spending-billions-on-architectural-gigaprojects/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-a-100-mile-city-to-a-desert-ski-resort-why-is-saudi-arabia-spending-billions-on-architectural-gigaprojects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaning tower in Bologna to be saved as city announces €4m repair project]]></title><description><![CDATA[Work to be carried out on Garisenda tower in new year after area around it was cordoned off due to collapse fearsOfficials have announced plans to repair one of two 12th-century towers in the Italian city of Bologna after the area around it had to secured last month over fears its leaning could lead to collapse.The city said the &euro;4.3m (&pound;3.7m) project to shore up the Garisenda tower &ndash; one of the Two Towers that look out over central Bologna, providing inspiration over the centuri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/leaning-tower-in-bologna-to-be-saved-as-city-announces-4m-repair-project/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 16:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/leaning-tower-in-bologna-to-be-saved-as-city-announces-4m-repair-project/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don’t go to the movies for a history lesson, but shouldn’t Napoleon at least be entertaining? | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[You don&rsquo;t go to this Bonaparte biopic for a history lesson or authentic settings &ndash; but shouldn&rsquo;t it at least be entertaining?To the laments of military historians about the accuracy of Ridley Scott&rsquo;s film Napoleon, one could add some about the architecture. Christopher Wren&rsquo;s Royal Naval College in Greenwich gets digitally spliced with classical architecture from France and Malta, so they all look as if they are in the same place, while Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshir]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-dont-go-to-the-movies-for-a-history-lesson-but-shouldnt-napoleon-at-least-be-entertaining-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-dont-go-to-the-movies-for-a-history-lesson-but-shouldnt-napoleon-at-least-be-entertaining-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Panos: Gothic Revival review – a restless walk on the dark side of … Northampton?]]></title><description><![CDATA[NN Contemporary Art, Northampton<br />
Panos&rsquo;s intoxicating film explores the spooky side of the Midlands town through a spectral montage of choirs, architecture and pub bands playing Bauhaus songs<br />
The gothic is an unkillable vampire. The pointy, buttressed architectural style of great medieval cathedrals was named after the Ostrogoths and Visigoths, ancient Germanic peoples who migrated into the Roman empire. That style in turn was revived in the 18th century: the aesthete Horace Walpole built]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/david-panos-gothic-revival-review-a-restless-walk-on-the-dark-side-of-northampton/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:31:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/david-panos-gothic-revival-review-a-restless-walk-on-the-dark-side-of-northampton/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on working-class heritage: smokehouses, smithies and so much more | Editorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[History is not just about castles and palaces. Welcome changes in priorities are ramping up the value placed on an industrial pastThe sight of smoke billowing from the roof of a listed building would usually bring fire engines blue-lighting in from miles around, but in the Northumberland village of Craster it is a sign of business as usual. Four generations of the Robson family have smoked kippers in a lowly stone building that was given a Grade II listing last week.The listing is a tribute to a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-working-class-heritage-smokehouses-smithies-and-so-much-more-editorial/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-working-class-heritage-smokehouses-smithies-and-so-much-more-editorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Spanish mission extravaganzas to art deco curves: other people’s homes – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sandy Weir&rsquo;s delightful Instagram account, full of architectural treasures combined with cheeky captions, has been turned into a new book. With styles ranging across mid-century, art deco and the occasional turret, Other People&rsquo;s Homes offers us a new perspective on houses that you could simply walk past without taking a second look. It will be available from 28 NovemberFrom a 30sqm house to a slice of urban parkland: Australia&rsquo;s most sustainable homes of 2023 &ndash; in pictur]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-spanish-mission-extravaganzas-to-art-deco-curves-other-peoples-homes-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-spanish-mission-extravaganzas-to-art-deco-curves-other-peoples-homes-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell us: do you live in an unusual or untypical home?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We would like to hear from people who have found an alternative way to liveDo you live in an unusual or untypical home? It could be a converted church or office space, a self-build or a home bought as part of the &pound;1 schemes. Maybe you are living in an eco lodge or in another sustainable community? Perhaps you knew nothing about building before you built your own home. Or you took a risk and bought a property at auction?With the housing crisis making traditional housing options unaffordable]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tell-us-do-you-live-in-an-unusual-or-untypical-home/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 10:53:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tell-us-do-you-live-in-an-unusual-or-untypical-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wick Park; Thames Christian school and Battersea Chapel review – heft and high ideals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hackney Wick; Clapham Junction, London<br />
London practice Henley Halebrown&rsquo;s bold new student housing and calm, airy secondary school and chapel typify its belief in making every detail sing &ndash; a battle it sometimes doesn&rsquo;t winThere was a time when an architectural idea could run through a building like letters through a stick of rock, when everything from a door handle to a city block would express the same intent. What a building looked like, the way it was made, its plan and for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/wick-park-thames-christian-school-and-battersea-chapel-review-heft-and-high-ideals/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/wick-park-thames-christian-school-and-battersea-chapel-review-heft-and-high-ideals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain can put up acres of shoddy new-builds – or homes fit for the future. We do have a choice | Astrid Smitham]]></title><description><![CDATA[Labour&rsquo;s plan for 1.5m new homes is a chance to raise the bar for all, but it must be focused on real social and climate needsAstrid Smitham is an architect and lecturerWe are in the midst of a desperate housing emergency, so Keir Starmer is right to make delivering 1.5m homes central to Labour&rsquo;s goals. But to truly solve the crisis, building more homes like the ones we are typically putting up now will not do. As long as so many of the basics of new housing are failing, focusing on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/britain-can-put-up-acres-of-shoddy-new-builds-or-homes-fit-for-the-future-we-do-have-a-choice-astrid-smitham/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/britain-can-put-up-acres-of-shoddy-new-builds-or-homes-fit-for-the-future-we-do-have-a-choice-astrid-smitham/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experts warned government of tower block collapse risk last year, leak reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whitehall officials were told that at-risk buildings have not been remediated, with the market &lsquo;prioritising profit over safety&rsquo;Government safety experts last year warned that many tower blocks built from concrete panels that may pose a collapse risk have not been fixed, leaked documents reveal.Minutes of the government&rsquo;s structural stability working group revealed that experts warned Whitehall officials in 2022 that &ldquo;buildings which were supposed to have undergone remedi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/experts-warned-government-of-tower-block-collapse-risk-last-year-leak-reveals/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/experts-warned-government-of-tower-block-collapse-risk-last-year-leak-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ian Leith obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend and former colleague Ian Leith, who has died aged 75, was a long-serving acquisitions officer with the Historic England Archive. Ian&rsquo;s knowledge of the archive&rsquo;s collections, many of which he was responsible for acquiring over a career spanning 47 years, was exceptional.Researchers interested in unearthing little-known treasures in uncatalogued collections knew to contact Ian, who had extraordinary powers of recall. He is acknowledged in many books produced over the last 40]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ian-leith-obituary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:21:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ian-leith-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It was a case study for what not to do’: the regeneration project that became a £100m luxury ghost town]]></title><description><![CDATA[The plan was to take old railway arches in a run-down area of east London and turn them into a high-end fashion hub. Instead, Hackney Walk ended up deserted. What went so disastrously wrong?When Alvin Owusu-Fordwuo was growing up in central Hackney in east London, the small businesses that operated under the arches on Morning Lane blended into the background. As a kid he had little need for discount office furniture or the free &ldquo;crypton tune&rdquo; that came with a service at one of the ca]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-was-a-case-study-for-what-not-to-do-the-regeneration-project-that-became-a-100m-luxury-ghost-town/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-was-a-case-study-for-what-not-to-do-the-regeneration-project-that-became-a-100m-luxury-ghost-town/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Georg Baselitz’s erotic prints and the world’s best photography portraits – the week in art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plus, Peter Blake talks AI in art, a dynamic look for hospital architecture and a 450-year-old look at the birth of our galaxy &ndash; all in your weekly dispatchGeorg Baselitz: Belle Haleine<br />
Witty, provocative and accomplished erotica by the great German artist.<br />
&bull; Cristea Roberts, London, until 22 December Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/georg-baselitzs-erotic-prints-and-the-worlds-best-photography-portraits-the-week-in-art/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/georg-baselitzs-erotic-prints-and-the-worlds-best-photography-portraits-the-week-in-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great orange oasis: inside Liverpool’s floating mental health centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forget dreary hospital wings with long windowless corridors. Alder Hey&rsquo;s new light-filled outpost for young patients has a virtual ocean, a giant xylophone and a US-style diner that&rsquo;s straight out of the 50sA chubby bronze bird perches on the roof of a bright orange building at the Alder Hey children&rsquo;s hospital, craning its neck to keep tabs on all who enter. On a bench nearby, a smaller bird looks up, its wings tentatively spread, as though plucking up the courage to join its]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-great-orange-oasis-inside-liverpools-floating-mental-health-centre/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-great-orange-oasis-inside-liverpools-floating-mental-health-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pyramid of Tirana review – from tyrant’s monument to joyful symbol of modern Albania]]></title><description><![CDATA[A rundown brutalist symbol of Tirana&rsquo;s communist legacy has been transformed by the architects of London&rsquo;s disastrous Marble Arch Mound into a fun multispace venue that&rsquo;s irreverent and liberatingSometimes, symbols are simple. A vainglorious monument is built to commemorate a dictator, an opulent extravagance in a country where bread is rationed, whose people can barely eat. The regime is then overthrown, and after considerable struggles democracy is established. Citizens feel]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pyramid-of-tirana-review-from-tyrants-monument-to-joyful-symbol-of-modern-albania/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pyramid-of-tirana-review-from-tyrants-monument-to-joyful-symbol-of-modern-albania/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clutter-free images to calm the mind – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[For nearly a decade, the photographer Marcus Cederberg has been on the lookout for interesting details in the buildings around him: geometric shapes, striking windows, vibrant colour palettes. &lsquo;Sometimes, it frustrates my family and friends when I suddenly stop the car and run out to take a shot,&rsquo; he says. In the editing room, he singles out these details to create dreamlike, minimalist images depicting his native Sweden as well as his travels in places such as Dubai, Spain, the US a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/clutter-free-images-to-calm-the-mind-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2023 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/clutter-free-images-to-calm-the-mind-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why are Liverpool Street station plans still shrouded in a fog of ‘confidentiality’? | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Developers claim it&rsquo;s necessary to perch a 16-storey office block on the listed building to pay for a bigger ticket hall belowThe controversial plans to rebuild much of Liverpool Street station depend on one crucial argument &ndash; that they are the only way to significantly improve the experience of using the terminus. In order to reduce crowding on escalators and at ticket barriers, says the consortium that wants to develop it, its cathedral-scaled concourse has to be demolished and rep]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/why-are-liverpool-street-station-plans-still-shrouded-in-a-fog-of-confidentiality-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2023 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/why-are-liverpool-street-station-plans-still-shrouded-in-a-fog-of-confidentiality-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London financial district to have 11 more towers by 2030]]></title><description><![CDATA[Number of planning applications received and decided has risen 25%Demand for office space continues to rise in the City of London despite the shift to hybrid working, with a mock-up revealing how the capital&rsquo;s financial district will look in 2030 with 11 extra towers due to be built.The image shows all major developments that have been approved or resolved to be approved over the past year, a period in which the number of planning applications received and decided has risen 25% compared wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/london-financial-district-to-have-11-more-towers-by-2030/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:54:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/london-financial-district-to-have-11-more-towers-by-2030/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live better, live longer: the retirement home that’s more like an alpine spa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Built to be the opposite of a retreat, this radical, open-plan social housing for over-65s boasts film nights, yoga sessions &ndash; and plenty of perfect corners for a bottle or two of wine If you hadn&rsquo;t walked in from a stretch of bustling city life, you&rsquo;d be forgiven for thinking you were in an Alpine spa hotel. Water runs along a channel beside a lush bed of ferns in a sunny courtyard, before tinkling into a shallow pool beneath the dappled shade of mature ginkgo trees. On timber]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/live-better-live-longer-the-retirement-home-thats-more-like-an-alpine-spa/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/live-better-live-longer-the-retirement-home-thats-more-like-an-alpine-spa/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rockhampton museum and a small Sydney home among winners in Australia’s top architecture awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Australian Institute of Architects&rsquo; 2023 awards took a turn to sustainable designs that make the most of inner-city infrastructure and the environmentGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailMuseums, concert halls, modern farmhouses and inner-city homes that maximise space are among Australia&rsquo;s latest buildings to be recognised as architectural marvels.The Australian Institute of Architects&rsquo; 2023 national awards highlight innovative, sustainable and infill developments th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/rockhampton-museum-and-a-small-sydney-home-among-winners-in-australias-top-architecture-awards/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:13:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/rockhampton-museum-and-a-small-sydney-home-among-winners-in-australias-top-architecture-awards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas Heatherwick gets Le Corbusier all wrong | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Readers respond to an interview with the designer Thomas Heatherwick, who denounced the architect Le Corbusier as &lsquo;the god of boring&rsquo;Thomas Heatherwick believes Le Corbusier to be &ldquo;the god of boring&rdquo; and blames him for a generation of flat, shiny, plain, straight, monotonous and anonymous buildings (Thomas Heatherwick&rsquo;s war on boring buildings: &lsquo;I&rsquo;ve never gone against the whole industry before&rsquo;, 25 October). Really? I&rsquo;ve visited Le Corbusier]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/thomas-heatherwick-gets-le-corbusier-all-wrong-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/thomas-heatherwick-gets-le-corbusier-all-wrong-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Dangerously misguided’: the glaring problem with Thomas Heatherwick’s architectural dreamworld]]></title><description><![CDATA[The designer&rsquo;s new book Humanise spearheads a campaign excoriating decades of bad building. Has he forgotten his own expensive disasters? Our critic hasn&rsquo;tThe next global pandemic is already upon us, causing misery, sickness and poverty around the world, and even leading to outbreaks of war. It has been a &ldquo;100-year catastrophe&rdquo; in the making, spreading through our cities in plain sight with unparalleled virulence, leaving a devastating trail of depression, loneliness and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dangerously-misguided-the-glaring-problem-with-thomas-heatherwicks-architectural-dreamworld/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dangerously-misguided-the-glaring-problem-with-thomas-heatherwicks-architectural-dreamworld/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Thomson obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, Peter Thomson, who has died aged 88, was an architect with an eye for big ideas and beauty.In the 1970s he formed Peter Thomson Associates, working on a substantial programme of residential projects in France that were based around factory-finished terrace houses built in the UK. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/peter-thomson-obituary/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/peter-thomson-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arles or nothing … can shiny culture bridge a serious French social divide?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Luma Foundation&rsquo;s gleaming Gehry-designed arts centre towers over a French city struggling with debt, drugs and poverty &ndash; so who really benefits from the city&rsquo;s resurgence?As wildfires rake the steep canyonsides of a digital landscape, I fly over the terrain searching for an elusive mountain lion I keep glimpsing in the distance. I&rsquo;m playing The Alluvials, an ecologically minded open-world video game set in an alternative Los Angeles, at the launch of the Octobre Num&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/arles-or-nothing-can-shiny-culture-bridge-a-serious-french-social-divide/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/arles-or-nothing-can-shiny-culture-bridge-a-serious-french-social-divide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The building behind brutalism: inside the Smithsons’ Solar Pavilion – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new book documents the birth of an architect couple&rsquo;s experimental summer house, which went on to inspire the large-scale blocks they became famous for Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-building-behind-brutalism-inside-the-smithsons-solar-pavilion-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-building-behind-brutalism-inside-the-smithsons-solar-pavilion-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas Heatherwick’s war on boring buildings: ‘I’ve never gone against the whole industry before’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The designer says architecture is gripped by a &lsquo;blandemic&rsquo; that isn&rsquo;t merely blotting our streets, but making us miserable, ill and violent. So what&rsquo;s his solution?Thomas Heatherwick is sitting down with a delegation from Singapore when I arrive at his new open&#8209;plan office in central London, so I busy myself admiring the seating options in the waiting area. There are clever spinning-top chairs that his studio developed in 2010; seats removed from one of the Routemas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/thomas-heatherwicks-war-on-boring-buildings-ive-never-gone-against-the-whole-industry-before/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/thomas-heatherwicks-war-on-boring-buildings-ive-never-gone-against-the-whole-industry-before/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World review – Thomas Heatherwick’s simplistic critique of modern architecture]]></title><description><![CDATA[The designer is right to criticise boring buildings, but picks his targets poorly and shows no inclination to confront the forces that create such structuresThere are, says Thomas Heatherwick, too many boring buildings in the world. There has been &ldquo;a century-long global catastrophe&rdquo; caused by &ldquo;bland, vague and forgettable&rdquo; architecture, a &ldquo;global epidemic of inhuman buildings&rdquo;, a style of flat glass grids which, whether in Bengaluru, Dallas, Buenos Aires, Canb]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/humanise-a-makers-guide-to-building-our-world-review-thomas-heatherwicks-simplistic-critique-of-modern-architecture/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2023 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/humanise-a-makers-guide-to-building-our-world-review-thomas-heatherwicks-simplistic-critique-of-modern-architecture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andrea Branzi obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect and designer who was part of a radical Italian movement in the 1960s and 70s that rejected mass productionAndrea Branzi, who has died aged 84, was the last of a generation of Italian architects and designers that made their country the world&rsquo;s leading centre for design. The art curator Germano Celant coined the term &ldquo;radical design&rdquo; to describe the work of Branzi and his friends Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini, even before he had identified the arte povera move]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/andrea-branzi-obituary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2023 12:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/andrea-branzi-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunspot, Jaywick Sands review – a ray of hope for the beleaguered Essex resort]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bright, no-frills business development of office space, workshops and market hall is bringing amenities and employment to one of the country&rsquo;s most beleaguered communitiesJaywick Sands in Essex, population 4,800, is a survivor of a largely lost world, the interwar phenomenon called &ldquo;plotlands&rdquo; that enabled the working-class dwellers of big cities to own, and often build, their own home in the countryside and by the sea. It manifests a dream of freedom and self-reliance, with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sunspot-jaywick-sands-review-a-ray-of-hope-for-the-beleaguered-essex-resort/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sunspot-jaywick-sands-review-a-ray-of-hope-for-the-beleaguered-essex-resort/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A triumph of imagination over prosaic minds’: how the Sydney Opera House delivered Australia to the world]]></title><description><![CDATA[Acknowledged as an architectural marvel and totem of Sydney, the Opera House also has a unique place in the cultural landscapeThe beauty and magic never fade. Every time I walk from Circular Quay along the footpath towards the Opera House is like the first time. How to explain my sense of elation and enchantment when I approach that magnificent structure, especially at night? There&rsquo;s the toy-like ferries coming and going from their wharves, the sound of their lugubrious horns, and inside t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-triumph-of-imagination-over-prosaic-minds-how-the-sydney-opera-house-delivered-australia-to-the-world/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-triumph-of-imagination-over-prosaic-minds-how-the-sydney-opera-house-delivered-australia-to-the-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creepy AI blooms, Raphael’s crafty treasures and a neglected pop star – the week in art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plus Picasso&rsquo;s enduring influence on modernism, brand new work from Derek Boshier and Venus dries her hair &ndash; all in your weekly dispatchMat Collishaw: Petrichor<br />
Creepy and disconcerting flower pictures, fabricated using AI and resembling Dutch still lifes corrupted by sin.<br />
&bull; Kew Gardens, London, until 7 April Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/creepy-ai-blooms-raphaels-crafty-treasures-and-a-neglected-pop-star-the-week-in-art/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/creepy-ai-blooms-raphaels-crafty-treasures-and-a-neglected-pop-star-the-week-in-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sail on: 50 years of the Sydney Opera House – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[J&oslash;rn Utzon&rsquo;s masterpiece tested engineers and public opinion during its construction but since opening in October 1973 it has become a symbol of Sydney and of modern Australia.Here&rsquo;s a look back through the years at the Opera House, which has served as a backdrop for royal visits, political protests &ndash; and a gathering of 5,000 nude people Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sail-on-50-years-of-the-sydney-opera-house-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sail-on-50-years-of-the-sydney-opera-house-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managers and leaders only: Britain’s best new building is a retirement home with entry requirements]]></title><description><![CDATA[With a verdant courtyard at its heart, the John Morden Centre in London is a touchy-feely place for a certain type of retiree &ndash; and is a very deserving winner of the RIBA&rsquo;s Stirling prizeA lively art class is under way in the high-ceilinged painting studio of the John Morden Centre, visible through big picture windows from the adjacent cafe, where the facility&rsquo;s residents catch up over a cuppa. Others are getting their hair and nails done in the salon next door, while some sit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/managers-and-leaders-only-britains-best-new-building-is-a-retirement-home-with-entry-requirements/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/managers-and-leaders-only-britains-best-new-building-is-a-retirement-home-with-entry-requirements/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Demand interestingness’: Thomas Heatherwick rails against boring buildings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Designer says soulless structures make people stressed and lonely as he launches book and campaignBoring, soulless buildings are making people stressed and lonely, according to Thomas Heatherwick, the British designer behind the 2012 Olympic cauldron.The designer is embarking on a crusade to persuade architects and developers to create buildings that inspire feelings of joy and stimulation. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/demand-interestingness-thomas-heatherwick-rails-against-boring-buildings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/demand-interestingness-thomas-heatherwick-rails-against-boring-buildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[24 hour party precinct: inside Manchester’s Aviva Studios – where even the loos are a stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[As long as a jumbo and as tall as four double-deckers, the giant arts venue will host everything from dance shows to all-night raves. But can the &pound;240m colossus put its troubled birth behind it?A group of dancers in cocoons convulse on stage, thrashing their limbs in tortured spasms as if trying to break free from their elasticated sacks. This is a scene from Free Your Mind, Danny Boyle&rsquo;s live-action, Matrix-themed extravaganza which launches Aviva Studios &ndash; a new &pound;240m a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/24-hour-party-precinct-inside-manchesters-aviva-studios-where-even-the-loos-are-a-stage/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/24-hour-party-precinct-inside-manchesters-aviva-studios-where-even-the-loos-are-a-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered]]></title><description><![CDATA[Repairs to footbridge mean straw must be dangled to warn oncoming shipping of work going on beneathWorkers on London&rsquo;s Millennium Bridge are hanging a bale of straw under the structure after triggering an ancient bylaw.Repair works to the footbridge mean straw must be dangled to warn oncoming boats of the work going on beneath it. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/millennium-bridge-workers-hang-straw-bales-after-ancient-bylaw-triggered/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/millennium-bridge-workers-hang-straw-bales-after-ancient-bylaw-triggered/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millennium Bridge workers forced to hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered]]></title><description><![CDATA[Repairs to footbridge mean straw must be dangled to warn oncoming shipping of work going on beneathWorkers on London&rsquo;s Millennium Bridge are being forced to hang a bale of straw under the structure after triggering an ancient bylaw.Repair works to the footbridge mean straw must be dangled to warn oncoming boats of the work going on beneath it. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/millennium-bridge-workers-forced-to-hang-straw-bales-after-ancient-bylaw-triggered/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/millennium-bridge-workers-forced-to-hang-straw-bales-after-ancient-bylaw-triggered/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impossible made perfect: builders of the Sydney Opera House look back in wonder]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the landmark&rsquo;s 50th anniversary, those who built it reflect on the political and technical turmoil of realising J&oslash;rn Utzon&rsquo;s visionThe construction of the Sydney Opera House was a famously fraught saga, but as the city&rsquo;s landmark turns 50, former workers remember a quite different atmosphere on the site itself.Michael Elfick, who was then a surveyor in his early 20s, says safety precautions were minimal. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/impossible-made-perfect-builders-of-the-sydney-opera-house-look-back-in-wonder/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/impossible-made-perfect-builders-of-the-sydney-opera-house-look-back-in-wonder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riding back to good health on an e-bike | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Electric bicycles | 18th-century bathing pools | Question of sport | Lisa Cameron&rsquo;s defectionIt&rsquo;s good to see the recent tips for keeping fit , but please don&rsquo;t dismiss the value of electric bikes in the same breath as cars or scooters (Letters, 11 October). An e-bike will take you nowhere without physical input from the rider. Having undergone major heart surgery some years ago, I can testify to the huge benefits to my wellbeing as a result of the thousands of miles I have cov]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/riding-back-to-good-health-on-an-e-bike-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2023 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/riding-back-to-good-health-on-an-e-bike-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stella McCartney’s plans for remote Scottish home stir controversy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Local council receives more than 50 objections to scheme, many on environmental groundsPlans for an &ldquo;unashamedly contemporary&rdquo; house for the fashion designer Stella McCartney in a remote Scottish coastal area have received dozens of objections on environmental grounds.In a planning application, McCartney&rsquo;s architects say the glass-fronted home near Roshven on the west coast would enhance the landscape and &ldquo;retain the wild nature of the site&rdquo;. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stella-mccartneys-plans-for-remote-scottish-home-stir-controversy/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2023 16:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stella-mccartneys-plans-for-remote-scottish-home-stir-controversy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liverpool is spectacular and sometimes strange to walk around, but how it can make the heart ache | Rachel Cooke]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once elegant ballrooms stand derelict and who on earth put a Hooters next to a Peter Ellis masterpiece?How good to be in Liverpool after a long time away &ndash; and no, I wasn&rsquo;t there for the Labour party conference. My first stop: Alfred Waterhouse&rsquo;s magnificent terracotta Victoria Gallery &amp; Museum to see the novelist Jonathan Coe on stage with another writer close to my heart (my husband, in case I sound like a stalker) at the literary festival. My second: the eternally lovely]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/liverpool-is-spectacular-and-sometimes-strange-to-walk-around-but-how-it-can-make-the-heart-ache-rachel-cooke/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2023 19:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/liverpool-is-spectacular-and-sometimes-strange-to-walk-around-but-how-it-can-make-the-heart-ache-rachel-cooke/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No jetpacks or monorails, new towns just need to be places people want to live | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Overcoming nimbyism will be the least of Labour&rsquo;s challenges in creating communities fit for modern BritainNew towns are back. One of the most distinctive policies of Labour&rsquo;s still light-on-detail offer to the voters is Keir Starmer&rsquo;s promise to create the &ldquo;next generation&rdquo; of this evergreen concept, one which Clement Attlee&rsquo;s 1945 Labour government put into practice at a large scale.His statement gives some hope of an approach to building homes and communiti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/no-jetpacks-or-monorails-new-towns-just-need-to-be-places-people-want-to-live-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2023 18:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/no-jetpacks-or-monorails-new-towns-just-need-to-be-places-people-want-to-live-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Black Country’s bright side – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tom Hicks&rsquo;s Black Country Type series began in 2017, when he started photographing striking sights while out cycling in the West Midlands. Since then, the artist, writer and curator has taken hundreds of photographs of brightly coloured buildings and unusual signs, now collected in a book. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a free-form exploration of a region that people don&rsquo;t know much about,&rdquo; he says. One of the trickiest aspects of the project is his self-imposed rule about using the sun as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-black-countrys-bright-side-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2023 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-black-countrys-bright-side-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Batley library book-takers urged to return and help save building]]></title><description><![CDATA[Appeal follows emptying of shelves in apparent misunderstanding at &lsquo;fill a bag with books for &pound;1&rsquo; eventVolunteers at Batley library who watched helplessly as the shelves were emptied in a book sale misunderstanding are urging those who took books to come back and help save the Grade II-listed building.An advert posted on social media said customers could fill a bag with books from a sale table for &pound;1, but sections of the library were &ldquo;decimated&rdquo; as people load]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/batley-library-book-takers-urged-to-return-and-help-save-building/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/batley-library-book-takers-urged-to-return-and-help-save-building/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour’s supposedly bold ‘new towns’ idea has been tried before. And it failed | Simon Jenkins]]></title><description><![CDATA[These vast sums should be spent improving our &lsquo;second-tier&rsquo; cities &ndash; not on costly, carbon-guzzling developments in the rural southKeir Starmer&rsquo;s speech to the Labour party conference was good. It was that of an expectant prime minister, of sonorous phrases and few promises. Then came two words that fell flat: new towns. There would be &ldquo;Labour new towns&rdquo;, whatever they are, referred to in later briefing as in the south, on the &ldquo;M1 corridor&rdquo;, brooki]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/labours-supposedly-bold-new-towns-idea-has-been-tried-before-and-it-failed-simon-jenkins/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/labours-supposedly-bold-new-towns-idea-has-been-tried-before-and-it-failed-simon-jenkins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flatpacks and floorfillers: how an Ikea became one of the world’s biggest nightclubs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The furniture giant&rsquo;s ex-London flagship is now a giant venue &ndash; boasting a Batman movie set and not a Billy bookcase in sight. Our writer hits the dancefloor on opening night to &lsquo;chuck out his chintz&rsquo;When Ikea opened its gigantic flagship store in Tottenham in 2005, at one minute past midnight on a February Thursday, six people ended up in hospital. Thousands of bargain-hunters had flocked to the London outpost, lured by the promise of leather sofas for just &pound;45, re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/flatpacks-and-floorfillers-how-an-ikea-became-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-nightclubs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/flatpacks-and-floorfillers-how-an-ikea-became-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-nightclubs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain’s most influential modernist architect? In praise of the lost buildings of Georgie Wolton]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wolton, who died in 2021 aged 87, helped launch Richard Rogers and Norman Foster before swapping architecture for landscaping. Her dilapidated London home is almost all that remains of her fearless, uncompromising workBehind an old brick wall in Belsize Lane, in a posh part of north London, stands a single-storey house that you would hardly know was there. Only a glimpse of a pitched glass roof gives a sign of shelter. You certainly wouldn&rsquo;t know that it is a unique piece of modern archite]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/britains-most-influential-modernist-architect-in-praise-of-the-lost-buildings-of-georgie-wolton/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/britains-most-influential-modernist-architect-in-praise-of-the-lost-buildings-of-georgie-wolton/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chewing gum artist makes plea to save Millennium Bridge works]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ben Wilson told most of his art on discarded gum to be removed during engineering and cleaning workAn artist who paints tiny pictures on discarded chewing gum has pleaded for his works to be saved after being told most of them will be removed from the Millennium Bridge in London as part of engineering work.Ben Wilson, nicknamed &ldquo;the chewing gum man&rdquo;, has been painting on pieces of chewing gum trodden into the bridge since 2013. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/chewing-gum-artist-makes-plea-to-save-millennium-bridge-works/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2023 20:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/chewing-gum-artist-makes-plea-to-save-millennium-bridge-works/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well-maintained tower blocks are not bad places to live | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is unfortunate that many of the architects who designed such housing are no longer appreciated, writes Nicholas RussellSimon Jenkins (Spare these London flats the wrecking ball. But no more eyesore tower blocks please, 28 September) points out the potential defects of tower blocks, and favours a return to Victorian terrace housing as a better solution to high-density living. It is certainly possible to build good terraced estates, although in his example of Goldsmith Street in Norwich, planni]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/well-maintained-tower-blocks-are-not-bad-places-to-live-letters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/well-maintained-tower-blocks-are-not-bad-places-to-live-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World’s tallest wooden building to be built in Perth after developers win approval]]></title><description><![CDATA[Developers say South Perth&rsquo;s C6 building will be made up of 42% timber and be carbon negativeGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWestern Australia is set to become home to the world&rsquo;s tallest timber building, a &ldquo;revolutionary&rdquo; 50-storey hybrid design reaching a height of 191.2 metres.Timber will make up 42% of South Perth&rsquo;s C6 building, including the tower&rsquo;s beams, floor panels, studs, joinery and linings. Continue reading.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/worlds-tallest-wooden-building-to-be-built-in-perth-after-developers-win-approval/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/worlds-tallest-wooden-building-to-be-built-in-perth-after-developers-win-approval/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World’s tallest timber building to be built in Perth after developers win approval]]></title><description><![CDATA[Developers say South Perth&rsquo;s C6 building will be made up of 42% timber and be carbon negativeGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWestern Australia is set to become home to the world&rsquo;s tallest timber building, a &ldquo;revolutionary&rdquo; 50-storey hybrid design reaching a height of 191.2 metres.Timber will make up 42% of South Perth&rsquo;s C6 building, including the tower&rsquo;s beams, floor panels, studs, joinery and linings. Continue reading.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/worlds-tallest-timber-building-to-be-built-in-perth-after-developers-win-approval/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/worlds-tallest-timber-building-to-be-built-in-perth-after-developers-win-approval/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solar power and a composting toilet: what it takes to live off the grid in regional Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are no electricity bills but also nobody picks up the rubbish. So why are off-the-grid homes growing in popularity?Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityIt may not look like everyone&rsquo;s idea of a dream home but for Tim Dakin this converted shed in East Gippsland represents financial freedom and self-sufficiency.Located 7km out of the small town of Briagolong, the shed is now a comfortable home. Dakin bought th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/solar-power-and-a-composting-toilet-what-it-takes-to-live-off-the-grid-in-regional-australia/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/solar-power-and-a-composting-toilet-what-it-takes-to-live-off-the-grid-in-regional-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solar power and a compostable toilet: what it takes to live off the grid in regional Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are no electricity bills but also nobody picks up the rubbish. So why are off-the-grid homes growing in popularity?Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityIt may not look like everyone&rsquo;s idea of a dream home but for Tim Dakin this converted shed in East Gippsland represents financial freedom and self-sufficiency.Located 7km out of the small town of Briagolong, the shed is now a comfortable home. Dakin bought th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/solar-power-and-a-compostable-toilet-what-it-takes-to-live-off-the-grid-in-regional-australia/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/solar-power-and-a-compostable-toilet-what-it-takes-to-live-off-the-grid-in-regional-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart of stone: turning a remote Scottish barn into a stylish home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect Lily Jencks inherited a 19th-century ruined shell in the wilds of Dumfriesshire and has transformed it with empathy and flairSitting in a magical position upon a Dumfriesshire hillside, the ruins of a 19th-century barn and adjacent farmhouse formed part of Lily Jencks&rsquo;s childhood. The ruins are not far from the family estate where Lily spent many of her school holidays and which is also the site of the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, created by her late father, the landscape design]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/heart-of-stone-turning-a-remote-scottish-barn-into-a-stylish-home/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/heart-of-stone-turning-a-remote-scottish-barn-into-a-stylish-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘No more lives lost’: Glasgow architects urge road changes after colleague’s cycling death]]></title><description><![CDATA[Road infrastructure campaign has been launched in honour of designer Emma Burke Newman, who was killed in lorry collisionOn the long and busy stretch of road where Glasgow&rsquo;s riverside meets its city centre, hundreds of commuters and visitors travel into and out of town each day. Since January this year, many will have spotted a new addition to their route: a white &ldquo;ghost bike&rdquo;, adorned with flowers and messages, parked at a busy junction where 22-year-old French-American archit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/no-more-lives-lost-glasgow-architects-urge-road-changes-after-colleagues-cycling-death/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/no-more-lives-lost-glasgow-architects-urge-road-changes-after-colleagues-cycling-death/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than a box, smarter than a prefab: modular housing is back, and this time with style]]></title><description><![CDATA[Companies have sprung up around Australia to produce housing that offers a new option amid the property crisis, and now governments are taking notice Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThey were the hallmark of postwar Britain, known for being quick to construct, built to last, clad with asbestos, dull and repetitious.Almost 80 years later, &ldquo;prefabs&rdquo; have been renamed and are back in play, after the New South Wales government committed $10m in th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/more-than-a-box-smarter-than-a-prefab-modular-housing-is-back-and-this-time-with-style/</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2023 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/more-than-a-box-smarter-than-a-prefab-modular-housing-is-back-and-this-time-with-style/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American anxiety, Georgian fireworks and a Black British pioneer – the week in art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Philip Guston paints an unhinged States, Claudette Johnson&rsquo;s haunting drawings get a big show and a magical light is shone on the 18th century &ndash; all in your weekly dispatchPhilip GustonCartoon Klansmen smoke and stare in Guston&rsquo;s grotesque satires on American madness.&bull; Tate Modern, London, 5 October-25 February Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/american-anxiety-georgian-fireworks-and-a-black-british-pioneer-the-week-in-art/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 11:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/american-anxiety-georgian-fireworks-and-a-black-british-pioneer-the-week-in-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birmingham council votes to demolish brutalist landmark]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campaigners fighting to save the Ringway Centre say removing it would be &lsquo;devastating assault on city&rsquo;s postwar heritage&rsquo;A brutalist landmark in the centre of Birmingham, described as an outstanding example of the city&rsquo;s postwar &ldquo;carchitecture&rdquo;, is set to be demolished after councillors voted in favour of replacing it with apartment blocks.Campaigners have been fighting to save The Ringway Centre for months, and dozens protested outside the council house as th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/birmingham-council-votes-to-demolish-brutalist-landmark/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/birmingham-council-votes-to-demolish-brutalist-landmark/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Its just not right': residents react to demolition order of Mast Quay II tower block &ndash; video]]></title><description><![CDATA[Residents at the Mast Quay Phase II tower block in Woolwich spoke to The Guardian about a demolition order for their building from the Greenwich council due to a series of planning breaches. Many of the people residing in the 23-storey housing development initially received the news through journalists and expressed surprise and disappointment with the decision. Anthony Okereke, the Labour leader of Greenwich council, said developers were 'lining their pockets' by letting the apartments despite]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-just-not-right-residents-react-to-demolition-order-of-mast-quay-ii-tower-block-ndash-video/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-just-not-right-residents-react-to-demolition-order-of-mast-quay-ii-tower-block-ndash-video/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['It's just not right': residents react to demolition order for Mast Quay II tower block &ndash; video]]></title><description><![CDATA[Residents at the Mast Quay Phase II tower block in Woolwich spoke to the Guardian about a demolition order for their building from the Greenwich council due to a series of planning breaches. Many of the people residing in the 23-storey housing development initially received the news through journalists and expressed surprise and disappointment with the decision. Anthony Okereke, the Labour leader of Greenwich council, said developers were 'lining their pockets' by letting the apartments despite]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-just-not-right-residents-react-to-demolition-order-for-mast-quay-ii-tower-block-ndash-video/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-just-not-right-residents-react-to-demolition-order-for-mast-quay-ii-tower-block-ndash-video/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘No one wants to lose their home’: London renters shocked at order to raze their flats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mast Quay II tenants may need to find new homes after Greenwich ordered demolition of tower complexRenters at a cluster of new Thameside apartment complex expressed shock on Wednesday after the Royal Borough of Greenwich ordered the &ldquo;unprecedented&rdquo; demolition of 204 homes over what it said were a series of planning breaches.Many residents at the Mast Quay Phase II development in Woolwich first learned the news from journalists after the local authority announced on Monday that the de]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/no-one-wants-to-lose-their-home-london-renters-shocked-at-order-to-raze-their-flats/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 19:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/no-one-wants-to-lose-their-home-london-renters-shocked-at-order-to-raze-their-flats/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘My flat’s going to be pulled down’: renters at London block shocked at plans to demolish homes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mast Quay II tenants may need to find new homes after Greenwich ordered demolition of tower blockRenters at a cluster of new Thameside tower blocks expressed shock on Wednesday after Royal Borough of Greenwich ordered the &ldquo;unprecedented&rdquo; demolition of 204 homes for a series of planning breaches.Many households at Mast Quay II in Woolwich first learned the news from journalists after the local authority announced on Monday that the developer, Comer Homes Group, must raze the buildings]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/my-flats-going-to-be-pulled-down-renters-at-london-block-shocked-at-plans-to-demolish-homes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 18:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/my-flats-going-to-be-pulled-down-renters-at-london-block-shocked-at-plans-to-demolish-homes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says council]]></title><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Blight on the landscape&rsquo; in Greenwich lacks promised gardens, children&rsquo;s play areas and accessibility for wheelchair usersBuildings rarely look as good as the airbrushed architects&rsquo; visualisations produced to persuade planners to grant permission. Extra sharp highlights, implausibly blue skies and deeper colours are all part of the dark arts of the computer-generated rendering.But the gulf between what was proposed for an apartment complex rising 23 storeys above the Tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/london-apartment-block-that-deviates-from-plans-must-be-torn-down-says-council/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/london-apartment-block-that-deviates-from-plans-must-be-torn-down-says-council/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Turner obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect impressed by urban squatter settlements in Peru who then set about persuading the wider world of their valueIn the 1950s and 60s John Turner, who has died aged 96, addressed the housing challenges faced by members of rural communities in Peru when they migrated to urban areas in search of a better life. Official planning and design approaches were neither appropriate nor affordable to such people, and Turner was immensely impressed by their resourcefulness in creating their own housing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-turner-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 21:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-turner-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observatory built to represent Einstein’s theory of relativity reopens in Germany]]></title><description><![CDATA[Einstein Tower has undergone extensive renovations to preserve it for future generationsA solar observatory built to substantiate Albert Einstein&rsquo;s theory of relativity has been reopened outside the German capital after a top-to-tail renovation project to preserve it for future generations.The Einsteinturm (Einstein Tower) on Telegraph Hill in Potsdam, 16 miles (25km) south-west of Berlin, spent a year under scaffolding while work was carried out using modern techniques to seal its many th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/observatory-built-to-represent-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-reopens-in-germany/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/observatory-built-to-represent-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-reopens-in-germany/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trowbridge ‘gargoyle’ finds its home in global architecture of spite]]></title><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Spite buildings&rsquo; intended to cause irritation have a long and proud history from Beirut to Buenos AiresFrom view-blocking houses to nose-thumbing towers, revenge is the mortar that binds the bricks in &ldquo;spite buildings&rdquo;, constructed with the sole aim of causing irritation.The Al Ba&rsquo;sa (The Grudge) house in Beirut, was built on a sliver of land in 1954 by one feuding brother merely to obstruct the sea view of the other. At just 60cm wide at its narrowest point, it re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/trowbridge-gargoyle-finds-its-home-in-global-architecture-of-spite/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/trowbridge-gargoyle-finds-its-home-in-global-architecture-of-spite/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Colours give comfort in these difficult times’: Ukraine’s Lego-inspired city – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Comfort Town is a residential area of Kyiv built on a former industrial area. It was designed to brighten up the former grey Soviet buildings from the 1950s and 60s Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/colours-give-comfort-in-these-difficult-times-ukraines-lego-inspired-city-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/colours-give-comfort-in-these-difficult-times-ukraines-lego-inspired-city-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The buildings were a sign of civic pride’: anger as art colleges around the UK close their doors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Colleges that once fostered talent &ndash; often from working-class backgrounds &ndash; have vanished at an alarming rate. Two beneficiaries of that system are documenting its demiseOn a trip to Norfolk back in 2009, artist and academic Matthew Cornford decided to take a nostalgic look at his old art school. Great Yarmouth College of Art and Design may not have been an elite establishment &ndash; one of its best known alumni is Keith Chapman, creator of Bob the Builder &ndash; but the grand buil]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-buildings-were-a-sign-of-civic-pride-anger-as-art-colleges-around-the-uk-close-their-doors/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-buildings-were-a-sign-of-civic-pride-anger-as-art-colleges-around-the-uk-close-their-doors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UCL East Marshgate review – an inward-looking class act]]></title><description><![CDATA[Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London<br />
University College London&rsquo;s flexible new campus, designed by Stirling prize-winners Stanton Williams, is all complex drama within, yet its forbidding exterior sits somewhat uneasily with its Olympic Park neighbours &ndash; which will soon include the V&amp;A, BBC, Sadler&rsquo;s Wells and moreUniversity College London, nearly 200 years old, consistently ranking among the top 10 universities in the world, and one of the biggest in the UK, is embarking on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ucl-east-marshgate-review-an-inward-looking-class-act/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ucl-east-marshgate-review-an-inward-looking-class-act/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Buchanan obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect and writer who was concerned with the way buildings work within the natural worldPeter Buchanan, who has died aged 80, was an architect, critic, essayist and teacher. The touring exhibition Ten Shades of Green: Architecture and the Natural World that he curated in 2000 for the Architectural League of New York, and the book of the same name that followed, had a critical impact on thinking behind the design of contemporary sustainable buildings.&ldquo;The League&rsquo;s goal with Ten Sha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/peter-buchanan-obituary/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/peter-buchanan-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From collective ambition to crumbling concrete: Essex is a totem of Britain’s decline | Tim Burrows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don&rsquo;t blame a rash of postwar building in the county on the Raac crisis; blame a Conservative ideology that has cuts and negligence at its coreEssex has long been stereotyped for its bubbly TV personalities, but these days it is better known for its bubbly school roofs. The preponderance of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) &ndash; a cheaper but more porous version of the more durable midcentury favourite &ndash; in its educational facilities has made Essex, as it often is duri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-collective-ambition-to-crumbling-concrete-essex-is-a-totem-of-britains-decline-tim-burrows/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-collective-ambition-to-crumbling-concrete-essex-is-a-totem-of-britains-decline-tim-burrows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A fairytale wooden world’: Soviet country cottages – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Widespread in the former USSR, dachas set in rural idylls were inhabited by writers, architects and those looking to escape the city for a self-sufficient life Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-fairytale-wooden-world-soviet-country-cottages-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-fairytale-wooden-world-soviet-country-cottages-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on the hidden carvings of Salisbury Cathedral: messages to the future | Editorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[For centuries stonemasons have left secret signature works in buildings. In an age of machines, they are a testament to what it is to be humanThe &ldquo;topping out&rdquo; of Salisbury Cathedral last week marked the end of a 37-year restoration project, which has returned the 14th-century building to its former glory. But as the scaffolding is dismantled over the next few weeks, after the traditional ceremony of completion and blessing, a small part of the humanity of the endeavour will disappea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-the-hidden-carvings-of-salisbury-cathedral-messages-to-the-future-editorial/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-the-hidden-carvings-of-salisbury-cathedral-messages-to-the-future-editorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We’re here to stay’: the stack-em-high wooden workspace fighting the luxury flats plague]]></title><description><![CDATA[Huge numbers of vital workshops have been lost to higher-return housing. But one architect is creating budget spaces by building upwards &ndash; with wood. We meet the busy tenants of his &pound;5m WorkstackA stack of blocks teeters on the side of a busy road in Charlton, London, like a pile of shipping containers freshly offloaded from the nearby Thames. It is an arresting sight in this area of builders&rsquo; merchants and big box retail stores, each block thrusting out above the one below as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/were-here-to-stay-the-stack-em-high-wooden-workspace-fighting-the-luxury-flats-plague/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/were-here-to-stay-the-stack-em-high-wooden-workspace-fighting-the-luxury-flats-plague/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blitz firefighters’ wartime paintings to go on display in London churches]]></title><description><![CDATA[Initiative marks 300 years since death of Christopher Wren, many of whose churches were bombed in second world warIt became known as the second great fire of London, the worst night of the blitz in the British capital during the second world war.On the night of 29-30 December 1940, more than 100,000 bombs were dropped on London, causing widespread fires and destroying many buildings including 13 of Sir Christopher Wren&rsquo;s churches. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/blitz-firefighters-wartime-paintings-to-go-on-display-in-london-churches/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/blitz-firefighters-wartime-paintings-to-go-on-display-in-london-churches/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Megacities in the desert: the human cost of Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s bold new projects | Nesrine Malik]]></title><description><![CDATA[In their rush to claim the future and concrete over the past, these vast rebrands are demolishing people&rsquo;s homes and their heritageSpread over an area almost 7km (4 miles) long, Cairo&rsquo;s Necropolis is a sprawling district of tombs, mausoleums, mosques and courtyards. Also known as the City of the Dead, it is very much alive with memories of those buried there, with the different eras of history that it traces, and with the real families who live in it and have done so, in some instanc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/megacities-in-the-desert-the-human-cost-of-egypt-and-saudi-arabias-bold-new-projects-nesrine-malik/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/megacities-in-the-desert-the-human-cost-of-egypt-and-saudi-arabias-bold-new-projects-nesrine-malik/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam Nathaniel Furman: ‘I like the senses to be tickled’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The British artist and designer, whose work spans Greta Gerwig&rsquo;s Barbie and a Bristol underpass, is redefining public spaces with an outsider&rsquo;s eye for the monumental and an emphasis on craft and delight&ldquo;They last for ever,&rdquo; says Adam Nathaniel Furman. &ldquo;When we&rsquo;re all dead, when the world has ended, they&rsquo;ll still be here.&rdquo; The things in question are ceramics and mosaics, favourite materials of the 40-year-old designer and artist. In which case, the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/adam-nathaniel-furman-i-like-the-senses-to-be-tickled/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/adam-nathaniel-furman-i-like-the-senses-to-be-tickled/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dewsbury in Yorkshire recognised as ‘greenest town’ of the 1800s]]></title><description><![CDATA[Historic England lists 12 buildings in recognition of town&rsquo;s role in recycling yarn from all over worldIt&rsquo;s a Yorkshire town perhaps best known for its big market or as the birthplace of Betty Boothroyd but a national heritage body is now adding a more surprising label to Dewsbury: the greenest town in 19th-century England.Historic England has undertaken new research that reveals the importance of the town as an international centre for recycled cloth during the Industrial Revolution]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dewsbury-in-yorkshire-recognised-as-greenest-town-of-the-1800s/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dewsbury-in-yorkshire-recognised-as-greenest-town-of-the-1800s/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York’s plan to save birds from crashing into buildings: lights out]]></title><description><![CDATA[Legislation aims to dim the city&rsquo;s night-time lights that pose a threat to millions of migratory birds passing throughIn a few days, two beams will illuminate the Manhattan sky in a tribute to those killed in the September 11 attacks. But the blazing columns of light also attract thousands of migratory birds, causing them to veer off course. They become trapped and disoriented, circling the spotlights until they are switched off.New York can be a deadly place for birds. Each year, songbird]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-yorks-plan-to-save-birds-from-crashing-into-buildings-lights-out/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-yorks-plan-to-save-birds-from-crashing-into-buildings-lights-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York City’s plan to save the birds: turn off the lights]]></title><description><![CDATA[Legislation aims to dim the city&rsquo;s night-time lights that pose a threat to millions of migratory birds passing throughIn a few days, two beams will illuminate the Manhattan sky in a tribute to those killed in the September 11 attacks. But the blazing columns of light also attract thousands of migratory birds, causing them to veer them off course. They become trapped and disoriented, circling the spotlights until they are switched off.New York can be a deadly place for birds. Each year, son]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-york-citys-plan-to-save-the-birds-turn-off-the-lights/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-york-citys-plan-to-save-the-birds-turn-off-the-lights/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A polite beige consensus’: are these really Britain’s best new buildings?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The six nominees for the 2023 RIBA Stirling prize shortlist are tasteful and well made &ndash; but a great many quirky buildings with a sense of fun have been overlookedDo you like your bricks in red, brown or grey? And do you prefer your buildings in north, south or east London? Those are some of the limited choices facing the judges of this year&rsquo;s RIBA Stirling prize for the country&rsquo;s best building, in one of the most homogenous and metrocentric shortlists in the award&rsquo;s 27-y]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-polite-beige-consensus-are-these-really-britains-best-new-buildings/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-polite-beige-consensus-are-these-really-britains-best-new-buildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salisbury Cathedral prepares for final ‘topping out’ after 37 years of repairs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scaffolding will soon be taken down on 13th-century building as huge restoration programme nears endIt has taken 37 years to restore Salisbury Cathedral &ndash; only 12 months less than medieval builders required to construct the main body of the great church in the first place.But finally on Thursday a &ldquo;topping out&rdquo; ceremony will be performed high above the church floor to mark the end of a rescue and repair project that began in 1986, and before Christmas the scaffolding that has w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/salisbury-cathedral-prepares-for-final-topping-out-after-37-years-of-repairs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/salisbury-cathedral-prepares-for-final-topping-out-after-37-years-of-repairs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Markus obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, Tom Markus, who has died aged 95, was the first professor of building science at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he established a thriving research base and, inspired by his socialist politics and Catholic faith, made huge efforts to address housing problems in the city.In 1971 he helped set up the Assist project in Govan to rehabilitate old tenement buildings. In 1979 he founded and chaired the Right to Warmth campaign, bringing together legal, architectural and medic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tom-markus-obituary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 19:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tom-markus-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raac crisis: who knew what and when about crumbling concrete in England]]></title><description><![CDATA[Building material assessed to be at risk of collapse was used in thousands of UK public structures from 1950s to 1990sUK politics live &ndash; latest updates Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/raac-crisis-who-knew-what-and-when-about-crumbling-concrete-in-england/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 17:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/raac-crisis-who-knew-what-and-when-about-crumbling-concrete-in-england/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NSW premier open to ‘pattern-book’ housing across Sydney as solution for crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unlikely alliance pushes for more medium-density housing of the sort typically found in inner-city suburbs Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, says he is open to a proposal to pre-approve &ldquo;pattern-book&rdquo; housing designs that can be rolled out in Sydney suburbs &ndash; an idea being championed by an unlikely alliance of unions, big business and universities.The Housing Now group, launched on Monday, argues t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/nsw-premier-open-to-pattern-book-housing-across-sydney-as-solution-for-crisis/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 11:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/nsw-premier-open-to-pattern-book-housing-across-sydney-as-solution-for-crisis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things with Anthony Burke: ‘It was lost forever in the demolition’]]></title><description><![CDATA[In our weekly interview about objects, the architect and Restoration Australia host tells us about a milk jug that is a parable on acceptance &ndash; and his surfboard called MaybelleneGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailRevitalising some of the country&rsquo;s treasured old buildings is a tough but thrilling task &ndash; as Restoration Australia proves. The show&rsquo;s latest season, available now on ABC iview, covers makeovers to a crumbling church, a former Tasmanian orphanage and a C]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/three-things-with-anthony-burke-it-was-lost-forever-in-the-demolition/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2023 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/three-things-with-anthony-burke-it-was-lost-forever-in-the-demolition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architects look to Warsaw for lessons on rebuilding Ukraine from rubble]]></title><description><![CDATA[An exhibition highlights the Polish city&rsquo;s innovative reconstruction effort after the second world war The idea of Warsaw as a phoenix city, reconstructed from ruins after the second world war, is a key part of the Polish capital&rsquo;s identity. Now, an exhibition has shed fresh light on the innovative way the rebuilding effort used ruins and rubble to create a new city.The exhibition, which has run over recent weeks at the Museum of Warsaw, argues that rubble is to Warsaw what Carrara m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architects-look-to-warsaw-for-lessons-on-rebuilding-ukraine-from-rubble/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architects-look-to-warsaw-for-lessons-on-rebuilding-ukraine-from-rubble/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s back to the Futuro in Australia, where seven of the ‘UFO houses’ have landed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mona&rsquo;s David Walsh has restored one of the cult prefabs and says one day he&rsquo;ll make it available to the public &lsquo;at an exorbitant fee of course&rsquo;Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailFuturo &ldquo;UFO houses&rdquo; are scattered around the world &ndash; disintegrating in forests, gleaming on hilltops and peeking out of back yards.They look like retro cartoon spaceships brought to life and imbued with Nordic cool. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-back-to-the-futuro-in-australia-where-seven-of-the-ufo-houses-have-landed/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2023 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-back-to-the-futuro-in-australia-where-seven-of-the-ufo-houses-have-landed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Like something out of The Flintstones’: the luxury flats causing fury in Folkestone]]></title><description><![CDATA[They&rsquo;ve been compared to termite mounds, doner kebabs, even piles of poo. We report on the outrage that has greeted plans for seaside towers in the once faded town &ndash; with one-bedroom flats costing almost half a million pounds A rippling white wall of luxury flats rises from the beach in Folkestone, on the Kent coast, the glazed bricks doing their best to gleam with summery seaside promise on an overcast day. The building swells out in a broad arc towards the sea, bulging with curved]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-something-out-of-the-flintstones-the-luxury-flats-causing-fury-in-folkestone/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 17:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-something-out-of-the-flintstones-the-luxury-flats-causing-fury-in-folkestone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architect Muyiwa Oki: ‘We need a diversity of people to solve the big issues of the day’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taking office this week, the youngest, and first black president.. youngest, and first black president of the RIBA wants to rebuild the profession with an accent on workers&rsquo; rights, the community and sustainability&ldquo;I&rsquo;m the first of a kind,&rdquo; says Muyiwa Oki. He is, in more than one way. At 32 he will take office on 1 September as the youngest-ever president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Born in Nigeria, he is the first black person in the post. In hi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-muyiwa-oki-we-need-a-diversity-of-people-to-solve-the-big-issues-of-the-day/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-muyiwa-oki-we-need-a-diversity-of-people-to-solve-the-big-issues-of-the-day/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greek temple-style house rescued from two centuries of Northumberland damp]]></title><description><![CDATA[English Heritage gives Belsay Hall a makeover, with new roof and revived gardens&ldquo;It is an amazing construction and should be more famous,&rdquo; said English Heritage properties curator Mark Douglas in the vast, echoing cellars of a remarkable, Greek temple-style building &ndash; not in Athens but eight miles from Newcastle airport.&ldquo;Architectural students should be flocking here, they really should.&rdquo; Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/greek-temple-style-house-rescued-from-two-centuries-of-northumberland-damp/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/greek-temple-style-house-rescued-from-two-centuries-of-northumberland-damp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sarah Lucas, Philip Guston and women revolt: the best art and architecture of autumn 2023]]></title><description><![CDATA[An American great for the age of Trump, a baroque master&rsquo;s feminine side and 20 contentious years for women&rsquo;s art are among the highlights aheadChester-born artist Ryan Gander directs this new walking biennial, which features a spoken-word and choral work by Elizabeth Price, Swiss duo Fischli and Weiss, film by John Akomfrah, helicopter blades and a jet fighter in an abandoned shop by Fiona Banner, and much, much more, including Gander&rsquo;s bespoke cocktails and an original themed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sarah-lucas-philip-guston-and-women-revolt-the-best-art-and-architecture-of-autumn-2023/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sarah-lucas-philip-guston-and-women-revolt-the-best-art-and-architecture-of-autumn-2023/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bye bye brutalism, hello Instagrammers: inside Geelong’s spectacular $140m arts centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia&rsquo;s newest and largest regional arts centre features malleable theatres, Indigenous art and spaces especially designed to get your camera outGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen Joel McGuinness was brought on to oversee the redevelopment of the Geelong Arts Centre, and subsequently run the venue as its CEO and creative director, he wanted to change more than the 1980s building&rsquo;s brutalist aesthetics. He wanted to redefine its purpose, to open it up to people who ma]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bye-bye-brutalism-hello-instagrammers-inside-geelongs-spectacular-140m-arts-centre/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2023 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bye-bye-brutalism-hello-instagrammers-inside-geelongs-spectacular-140m-arts-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only we’d had the vision to save the Crooked House | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Readers respond to Simon Jenkins&rsquo; article about the demolition of the 18th-century pub in StaffordshireRe Simon Jenkins&rsquo; excellent article on listing (Yes, rebuild the Crooked House brick by brick &ndash; and buttress local planning, too, 14 August), yes, the pub should be rebuilt &ndash; perhaps calling in a deconstructivist architect such as Daniel Libeskind, who specialises in sloping floors, out-leaning walls and overhanging eaves.As for listing, perhaps it would make sense to re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/if-only-wed-had-the-vision-to-save-the-crooked-house-letters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/if-only-wed-had-the-vision-to-save-the-crooked-house-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, rebuild the Crooked House brick by brick – and buttress local planning, too | Simon Jenkins]]></title><description><![CDATA[Communities need more power to protect assets such as historic pubs: the centralised system too often favours developersWhose fault is the demise of the Crooked House in Himley, Staffordshire, now a pile of bricks? The nation is up in arms. MPs, peers, mayors, editors, villagers and about 18,000 people on a Facebook group are all gnashing their teeth. Even the demolition contractor, whose digger was actually booked before the pub caught fire, is embarrassed. Many of these worthies may not have k]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/yes-rebuild-the-crooked-house-brick-by-brick-and-buttress-local-planning-too-simon-jenkins/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/yes-rebuild-the-crooked-house-brick-by-brick-and-buttress-local-planning-too-simon-jenkins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shell urged not to demolish modernist HQ over carbon emissions fears]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architects, academics and climate activists launch campaign against plan to knock down five-storey building in AberdeenAberdeen is arguably best known for two things: granite &ndash; found in nearby quarries and used to construct almost all of the coastal city&rsquo;s buildings &ndash; and oil. After the discovery of a significant reserve in the North Sea in the 1970s, Aberdeen became known as Europe&rsquo;s oil capital and a thriving oil and gas industry sprang up in Scotland&rsquo;s north-east]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/shell-urged-not-to-demolish-modernist-hq-over-carbon-emissions-fears/</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2023 15:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/shell-urged-not-to-demolish-modernist-hq-over-carbon-emissions-fears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shell accused of eco-destruction in push to demolish old HQ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plan to knock down former offices in Aberdeen will release &lsquo;vast amount of carbon emissions in atmosphere&rsquo; warn expertsAberdeen is arguably best known for two things: granite &ndash; found in nearby quarries and used to construct almost all of the coastal city&rsquo;s buildings &ndash; and oil. After the discovery of a significant reserve in the North Sea in the 1970s, Aberdeen became known as Europe&rsquo;s oil capital and a thriving oil and gas industry sprang up in Scotland&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/shell-accused-of-eco-destruction-in-push-to-demolish-old-hq/</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2023 15:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/shell-accused-of-eco-destruction-in-push-to-demolish-old-hq/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI watch: from architects’ assistants to writers’ rivals]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week in artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence is either going to save humanity or finish it off, depending on who you speak to. Either way, every week there are new developments and breakthroughs. Here are just some of the AI stories that have emerged in recent days:&ldquo;Just accept the tech, architects!&rdquo; Oliver Wainwright, our architecture and design critic, looks at whether AI will wipe out architects. Teaser: it can quickly show you what mosques in Abu Dhabi could look l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ai-watch-from-architects-assistants-to-writers-rivals/</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2023 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ai-watch-from-architects-assistants-to-writers-rivals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can vouch for rural Guardian readers | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Subscription vouchers | Small talk at the checkout | Women of Bletchley Park | Structural engineersRural readers rejoice: you can still have subscription vouchers for the Guardian (Letters, 9 August). After several anxious telephone calls, I managed to convince the subscriptions manager that my distant rural newsagent doesn&rsquo;t have access to a scanner, and that vouchers were the only way that I could continue 50-plus years of Guardian readership. A new booklet turned up within a week.Susann]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-can-vouch-for-rural-guardian-readers-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-can-vouch-for-rural-guardian-readers-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outcry over loss of features on Bangkok’s landmark ‘robot building’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campaigners criticise renovation and call for better protection for the city&rsquo;s distinctive architectureA famous Bangkok landmark known as the &ldquo;robot building&rdquo; has been stripped of its identity, heritage campaigners have said, as they called for the city&rsquo;s distinctive architecture to preserved.The building - in the form of a giant robot made up of stacks of cubes and inspired by the architect watching his son play with a toy - has loomed over one of Bangkok&rsquo;s busiest]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/outcry-over-loss-of-features-on-bangkoks-landmark-robot-building/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 15:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/outcry-over-loss-of-features-on-bangkoks-landmark-robot-building/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK philanthropist gives almost £29m to heritage skills training]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hamish Ogston&rsquo;s donation will fund up to 2,700 apprenticeships in crafts to preserve historic buildings A British philanthropist has given almost &pound;29m to heritage skills training, breathing new life into dying crafts and addressing the chronic shortage of specialists who can prevent historic buildings from deteriorating beyond repair.Hamish Ogston&rsquo;s donation, which has been made through his charitable foundation, will be announced on Thursday. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/uk-philanthropist-gives-almost-29m-to-heritage-skills-training/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/uk-philanthropist-gives-almost-29m-to-heritage-skills-training/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s already way beyond what humans can do’: will AI wipe out architects?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s revolutionising building &ndash; but could AI kill off an entire profession? Perhaps not, finds our writer, as he enters a world where Corbusier-style marvels and 500-room hotels are just a click awayA handful of little green blocks flashes up on the screen, filling a building site with a neat grid of uniform cubes. One second they form rows of towers, next they morph into low-rise courtyards, then they flip back into long slender slabs, before cycling through hundreds of other iterat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-already-way-beyond-what-humans-can-do-will-ai-wipe-out-architects/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-already-way-beyond-what-humans-can-do-will-ai-wipe-out-architects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back to the stone age: the sustainable building material we’ve all been waiting for…]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s strong, plentiful and fireproof, as well as beautiful, yet stone has long been supplanted in the building industry by energy-consuming steel, concrete and brick. A trio of advocates for this age-old material say it&rsquo;s time for a rethinkImagine a building material that is beautiful, strong, plentiful, durable and fireproof, whose use requires low levels of energy and low emissions of greenhouse gases. It is one of the most ancient known to humanity, the stuff of dolmens and temple]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/back-to-the-stone-age-the-sustainable-building-material-weve-all-been-waiting-for/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/back-to-the-stone-age-the-sustainable-building-material-weve-all-been-waiting-for/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plagued by roof defects, MPs’ Portcullis House faces more hefty repair bills]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Westminster office block, predicted to last 120 years, has suffered with faulty glazing from the beginningWhen the parliamentary office building, Portcullis House, was completed in August 2000 at a cost of &pound;235m, it was predicted to last more than 120 years with lower maintenance costs thanks to the quality workmanship and premium materials.Its glazed roof has been anything but maintenance-free, with officials reporting falling bolts, cracks and broken panes. In the latest incident las]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/plagued-by-roof-defects-mps-portcullis-house-faces-more-hefty-repair-bills/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/plagued-by-roof-defects-mps-portcullis-house-faces-more-hefty-repair-bills/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harlow church on Chemical Brothers album cover granted protected status]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our Lady of Fatima given Grade II* listing thanks to its innovative design and &lsquo;jewel-like&rsquo; interiorFor fans of electronic dance music, the church of Our Lady of Fatima in Harlow, Essex, may have a certain familiarity.The modernist building, constructed from brick and reinforced concrete with a tall needle spire piercing the sky, graced the cover of the Chemical Brothers&rsquo; 1998 album, Brothers Gonna Work It Out. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/harlow-church-on-chemical-brothers-album-cover-granted-protected-status/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/harlow-church-on-chemical-brothers-album-cover-granted-protected-status/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which is salt and which is pepper? Goole split on its landmark towers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Town&rsquo;s civic society wants to mark bicentenary with mini salt and pepper pots but can&rsquo;t decide which is whichNew York has the Empire State Building; Sydney has its opera house. Goole has its &ldquo;salt and pepper pots&rdquo;, a pair of water towers that are the closest thing the east Yorkshire town has to a landmark.The towers have been a source of local pride for almost 100 years, but now a debate has ignited over which structure is which after the local historical society announce]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/which-is-salt-and-which-is-pepper-goole-split-on-its-landmark-towers/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2023 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/which-is-salt-and-which-is-pepper-goole-split-on-its-landmark-towers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cast your gaze up and down to see more examples of unexpected art | Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ian Skidmore responds to Katy Hessel&rsquo;s article mentioning Boris Anrep&rsquo;s mosaics at the National Gallery. Plus letters from Philip Rutnam and John BaileyWhile rightly reminding us of the underrepresentation of female artists, Katy Hessel also reminds us to look for art where we might not expect to see it (Great art surrounds Londoners &ndash; if they bother to notice it, 24 July). She uses as examples the Boris Anrep mosaics at the National Gallery, where you will see Bertrand Russell]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cast-your-gaze-up-and-down-to-see-more-examples-of-unexpected-art-letter/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cast-your-gaze-up-and-down-to-see-more-examples-of-unexpected-art-letter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Design news: how to build a cabin, hi-fi as art and Indian film stars]]></title><description><![CDATA[The shortlists for the World Architecture Festival are in, Liberty textiles go in a new direction and the new art collaboration created to help Studio VoltaireThis month&rsquo;s design news features builders with big ideas. There&rsquo;s artist Devon Turnbull who creates state-of-the-art hi-fi equipment and author Will Jones who realised his dream of building a cabin in the wilderness. We&rsquo;ve also celebrate the reusers and the rebuilders, too, with a focus on architects who&rsquo;ve renovat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/design-news-how-to-build-a-cabin-hi-fi-as-art-and-indian-film-stars/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/design-news-how-to-build-a-cabin-hi-fi-as-art-and-indian-film-stars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keith Collie obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, Keith Collie, who has died aged 74, was an acclaimed architectural photographer whose work is held in collections including the Victoria &amp; Albert museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the Biblioth&egrave;que National, Paris.As well as architectural practices, he undertook commissions from patrons including the Rothschilds and the Saudi royal family, and from numerous publishing houses. Publications included The London Ritz: A Social and Architectural History, by Hugh Montgomer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/keith-collie-obituary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/keith-collie-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘This will not be swept away’: the bamboo homes helping Pakistan’s post-flood rebuild]]></title><description><![CDATA[A year on from devastating floods, a leading architect is leading a project to build affordable and sustainable homes while empowering communities in the processA year ago, Shani Dana&rsquo;s mudbrick house was swept away in the worst floods on record to hit Pakistan. More than 1,700 people were killed and 900,000 homes damaged or destroyed. Sindh province, where Dana lives, was the worst affected.While waiting for government money to rebuild her home in Wasram village, in the Tando Allahyar dis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/this-will-not-be-swept-away-the-bamboo-homes-helping-pakistans-post-flood-rebuild/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/this-will-not-be-swept-away-the-bamboo-homes-helping-pakistans-post-flood-rebuild/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parisian panache: six of the most spectacular Paris Métro stations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grand designs will feature in a major expansion of the Paris M&eacute;tro, but there is plenty of theatricality, beauty and swagger on show at existing stationsOne aspect of the Paris M&eacute;tro is minimalism. Most stations are simply white subterranean vaults with no surface building to sully the beauty of the streets. Sometimes, a station entrance is indicated by art nouveau iron flowers of no known genus (except possibly triffid), and these &ndash; the creations of Hector Guimard in the ear]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/parisian-panache-six-of-the-most-spectacular-paris-mtro-stations/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/parisian-panache-six-of-the-most-spectacular-paris-mtro-stations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aviva Studios, Manchester review – where’s the joy?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Designed by celebrated practice OMA to morph from small-scale to vast and host the city&rsquo;s international festival, Manchester&rsquo;s new &pound;211m Aviva Studios, formerly Factory International, feels like a missed opportunityThe best solution to an architectural problem, argued the great architectural thinker Cedric Price (1934-2003), may not necessarily be a building. I mention Price because his spirit lurks somewhere behind the complex formerly known as Factory International, recently]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/aviva-studios-manchester-review-wheres-the-joy/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/aviva-studios-manchester-review-wheres-the-joy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of Grayson Perry, a chicken and egg situation and Black erasure – the week in art]]></title><description><![CDATA[The artist takes his smash hits to Edinburgh, a tiny sculpture garden opens and Gary Simmons traces racial history &ndash; all in your weekly dispatchGrayson Perry: Smash Hits<br />
A retrospective of the eloquent artist&rsquo;s works in clay, textiles, printmaking and more.<br />
&bull; National, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 22 July-12 November. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-best-of-grayson-perry-a-chicken-and-egg-situation-and-black-erasure-the-week-in-art/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-best-of-grayson-perry-a-chicken-and-egg-situation-and-black-erasure-the-week-in-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four London Underground phone kiosks given Grade II-listed status]]></title><description><![CDATA[K8s installed on tube stations between 1968 and 1983 are listed for architectural and historic interestFour rare phone boxes on London Underground stations have been given Grade II-listed status by the government for their architectural and historic interest.The phone boxes are among 11,000 K8 kiosks that were installed across the UK between 1968 and 1983. Only about 50 remain, mostly in Hull where they were part of an independent phone network rather than the property of British Telecom. Contin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/four-london-underground-phone-kiosks-given-grade-ii-listed-status/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/four-london-underground-phone-kiosks-given-grade-ii-listed-status/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riba launches Reinvention prize to encourage refurbishment over demolition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shortlist of award for repurposed buildings rather than new-builds includes Wolverhampton School of Architecture and Museum of the Home in LondonThe Riba Stirling Prize for flamboyant new architecture faces a humble challenger &ndash; the Reinvention award for the transformation of second-hand buildings. The Royal Institute of British Architects has created the new prize to encourage architects to pour their creativity into refurbishing existing buildings, rather than demolishing them in favour]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/riba-launches-reinvention-prize-to-encourage-refurbishment-over-demolition/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/riba-launches-reinvention-prize-to-encourage-refurbishment-over-demolition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riba launch Reinvention prize to encourage refurbishment over demolition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shortlist of award for repurposed buildings rather than new-builds includes Wolverhampton School of Architecture and Museum of the Home in LondonThe Riba Stirling Prize for flamboyant new architecture faces a humble challenger &ndash; the Reinvention award for the transformation of second-hand buildings. The Royal Institute of British Architects has created the new prize to encourage architects to pour their creativity into refurbishing existing buildings, rather than demolishing them in favour]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/riba-launch-reinvention-prize-to-encourage-refurbishment-over-demolition/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/riba-launch-reinvention-prize-to-encourage-refurbishment-over-demolition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The play’s the thing – but its success depends on the theatre too | Michael Billington]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not all buildings are created equal. From sightlines to acoustics to the alchemy of actor-audience rapport, the physical facts of a dramatic space are fundamentalWhat makes a good theatre? Critics are not the most reliable guides. We sit in the best seats, don&rsquo;t have to pay, and are there to assess the performance rather than the building. If ever I have wanted guidance on architectural issues, I have turned to Iain Mackintosh, who from 1973 worked for Theatre Projects Consultants, has des]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-plays-the-thing-but-its-success-depends-on-the-theatre-too-michael-billington/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-plays-the-thing-but-its-success-depends-on-the-theatre-too-michael-billington/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Herzog &amp; de Meuron review &ndash; inscrutable show puts life before architecture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Royal Academy, London<br />
This fascinating if oblique showcase of the remarkable Swiss practice&rsquo;s work explores the way buildings are made and inhabited, rather than the structures themselvesThere is a 37-minute film, in the centre of the Royal Academy&rsquo;s exhibition of the Swiss architects Herzog &amp; de Meuron, that hardly seems to be about architecture at all. Made by the Italian-French partnership of Ila B&ecirc;ka and Louise Lemoine, it focuses on a 20-year-old rehabilitation centre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/herzog-amp-de-meuron-review-ndash-inscrutable-show-puts-life-before-architecture/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/herzog-amp-de-meuron-review-ndash-inscrutable-show-puts-life-before-architecture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there’s no GP and you can’t buy a pint of milk, what’s the point of Northstowe? | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[The biggest new town since Milton Keynes is billed as &lsquo;unique&rsquo;, but provision of even basic services seems to have been forgottenNorthstowe is a new town, billed as the largest since Milton Keynes was launched in the 1960s. It is, its developers say, &ldquo;sustainable&rdquo;. It &ldquo;has a strong sense of community and an identity that is entirely unique&rdquo; &ndash; so much so, it turns out, that it has no shop, cafe or GP surgery, which means that anyone who wants to buy a pin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/if-theres-no-gp-and-you-cant-buy-a-pint-of-milk-whats-the-point-of-northstowe-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2023 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/if-theres-no-gp-and-you-cant-buy-a-pint-of-milk-whats-the-point-of-northstowe-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Herzog &amp; de Meuron review &ndash; architecture&rsquo;s masters of reinvention reveal their box of tricks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Royal Academy, London<br />
This survey of the practice&rsquo;s work, full of strange objects and VR tricks, seeks to challenge Herzog&rsquo;s own view that &lsquo;architecture exhibitions are so boring&rsquo; &ndash; but doesn&rsquo;t always succeedA row of crumpled metal pipes lies in a glass vitrine in the Royal Academy, with the look of battered building-site detritus scavenged from a skip. These bits of old pipe, it turns out, have a hallowed status in the archive of Swiss architects Herzog &amp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/herzog-amp-de-meuron-review-ndash-architecturersquos-masters-of-reinvention-reveal-their-box-of-tricks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 17:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/herzog-amp-de-meuron-review-ndash-architecturersquos-masters-of-reinvention-reveal-their-box-of-tricks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Architecture Festival 2023 shortlist – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The World Architecture Festival&rsquo;s 2023 shortlist has been announced, revealing projects from around the world spanning categories such as religion, energy, transport and health. This year&rsquo;s festival will be held in Singapore from 29 November to 1 December, where shortlisted entries will present their projects to a 140-person judging panel in hopes of winning awards Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/world-architecture-festival-2023-shortlist-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/world-architecture-festival-2023-shortlist-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Almost modernist’: appeal launched to save derelict RAF airbase building]]></title><description><![CDATA[Watch station at RAF Ibsley is thought to be structurally unique as well as historically importantIts walls are made of crumbling concrete and covered in graffiti, its windows shattered or stolen, and the landscape it was built to oversee has long since been dug up and carted away.But this derelict shell in a corner of rural Hampshire, once a wartime RAF watching station, is so rare and important that it must urgently be saved, according to building conservation campaigners. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/almost-modernist-appeal-launched-to-save-derelict-raf-airbase-building/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2023 16:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/almost-modernist-appeal-launched-to-save-derelict-raf-airbase-building/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Oxford Street M&amp;S, now Euston Tower: don&rsquo;t pull them down, renovate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plans to redevelop London&rsquo;s 36-floor Euston Tower would save 25% of the old building. That&rsquo;s better than most &ndash; but the climate emergency requires a more radical rethink of constructionSome time between now and the 20th of this month, Michael Gove is due to make one of the more momentous planning decisions of recent times. In his capacity as secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities, he has to determine whether Marks &amp; Spencer can or cannot demolish its f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/first-oxford-street-mamps-now-euston-tower-donrsquot-pull-them-down-renovate/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/first-oxford-street-mamps-now-euston-tower-donrsquot-pull-them-down-renovate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architect Norman Foster: ‘I suppose in another life it would have been exciting to fly fighters’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The designer of the Gherkin on collaborating with Steve Jobs, feeling positive about humanity&rsquo;s future and the strong work ethic of the northSir Norman Foster, 88, is one of the world&rsquo;s leading architects. His works include Apple&rsquo;s headquarters in Silicon Valley, the Gherkin in London and the Sage music centre in Gateshead. His Norman Foster Foundation, based in Madrid, aims to &ldquo;help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists to anticipate the future&rdquo;. A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-norman-foster-i-suppose-in-another-life-it-would-have-been-exciting-to-fly-fighters/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2023 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-norman-foster-i-suppose-in-another-life-it-would-have-been-exciting-to-fly-fighters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is built on the cult of stardom – its #MeToo moment is no surprise | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Allegations of sexual harassment against David Adjaye are shocking, but at least expose toxic practices in the industryLast week the Financial Times published an article in which the celebrated architect Sir David Adjaye, winner of the 2021 Royal Gold Medal for architecture, once described by Barack Obama as &ldquo;genius, pure and simple&rdquo;, was accused by three women formerly employed by him of sexual assault, sexual harassment and a toxic work culture in his practice. Adjaye has denied th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architecture-is-built-on-the-cult-of-stardom-its-metoo-moment-is-no-surprise-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2023 08:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architecture-is-built-on-the-cult-of-stardom-its-metoo-moment-is-no-surprise-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘There was never any plan’: inside Germany’s wild architecture theme park]]></title><description><![CDATA[A furniture boss and design enthusiast turned the Vitra Campus into a wonderland of buildings by starchitects from Renzo Piano to Frank Gehry. So why is the final building a modest potting shed? A stubbly thatched roof pokes up above a hedge in a field on the outskirts of a small town in south-west Germany, the latest arrival to an unlikely scene of experimental structures dotted around the landscape. Nearby the futuristic profile of a geodesic dome rises, along with the folded aluminium shell o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/there-was-never-any-plan-inside-germanys-wild-architecture-theme-park/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/there-was-never-any-plan-inside-germanys-wild-architecture-theme-park/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young V&amp;A review &ndash; child&rsquo;s play with added wonder]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are moments of overdirection, but the &pound;13m revamp of the former Museum of Childhood in east London is a lighter, brighter magical toyshopAn arched passage is cut through a hemicone, one that is half finished in reddish timber boarding, half in a painted imitation of richly veined green marble. Part ancient tomb, part wigwam, part child&rsquo;s building block, this portal is geometrically grand but dimensionally modest. It leads to something called the Mini Museum, a space intended fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/young-vampa-review-ndash-childrsquos-play-with-added-wonder/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/young-vampa-review-ndash-childrsquos-play-with-added-wonder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As HSBC quits and hybrid working stays, is this the end for Canary Wharf?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The bank will leave London&rsquo;s Docklands in 2027, and others will follow as need for office space reduces and staff seek better work environmentsJust over 20 years ago, HSBC moved into its new headquarters in the former docklands area of Canary Wharf in London, a silvery tower designed by the leading architects Foster + Partners that was then the second tallest in Britain. It was a financial factory for 8,500 workers, built with precisely the dimensions and the regularity, as well as what wa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/as-hsbc-quits-and-hybrid-working-stays-is-this-the-end-for-canary-wharf/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/as-hsbc-quits-and-hybrid-working-stays-is-this-the-end-for-canary-wharf/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medieval Bristol chapel sold off by Henry VIII to reopen to the public]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lord Mayor&rsquo;s chapel, sold during the dissolution of the monasteries, has been described as a &lsquo;hidden gem&rsquo;A medieval chapel in the centre of Bristol that Henry VIII sold off at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries has been taken back into the care of the city&rsquo;s cathedral and is to reopen to the public.Including features such as a fan-vaulted ceiling and an ornate Spanish tiled floor, Bristol Cathedral describes the Lord Mayor&rsquo;s chapel as a &ldquo;hidden gem]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/medieval-bristol-chapel-sold-off-by-henry-viii-to-reopen-to-the-public/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/medieval-bristol-chapel-sold-off-by-henry-viii-to-reopen-to-the-public/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bristol chapel built in the 13th century will reopen to the public]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lord Mayor&rsquo;s Chapel, sold off during Henry VIII&rsquo;s dissolution of the monasteries, has been described as a &lsquo;hidden gem&rsquo;A medieval chapel in the centre of Bristol that was sold off at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII has been taken back into the care of the city&rsquo;s cathedral and is set to reopen to the public.Including features such as a fan vaulted ceiling and an ornate Spanish tiled floor, the Lord Mayor&rsquo;s chapel is described as a &l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bristol-chapel-built-in-the-13th-century-will-reopen-to-the-public/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bristol-chapel-built-in-the-13th-century-will-reopen-to-the-public/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letter: Sir Michael Hopkins obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the 1980s Sir Michael Hopkins and his wife and colleague Patty played a crucial role in clarifying the confused interior spaces of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Brought in by the director, Sir Roy Strong, they collaborated with a team of curators (of which I was one) to map out what was to become the basis for the re-configuration of the V&amp;A&rsquo;s gallery displays and the re-interpretation of its collections.This resulted in the museum&rsquo;s masterplan and the creation of se]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/letter-sir-michael-hopkins-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/letter-sir-michael-hopkins-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young V&amp;A review: &lsquo;The cobwebs have been truly blown away&rsquo;]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a three-year, &pound;13m reimagining, the former Museum of Childhood has been reborn as a joyful and inspiring paradise of playFor a museum aimed at children, the V&amp;A&rsquo;s Museum of Childhood has never felt very much like fun. Standing like an imposing Victorian workhouse in London&rsquo;s Bethnal Green, its cavernous interior has always had the air of a mausoleum of toys, with stacks of dusty games sealed disappointingly behind glass. Rows of Victorian doll&rsquo;s houses and their]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/young-vampa-review-lsquothe-cobwebs-have-been-truly-blown-awayrsquo/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/young-vampa-review-lsquothe-cobwebs-have-been-truly-blown-awayrsquo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Design news: solar power to go, graphic rewilding and virtual meetings]]></title><description><![CDATA[The history of the London flat, the woman reshaping Nigeria and meeting podsThis month&rsquo;s design news looks at buildings in Africa and London and investigates how architects shape our cities. It also offers ways of getting away from it all with green energy on the go and 3D meeting pods that put Zoom to shame. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/design-news-solar-power-to-go-graphic-rewilding-and-virtual-meetings/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/design-news-solar-power-to-go-graphic-rewilding-and-virtual-meetings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Impactful and beautiful’: how US homeless shelters are getting a radical redesign]]></title><description><![CDATA[New approach focuses on how physical environment shapes people&rsquo;s lives, harnessing the therapeutic power of designTell us: have you struggled with the US housing crisis?When a former resident of the Path Home Family Village in Portland, Oregon, called and asked if he and his partner could get married at the shelter, Brandi Tuck, the executive director, knew that the shelter&rsquo;s redesign had truly worked.&ldquo;Homelessness is the hardest, most power-stripping experience a family can ha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/impactful-and-beautiful-how-us-homeless-shelters-are-getting-a-radical-redesign/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/impactful-and-beautiful-how-us-homeless-shelters-are-getting-a-radical-redesign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[100 years of Le Corbusier: what does he mean to today’s architects?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The towering and divisive figure who transformed architecture published his manifesto for modernism in 1923. Here architects including Frank Gehry and Jacques Herzog explore his legacyVers Une Architecture &ndash; Towards an Architecture &ndash; is the most influential book on the design of buildings since Vitruvius wrote his De Architectura in the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus. It is a manifesto for modernism, arguing that the beauty and logic of machines and engineering &ndash; of viaduc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/100-years-of-le-corbusier-what-does-he-mean-to-todays-architects/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/100-years-of-le-corbusier-what-does-he-mean-to-todays-architects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Portrait Gallery £41.3m makeover review – a breath of fresh air]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect Jamie Fobert&rsquo;s new entrance is the crowning achievement of this bold refurbishment, which opens forgotten windows and embraces the NPG&rsquo;s mixed identity as temple of art-cum-tourist attractionArt critic Laura Cumming on the National Portrait Gallery reopeningThe National Portrait Gallery is a hybrid, a mongrel, a compromise &ndash; part Prado, part Madame Tussauds, a place to admire art and gawp at famous names. It&rsquo;s a combination that might deprive it of the highest l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/national-portrait-gallery-413m-makeover-review-a-breath-of-fresh-air/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/national-portrait-gallery-413m-makeover-review-a-breath-of-fresh-air/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paris exhibition aims to dispel myth of ‘primitive’ England in middle ages]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rare treasures that escaped the destruction of the English Reformation show a country on the forefront of medieval and gothic artA new exhibition in Paris aims to show how England in the middle ages was very much part of Europe&rsquo;s dynamic art, architectural, trade and culture scene between AD1000 and AD1500.Organisers said the event would discredit the &ldquo;popular perception&rdquo; &ndash; mainly across the Channel &ndash; that medieval England was &ldquo;primitive and barbaric&rdquo; wh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/paris-exhibition-aims-to-dispel-myth-of-primitive-england-in-middle-ages/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/paris-exhibition-aims-to-dispel-myth-of-primitive-england-in-middle-ages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space race: winning Sydney houses show how to do more with less]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 2023 NSW Architecture awards recognise two properties that test the boundaries of what can be done with lessGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAt first glance, the Booth Farrow-Palmer family home in Lane Cove looks like many others dotted around Sydney&rsquo;s urban landscape: an old brick house that has been given a facelift with a lick of paint.But the property, designed by architecture firm Saha, won two gongs in this year&rsquo;s NSW Architecture awards &ndash; one for sustainabi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/space-race-winning-sydney-houses-show-how-to-do-more-with-less/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2023 02:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/space-race-winning-sydney-houses-show-how-to-do-more-with-less/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning Sydney houses show how to do medium density]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 2023 NSW Architecture awards recognise two properties that test the boundaries of what can be done with lessGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAt first glance, the Booth Farrow-Palmer family home in Lane Cove looks like many others dotted around Sydney&rsquo;s urban landscape: an old brick house that has been given a facelift with a lick of paint.But the property, designed by architecture firm Saha, won two gongs in this year&rsquo;s NSW Architecture awards &ndash; one for sustainabi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/winning-sydney-houses-show-how-to-do-medium-density/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2023 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/winning-sydney-houses-show-how-to-do-medium-density/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windrush heroes, knotted ropes and Macca’s Beatles snaps – the week in art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leonor Antunes gets knotted, Carrie Mae Weems questions Black representation and Paul McCartney shares his early adventures with the Fab Four &ndash; all in your weekly dispatchLeonor Antunes<br />
This Portuguese sculptor who lives in Berlin presents knotted ropes and a cork floor in a minimalist meditation on women&rsquo;s artistic traditions.&bull; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, from 24 June to 8 October. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/windrush-heroes-knotted-ropes-and-maccas-beatles-snaps-the-week-in-art/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2023 12:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/windrush-heroes-knotted-ropes-and-maccas-beatles-snaps-the-week-in-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Queen City: remembering the black neighbourhood erased for the Pentagon]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new monument has been crafted in Virginia to commemorate the historically black neighbourhood destroyed in 1941 for the construction of the PentagonWilliam Vollin remembers the games he played as a boy. &ldquo;Hide and go seek and marbles and ball games and that kind of thing,&rdquo; he says in a video call. &ldquo;I never thought I was poor personally because I had a grandmother who worked 30 years or so as a maid and always kept food on the table. We adjusted to the environment.&rdquo;Now 92]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/queen-city-remembering-the-black-neighbourhood-erased-for-the-pentagon/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/queen-city-remembering-the-black-neighbourhood-erased-for-the-pentagon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new National Portrait Gallery review – ‘It’s the same old cocktail party’]]></title><description><![CDATA[National Portrait Gallery, LondonWe&rsquo;re told it has been changed utterly. As if. The NPG makes a claim to be a serious temple of art &ndash; but its dismal subservience to celebrity persistsThe National Portrait Gallery in London has been closed for three years. I wish I could say that I&rsquo;ve missed it. This is a museum with barely any great art in it, a peculiarly British institution that reflects our national cult of celebrity. Since 1856 it has amassed pictures of the great and good,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-new-national-portrait-gallery-review-its-the-same-old-cocktail-party/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-new-national-portrait-gallery-review-its-the-same-old-cocktail-party/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slashed stone, daylight galore and doors by Tracey Emin: the National Portrait Gallery’s £41m rebirth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forty-five faces of women, scribbled by Emin, now beam out from bronze doors &ndash; all part of an astonishing revamp that has turned this once unloved London landmark into a great buildingThe National Portrait Gallery in London has always felt like the poor cousin of the National Gallery, an afterthought tucked around the back of the star attraction. It stands as an awkward rear extension, squeezed into an unloved armpit where the sticky chaos of Leicester Square spills into Charing Cross Road]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/slashed-stone-daylight-galore-and-doors-by-tracey-emin-the-national-portrait-gallerys-41m-rebirth/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/slashed-stone-daylight-galore-and-doors-by-tracey-emin-the-national-portrait-gallerys-41m-rebirth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did this $72m ‘wave house’ inspire Sydney Opera House? Harry Gesner’s California creation up for sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whether the self-taught architect&rsquo;s Malibu masterpiece influenced J&oslash;rn Utzon&rsquo;s iconic Australian design remains the subject of debateGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA beach house that could have played a role in J&oslash;rn Utzon&rsquo;s design of the Sydney Opera House is up for sale &ndash; with a price tag of US$49.5m ($72m).Malibu&rsquo;s &ldquo;wave house&rdquo;, designed by Californian self-taught architect Harry Gesner, has been home to pop star Rod Stewart a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/did-this-72m-wave-house-inspire-sydney-opera-house-harry-gesners-california-creation-up-for-sale/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/did-this-72m-wave-house-inspire-sydney-opera-house-harry-gesners-california-creation-up-for-sale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Michael Hopkins obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of Britain&rsquo;s leading architects admired for the Mound stand at Lord&rsquo;s, Westminster tube station and the 2012 Olympic velodromeThe architect Sir Michael Hopkins, who has died aged 88, occupied a special place in a much abused profession. The best known Hopkins buildings &ndash; the Mound stand at Lord&rsquo;s cricket ground, Glyndebourne opera house, Westminster underground station, the 2012 Olympic velodrome &ndash; command not only respect but positive affection. Hopkins gave mo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sir-michael-hopkins-obituary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sir-michael-hopkins-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Michael Hopkins, Portcullis House and Mound Stand architect, dies aged 88]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hopkins was part of vanguard of &lsquo;hi-tech&rsquo; architects who dominated building design in UK and beyondSir Michael Hopkins, one of the leading British architects of his era, has died leaving behind a built legacy including Portcullis House at the Palace of Westminster, the Mound Stand at Lord&rsquo;s cricket ground and the Jubilee campus at Nottingham University.His wife, Patty Hopkins, with whom he formed Hopkins Architects in 1976, said he had &ldquo;died peacefully at the age of 88, s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sir-michael-hopkins-portcullis-house-and-mound-stand-architect-dies-aged-88/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sir-michael-hopkins-portcullis-house-and-mound-stand-architect-dies-aged-88/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will life after globalisation look like? The Venice Biennale may hold the answer | Lorenzo Marsili]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cultural colonialism has rightly been rejected &ndash; but China&rsquo;s protest shows that authoritarians can also weaponise tradition This year&rsquo;s Venice Architecture Biennale, titled Laboratory for the Future, was inaugurated on the same day that the leaders of the G7 industrialised nations met in Hiroshima. As different as these events appeared, both signalled the end of globalisation. Both also displayed the promise and perils of a fragmenting world.Of all the arts, architecture is the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/what-will-life-after-globalisation-look-like-the-venice-biennale-may-hold-the-answer-lorenzo-marsili/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/what-will-life-after-globalisation-look-like-the-venice-biennale-may-hold-the-answer-lorenzo-marsili/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serpentine Pavilion 2023 review – Lina Ghotmeh’s convivial canopy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The celebrated Beirut-born architect Lina Ghotmeh designed her pleated timber pavilion to bring people together in nature. It&rsquo;s a nice idea, though the details let it down &ndash; and the Serpentine&rsquo;s formula needs a rethinkThe completed buildings of the French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh, although few in number, are works of strength and poise. Her recently completed leather-working workshops for Herm&egrave;s, in Normandy, are a composition of variously shaped brick arches set]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/serpentine-pavilion-2023-review-lina-ghotmehs-convivial-canopy/</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/serpentine-pavilion-2023-review-lina-ghotmehs-convivial-canopy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tale of two cities: Paris proves that you don’t need skyscrapers to thrive | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[A ban on high-rise buildings contrasts with Britain&rsquo;s ever thrusting capitalThere&rsquo;s a story that sections of the British commentariat have liked to tell for some time, about the differences between London and Paris. The French capital, it says, is over-regulated and over-taxed, nice to look at, good for weekend mini-breaks, but stagnant, frozen, a museum piece. Its British counterpart, in this reading, is thrusting, dynamic, creative, global, open for business.The contrast plays out]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-tale-of-two-cities-paris-proves-that-you-dont-need-skyscrapers-to-thrive-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 10:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-tale-of-two-cities-paris-proves-that-you-dont-need-skyscrapers-to-thrive-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate eco building – made of salt, sunflowers and recycled urine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Its door handles are made of salt. Its walls are made of sunflowers. Its furniture is made of Japanese knotweed. And it was stained with dyes made with filtered urine. Is this recycling marvel in southern France the future of architecture?In a former railway repair shop in the southern French city of Arles, flasks of lurid green algae are bubbling away on a shelf, in a room that looks like a cross between a modern-day laboratory and a witch&rsquo;s potion-brewing den. Nearby, a 3D printer spews]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-ultimate-eco-building-made-of-salt-sunflowers-and-recycled-urine/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-ultimate-eco-building-made-of-salt-sunflowers-and-recycled-urine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serpentine Pavilion 2023 review – giant cocktail umbrella gives the park a party vibe]]></title><description><![CDATA[French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has unveiled her festive big top. And this symphony of timber is a lovely place to eat and think about food &ndash; if you can overlook the clumsy flat-pack feelLong wooden ribs fan out from the centre of the roof of this year&rsquo;s Serpentine pavilion, like the gills of a gigantic portobello mushroom. Beneath the low-slung canopy, reddish oak tables and stools are arranged in a momentous circle, as if awaiting an important meeting, like a council chamber]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/serpentine-pavilion-2023-review-giant-cocktail-umbrella-gives-the-park-a-party-vibe/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/serpentine-pavilion-2023-review-giant-cocktail-umbrella-gives-the-park-a-party-vibe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protecting Bosnia and Herzegovina’s anti-fascist legacy: Mostar’s Partisan Memorial Cemetery]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most significant anti-fascist architectural landmark in the former Yugoslavia has been neglected and left as a ruin for decades. Having survived the 1990s Bosnian war, the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar now faces its biggest threat &ndash; and possible disappearance &ndash; as organised neofascists are intent on destroying the necropolis and all it stands for. A small group of residents and activists are fighting to protect the cemetery and its history for future generations, but with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/protecting-bosnia-and-herzegovinas-anti-fascist-legacy-mostars-partisan-memorial-cemetery/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/protecting-bosnia-and-herzegovinas-anti-fascist-legacy-mostars-partisan-memorial-cemetery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raptor-ous reception for nesting ospreys | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Birdwatching | The sound of organs | Rightwing democracy | Focused on deliveringThe Country Diary (27 May) captured perfectly the agonies and ecstasies of the thousands of people across the country following nesting ospreys, whether we watch on the ground or on webcams.<br />
Pam Lunn<br />
Kenilworth, Warwickshire&bull; It is wonderful to watch ospreys at various locations online. I am following the Dyfi, Glaslyn and Brenig nests. Nature is amazing.<br />
Helen Evans<br />
Ruthin, Denbighshire Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/raptor-ous-reception-for-nesting-ospreys-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2023 18:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/raptor-ous-reception-for-nesting-ospreys-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things with Tim Ross: ‘It was her final gift of love to me’]]></title><description><![CDATA[In our weekly interview about objects, the comedian and architecture enthusiast tells us about a memento of his late mother and a simple metal tin that sparks joyRead more Three things interviews hereGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailHe&rsquo;s best known as a comedian, radio host and one half of Merrick and Rosso, but Tim Ross is also a self-confessed architecture and design nerd. For the last 11 years Ross has performed a live show about buildings around the world. He also serves as a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/three-things-with-tim-ross-it-was-her-final-gift-of-love-to-me/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2023 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/three-things-with-tim-ross-it-was-her-final-gift-of-love-to-me/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who should win the 2023 Stirling prize? One of these…]]></title><description><![CDATA[Of the 131 RIBA regional award winners just announced, this year&rsquo;s Stirling prize contenders ought to include a precision-tooled Isle of Wight house, the LSE&rsquo;s latest addition and a farm in the middle of BelfastHow do you measure a classical church in the north-east of England, chastely converted into a community centre, against a louche re-creation in a London theatre of a Weimar republic nightclub? Or a shed for a city farm in Northern Ireland against a sumptuous bespoke guest hous]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/who-should-win-the-2023-stirling-prize-one-of-these/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2023 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/who-should-win-the-2023-stirling-prize-one-of-these/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quilt environment: imaginary spaces rendered in fabric – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[British artist Kate Williams makes large-scale, wall-hung quilts depicting imaginary postmodern buildings in empty landscapes, which she describes as &ldquo;De Chirico transplanted to 1980s Miami&rdquo;. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m interested in artifice and illusion, and in the playfulness of both postmodern architecture and 18th-century trompe l&rsquo;oeil,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;I hope there&rsquo;s something mildly unsettling about these designs.&rdquo; Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-quilt-environment-imaginary-spaces-rendered-in-fabric-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2023 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-quilt-environment-imaginary-spaces-rendered-in-fabric-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photorealist suburbia, Russian war protesters and the dark side of Constable – the week in art]]></title><description><![CDATA[A major show for Boyd and Evans in Milton Keynes, women mourn victims of the war in Ukraine and looming storms spark savage poetry &ndash; all in your weekly dispatchBoyd &amp; Evans<br />
Fionnuala Boyd and Les Evans have been making photorealist art since the 1960s and they&rsquo;ve found their perfect subject in the Ballardian townscape of Milton Keynes.<br />
&bull; MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 27 May to 17 September Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/photorealist-suburbia-russian-war-protesters-and-the-dark-side-of-constable-the-week-in-art/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/photorealist-suburbia-russian-war-protesters-and-the-dark-side-of-constable-the-week-in-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Migrant street vendors of Barcelona tell story of survival at Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Top Manta, a mostly migrant cooperative, is the inspiration for Catalonia and the Balearics&rsquo; entry to the architecture arm of the prestigious festival. We enjoyed a previewThey are a familiar sight on the streets and sandy beach of Barcelona: vendors, blankets spread out in front of them, selling trinkets or toys to frequently disinterested passers-by. Now Catalonia and the Balearic Islands have chosen Top Manta, a Barcelona-based cooperative representing the mostly migrant, undocumented s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/migrant-street-vendors-of-barcelona-tell-story-of-survival-at-venice-biennale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/migrant-street-vendors-of-barcelona-tell-story-of-survival-at-venice-biennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alice Coleman obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Geographer who championed the idea of &lsquo;defensible space&rsquo; in order to improve on the problematic designs of some high-rise estatesThe geographer Alice Coleman, who has died aged 99, set out to prove that British modernist high-rise council estates were failing because their layout lacked &ldquo;defensible space&rdquo;, and that their problematic design reduced social interaction while encouraging crime and anti-social behaviour.In her book Utopia on Trial: Vision and Reality in Planne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/alice-coleman-obituary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 18:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/alice-coleman-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letter: Elain Harwood obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Through her contribution to the Post-War Listing Steering Group, Elain Harwood ensured the preservation of 20th-century buildings that could well have been lost or compromised, including the Festival Hall in London and the Byker estate in Newcastle.At the same time, and behind the scenes, she worked tirelessly to secure the survival of much else besides, including the original campus at the University of York, designed by RMJM (Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall) in 1963-64. &ldquo;Nowhere else,&rd]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/letter-elain-harwood-obituary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2023 17:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/letter-elain-harwood-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale 2023 review – an important challenge to western architectural tradition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Under the title The Laboratory of the Future, Lesley Lokko, the Ghanaian-Scottish curator of this year&rsquo;s biennale, succeeds in her aim to show off under-represented talent from Africa and elsewhere &ndash; even if it doesn&rsquo;t all quite come offThe Venice Biennale, a grand exhibition that concentrates on art and architecture in alternate years, has been until now a Eurovision of the visual. It is held partly in a series of national pavilions in specially dedicated gardens, originally l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/venice-biennale-2023-review-an-important-challenge-to-western-architectural-tradition/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/venice-biennale-2023-review-an-important-challenge-to-western-architectural-tradition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘All of a sudden there’s a house’: could prefab be the future of Australian homes?]]></title><description><![CDATA[They were once a byword for poor design but prefabricated houses can be green, fast, affordable &ndash; and pretty, architects sayGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA wooden deck stretches out to a view over the horizon. It welcomes the mountain air but does not blow you away. Inside, morning light beckons through skylights before curtains play with the afternoon sun. Open plan but comforting, functional but fun. This house has has been put up in a matter of weeks, from pieces made in a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/all-of-a-sudden-theres-a-house-could-prefab-be-the-future-of-australian-homes/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/all-of-a-sudden-theres-a-house-could-prefab-be-the-future-of-australian-homes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The toxic landscape of colonialism: Venice’s architecture biennale spotlights Africa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is the era of the elderly white male finally over? This year&rsquo;s global extravaganza, boasting a Ghanaian-Scottish curator, features a huge number of exhibitors from Africa &ndash; and shows its vicious exploitation continuesA faceted brick wall stands in the middle of Venice&rsquo;s Arsenale, like a sharply creased origami screen, blocking the route of visitors to this year&rsquo;s Architecture Biennale. As you get closer, it looks like a rubble tapestry, with pieces of crushed brick and co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-toxic-landscape-of-colonialism-venices-architecture-biennale-spotlights-africa/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2023 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-toxic-landscape-of-colonialism-venices-architecture-biennale-spotlights-africa/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Design me a chair made from petals!’: The artists pushing the boundaries of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[From restoring artefacts destroyed by Isis to training robot vacuum cleaners, architects, artists and game developers are discovering the potential &ndash; and pitfalls &ndash; of the virtual worldA shower of pink petals rains down in slow motion against an ethereal backdrop of minimalist white arches, bathed in the soft focus of a cosmetics advert. The camera pulls back to reveal the petals have clustered together to form a delicate puffy armchair, standing in the centre of a temple-like space,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/design-me-a-chair-made-from-petals-the-artists-pushing-the-boundaries-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/design-me-a-chair-made-from-petals-the-artists-pushing-the-boundaries-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scrum in building form: Limerick hopes to cash in on rugby supremacy with new attraction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hi-tech museum aims to inspire 100,000 visitors a year and revitalise the city&rsquo;s centreIt rises over the centre of Limerick in a six-storey array of bricks and pillars and vaults that has been compared to a scrum in building form.The International Rugby Experience, Ireland&rsquo;s newest tourist attraction looms over its surroundings with a swagger that channels Ireland&rsquo;s performances on the field. The &euro;30m (&pound;26m) complex boasts a design, scale and ambition to match the co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-scrum-in-building-form-limerick-hopes-to-cash-in-on-rugby-supremacy-with-new-attraction/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-scrum-in-building-form-limerick-hopes-to-cash-in-on-rugby-supremacy-with-new-attraction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s Liverpool Street station redevelopment: on the wrong track?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Proposing artificial light, a concourse one floor away from the platforms and the partial demolition of a listed building, a &pound;1.5bn plan to redevelop this historic London railway terminus seems ill-conceived, even with Herzog &amp; de Meuron on boardLiverpool Street station in London, grand old Victorian terminus, one of the busiest in the country by footfall &ndash; honoured by a place on the Monopoly board &ndash; plus the adjoining former Great Eastern hotel, where the vampire-hunter Va]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/londons-liverpool-street-station-redevelopment-on-the-wrong-track/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/londons-liverpool-street-station-redevelopment-on-the-wrong-track/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It doesn’t need regeneration’: Peckham’s charm under threat from gentrification plans]]></title><description><![CDATA[The quirky appeal of Rye Lane is threatened by developer&rsquo;s 14 high-rise flats, sayresidentsThere&rsquo;s a scene in Rye Lane, a film said to be breathing new life into romcoms, where the two main characters stroll past a body-popping white-haired man in a spangly Yves Klein blue cowboy outfit, then continue their conversation sitting in giant high heels outside a shoe shop.The moonwalking cowboy is an actor, but the shoe shop is real &ndash; one of dozens of outlets inside Rye Lane market]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-doesnt-need-regeneration-peckhams-charm-under-threat-from-gentrification-plans/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-doesnt-need-regeneration-peckhams-charm-under-threat-from-gentrification-plans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tooth transplants and pickled penises: inside the revamped Hunterian]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new look museum still contains John Hunter&rsquo;s curiosities &ndash; from giant skeletons to toad births &ndash; but now acknowledges the ethical issues they poseWhen he wasn&rsquo;t wrestling his pet bull, slicing open the corpses of freshly hanged criminals, or studying the seasonal changes in sparrow testicles, John Hunter could be found probing the nether regions of female silk moths. The 18th-century surgeon, anatomist and all-round polymath was keen to find out if he could artificial]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tooth-transplants-and-pickled-penises-inside-the-revamped-hunterian/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2023 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tooth-transplants-and-pickled-penises-inside-the-revamped-hunterian/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese glories, last rites revised and hypermodern tapestry – the week in art]]></title><description><![CDATA[The cultural treasures of Qing China, fresh takes on funeral urns and a creative response to being doxed &ndash; all in your weekly dispatchChina&rsquo;s Hidden Century<br />
Blockbuster survey of China in the 19th century, when the imperial era was coming to an end.<br />
&bull; British Museum, London, 18 May to 8 October Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/chinese-glories-last-rites-revised-and-hypermodern-tapestry-the-week-in-art/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2023 15:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/chinese-glories-last-rites-revised-and-hypermodern-tapestry-the-week-in-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a 30sqm house to a slice of urban parkland: Australia’s most sustainable homes of 2023 – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The sustainability shortlist in Architecture Australia&rsquo;s annual Houses Awards demonstrates new ways of thinking about the places we call home, whether it be replacing a large garage with a place to &ldquo;stare up at the stars&rdquo;, or the first true net-zero home in Western Australia. House Awards jury chair Alexa Kempton said: &lsquo;The jury was pleased to see &hellip; examples of homeowners taking agency over their homes&rsquo; environmental impacts.&rsquo;She hopes that this is &lsq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-a-30sqm-house-to-a-slice-of-urban-parkland-australias-most-sustainable-homes-of-2023-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2023 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-a-30sqm-house-to-a-slice-of-urban-parkland-australias-most-sustainable-homes-of-2023-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elain Harwood obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architectural historian who championed the preservation of England&rsquo;s postwar buildings and the brutalist styleThe architectural historian Elain Harwood, who has died unexpectedly aged 64, chronicled the postwar architecture of England and overcame opposition to achieve its acceptance as heritage. She wrote in the preface to her major book Space, Hope and Brutalism (2015): &ldquo;The values of the welfare state formed me and I grew up believing they would last forever.&rdquo;The book was th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/elain-harwood-obituary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2023 18:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/elain-harwood-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King Charles ignited a battle of styles in architecture - is it time for a truce?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The monarch loves traditional buildings and hates a lot of modern design. In this long-running battle, is there any middle ground?Once upon a time I found myself in a very small waiting room in St James&rsquo;s Palace, furnished like a posh-but-thrifty dentist&rsquo;s with old Sotheby&rsquo;s catalogues and ancient copies of Country Life, the sound of clock bells and tramping guardsmen percolating from outside. I was ushered into a large room, to be grilled by associates of the then Prince of Wa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/king-charles-ignited-a-battle-of-styles-in-architecture-is-it-time-for-a-truce/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2023 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/king-charles-ignited-a-battle-of-styles-in-architecture-is-it-time-for-a-truce/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architect Yasmeen Lari: ‘The international colonial charity model will never work’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The winner of this year&rsquo;s royal gold medal for architecture has gone from designing corporate buildings to self-build shelters. She talks about shedding her ego, and empowering people to rebuild in the climate emergency&ldquo;We are on the verge of scaling up,&rdquo; says the architect Yasmeen Lari. &ldquo;I need to achieve my target of one million in two years, starting this month.&rdquo; One million homes, that is, to replace those lost in last year&rsquo;s floods in her home country of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-yasmeen-lari-the-international-colonial-charity-model-will-never-work/</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-yasmeen-lari-the-international-colonial-charity-model-will-never-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost treasures and ancient ruins: Anthony Kersting’s Middle East – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The British photographer documented stunning architectural gems in Iraq &ndash; many since destroyed by Islamic State Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lost-treasures-and-ancient-ruins-anthony-kerstings-middle-east-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lost-treasures-and-ancient-ruins-anthony-kerstings-middle-east-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[School Green Centre, Shinfield review – where Lidl meets idyll, a civic space for all]]></title><description><![CDATA[Part barn, part secular church, a new cultural and community centre designed for everything from weddings to tai chi offers an imaginative resource for a rapidly developing Berkshire town&ldquo;A little world of our own,&rdquo; wrote one Mary Russell Mitford around two centuries ago, about a hamlet called Three Mile Cross in the parish of Shinfield, near Reading in Berkshire. It was, she said in her once-famous book about rural life, Our Village, &ldquo;close-packed and insulated&rdquo; like &ld]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/school-green-centre-shinfield-review-where-lidl-meets-idyll-a-civic-space-for-all/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/school-green-centre-shinfield-review-where-lidl-meets-idyll-a-civic-space-for-all/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A Flintstone cave made by pranksters’: New York’s audacious new museum wing]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s late and over budget but the Museum of Natural History&rsquo;s $465m gallery gives a stunning home to its insectsSome museums have more personality than others and the American Museum of Natural History has never had trouble attracting attention. Packed with rare specimens, organic samples and glittering minerals, as well as some uncannily lifelike animal and human models, the New York institution has long featured in urban legend, as well as on the big screen.So this week &ndash; des]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-flintstone-cave-made-by-pranksters-new-yorks-audacious-new-museum-wing/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-flintstone-cave-made-by-pranksters-new-yorks-audacious-new-museum-wing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revealed: the ‘buried’ Powerhouse museum report that could have stopped $500m redevelopment]]></title><description><![CDATA[A prominent heritage architect alleges the NSW government terminated his contract and hired another company after he advised that the Ultimo museum should be heritage listedGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA heritage architect hired by the previous New South Wales government to consult on major redevelopments at Sydney&rsquo;s Powerhouse museum is alleging that his research was buried. He alleges this was because it would have scuppered controversial plans to demolish much of the belov]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/revealed-the-buried-powerhouse-museum-report-that-could-have-stopped-500m-redevelopment/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/revealed-the-buried-powerhouse-museum-report-that-could-have-stopped-500m-redevelopment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tower Hamlets town hall review – an old hospital immaculately stitched up]]></title><description><![CDATA[The &pound;125m transformation of the Royal London hospital into an elegant seat of local government is a sleek operation that has retained the 18th-century building&rsquo;s original aura and poiseThere&rsquo;s an old view of the London Hospital, around the time it was built in the 1750s, that shows it standing like a stately home, symmetrical, classical and serene, in fields on which an expanding city encroaches. Even the Whitechapel Mount, a gigantic pile of rubble and dung that loomed over on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tower-hamlets-town-hall-review-an-old-hospital-immaculately-stitched-up/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tower-hamlets-town-hall-review-an-old-hospital-immaculately-stitched-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pink door decision is as mad as George III | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[City of Edinburgh council | What a de-corker! | Inland fish restaurants | Mary' Quant&rsquo;s makeup that lastsThe City of Edinburgh council&rsquo;s decision objecting to Miranda Dickson&rsquo;s pink front door is absurd (Woman forced to repaint pink front door of listed Edinburgh building, 18 April). Door colour has no effect on conservation. The council has obviously never seen the Georgian front doors in Dublin. If it wanted the houses to retain an 18th-century look, it would ban brilliant wh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pink-door-decision-is-as-mad-as-george-iii-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2023 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pink-door-decision-is-as-mad-as-george-iii-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We made a nuisance of ourselves’: how Citizens House created real affordable housing – for ever!]]></title><description><![CDATA[After years of campaigning, 11 homes have been built as London&rsquo;s first community land trust &ndash; protected in value from the volatile property market. We meet the people who made it happenIn the back corner of a council estate in south London once occupied by dingy rows of lock-up garages next to a playground, there now stands a gleaming white brick block of flats. Big balconies jut out from its facade in a staggered grid, while a broad staircase loops up the back, where generous curved]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-made-a-nuisance-of-ourselves-how-citizens-house-created-real-affordable-housing-for-ever/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2023 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-made-a-nuisance-of-ourselves-how-citizens-house-created-real-affordable-housing-for-ever/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want to buy a woollen home? Why Newcastle may have knitted the future of housing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Terry Farrell, the distinguished creator of dazzling buildings worldwide, has set up a &pound;4.6m centre in Newcastle aiming to demystify the overblown language of architecture. So why does it contain a compostable woolly bio-cave?Architects are notoriously bad communicators. They have a tendency, while attempting to stride the multiple disciplines of construction, philosophy, sociology and art, to speak an opaque private language that is legible to none. Countless are the exhibitions where vis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/want-to-buy-a-woollen-home-why-newcastle-may-have-knitted-the-future-of-housing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 16:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/want-to-buy-a-woollen-home-why-newcastle-may-have-knitted-the-future-of-housing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman forced to repaint pink front door of listed Edinburgh building]]></title><description><![CDATA[Miranda Dickson fails to overturn ruling that colour was not in keeping with historic character of propertyA woman has been forced to repaint the pink front door to her listed building in Edinburgh following a protracted battle with local authorities.Miranda Dickson was told to alter the colour last year after a complaint was made to City of Edinburgh council from an anonymous person. The local authority ruled that the pink door was not &ldquo;in keeping with the historic character&rdquo; of the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/woman-forced-to-repaint-pink-front-door-of-listed-edinburgh-building/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2023 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/woman-forced-to-repaint-pink-front-door-of-listed-edinburgh-building/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architect Terry Farrell: ‘Conservation is a mind thing’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The man behind MI6 headquarters in London and TV-am&rsquo;s egg cups has long sought to repurpose buildings and connect with the public &ndash; goals now embodied in a new centre in his home town of NewcastleThere have always been two sides to Terry Farrell. On the one hand he likes to stand up for the ordinary citizen, to back community groups and conservationists against arrogant planners and architects, to protect old buildings from demolition, to take it to the man. On the other, he himself]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-terry-farrell-conservation-is-a-mind-thing/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-terry-farrell-conservation-is-a-mind-thing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrills and spills: an architect’s absurdist homeware – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect Katerina Kamprani was inspired by frustration to create her project The Uncomfortable. Born and raised in Athens, Kamprani struggled to find a career in the creative industries during the dire Greek economic crisis of the 2010s. &ldquo;The discouragement manifested in these absurd ideas about objects that are deliberately designed to be inconvenient,&rdquo; she says. The project started for fun, but she&rsquo;s pleased it&rsquo;s served real purpose too. &ldquo;The images have been use]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/thrills-and-spills-an-architects-absurdist-homeware-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/thrills-and-spills-an-architects-absurdist-homeware-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s like hiding an elephant’: €171m feat of engineering creates museum under Dutch palace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paleis Het Loo was built as a lodge for the man who became William III, Protestant king of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1689At first glance King William of Orange&rsquo;s palace seems just as it was in the 17th century &ndash; a handsome Dutch baroque building set along three sides of a courtyard seemingly pockmarked with rain puddles.But underneath the courtyard, an injection of engineering expertise costing &euro;171m has created an extraordinary modern museum, opening next week. Continu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-like-hiding-an-elephant-171m-feat-of-engineering-creates-museum-under-dutch-palace/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-like-hiding-an-elephant-171m-feat-of-engineering-creates-museum-under-dutch-palace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utopia in corduroy concrete: the mesmerising architecture of a Mexican master]]></title><description><![CDATA[Guadalajara is often seen as a place of tequila and mariachi music. Can Alejandro Zohn, whose buildings include a market roofed by giant shells, make it famous for architecture?A miniature billboard pokes up above the neatly trimmed hedge in the garden of the Schindler House in Los Angeles, as if a roadside ad had blown in from nearby Sunset Strip. Cantilevered from a chunky steel column, strapped to a base of pink concrete blocks, it is a startling arrival on the grounds of this hallowed modern]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/utopia-in-corduroy-concrete-the-mesmerising-architecture-of-a-mexican-master/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 19:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/utopia-in-corduroy-concrete-the-mesmerising-architecture-of-a-mexican-master/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Race to rescue Bude’s Pepperpot lookout tower from being swept into the sea]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 188-year-old coastguard&rsquo;s tower in Cornwall is to be moved 100m inland to save it from coastal erosionPerched on an exposed clifftop above the Atlantic, which gnaws ominously at the sandstone and shale foundations below, Bude storm tower in Cornwall has helped to save many mariners from strife over the past two centuries. But now this cherished coastguard&rsquo;s lookout is to be rescued itself.The 188-year-old Grade II-listed tower at Compass Point, affectionately known as the Pepperp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/race-to-rescue-budes-pepperpot-lookout-tower-from-being-swept-into-the-sea/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/race-to-rescue-budes-pepperpot-lookout-tower-from-being-swept-into-the-sea/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gilbert &amp; George Centre review &ndash; Ripper world meets the white cube]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heneage Street, London E1<br />
Converted from an old Spitalfields brewery, a new gallery to store and show the artists&rsquo; work marries polite modernism with their trademark trad-guignol &ndash; along with ghosts of the East End pastGilbert and George have always liked to dress their provocation in conservative clothes. Even as their works combined enchantment with filth, illuminating blossoms and turds and bodies with the aura of stained-glass windows, they themselves have maintained the mien of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-gilbert-amp-george-centre-review-ndash-ripper-world-meets-the-white-cube/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-gilbert-amp-george-centre-review-ndash-ripper-world-meets-the-white-cube/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coventry’s medieval Charterhouse opens to public after 11-year rescue effort]]></title><description><![CDATA[City residents raised &pound;10m to prevent the Carthusian monastery being sold for commercial useIt was 11 years ago when Ian Harrabin, a property developer from Coventry, saw the city&rsquo;s Charterhouse had been put up for sale. Dating from 1381, it is the only Carthusian monastery in the country with surviving interiors, and had been used as college classrooms for decades.&ldquo;It was almost unknown in the city. It was gifted to the people of Coventry in 1940, but the general public didn&r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/coventrys-medieval-charterhouse-opens-to-public-after-11-year-rescue-effort/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/coventrys-medieval-charterhouse-opens-to-public-after-11-year-rescue-effort/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architect Lesley Lokko: ‘There is a sense in Africa that it is our time’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Ghanaian-Scottish architect is curator of this year&rsquo;s Venice Architecture Biennale, and more than half of the participants will be African. The story of architecture we are used to, she says, is incomplete&ldquo;Africa&rdquo; says Lesley Lokko, stopping over in a London hotel on the way from Accra to Venice, &ldquo;is the world&rsquo;s youngest continent. It is the most rapidly urbanising and has the fewest architects.&rdquo; It is therefore a place of instability and invention, minima]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-lesley-lokko-there-is-a-sense-in-africa-that-it-is-our-time/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-lesley-lokko-there-is-a-sense-in-africa-that-it-is-our-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fresh era for India or a ‘ham-fisted’ ego trip? Welcome to Modi’s new seat of power | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[The prime minister says his &pound;120m parliament building will set a new order &ndash; critics say the design doesn&rsquo;t match that ambitionSome time soon the new parliament building of the world&rsquo;s largest democracy, India, will open for business. No one quite knows when, except perhaps for the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and those close to him, but it has been imminent for months. There were suggestions that it would open in time for the 75th anniversary of Indian independence las]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-fresh-era-for-india-or-a-ham-fisted-ego-trip-welcome-to-modis-new-seat-of-power-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2023 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-fresh-era-for-india-or-a-ham-fisted-ego-trip-welcome-to-modis-new-seat-of-power-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A play set during the Troubles brings home the monstrosity of a few English politicians| Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Windsor framework offers hope for Northern Ireland, yet some, such as Boris Johnson, played with peace and voted against itIt was possible to hope, last Wednesday afternoon, that the toxic idiocy of British politics might recede a little. Even as Boris Johnson spaffed truth and common sense up the wall, in his seemingly vain effort to redeem his reputation, a slow defeated sigh, as of air leaving a leaking balloon, came from the rightwingers&rsquo; rebellion against the Windsor framework, th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-play-set-during-the-troubles-brings-home-the-monstrosity-of-a-few-english-politicians-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2023 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-play-set-during-the-troubles-brings-home-the-monstrosity-of-a-few-english-politicians-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From prison to refuge: fight to turn Oscar Wilde’s Reading gaol into arts hub]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campaigners hope bid to develop site of prison where famous poem was composed may finally succeedThe site of Reading&rsquo;s former prison has a highly desirable location in the town&rsquo;s centre and a celebrated history, not least as the setting of Oscar Wilde&rsquo;s most famous poem, the Ballad of Reading Gaol.But almost a decade after HMP Reading was closed, the historic building where Wilde was incarcerated for homosexual acts remains locked and inaccessible, while its owners, the Ministr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-prison-to-refuge-fight-to-turn-oscar-wildes-reading-gaol-into-arts-hub/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2023 13:44:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-prison-to-refuge-fight-to-turn-oscar-wildes-reading-gaol-into-arts-hub/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Tábori obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect whose low-rise, high-density social housing offered a popular alternative to tower blocksNot all social housing in the 1960s was about tower blocks. High-rise buildings were unpopular with tenants, lifts were costly and broke down, and the surrounding lawns were hard to maintain. Moreover, on the slopes around Hampstead Heath in London, towers would have blocked views towards St Paul&rsquo;s Cathedral. This area became part of the newly created borough of Camden in 1965 and a visionary]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/peter-tbori-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 17:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/peter-tbori-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could cook while on the toilet: a night in one of Tokyo’s micro-apartments]]></title><description><![CDATA[The tiny homes, which measure just nine square metres &ndash; or three tatami mats &ndash; are the architectural answer to rising rentsIt is one of the shortest viewings in estate agency history. As soon as the door opens, every inch of living space except the sleeping quarters is visible.A tiny genkan entryway, which could nearly accommodate three pairs of shoes, leads to a shower cubicle on the right with just enough room to swing a sponge, next to a toilet that &ndash; door left open &ndash;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/you-could-cook-while-on-the-toilet-a-night-in-one-of-tokyos-micro-apartments/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/you-could-cook-while-on-the-toilet-a-night-in-one-of-tokyos-micro-apartments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A truly special spot’: arts insiders’ top tips for free cultural places in Britain]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Russell Tovey to Gemma Cairney, cultural figures pick their favourite hangouts &ndash; from Edinburgh to Aberystwyth &ndash; with no entry chargeThe best free spring culture in Britain, chosen by Observer criticsStoryhouse, Chester Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-truly-special-spot-arts-insiders-top-tips-for-free-cultural-places-in-britain/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-truly-special-spot-arts-insiders-top-tips-for-free-cultural-places-in-britain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A gas-guzzling villain’s lair’: welcome to LA’s grotesque new high-rise]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inspired by Yeats, Wagner and French realist painting, the (W)rapper tower was meant to reawaken the city skyline. But is this monstrous erection just a monument to its designer&rsquo;s ego?A chunky grey staircase thrusts out from the side of a new office tower in Los Angeles, lunging towards a rail line before jerking back on itself and lurching up the building in jagged twists and turns. It crashes into a warped lattice of bands that wrap around the glassy hulk, swooping past corner windows th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-gas-guzzling-villains-lair-welcome-to-las-grotesque-new-high-rise/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 12:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-gas-guzzling-villains-lair-welcome-to-las-grotesque-new-high-rise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dormant volcanoes and working monorails: the grand designs of Ken Adam, master of the Bond-villain lair]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new book celebrates the late production designer whose elaborate concepts for films from Bond to Dr Strangelove influenced the likes of Norman Foster &ndash; and it all started with a felt-tipVillains hiding out in underground lairs, councils of war meeting at spotlit circular tables, bank vaults full of gold bullion piled high. The popular imagination of what these secret, off-limits places might look like has been shaped, more than anything else, by the dramatic visions of the late productio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dormant-volcanoes-and-working-monorails-the-grand-designs-of-ken-adam-master-of-the-bond-villain-lair/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dormant-volcanoes-and-working-monorails-the-grand-designs-of-ken-adam-master-of-the-bond-villain-lair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey budtender, take me to the Ganja Giggle Garden! A pot-crawl round LA’s boutique cannabis stores]]></title><description><![CDATA[They look like cosmic chapels, luxury spas and uber-cool art galleries. One even boasts a 250-year-old ceiling from a Burmese monastery. Our writer joins the &lsquo;cannaseurs&rsquo; in a bong-filled world that could be the future of Britain&lsquo;Do you know what terpenes are?&rdquo; says our glamorous host, pointing to four glass domes spotlit on a table, each containing mysterious lumps of black rock. The surrounding walls of this small room in Los Angeles are lined with mirrors, topped with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hey-budtender-take-me-to-the-ganja-giggle-garden-a-pot-crawl-round-las-boutique-cannabis-stores/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:38:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hey-budtender-take-me-to-the-ganja-giggle-garden-a-pot-crawl-round-las-boutique-cannabis-stores/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Limerick’s International Rugby Experience: a scrum in building form]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Irish city&rsquo;s new interactive visitor attraction celebrating all things rugby cleverly embodies the sport in N&iacute;all McLaughlin&rsquo;s imposing, community-centred designThere are architects who talk in metaphor and symbol, who will tell you with varying degrees of credibility what this or that aspect of a building means; that, for example, an airport&rsquo;s sweeping roof signifies flight, or that the glass wall of a parliament speaks of democracy. There are other architects who f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/limericks-international-rugby-experience-a-scrum-in-building-form/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/limericks-international-rugby-experience-a-scrum-in-building-form/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[End credits: derelict British cinemas – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Manchester-based photographer Darren Holden has been documenting derelict buildings for 20 years. He&rsquo;s collected some of them in a limited-edition photo zine in collaboration with the Modernist gallery, immortalising deserted cinemas that date back to the golden age of British film in the 1930s and 40s. &ldquo;A lot of places have fallen foul to arson and vandalism, so by documenting them I&rsquo;m trying in my own way to preserve them,&rdquo; says Holden.Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/end-credits-derelict-british-cinemas-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2023 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/end-credits-derelict-british-cinemas-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graham Winteringham obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect best known for the rhythmic concrete forms of the Birmingham RepIn the 1950s, traditional theatres seemed doomed in the face of television, as Royals, Empires and Alhambras across Britain closed and were demolished. Yet this was only half the story, for at the same time small repertory theatres, working in local communities with their own companies of young actors, were flourishing. Their model was the Birmingham Rep, founded in 1913 and where Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Julie Chr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/graham-winteringham-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 18:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/graham-winteringham-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside Rafael Viñoly’s mathematical masterpiece | Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prof Sam Howison loves working in a building designed by the late Uruguayan-born architectI am sorry to read that Rafael Vi&ntilde;oly has passed away (Architect Rafael Vi&ntilde;oly, designer of Walkie Talkie building, dies aged 78, 4 March). Your article highlights some of his controversial buildings; I work in one of his great successes, the Andrew Wiles Building in Oxford, which houses Oxford University&rsquo;s Mathematical Institute.I worked closely with the Vi&ntilde;oly team on this wonde]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/inside-rafael-violys-mathematical-masterpiece-letter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 19:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/inside-rafael-violys-mathematical-masterpiece-letter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I faked it at the beginning!’: David Chipperfield on his rise from shop designer to starchitect]]></title><description><![CDATA[He almost failed architecture school. Now he&rsquo;s netted the profession&rsquo;s top prize, the Pritzker. Britain&rsquo;s modernist master talks about the building that changed everything &ndash; and running a bar in SpainSometimes, it takes a trip abroad to make you realise what you have at home. When David Cameron visited German chancellor Angela Merkel in 2013, she introduced the then British PM to &ldquo;one of our most famous German architects&rdquo;. The designer in question? The London-]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-faked-it-at-the-beginning-david-chipperfield-on-his-rise-from-shop-designer-to-starchitect/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 16:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-faked-it-at-the-beginning-david-chipperfield-on-his-rise-from-shop-designer-to-starchitect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The romcom effect: will a new movie gentrify Peckham as Richard Curtis gentrified Notting Hill?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The likable new release Rye Lane bills itself as &lsquo;a love letter to south London&rsquo;. But, like Am&eacute;lie in Montmartre, could it end up damaging the place it sets out to celebrate?It&rsquo;s always fun to see an area you know in a movie, so as a Peckham local, the new romcom Rye Lane is literally up my street. It is named after the bustling main thoroughfare of our south London neighbourhood, which is in the early stages of gentrification. African groceries and pound shops jostle up]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-romcom-effect-will-a-new-movie-gentrify-peckham-as-richard-curtis-gentrified-notting-hill/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-romcom-effect-will-a-new-movie-gentrify-peckham-as-richard-curtis-gentrified-notting-hill/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Gove thinks beautiful buildings must look traditional. Here’s why he’s wrong…]]></title><description><![CDATA[A dynamic fusion of &lsquo;gentle density&rsquo; housing in green belt Croydon is the latest example of thoughtful, visionary housing design the government would do well to learn fromBeauty! Michael Gove has declared on several occasions, in his capacity as secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities. Let&rsquo;s have beautiful buildings. In this he&rsquo;s picking up on a drumbeat that has been coming from the conservative thinktank Policy Exchange for some years, and from a we]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/michael-gove-thinks-beautiful-buildings-must-look-traditional-heres-why-hes-wrong/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/michael-gove-thinks-beautiful-buildings-must-look-traditional-heres-why-hes-wrong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mezquita and Hagia Sophia: two sacred symbols and the culture wars that belie their complex history  | Kenan Malik]]></title><description><![CDATA[World heritage monuments in C&oacute;rdoba and Istanbul stand at the centre of a reductionist bid to rewrite the pastC&oacute;rdoba&rsquo;s mosque-cathedral is one of the most glorious buildings in Europe. I was last there 30 years ago, but the memory is still vividly etched in my mind. I remember walking through the Courtyard of the Orange Trees. Then, almost if they had magically changed form, the rows of orange trees give way to a forest of columns of red-and-white arches that mark the mosque]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mezquita-and-hagia-sophia-two-sacred-symbols-and-the-culture-wars-that-belie-their-complex-history-kenan-malik/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2023 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mezquita-and-hagia-sophia-two-sacred-symbols-and-the-culture-wars-that-belie-their-complex-history-kenan-malik/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Like a Meccano set’: how architects are reimagining Brisbane’s homes to survive future flooding]]></title><description><![CDATA[From pull-apart kitchens and open stairs to the return of the Queenslander, flood-resilient building doesn&rsquo;t need to cost moreGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBrisbane architect Paul Worroll has experienced the life cycle of building for floods first-hand.Worroll and his team at Reddog Architects designed NA house in inner city Brisbane 10 years ago after its owners made the decision to stay put and renovate their property after the 2011 floods.Sign]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-a-meccano-set-how-architects-are-reimagining-brisbanes-homes-to-survive-future-flooding/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2023 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-a-meccano-set-how-architects-are-reimagining-brisbanes-homes-to-survive-future-flooding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treasures from new digs reveal that Pompeii is far from ‘frozen in time’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pliny the Younger said the tale of the city&rsquo;s disaster would live for ever and a new excavation will reveal more about the Romans who lived &ndash; and died &ndash; thereThe first sign was smoke rising from the mountain and it was Pliny&rsquo;s mother who noticed it. They didn&rsquo;t know which mountain this cloud came from, Pliny the Younger says, but it rose in the air before spreading out like a pine tree. Pliny wrote two letters to his friend, the historian Tacitus. They are quietly d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/treasures-from-new-digs-reveal-that-pompeii-is-far-from-frozen-in-time/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2023 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/treasures-from-new-digs-reveal-that-pompeii-is-far-from-frozen-in-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On my radar: The Edge’s cultural highlights]]></title><description><![CDATA[The U2 guitarist on the scientific theory that connects us all, drawing on walls and the resurgence of Irish folk musicDavid Howell Evans, better known as U2 guitarist The Edge, was born in Barking, east London, in 1961 and grew up in Dublin. Since forming in 1976, U2 have released 14 studio albums including The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby and All That You Can&rsquo;t Leave Behind. They are one of the biggest-selling bands of all time, and have won 22 Grammy awards and seven Brit awards. Songs of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/on-my-radar-the-edges-cultural-highlights/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2023 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/on-my-radar-the-edges-cultural-highlights/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architect Rafael Viñoly, designer of Walkie Talkie building, dies aged 78]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uruguayan-born Vi&ntilde;oly&rsquo;s sometimes controversial work included more than 600 structures around worldRafael Vi&ntilde;oly, the Uruguayan-born and New York-based architect known for designing landmark buildings around the world, has died aged 78.Vi&ntilde;oly&rsquo;s death on Thursday was announced by his son, Roman, on the website of the family firm, Rafael Vi&ntilde;oly Architects. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-rafael-violy-designer-of-walkie-talkie-building-dies-aged-78/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2023 10:23:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-rafael-violy-designer-of-walkie-talkie-building-dies-aged-78/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Foulkes obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My mother, Elizabeth Foulkes, who has died aged 98, was an architect who worked on public buildings and landscape projects and helped define standards for architects in the UK.Elizabeth was born in Abertillery, Monmouthshire, to Allan Johnson, who worked for the Co-op insurance society, and Williamina (nee Innes), known as Billy, a councillor and magistrate, and attended Wimbledon high school after the family moved to London. She started her architectural training at Wimbledon School of Art (now]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/elizabeth-foulkes-obituary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 11:27:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/elizabeth-foulkes-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The parched metropolis: can eco architecture save LA from megadrought?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Storms and floods do little for the sprawling, paved-over city, as every drop runs off into the sea. But ingenious water-capturing parks are now helping it soak up the precious rain &ndash; and breed rare fishAfter weeks of record-breaking rainfall have seen freeways flood, hillsides collapse and the dry concrete gutter of the Los Angeles River transform into a raging torrent, you may have assumed that California&rsquo;s water-shortage woes were beginning to ease. With many areas receiving their]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-parched-metropolis-can-eco-architecture-save-la-from-megadrought/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-parched-metropolis-can-eco-architecture-save-la-from-megadrought/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Design news: could you live in a skip? Plus Collect craft fair and a cool walking frame]]></title><description><![CDATA[The latest answer to London&rsquo;s housing crisis: move into a skip, plus faking it for Instagram and Toast&rsquo;s new collectionThere are two stories in this month&rsquo;s news that illuminate the strange relationship we currently have with housing. One is about an artist who&rsquo;s decided to live in a skip for a year to raise awareness of the terrible cost of living in London and the other is the story of a designer who created a fantasy flat in Stockholm that existed only on Instagram. Fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/design-news-could-you-live-in-a-skip-plus-collect-craft-fair-and-a-cool-walking-frame/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:06:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/design-news-could-you-live-in-a-skip-plus-collect-craft-fair-and-a-cool-walking-frame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s a bit too castle-y’: plans to turn Cumbrian fortress into eco-attraction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Young &lsquo;custodian&rsquo; hopes to make ancestral home of Muncaster first carbon-zero castle in UKIn 1990, the year Ewan Frost-Pennington was born, the final bears left Muncaster Castle in the westernmost corner of the Lake District. Winnie, an Asiatic black bear, departed Cumbria for Dudley zoo, along with Inca, her daughter, and her sister, Gretel.Three decades later, the bear pit has now been covered over with a solar farm. It is the brainchild of Frost-Pennington, the heir to the 800-yea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-a-bit-too-castle-y-plans-to-turn-cumbrian-fortress-into-eco-attraction/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2023 13:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-a-bit-too-castle-y-plans-to-turn-cumbrian-fortress-into-eco-attraction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victorian architecture’s lost giant to regain rightful recognition]]></title><description><![CDATA[The designer of the glasshouses at Kew Gardens fell out of favour &ndash; but supporters of a new museum hope to change all thatOne major name is missing from the line-up of great British architects that students learn have shaped the way that Britain looks. And it is a name with quite a ring to it: Decimus Burton.Now members of the Decimus Burton Society believe they are about to put that right by establishing this Victorian classical revivalist&rsquo;s place alongside better known titans such]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/victorian-architectures-lost-giant-to-regain-rightful-recognition/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2023 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/victorian-architectures-lost-giant-to-regain-rightful-recognition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architect Decimus Burton: ‘Utter originality and unselfconscious perfection’]]></title><description><![CDATA[His neo-classical conservatism was condemned as &lsquo;pagan&rsquo; by one rivalIf Decimus Burton had only designed one building, and that had been the Palm House at Kew Gardens, he would deserve to be famous. It is a pioneering work of steel and glass, built in collaboration with the Dublin ironmaster Richard Turner, completed three years before the celebrated Crystal Palace of 1851, its swelling, doubly curving bubble of glass more beautiful and &ndash; unlike the latter &ndash; still standing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-decimus-burton-utter-originality-and-unselfconscious-perfection/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2023 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-decimus-burton-utter-originality-and-unselfconscious-perfection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country diary: English thatchers are having to take to the woods | Tom Allan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Start Bay, Devon: I&rsquo;m on the hunt for straight hazel for a roof, and supple hazel for a fiddly porch. Normally I wouldn&rsquo;t be doing thisThe sun has turned the bay indigo, and in this hazel hedgerow above the sea, you can almost hear the sap rising. The first buds are forming, and the catkins send puffs of lime green pollen into the air as I brush through the branches in search of hazel to cut.English thatching is unimaginable without the hazel tree. Its wood is used to make spars &nda]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-english-thatchers-are-having-to-take-to-the-woods-tom-allan/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2023 06:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/country-diary-english-thatchers-are-having-to-take-to-the-woods-tom-allan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York, new architecture: how is the city changing with the times?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new Moma exhibition takes a look at projects for so-called public-facing spaces in the city and what young designers are doing for New YorkersNew York no longer makes sense. And like everything in New York, it all comes back to real estate and the politics of space.It doesn&rsquo;t make sense to live here (rent is too high), or work here (most can work anywhere), or, really, to play here (no regular bars left in Manhattan.) New York is absurd in every way these days. There are millions of squa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-york-new-architecture-how-is-the-city-changing-with-the-times/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2023 16:49:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/new-york-new-architecture-how-is-the-city-changing-with-the-times/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A lovely building’: charity launches plan to save Bristol’s Rupert Street car park]]></title><description><![CDATA[Concrete multistorey threatened with demolition but C20 launches campaign to keep &lsquo;innovative&rsquo; buildingThe NCP Rupert Street car park in Bristol has a one-star rating on Parkopedia, its stairwells stink of urine and a four-hour stay costs &pound;15.80.But C20 (Twentieth Century Society), a charity that campaigns to protect &ldquo;outstanding&rdquo; buildings, has submitted an application to list the city centre car park and save it from threatened demolition. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-lovely-building-charity-launches-plan-to-save-bristols-rupert-street-car-park/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2023 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-lovely-building-charity-launches-plan-to-save-bristols-rupert-street-car-park/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Delicate as the seashore’: rare Frank Lloyd Wright home sells for $22m]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect designed his only oceanfront house in California&rsquo;s Carmel-by-the-Sea for a lumber executive&rsquo;s widow The only oceanfront home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright has sold for $22m in California&rsquo;s Carmel-by-the-Sea, the dreamy coastal enclave where Clint Eastwood once served as mayor.Known as the Mrs Clinton Walker house and the Cabin on the Rocks, the residence was built for the artist Della Walker in 1952, according to the Wall Street Journal, and had remained in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/delicate-as-the-seashore-rare-frank-lloyd-wright-home-sells-for-22m/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2023 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/delicate-as-the-seashore-rare-frank-lloyd-wright-home-sells-for-22m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How building Black is the next step in the buying Black movement]]></title><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Things remain very much business as usual within real estate&rsquo;: a Black-run Manhattan skyscraper hits a roadblockA new New York City skyscraper designed by a white architect, built by a white contractor and developed by a white real estate company? Business as usual. But what about a new New York City skyscraper designed by a Black architect, built by a Black contractor and developed by a Black real estate company? Now you&rsquo;re paying attention.Which is why the proposal for the 9]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/how-building-black-is-the-next-step-in-the-buying-black-movement/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/how-building-black-is-the-next-step-in-the-buying-black-movement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How building black is the next step in buying black]]></title><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Things remain very much business as usual within real estate&rsquo;: a Black-run Manhattan skyscraper hits a roadblockA new New York City skyscraper designed by a white architect, built by a white contractor and developed by a white real estate company? Business as usual. But what about a new New York City skyscraper designed by a Black architect, built by a Black contractor and developed by a Black real estate company? Now you&rsquo;re paying attention.Which is why the proposal for the 9]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/how-building-black-is-the-next-step-in-buying-black/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/how-building-black-is-the-next-step-in-buying-black/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[15-minute cities: mundane planning concept or global conspiracy? – podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian&rsquo;s architecture and design critic, Oliver Wainwright, about why the relatively obscure concept of the 15-minute city has become a magnet for conspiracy theories in recent weeks. And hears from Dr Richard Dunning about how the theory can be implemented in a way that&rsquo;s fair to all residentsClips: GB News, Rebel News UK Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/15-minute-cities-mundane-planning-concept-or-global-conspiracy-podcast/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/15-minute-cities-mundane-planning-concept-or-global-conspiracy-podcast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can live a healthier, happier life in a 15-minute city | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Readers respond to an article by Oliver Wainwright on why the concept has got rightwing MPs worriedAs a long-term advocate of low-impact urban living, I have campaigned for more than 40 years for better walking, cycling and green space provision, both for local food growing and leisure. Gradually, we have seen shifts in the reallocation of urban space to pedestrians and cyclists. Lockdown and the climate emergency have made many realise that this trend needs to accelerate.Now it seems I am part]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/you-can-live-a-healthier-happier-life-in-a-15-minute-city-letters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/you-can-live-a-healthier-happier-life-in-a-15-minute-city-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alan Evans obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blacksmith at the forefront of a generation exploring new techniques to renew the craft as a contemporary art formIt was the curves and intersections of the stone ceiling of the crypt in St Paul&rsquo;s Cathedral that provided the inspiration for the gates forged for the crypt&rsquo;s Treasury by the artist blacksmith Alan Evans, who has died aged 70, of pancreatic cancer.Alan entered and won a design competition for the gates in 1980, early in his career. The outcome was a large pair of steel c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/alan-evans-obituary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2023 20:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/alan-evans-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingenious and life-enhancing: a tale of two new London footbridges]]></title><description><![CDATA[One rolling across a divide, the other narrowly avoiding rowers and rare snails, the Cody Dock Rolling Bridge and Dukes Meadows Footbridge are both old-school feats of engineeringAll the world loves a bridge that moves. Usually, the point of a bridge is that it is fixed &ndash; when so much trouble has been taken to overcome gravity and tame nature, instability is the last thing that you want &ndash; so there is surprise and delight when it confounds its own rigidity. I give you as an example To]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ingenious-and-life-enhancing-a-tale-of-two-new-london-footbridges/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ingenious-and-life-enhancing-a-tale-of-two-new-london-footbridges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matthew Kinross obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My stepdad, Matthew Kinross, who has died aged 76, was an artist, architect and musician who always found beauty in his surroundings.Born in Shepperton, Surrey, to Rupert Kinross, a radio engineer who contributed to the invention of radar during the second world war, and Patience (nee English), who studied art in Vienna, Matt was the third of four siblings and lived in a house that backed onto the Thames. At the age of six he went to the King&rsquo;s school, Canterbury, as a boarder. It was a lo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/matthew-kinross-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 20:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/matthew-kinross-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven into hell: how a luxury block in Turkey became a mass grave]]></title><description><![CDATA[The upscale Renaissance block of 249 apartments in Antakya was ripped from its foundations by the earthquakeA week after the deadly earthquake was supposed to be Sercan&rsquo;s third birthday. The little boy who loved horses and Mickey Mouse was due to celebrate with his parents at their apartment in the upscale Renaissance building in Antakya. None of them knew when they went to bed one Sunday night that Sercan would never see his third birthday, even amid mounting questions about the safety of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/heaven-into-hell-how-a-luxury-block-in-turkey-became-a-mass-grave/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/heaven-into-hell-how-a-luxury-block-in-turkey-became-a-mass-grave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British architect choice for controversial revamp of Athens ‘museum of museums’]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Chipperfield, renowned for work in Berlin, to undertake National Archaeological Museum projectIt is slated to be the &ldquo;western world&rsquo;s museum of museums&rdquo;, a showcase of Greece&rsquo;s greatest repository of ancient art.Once completed, the revamped National Archaeological Museum in Athens will, say officials, not only have been expanded but &ldquo;reborn&rdquo; at a time of record tourism to the country. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/british-architect-choice-for-controversial-revamp-of-athens-museum-of-museums/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:21:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/british-architect-choice-for-controversial-revamp-of-athens-museum-of-museums/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athens museum unveils design for major renovation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Work at National Archaeological Museum will be overseen by UK architect David ChipperfieldIt is slated to be the &ldquo;western world&rsquo;s museum of museums,&rdquo; a showcase of Greece&rsquo;s greatest repository of ancient art.Once completed, the revamped National Archaeological Museum in Athens will, say officials, not only have been expanded but &ldquo;reborn&rdquo; at a time of record tourism to the country. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/athens-museum-unveils-design-for-major-renovation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:21:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/athens-museum-unveils-design-for-major-renovation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Balkrishna Doshi obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Celebrated Indian architect determined to create a better world for people at all levels of societyBalkrishna Doshi, who has died aged 95, produced architecture appropriate to the climate, geography, culture and traditions of India by transforming principles drawn from internationally recognised modern masters &ndash; notably Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, with whom he worked.In this quest for postcolonial identity he avoided the twin dangers of rootless technology and folkloric nostalgia. The res]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/balkrishna-doshi-obituary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2023 18:27:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/balkrishna-doshi-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plywood renderings of modernist buildings – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[One afternoon at the Barbican in London, Helen Waites was enjoying the way the light and shadows changed as the hours passed. It reminded her of a carved wooden relief her parents used to have. Inspired, she set up a Kickstarter funding campaign in order to found Plyconic, an east London design studio that specialises in 3D artworks (PlyForms) depicting postwar modernist architecture in layers of plywood. A selection of Plyconic&rsquo;s work is currently on display at the Modernist gallery in Ma]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/plywood-renderings-of-modernist-buildings-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2023 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/plywood-renderings-of-modernist-buildings-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riotous women, stonking sculptures and Monet’s lost brother – the week in art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sarah Lucas throws a party, Donatella shows his tender side, Alice Neel captures the real America, and Peter Doig brings romantic irony to the Courtauld &ndash; all in your weekly dispatchAlice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle<br />
The artist born in 1900 who portrayed the real people of the American century, from Andy Warhol to Kate Millet and many more.<br />
&bull; Barbican, London, from 16 February to 21 May Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/riotous-women-stonking-sculptures-and-monets-lost-brother-the-week-in-art/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/riotous-women-stonking-sculptures-and-monets-lost-brother-the-week-in-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Architectural Digest became the new Vogue]]></title><description><![CDATA[With rocketing prices and Covid making home a shared obsession, celebrity house tours are no longer a niche interestForget getting your face on Vogue. In 2023, you have arrived at the zenith of the zeitgeist when your velvet sofa graces the cover of Architectural Digest.Four million people have already watched the singer Lily Allen and actor David Harbour, whose Brooklyn townhouse is the cover star of this month&rsquo;s Architectural Digest, give a 12-minute tour which highlights the gold swan t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/how-architectural-digest-became-the-new-vogue/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 11:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/how-architectural-digest-became-the-new-vogue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eldred Evans obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect who combined classicism and modernism in designs for buildings such as Tate St Ives and the law courts at TruroSuccess as an architect came late to Eldred Evans, who has died aged 85. In 1989, she and her life/work partner David Shalev won a competition to design a branch of the Tate Gallery in St Ives, Cornwall. Tucked against the hillside behind modern housing, the building announced itself by a circular entrance, built on the foundations of the town&rsquo;s former gasholder to keep]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/eldred-evans-obituary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:12:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/eldred-evans-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barcelona’s ‘other’ great architect: five of his finest buildings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Catalonia&rsquo;s design gems don&rsquo;t begin and end with Gaud&iacute;. The works of Llu&iacute;s Dom&egrave;nech i Montaner deserve a closer look on the centenary of his deathBarcelona is justly renowned for its architecture but there&rsquo;s a lot more to it than Gaud&iacute; and the still unfinished Sagrada Familia. This year Catalonia is celebrating the centenary of the death of Llu&iacute;s Dom&egrave;nech i Montaner (1849-1923), one of Gaud&iacute;&rsquo;s contemporaries and a leading l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/barcelonas-other-great-architect-five-of-his-finest-buildings/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/barcelonas-other-great-architect-five-of-his-finest-buildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkey earthquake death toll prompts questions over building standards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Poorly enforced regulations may have exacerbated tragedy in a country whose economy relies on constructionTurkey and Syria earthquake &ndash; latest news updatesThe rapidly mounting death toll in Turkey following Monday&rsquo;s twin earthquakes has raised questions over how far poorly enforced building standards, in a country whose economy has long relied on construction to drive growth, has exacerbated the catastrophe.Turkey has introduced new building codes, requiring new construction to be ea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/turkey-earthquake-death-toll-prompts-questions-over-building-standards/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:26:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/turkey-earthquake-death-toll-prompts-questions-over-building-standards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blueprints for a dream: the new age of virtual architecture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aspiring architects are using using social media, AI and digital technology to showcase their fantastical creations to the full&ldquo;Something big is happening,&rdquo; says Hamza Shaikh. &ldquo;Architecture is entering a new age.&rdquo; The ways in which buildings are imagined and communicated are, he argues, being transformed by a combination of social media and the ever-evolving techniques of digital drawing, to which artificial intelligence is adding new capabilities. And indeed, if it is no]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/blueprints-for-a-dream-the-new-age-of-virtual-architecture/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/blueprints-for-a-dream-the-new-age-of-virtual-architecture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green light given for huge British Library extension]]></title><description><![CDATA[Community-focused &pound;500m scheme will build new galleries, a learning centre, green spaces and a home for the Alan Turing Institute of data scienceAn extension of the British Library&rsquo;s St Pancras site, to include new galleries and event spaces as well as a community garden, has been greenlit.The extension, costing &pound;500m according to Construction News, will create a &ldquo;brand new public space for London that&rsquo;s connected to our local community and open to the world&rdquo;,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/green-light-given-for-huge-british-library-extension/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:56:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/green-light-given-for-huge-british-library-extension/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Our own little Vatican’: inside the biggest Catholic parish church in North America]]></title><description><![CDATA[There used to be more people than cows in Visalia, but a new 3,000-seat megachurch has brought Vegas kitsch to the worshippers of California&rsquo;s Central ValleyWith declining congregations, shuttered chapels and an ever shrinking number of priests, it is easy to assume that church in the US is on the way out for good. As parishes struggle to attract younger generations, and almost a third of Americans now declare no religious affiliation, this one nation under God seems to be rapidly losing i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/our-own-little-vatican-inside-the-biggest-catholic-parish-church-in-north-america/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/our-own-little-vatican-inside-the-biggest-catholic-parish-church-in-north-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un-macho abstraction, a Venice Lion and questions of queerness – the week in art]]></title><description><![CDATA[The female heroes of abstract expressionism, Sonia Boyce in Margate and an unsettling ruling at Tate Modern &ndash; all in your weekly dispatchAction, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70<br />
Abstract expressionism gets stereotyped as macho, but here are its female heroes, including Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler.&bull; Whitechapel Gallery, London, 9 February to 7 May Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/un-macho-abstraction-a-venice-lion-and-questions-of-queerness-the-week-in-art/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:13:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/un-macho-abstraction-a-venice-lion-and-questions-of-queerness-the-week-in-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visions splendid: Australian photographer of the year awards – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The annual photographer of the year winners were chosen from more than 3,000 entries across nine categories. The top prize goes to images captured in the deep south of New Zealand, an area the photographer says she enjoys for its wonderful light and colourWildlife photographer of the year &ndash; people&rsquo;s choice award Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/visions-splendid-australian-photographer-of-the-year-awards-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/visions-splendid-australian-photographer-of-the-year-awards-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Griff Rhys Jones rails against plans to ‘smother’ Liverpool Street station]]></title><description><![CDATA[Comedian leads coalition against &lsquo;exploitative&rsquo; proposal for 16-storey buildings over listed stationGriff Rhys Jones is leading a coalition of conservationists against what he describes as plans to &ldquo;smother&rdquo; Liverpool Street station under 109 metres (350ft) of new offices, shops and a hotel.The comedian, writer and broadcaster has been appointed president of the revived Liverpool Street Station Campaign (Lissca), a post held in the 1970s by the then poet laureate Sir John]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/griff-rhys-jones-rails-against-plans-to-smother-liverpool-street-station/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/griff-rhys-jones-rails-against-plans-to-smother-liverpool-street-station/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tate Modern privacy ruling could lead to a worrying future for cities | Oliver Wainwright]]></title><description><![CDATA[The landmark decision, that luxury glass-walled flats opposite the museum&rsquo;s new viewing gallery are being disturbed, could lead to a shift in how public life in cities operatesThe verdict is in: people who live in glass houses may thrown stones with impunity. After six years of legal battles, the highest court in the land has ruled that the residents of the luxury glass-walled flats opposite Tate Modern&rsquo;s viewing gallery face an unacceptable level of &ldquo;constant visual intrusion&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-tate-modern-privacy-ruling-could-lead-to-a-worrying-future-for-cities-oliver-wainwright/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 20:12:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-tate-modern-privacy-ruling-could-lead-to-a-worrying-future-for-cities-oliver-wainwright/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Thompson obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Founding chair of the Academy of Urbanism determined to involve local people in architectural decisions about their neighbourhoodsThe urban planner and architect John Thompson, who has died aged 78 after a long illness, was a leading proponent of &ldquo;community architecture&rdquo; and the founding chairman of the Academy of Urbanism. He was one of the most prominent advocates of involving local people in architectural decisions about their neighbourhoods and estates.One of his best known ventu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-thompson-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 18:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-thompson-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I want to caress the lift!’: the eco office block miracle made entirely from wood]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s renewable, strong as steel, astonishingly fireproof &ndash; yet it&rsquo;s easy and quiet to build with. Could timber construction save the planet? We step inside the revolutionary new London workplace that everyone wants to touchThere is very little about most new &ldquo;sustainable&rdquo; office buildings that is true to the label. Through an alchemical process of validation and certification, great carbon-hungry shafts of concrete, steel and glass are magically deemed to be &ldquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-want-to-caress-the-lift-the-eco-office-block-miracle-made-entirely-from-wood/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-want-to-caress-the-lift-the-eco-office-block-miracle-made-entirely-from-wood/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Tell us which schools could collapse’: Labour will force ministers to reveal data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Teachers and parents voice fury overrisk to life in England&rsquo;s crumbling classrooms as DfE keeps survey details from public scrutinyMinisters sparked a furious row over the safety of thousands of dilapidated school buildings in England on Saturday night by abandoning the imminent publication of data showing those judged to be most at risk of collapse.Labour responded to the U-turn by saying it would use a rare parliamentary device to force publication of the documents about the perilous sta]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tell-us-which-schools-could-collapse-labour-will-force-ministers-to-reveal-data/</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2023 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tell-us-which-schools-could-collapse-labour-will-force-ministers-to-reveal-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architectural vision for London station is little more than smoke and mirrors | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dazzling computer-generated images of a newly revamped Liverpool Street do little to establish its merits or flawsProperty companies have always liked to put the best possible gloss on their proposals &ndash; views taken from angles that minimise their bulk, atmospheric effects in their images that make many tonnes of construction materials melt into the air. A virtuoso example was recently presented at Liverpool Street station by Sellar Property Group, which brought us the Shard, in a brief &ld]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architectural-vision-for-london-station-is-little-more-than-smoke-and-mirrors-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architectural-vision-for-london-station-is-little-more-than-smoke-and-mirrors-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Like a sun on Earth’: Las Vegas warning if dazzling venue built in London’s East End]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stratford residents fear planned MSG Sphere concert hall will ruin their sleep with light pollutionEast London residents are being warned that light pollution from a controversial huge new concert venue &ndash; the MSG Sphere &ndash; will be &ldquo;like a sun on Earth&rdquo;. The message comes from neighbours of a Las Vegas version, more than 5,000 miles away.Plans for the new concert hall in Stratford took a step closer to realisation last week when the London Legacy Development Corporation (LL]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-a-sun-on-earth-las-vegas-warning-if-dazzling-venue-built-in-londons-east-end/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2023 14:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-a-sun-on-earth-las-vegas-warning-if-dazzling-venue-built-in-londons-east-end/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pepper spray for the school run? The weaponised SUV set to terrify America’s streets]]></title><description><![CDATA[The extreme features of the Reznavi Vengeance &ndash; including electrified door handles and blinding strobe lights &ndash; are wholly in tune with lethal trends in the US marketContinue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pepper-spray-for-the-school-run-the-weaponised-suv-set-to-terrify-americas-streets/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pepper-spray-for-the-school-run-the-weaponised-suv-set-to-terrify-americas-streets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Row growing after third historic rail bridge filled in with concrete]]></title><description><![CDATA[National Highways faces third intervention by a local authority over infilling, after burying Congham bridge in Norfolk in tonnes of concreteA controversial practice by the government&rsquo;s roads agency of burying historic railway bridges in concrete has been dealt a fresh blow after a third council intervened over another infilled structure.King&rsquo;s Lynn and West Norfolk council has told National Highways it must apply for retrospective planning permission if it wants to retain hundreds o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/row-growing-after-third-historic-rail-bridge-filled-in-with-concrete/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/row-growing-after-third-historic-rail-bridge-filled-in-with-concrete/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s MSG Sphere concert venue comes one step closer to reality]]></title><description><![CDATA[Planning committee to discuss fears project will blight area with light and noise pollutionIt is a giant, globe-shaped music venue that has been described as a &ldquo;monstrosity&rdquo;, a &ldquo;glowing orb&rdquo; and an &ldquo;eyesore&rdquo;.But now the MSG Sphere, a new concert hall planned for Stratford in east London &ndash; which would be as wide as the London Eye and as tall as Big Ben &ndash; could soon move a step closer to reality. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/londons-msg-sphere-concert-venue-comes-one-step-closer-to-reality/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:34:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/londons-msg-sphere-concert-venue-comes-one-step-closer-to-reality/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Symbol of our pride’: Newcastle city council vows to restore Tyne Bridge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leaders hope work will be completed in time for bridge&rsquo;s centenary in 2028 despite rising costs and new complicationsTo say one of Britain&rsquo;s best-loved bridges is in a sorry state might be an understatement.The Tyne Bridge is badly rusting, its paint is peeling and the steelworks are visibly corroding, but its custodians have vowed that it will be restored to its former glory in time for its centenary in 2028. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/symbol-of-our-pride-newcastle-city-council-vows-to-restore-tyne-bridge/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/symbol-of-our-pride-newcastle-city-council-vows-to-restore-tyne-bridge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Like eating one of the game’s magic mushrooms’: Super Mario comes to California]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bringing the iconic video games into reality, Super Nintendo World is a spectacular feat of design that will overload your senses faster than it empties your wallet A chubby red toadstool glides back and forth on a mountain ledge while a row of spinning golden coins levitate nearby, hovering above a line of brick blocks. Turtles waddle along the surrounding clifftops, like lookout guards patrolling the valley below, while a tower of angry brown blobs with big frowns teeters to and fro on another]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-eating-one-of-the-games-magic-mushrooms-super-mario-comes-to-california/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-eating-one-of-the-games-magic-mushrooms-super-mario-comes-to-california/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Like eating one of Mario’s magic mushrooms’: inside California’s new Super Nintendo World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bringing the iconic video games into reality, Super Nintendo World is a spectacular feat of design that will overload your senses faster than it empties your wallet A chubby red toadstool glides back and forth on a mountain ledge while a row of spinning golden coins levitate nearby, hovering above a line of brick blocks. Turtles waddle along the surrounding clifftops, like lookout guards patrolling the valley below, while a tower of angry brown blobs with big frowns teeters to and fro on another]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-eating-one-of-marios-magic-mushrooms-inside-californias-new-super-nintendo-world/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-eating-one-of-marios-magic-mushrooms-inside-californias-new-super-nintendo-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mapping Melbourne’s ‘ghost signs’: ‘It’s become an obsession – I know it sounds unhealthy!’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Melbourne is littered with old painted logos and signs for businesses and brands that are long gone &ndash; and they&rsquo;re attracting big audiences on InstagramGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWalk around Melbourne for even a short while and you&rsquo;ll start seeing ghosts. Glance at any old building in the city or any fading milk bar in the suburbs, and you&rsquo;ll spot them: the faded logos and signs for companies and products that have often long since disappeared, telling the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mapping-melbournes-ghost-signs-its-become-an-obsession-i-know-it-sounds-unhealthy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mapping-melbournes-ghost-signs-its-become-an-obsession-i-know-it-sounds-unhealthy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rainforest? Turn left after the drawbridge! Inside Madrid’s eye-popping living school]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pupils asked for a building without walls that was like a garden and a spaceship. The dazzling result, housed within a living skin for insects and fungi, is one of the most inventive schools ever built&lsquo;It looks like a robot made of butter,&rdquo; was one pupil&rsquo;s reaction when they saw their new school for the first time. They were not wrong. Standing on the northern outskirts of Madrid, in the suburb of Encinar de los Reyes, the Reggio school is a surreal sight, rising from its slopi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/rainforest-turn-left-after-the-drawbridge-inside-madrids-eye-popping-living-school/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:33:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/rainforest-turn-left-after-the-drawbridge-inside-madrids-eye-popping-living-school/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘People think apartments are for losers’: the homes that could help solve LA’s housing crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Los Angeles is choked with traffic while many have to live on the streets thanks to the city&rsquo;s archaic planning laws. Could modernist apartment blocks built a century ago make LA liveable again?&lsquo;A true southern California city,&rdquo; declared a 1910 issue of Out West magazine, &ldquo;would be a garden filled with homes.&rdquo; It was one of numerous publications at the time designed to lure people to move to the golden state, extolling the virtues of the sun-kissed, health-giving we]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/people-think-apartments-are-for-losers-the-homes-that-could-help-solve-las-housing-crisis/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:24:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/people-think-apartments-are-for-losers-the-homes-that-could-help-solve-las-housing-crisis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A local’s guide to Melbourne: ‘The best part is the element of surprise’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Victoria&rsquo;s capital is rich in hidden galleries, bars and clubs, idiosyncratic buildings and exciting food, says architectural designer Nancy BekaFind out what&rsquo;s on in Melbourne and beyond with Summer in the City: our ultimate guide to events around AustraliaWhile Melbourne&rsquo;s fine dining scene is sensational, it&rsquo;s the city&rsquo;s multiculturalism that makes eating here so exciting. Sydney Road in Brunswick is a microcosm of this, a place where old Italian supermarkets min]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-locals-guide-to-melbourne-the-best-part-is-the-element-of-surprise/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-locals-guide-to-melbourne-the-best-part-is-the-element-of-surprise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into the Void: the four-storey Barbican shell set to become a £3.5m home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Having bought the space in 2006 for &pound;200,000, a former solicitor aims to sell the one-off 3,097 sq ft brutalist space to developersFor years, every day on his way home from work, Christian Keesing passed a vast empty unit within the foot of the Grade II-listed Barbican tower block he lived in.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d probably gone past it at least a thousand times, until I had the idea,&rdquo; Keesing said. The idea was to buy the four-storey space &ndash; which had lain empty for almost 50 years]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/into-the-void-the-four-storey-barbican-shell-set-to-become-a-35m-home/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2023 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/into-the-void-the-four-storey-barbican-shell-set-to-become-a-35m-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horror in the Modernist Block review – to the dark side]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ikon Gallery, Birmingham<br />
Creepy minimalist interiors, brutalist tower blocks at night &ndash; 20 artists go in all directions exploring architectural modernism and horror, starting with Birmingham&hellip;The idea that modernist architecture brings horrors &ndash; that its utopian dreams beget dystopia, that its striving for sunlight breeds nightmares &ndash; has been around for decades. There has also been a gathering rediscovery that modern buildings can be beautiful and humane and sometimes lo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/horror-in-the-modernist-block-review-to-the-dark-side/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/horror-in-the-modernist-block-review-to-the-dark-side/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loch living: a beautiful home on the banks of the Tay]]></title><description><![CDATA[A design journalist and her family had always relished their trips to Scotland, but when a field by Loch Tay went up for sale, their dreams became realityIn 2013, Jill Macnair and her husband, Neil, bought a field on the edge of Loch Tay in Perthshire. The loch is a long, narrow stretch of dark water flanked by the Ben Lawers mountain range. The area had made a lasting impression on the couple almost 10 years previously when Macnair&rsquo;s father had led them on a cycling expedition that skirte]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/loch-living-a-beautiful-home-on-the-banks-of-the-tay/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/loch-living-a-beautiful-home-on-the-banks-of-the-tay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Self-healing’ Roman concrete could aid modern construction, study suggests]]></title><description><![CDATA[Research finds secret of durability of buildings such as the Pantheon could be in the techniques used at the timeThey have stood through the fall of an empire, the carnage of great wars and the foundation of a new country. But quite why structures made using Roman concrete are so durable has remained something of a mystery.Now researchers say they have discovered one possible explanation: the technique used to make the material may have helped to give it self-healing properties. Continue reading]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/self-healing-roman-concrete-could-aid-modern-construction-study-suggests/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/self-healing-roman-concrete-could-aid-modern-construction-study-suggests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jair Bolsonaro wrecked Brazil’s presidential palace, TV report suggests]]></title><description><![CDATA[Journalist touring residence with new first lady is shown torn sofas, broken windows and art damaged by the sunJair Bolsonaro&rsquo;s wrecking of the Amazon made him a global outcast &ndash; but his acts of desecration were not limited to the rainforest.A report by the Brazilian broadcaster GloboNews suggests that even the official presidential residence &ndash; a 1950s masterpiece by the architect Oscar Niemeyer &ndash; was defiled by the far-right politician during his four years in power. Con]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/jair-bolsonaro-wrecked-brazils-presidential-palace-tv-report-suggests/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 17:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/jair-bolsonaro-wrecked-brazils-presidential-palace-tv-report-suggests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazil first lady ‘shaken’ by state of presidential palace after Bolsonaro]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ros&acirc;ngela Lula da Silva &lsquo;rather disappointed&rsquo; to find Oscar Niemeyer-designed building in disrepairJair Bolsonaro&rsquo;s wrecking of the Amazon made him a global outcast &ndash; but his acts of desecration were not limited to the rainforest.A report by the Brazilian broadcaster GloboNews suggests that even the official presidential residence &ndash; a 1950s masterpiece by the architect Oscar Niemeyer &ndash; was defiled by the far-right politician during his four years in powe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brazil-first-lady-shaken-by-state-of-presidential-palace-after-bolsonaro/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 15:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brazil-first-lady-shaken-by-state-of-presidential-palace-after-bolsonaro/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legacy of Japan’s Nakagin Capsule Tower lives on in restored pods]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of Tokyo&rsquo;s most famous buildings was dismantled in April due to asbestos fears. Now 23of the capsules have been saved for posterityTatsuyuki Maeda had more reason than most to feel a pang of regret as he joined admirers and passing office workers to watch Nakagin Capsule Tower being dismantled.The building was not just one of Tokyo&rsquo;s most famous structures; for more than a decade it had been Maeda&rsquo;s occasional home &ndash; a pied-&agrave;-terre in the heart of the city he h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/legacy-of-japans-nakagin-capsule-tower-lives-on-in-restored-pods/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 05:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/legacy-of-japans-nakagin-capsule-tower-lives-on-in-restored-pods/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legacy of Japan’s Nagakin Capsule Tower lives on in restored pods]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of Tokyo&rsquo;s most famous buildings was dismantled in April due to asbestos fears. Now 23of the capsules have been saved for posterityTatsuyuki Maeda had more reason than most to feel a pang of regret as he joined admirers and passing office workers to watch Nakagin Capsule Tower being dismantled.The building was not just one of Tokyo&rsquo;s most famous structures; for more than a decade it had been Maeda&rsquo;s occasional home &ndash; a pied-&agrave;-terre in the heart of the city he h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/legacy-of-japans-nagakin-capsule-tower-lives-on-in-restored-pods/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 05:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/legacy-of-japans-nagakin-capsule-tower-lives-on-in-restored-pods/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Is that a theatre?’ How Manchester built a dream space to leave the world behind]]></title><description><![CDATA[The former artistic director of the Royal Exchange reveals its extraordinary history &ndash; and the dramatic opportunities and unforgettable moments its unique design gave himA young man arrives in Manchester for a job interview as an assistant director. Standing before him is the Royal Exchange building &ndash; once the largest trading room in Europe, where thousands of men in top hats, smoking cigars, went about their business. In the 19th century, when cotton was king, the Exchange was seen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/is-that-a-theatre-how-manchester-built-a-dream-space-to-leave-the-world-behind/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/is-that-a-theatre-how-manchester-built-a-dream-space-to-leave-the-world-behind/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Here, people shake our hands in the street’: the architects redesigning rural Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[The relationship to the land and climate requires a specific kind of design and architects like Phillip Nielsen and Katharina Hendel are pushing for a revolutionSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityWhen Phillip Nielsen co-founded a design practice in Corowa on the banks of the Murray River, there had been no architect in the small town since 1972. &ldquo;[That&rsquo;s] 45 years of there not being a local architect who t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/here-people-shake-our-hands-in-the-street-the-architects-redesigning-rural-australia/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/here-people-shake-our-hands-in-the-street-the-architects-redesigning-rural-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arata Isozaki obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Versatile architect who first came to prominence in the 1960s with visionary schemes for the postwar rebuilding of JapanFrom building heroic works of concrete brutalism in the 1960s, to pieces of playful postmodernism in the 1980s, and curious organic-tech structures in the 2000s, few architects have been as versatile and enduring as the Japanese designer Arata Isozaki, who has died aged 91.Impossible to categorise with any single stylistic label, Isozaki was a constant presence in global archit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/arata-isozaki-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 17:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/arata-isozaki-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[23 for 2023: Observer writers’ culture highlights for the year ahead]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Rachmaninov to pop reunions, Beyonc&eacute;&rsquo;s tour to Greta Gerwig&rsquo;s Barbie, Spielberg to Sam Smith, our critics guide you through the next 12 monthsThe Factory opens in Manchester Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/23-for-2023-observer-writers-culture-highlights-for-the-year-ahead/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/23-for-2023-observer-writers-culture-highlights-for-the-year-ahead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty, Michael Gove, is only ever in the eye of a housebuilder’s bottom line | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[The minister&rsquo;s call for buildings to be aesthetically pleasing is all very well, but nimbies and developers have other concernsWhen Michael Gove says he wants new buildings to be more beautiful, who could possibly disagree? He calls for places to be created with &ldquo;heart and soul&rdquo;. He also hopes that opposition to new housing will diminish if there is &ldquo;a general improvement in the standard of design&rdquo;. Again, he has a point: who would want the site of Venice to be retu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/beauty-michael-gove-is-only-ever-in-the-eye-of-a-housebuilders-bottom-line-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/beauty-michael-gove-is-only-ever-in-the-eye-of-a-housebuilders-bottom-line-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newly released files reveal plan to move Millennium Dome to Swindon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Labour government received bid to relocate controversial London building before it was rebranded as the O2The &ldquo;Swindon Dome&rdquo; does have a ring to it. It has emerged Tony Blair&rsquo;s government received a proposition to move the Millennium Dome &ndash; later redeveloped and rebranded as the O2 &ndash; to Swindon. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/newly-released-files-reveal-plan-to-move-millennium-dome-to-swindon/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2022 09:24:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/newly-released-files-reveal-plan-to-move-millennium-dome-to-swindon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japanese architect and ‘postmodern giant’ Arata Isozaki dies aged 91]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pritzker prize winner who combined Asian and western influences said postwar ruins of Japan stayed with him in his workPritzker-winning Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, known for his avant garde style and category-defying works, has died at the age of 91, his office says.Isozaki died of old age at his home in Okinawa on Wednesday, with the funeral to be attended only by his close family, the office said in a statement on Friday. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/japanese-architect-and-postmodern-giant-arata-isozaki-dies-aged-91/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2022 07:03:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/japanese-architect-and-postmodern-giant-arata-isozaki-dies-aged-91/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you bored yet? The best new architecture worth braving the elements for this winter]]></title><description><![CDATA[From a striking observation tower at Sutton Hoo to a new home for the Manchester Jewish Museum &ndash; here are some of the most exciting new and renovated buildings to get out and admireFrom treasure-trove museums to outdoor geothermal pools and new aerial perspectives on Anglo-Saxon burial sites, here are some of Britain&rsquo;s architectural delights waiting to be discovered over the festive period &hellip; Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/are-you-bored-yet-the-best-new-architecture-worth-braving-the-elements-for-this-winter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/are-you-bored-yet-the-best-new-architecture-worth-braving-the-elements-for-this-winter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best art and design shows to visit in 2023]]></title><description><![CDATA[Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramovi&#263;, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester &ndash; your art-design to-do list for the year aheadMore from the 2023 culture preview Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-best-art-and-design-shows-to-visit-in-2023/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-best-art-and-design-shows-to-visit-in-2023/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glass barriers keep St Mark’s Basilica dry during Venice floods]]></title><description><![CDATA[Simple structures protect 900-year-old church from seawater that previously proved damagingIt is a simple solution, but one that may keep the marble columns and valuable mosaics of St Mark&rsquo;s Basilica in Venice safe from seawater-induced erosion: a set of glass barriers installed around the 900-year-old church has kept its floors dry during frequent high tides.Even after it evaporates, water leaves behind salt crystals that corrode the marble bases of the columns and the floor mosaics, said]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/glass-barriers-keep-st-marks-basilica-dry-during-venice-floods/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2022 10:23:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/glass-barriers-keep-st-marks-basilica-dry-during-venice-floods/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best art and architecture of 2022]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Londoners got to know the grand new spaces of the Elizabeth line, C&eacute;zanne took over Tate Modern and Venice drank The Milk of Dreams. Our critics rank the year&rsquo;s highlightsMore of the best culture of 2022Tate Britain, London, until 22 January<br />
Locke&rsquo;s 2022 Tate Britain commission was by far the most accomplished, ambitious and fascinating work I have seen by the 62-year-old artist. About 150 figures progressed the length of the Duveen Galleries, many on foot, some on horsebac]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-best-art-and-architecture-of-2022/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-best-art-and-architecture-of-2022/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk of England school buildings collapse ‘very likely’, says DfE]]></title><description><![CDATA[Annual report lays bare state of dilapidated education estate built during postwar shortagesOfficials have raised the risk level of school buildings collapsing to &ldquo;very likely&rdquo;, after an increase in serious structural issues being reported &ndash; especially in blocks built in the years 1945 to 1970.England&rsquo;s dilapidated school estate has been a cause of growing concern, but the dangers were laid bare in the Department for Education&rsquo;s (DfE) annual report on Monday, highli]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/risk-of-england-school-buildings-collapse-very-likely-says-dfe/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:07:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/risk-of-england-school-buildings-collapse-very-likely-says-dfe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk level of school buildings collapsing in England raised to ‘very likely’]]></title><description><![CDATA[DfE annual report lays bare state of dilapidated education estate built during postwar shortagesOfficials have raised the risk level of school buildings collapsing to &ldquo;very likely&rdquo;, after an increase in serious structural issues being reported &ndash; especially in blocks built in the years 1945 to 1970.England&rsquo;s dilapidated school estate has been a cause of growing concern, but the dangers were laid bare in the Department for Education&rsquo;s (DfE) annual report, which highli]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/risk-level-of-school-buildings-collapsing-in-england-raised-to-very-likely/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:07:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/risk-level-of-school-buildings-collapsing-in-england-raised-to-very-likely/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture: Rowan Moore’s five best projects of 2022]]></title><description><![CDATA[Playful, elegant additions to universities and colleges were the class acts to follow, while the newly opened Elizabeth line exceeded all design expectationsRead the Observer critics&rsquo; review of 2022 in full1. Marshall Building, LSE, London<br />
Grafton Architects<br />
A multifaceted concrete palazzo for students, a place for learning, gathering, sport and music whose design runs several gamuts &ndash; grand and intimate, formal and twisting, calm and energetic. It has tree-like columns at the scale]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architecture-rowan-moores-five-best-projects-of-2022/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architecture-rowan-moores-five-best-projects-of-2022/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Art of Building Competition 2022 – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The finalists in the largest photography competition celebrating the built environment have been announced.Run by the Chartered Institute of Building, entries range from an isolated churchto a shopping mall, with the winner to be decided by a public vote. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-art-of-building-competition-2022-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-art-of-building-competition-2022-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best designs of 2022: ‘This work is a beacon of hope’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finnish tables, Nigerian ceramics and fabrics made out of oranges &ndash; our panel of experts pick their design favourites of the year What was your favourite design of 2022? We asked creatives and design world insiders for the exhibitions, architecture, furniture and innovations that made this year just a little bit better. Here are their answers. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/best-designs-of-2022-this-work-is-a-beacon-of-hope/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:48:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/best-designs-of-2022-this-work-is-a-beacon-of-hope/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watermill and shipwrecks among heritage sites listed in England]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Historic England list also includes two cab shelters in London and first world war training trenchesA watermill that inspired the landscape artist John Constable, an intact Victorian soup kitchen and two 16th- and 17th-century shipwrecks are among the historic sites to have been listed in England during the past year.The Historic England national heritage list also includes two cab shelters in London as well as first world war training trenches that have links to the SAS. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/watermill-and-shipwrecks-among-heritage-sites-listed-in-england/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/watermill-and-shipwrecks-among-heritage-sites-listed-in-england/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘An unfinished Frankenstein’s monster’: the disastrous new Orange County Museum of Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[With ambitiously fractured form, this $94m gallery is open to visitors &ndash; if they can find their way inside &ndash; but its wonkily assembled parts are a long way from completeThere is a critical point in the creation of contemporary, computer-aided architecture where the elaborate forms conjured on screen must be translated into physical reality. The sweeping, seamless plains of gravity-defying digital matter are transformed into substantial chunks of steel and concrete, usually clad with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/an-unfinished-frankensteins-monster-the-disastrous-new-orange-county-museum-of-art/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2022 13:42:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/an-unfinished-frankensteins-monster-the-disastrous-new-orange-county-museum-of-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pastures, paddocks, Pride and Prejudice: Britain’s most viewed properties for sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Property website has shared the most viewed listings in 2022, which include a &pound;35m house in HighgateIf you spend a good proportion of your evenings idly browsing property websites looking for your favourite fantasy home, you&rsquo;re not alone. Property site Rightmove says millions of us do just that, and our fantasy bank balances appear to be much larger than our actual purchasing power.&ldquo;From homes with years of history, to contemporary pads with every modern feature available, this]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pastures-paddocks-pride-and-prejudice-britains-most-viewed-properties-for-sale/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2022 07:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/pastures-paddocks-pride-and-prejudice-britains-most-viewed-properties-for-sale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small wonders: stunning exhibition celebrates artistry of model buildings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Supermodels, an extraordinary immersive show in London, uses animatronics and meticulous construction to create beauty no AI could achieveWhen the eerily accurate AI image generator Dall-E 2 was released for public experimentation by OpenAI this summer, most people immediately used it to create whimsical scenes such as &ldquo;samurai dolphin painted in the style of Rembrandt&rdquo; or &ldquo;Bruce Willis angrily devouring a cheeseburger on the moon&rdquo;. True, if you looked too closely at Bruc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/small-wonders-stunning-exhibition-celebrates-artistry-of-model-buildings/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2022 19:12:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/small-wonders-stunning-exhibition-celebrates-artistry-of-model-buildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slashers, demons and head exploders: why horror revels in modern architecture]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the 1920s, the traditional haunted house died a death &ndash; as home design became all clean lines and bright spaces. But directors soon turned these dirt-free abodes into eerie, alienating, terrifying placesThe Ikon Gallery in Birmingham is an old Victorian school that was turned inside out and filled with new modernist interiors in the late 1990s. It looks to the untrained eye like a place of dusty classrooms and tiled corridors, but inside you&rsquo;ll find glass stairwells and white cube]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/slashers-demons-and-head-exploders-why-horror-revels-in-modern-architecture/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2022 12:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/slashers-demons-and-head-exploders-why-horror-revels-in-modern-architecture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Replacing old ITV Studios building ‘just greedy’, inquiry hears]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plans to redevelop 72 Upper Ground ignore material and climate impact, detractors sayDevelopers have been urged to &ldquo;stop demolishing youthful concrete towers at whim&rdquo; on the opening day of a planning inquiry which will examine plans to replace ITV&rsquo;s former headquarters on London&rsquo;s South Bank with a &pound;400m office complex.Objectors say the plans for 72 Upper Ground, nicknamed &lsquo;the Slab&rsquo;, will generate more carbon emissions in its construction than if the 4,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/replacing-old-itv-studios-building-just-greedy-inquiry-hears/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/replacing-old-itv-studios-building-just-greedy-inquiry-hears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘As welcoming as the shadow under a tree’: the new home for the man who built Houston]]></title><description><![CDATA[The endowment founded by developer Jesse Jones &ndash; who did much to shape the modern Texas city &ndash; has a bold, innovative new HQ based on that classic southern space &ndash; the porch Few figures have shaped the form and fortunes of a city as much as Jesse H Jones moulded Houston&rsquo;s. From the early 1900s, the lumberyard owner turned real estate developer, turned banker and Democrat politician, built more than 35 skyscrapers across the Texan &ldquo;bayou city&rdquo;. Known as &ldquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/as-welcoming-as-the-shadow-under-a-tree-the-new-home-for-the-man-who-built-houston/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 11:43:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/as-welcoming-as-the-shadow-under-a-tree-the-new-home-for-the-man-who-built-houston/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[72 Upper Ground: the latest development selling the Thames down the river]]></title><description><![CDATA[The riverside was once lauded as &lsquo;London&rsquo;s greatest opportunity&rsquo;. But a lack of strategy and overview has seen it crowded with unsightly towers that benefit profit-grubbing developers over communitiesThe Thames, world-famous river through the heart of the British capital, without which London would not exist, half-tamed work of nature, inspiration to Dickens and the Kinks, to Monet and Wordsworth, along whose banks are strewn four Unesco world heritage sites, must surely deserv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/72-upper-ground-the-latest-development-selling-the-thames-down-the-river/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/72-upper-ground-the-latest-development-selling-the-thames-down-the-river/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A$AP Rocky’s psilocybin-inspired decor studio doesn’t leave much room for the high-minded | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[The rapper&rsquo;s creations are unlikely to pass muster with adherents of modern design, even if they do &lsquo;push the boundaries&rsquo;The news that the rapper A$AP Rocky is launching a &ldquo;decor studio&rdquo; will be startling to believers in the high-minded principles of modern design, and its antecedents in the arts and crafts movement, especially when they see that his main idea is to add some primary-coloured mushrooms to a cactus-shaped hatstand created 50 years ago by the Italian d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/aap-rockys-psilocybin-inspired-decor-studio-doesnt-leave-much-room-for-the-high-minded-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2022 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/aap-rockys-psilocybin-inspired-decor-studio-doesnt-leave-much-room-for-the-high-minded-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain’s bunkers offer little chance of survival after a nuclear attack | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Saunders and Mark Newbury write that, with no bunker provision for civilians, most of us won&rsquo;t have access &ndash; and those who do should not expect to live longThe owner of the Kelvedon Hatch bunker suggests that those selected for his shelter might survive for 10 to 20 years in it while avoiding nuclear fallout (&lsquo;When you hear the four-minute warning&rsquo; &hellip; Whatever happened to Britain&rsquo;s nuclear bunkers?, 24 November). This is, sadly, an unrealistic expectatio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/britains-bunkers-offer-little-chance-of-survival-after-a-nuclear-attack-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/britains-bunkers-offer-little-chance-of-survival-after-a-nuclear-attack-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happened to the cockney riviera? The botched regeneration of brutalist utopia Thamesmead]]></title><description><![CDATA[The waterside new town on the outskirts of London was marvelled at in the 60s and used as the setting for A Clockwork Orange. But as decades passed it fell into neglect and now the developers are moving inA helicopter swoops over a sun-kissed marina, where young couples stroll along a waterfront promenade, between the masts of sailing boats and the chiselled concrete ziggurats of dashing modern flats. Up above, elevated walkways carry families from their front doorsteps to the futuristic town ce]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/what-happened-to-the-cockney-riviera-the-botched-regeneration-of-brutalist-utopia-thamesmead/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/what-happened-to-the-cockney-riviera-the-botched-regeneration-of-brutalist-utopia-thamesmead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Move over Sydney Opera House – there’s a new superstar in town]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sydney Modern has been called the most significant cultural addition to the Australian city for 50 years. So how does the airy cascade of new galleries measure up? We take a tour of the &pound;191m projectMore than almost any other city, except perhaps Paris with its Eiffel Tower, Sydney is visualised through an architectural icon, the Opera House. Whether manifested as hats, glasses or logos, the various clouds, sails or copulating turtles of J&oslash;rn Utzon&rsquo;s masterpiece have provided]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/move-over-sydney-opera-house-theres-a-new-superstar-in-town/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/move-over-sydney-opera-house-theres-a-new-superstar-in-town/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Museum of London: a fundamental clash as the City of London dreams on]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the museum prepares to leave its 70s home, plans to raze the site and build an office-led new complex have sparked a battle with those who want to repurpose what&rsquo;s already thereNext Sunday, the Museum of London, which as the official text puts it &ldquo;tells the ever-changing story of this great world city and its people, from 450,000BC to the present day&rdquo;, closes the doors of the building it has occupied for the past 46 years. This is on the edge of the Barbican, the brutalist e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-museum-of-london-a-fundamental-clash-as-the-city-of-london-dreams-on/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2022 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-museum-of-london-a-fundamental-clash-as-the-city-of-london-dreams-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Like a clown in a tutu’: London’s National Gallery architect steps into row over revamp plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Sainsbury Wing&rsquo;s co-designer Denise Scott Brown says plans to remodel her award-winning entrance are tragically bad. Here, she explains whyThe architect of the controversial Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London has publicly hit back at plans to completely rebuild it, accusing the new designer of &ldquo;making our building look like a circus clown&rdquo;.When it was completed in 1991, the Sainsbury Wing, designed by Denise Scott Brown and her husband Robert Venturi, was deri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-a-clown-in-a-tutu-londons-national-gallery-architect-steps-into-row-over-revamp-plan/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2022 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-a-clown-in-a-tutu-londons-national-gallery-architect-steps-into-row-over-revamp-plan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s enigmatic figures, sensational seeds and a heavyweight four-way face off – the week in art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mysterious portraits of fictitious people, the roots of colonialism and the works of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and friends &ndash; all in your weekly dispatchLynette Yiadom-BoakyeImpeccable and fascinating paintings that create mystery and leave you haunted, like the covers of novels that are yet to be written.<br />
&bull; Tate Britain, London, until 26 February. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lynette-yiadom-boakyes-enigmatic-figures-sensational-seeds-and-a-heavyweight-four-way-face-off-the-week-in-art/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:24:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lynette-yiadom-boakyes-enigmatic-figures-sensational-seeds-and-a-heavyweight-four-way-face-off-the-week-in-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renowned architect joins calls to save Kurt Schwitters’ Merz Barn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daniel Libeskind attacks plans to sell off Cumbrian structure once owned by celebrated modern artistThe architect Daniel Libeskind has slammed plans to sell off a unique Cumbrian barn once owned by the celebrated modernist artist Kurt Schwitters.Merz Barn, near Elterwater, is set to be put up for auction next month after funding could not be found to save the studio, which Schwitters, an anti-fascist artist, had made into artwork in itself. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/renowned-architect-joins-calls-to-save-kurt-schwitters-merz-barn/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:59:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/renowned-architect-joins-calls-to-save-kurt-schwitters-merz-barn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betjeman’s Liverpool Street campaign revived in face of new development]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conservationists hope spirit of late poet laureate&rsquo;s 1970s protest will protect the Victorian station from &lsquo;serious harm&rsquo;The poet John Betjeman&rsquo;s campaign to save Liverpool Street station is being revived due to plans to build offices, shops and a hotel over the listed building, which conservationists say will ruin its character.The late poet laureate had a passion for railway architecture and led a successful crusade in the 1970s against plans to demolish Liverpool Stree]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/betjemans-liverpool-street-campaign-revived-in-face-of-new-development/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:08:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/betjemans-liverpool-street-campaign-revived-in-face-of-new-development/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s a bit Mary Poppins’: Lina Ghotmeh to design 2023’s Serpentine pavilion]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Beirut-born architect is aiming for the smallest possible carbon footprint with an African-inspired &lsquo;great shelter&rsquo; for meeting in Kensington GardensA slender wooden parasol will unfurl in Kensington Gardens next summer in London, its radial ribs supporting an expansive, low-slung canopy beneath the trees. It is the elegant vision of Lina Ghotmeh, the Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect who has been announced as the designer of the 22nd annual Serpentine Gallery pavilion.&ldquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-a-bit-mary-poppins-lina-ghotmeh-to-design-2023s-serpentine-pavilion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-a-bit-mary-poppins-lina-ghotmeh-to-design-2023s-serpentine-pavilion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letter: Roger FitzGerald obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two decades ago the architect Roger FitzGerald led the ADP team developing new buildings at Roffey Park Institute in Horsham, West Sussex, working closely with me as its chief executive and, later, chair.Of the six architects tendering for the work, Roger was the only one who did not present a drawing of his plan, but said he wanted to understand more fully what we aimed to achieve. So began a truly rewarding partnership. Roger and his team delivered an outstanding project with a strong sense of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/letter-roger-fitzgerald-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:32:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/letter-roger-fitzgerald-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vic Nierop-Reading obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, Vic Nierop-Reading, who has died aged 95, was a conservation architect who spent much of his life helping to restore the precious old buildings of Norwich.Born in Finchley, north London, Vic was the only child of Frank Reading, a clockmaker, and May (nee Elsegood), who worked in a jewellery showroom. He went to Christ&rsquo;s college in Finchley, north London, before training in architecture at North London Polytechnic (now London Metropolitan University). He started his career in 195]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/vic-nierop-reading-obituary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2022 18:32:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/vic-nierop-reading-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘You can’t escape danger’: the artist making ‘risky’ playgrounds – and splitting opinions]]></title><description><![CDATA[New Zealand engineer Mike Hewson has raised eyebrows with his &lsquo;risky play park&rsquo; in Melbourne. But the kids are voting with their feetGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOn Monday, an inner-city playground opened as part of a $44m council upgrade to create open space in Melbourne&rsquo;s most densely populated suburb, Southbank. The monkey bars, slides, swings and ropes signalled fun; children swarmed.But this playground was not like others. The climbing equipment was draped on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/you-cant-escape-danger-the-artist-making-risky-playgrounds-and-splitting-opinions/</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/you-cant-escape-danger-the-artist-making-risky-playgrounds-and-splitting-opinions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qatar World Cup stadiums: pitch fever at any price]]></title><description><![CDATA[Qatar&rsquo;s new stadiums are Instagram-ready and waiting, but there&rsquo;s no getting away from the environmental cost of their construction &ndash; nor the question of what to do with them when the crowds go homeQatar&rsquo;s impending World Cup, which kicks off next Sunday, does not only require the creation of vast sporting infrastructure almost from scratch. It also comes with a striking fetish &ndash; in the case of six of its eight stadia claiming to look like things that they are not:]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/qatar-world-cup-stadiums-pitch-fever-at-any-price/</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/qatar-world-cup-stadiums-pitch-fever-at-any-price/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where tourists seldom tread, part 3: five towns with hidden histories]]></title><description><![CDATA[This trail through our industrial, ghostly past includes a haunted motorway and old dye works repurposed as cute cottages<br />
Part one | Part twoHeritage tourism should be about crisis and decay as well as conservation. As Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley write in Edgelands, their psycho-geographical field guide, &ldquo;England &hellip; offers the world&rsquo;s most mature post-industrial terrain.&rdquo;We were first to turn the engines on, and the lights out. It&rsquo;s a pity we don&rsquo;t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/where-tourists-seldom-tread-part-3-five-towns-with-hidden-histories/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/where-tourists-seldom-tread-part-3-five-towns-with-hidden-histories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mushroom walls and waste-fuelled stoves: inside the self-sufficient home of tomorrow]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joost Bakker believes a house can be more than a place to live: it can be a self-sustaining weapon against the climate crisis. A new Australian documentary explores his bold blueprintGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email&ldquo;The most destructive things we humans do,&rdquo; says Joost Bakker, &ldquo;is eat.&rdquo;In terms of sentences that grab your attention, the introduction to new Australian documentary Greenhouse by Joost is right up there. Then again, Bakker &ndash; a multi-disciplin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mushroom-walls-and-waste-fuelled-stoves-inside-the-self-sufficient-home-of-tomorrow/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mushroom-walls-and-waste-fuelled-stoves-inside-the-self-sufficient-home-of-tomorrow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Architectural Photography Awards – shortlist]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Architectural Photography Awards has announced the shortlist of entrants for this year&rsquo;s competition. The judges were asked to look beyond the architecture, and to consider composition, use of scale and the photographers&rsquo; sensitivity to atmosphere. The shortlist consists of entries from six categories: Exterior, Interior, Sense of Place, Buildings in Use, Bridges and Transport Hub.The photographs will be displayed at The World Architecture Festival (WAF) Lisbon in Portugal from 3]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-architectural-photography-awards-shortlist/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-architectural-photography-awards-shortlist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have I got mews for you: Peter Barber, the miracle creator of dazzling streets]]></title><description><![CDATA[He takes slivers of land and transforms them into thriving communities. As the great housing architect picks up the prestigious Soane medal, he reveals his plan to fix Britain, from Orkney to the Isle of WightAn imposing brick wall runs in a sweeping curve along the edge of the North Circular road in Finchley, lined with arches and crowned with crenelations, looking like a fragment of an ancient walled city. A cartoonish pair of towers poke up at either end of the 200-metre long structure, dotte]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/have-i-got-mews-for-you-peter-barber-the-miracle-creator-of-dazzling-streets/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 01:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/have-i-got-mews-for-you-peter-barber-the-miracle-creator-of-dazzling-streets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Marks &amp; Spencer has to demolish and rebuild its Marble Arch store | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[M&amp;S operations director Sacha Berendji responds to a piece by Simon Jenkins about the redevelopment of its building in Oxford Street, LondonAs a former store manager, I have great affection for &ldquo;the Arch&rdquo;, Marks &amp; Spencer&rsquo;s Marble Arch store on Oxford Street, London. So I feel compelled to respond to Simon Jenkins&rsquo; article about plans for its demolition and redevelopment (M&amp;S is a shining example of how not to treat the high street &ndash; or the planet, 28 Oc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/why-marks-amp-spencer-has-to-demolish-and-rebuild-its-marble-arch-store-letters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/why-marks-amp-spencer-has-to-demolish-and-rebuild-its-marble-arch-store-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why it&rsquo;s vital for Marks &amp; Spencer to demolish and rebuild its Marble Arch store | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[M&amp;S operations director Sacha Berendji responds to a piece by Simon Jenkins about the redevelopment of its building in Oxford Street, LondonAs a former store manager, I have great affection for &ldquo;the Arch&rdquo;, Marks &amp; Spencer&rsquo;s Marble Arch store on Oxford Street, London. So I feel compelled to respond to Simon Jenkins&rsquo; article about plans for its demolition and redevelopment (M&amp;S is a shining example of how not to treat the high street &ndash; or the planet, 28 Oc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/why-itrsquos-vital-for-marks-amp-spencer-to-demolish-and-rebuild-its-marble-arch-store-letters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/why-itrsquos-vital-for-marks-amp-spencer-to-demolish-and-rebuild-its-marble-arch-store-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lea Bridge library pavilion – lending new life organically to a public space]]></title><description><![CDATA[The tree-friendly, timber-lined extension to the east London building is a soothing haven that works in harmony with its surroundingsThe Lea Bridge library pavilion in east London is, very simply, a lovely place. It is peaceful, soothing, a world apart from the hustle of a big straight road that runs a few metres distant. It supports life both individual and social, quiet reading and busy events &ndash; children&rsquo;s parties, yoga classes, workshops. It gives new life to what has looked like]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lea-bridge-library-pavilion-lending-new-life-organically-to-a-public-space/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/lea-bridge-library-pavilion-lending-new-life-organically-to-a-public-space/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Gallery entrance revamp row recalls King Charles’ ‘carbuncle’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architects&rsquo; society forced to defend scheme to remodel entrance from &lsquo;unjustified&rsquo; criticismCarbuncles usually take only a few weeks to heal, but the architectural row over the National Gallery has been going for nearly 40 years.The latest eruption came last week, when the president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) took aim at eight of his predecessors over their objections to plans to overhaul the gallery&rsquo;s Sainsbury Wing. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/national-gallery-entrance-revamp-row-recalls-king-charles-carbuncle/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/national-gallery-entrance-revamp-row-recalls-king-charles-carbuncle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divine renovation: as churchgoing declines in Australia, places of worship are up for sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Faced by rising repair costs, parishes are being forced to sell. But some in the community are concerned about the fate of historic buildingsNeil Hicks, the archdeacon at the Anglican diocese of Wangaratta, knows the number of his parishioners is dwindling.&ldquo;When I was a kid, lots of kids in my primary school went to church and Sunday school but by middle school most had stopped going and now they&rsquo;re grandparents,&rdquo; he says. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/divine-renovation-as-churchgoing-declines-in-australia-places-of-worship-are-up-for-sale/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2022 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/divine-renovation-as-churchgoing-declines-in-australia-places-of-worship-are-up-for-sale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Gallery needs to rethink its plans to make an entrance | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Remodelling the Sainsbury Wing on the lines of &lsquo;an airport lounge&rsquo; is not a recipe for permanenceIf you write about buildings you&rsquo;re sometimes shown the makeovers of grand national institutions. You&rsquo;re told that tens of millions of pounds&rsquo; worth of work is absolutely necessary to put right the inadequacies of previous projects 20 or more years ago. If you write about buildings for long enough, you get to see the makeovers of the makeovers you saw last time around. W]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-national-gallery-needs-to-rethink-its-plans-to-make-an-entrance-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2022 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-national-gallery-needs-to-rethink-its-plans-to-make-an-entrance-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house redesigned along party lines]]></title><description><![CDATA[A revamped Victorian terrace in London is now the perfect seamless space for a couple who love to entertain&ldquo;We are not the kind of people who do up homes,&rdquo; says Ben Bignall, sitting with his wife Jen in surroundings that strongly suggest otherwise &ndash; a curved glass extension that echoes the Victorian shopfronts that once stood nearby.The ground floor of their Victorian terrace is now a series of open-plan yet distinct spaces, one flowing into another: a sitting room at the front]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-house-redesigned-along-party-lines/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-house-redesigned-along-party-lines/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remote Indigenous community pioneers 3D-printed homes set to change rural lives]]></title><description><![CDATA[Traditional owners of Mparntwe collaborate with Melbourne company Luyten to combat housing shortages and improve Ilpeye Ilpeye residents&rsquo; lifestyleSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityAn Indigenous community in Alice Springs is hoping to lead the way towards a 3D-printed home revolution in rural, regional and remote Australia.After becoming the first town camp in the Northern Territory to be granted freehold title]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/remote-indigenous-community-pioneers-3d-printed-homes-set-to-change-rural-lives/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/remote-indigenous-community-pioneers-3d-printed-homes-set-to-change-rural-lives/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tricia Blakstad obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2020 and 2021, listeners to Radio 4&rsquo;s Today programme were given regular updates on my mother Tricia Blakstad&rsquo;s descent into dementia, exacerbated by the isolation imposed by lockdown. Though her husband, Michael, was regularly interviewed about her story, she had no idea she had become a national talking point.When Tricia, who has died aged 81, was diagnosed with Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease in 2019, Michael already had Parkinson&rsquo;s. The couple moved to a retirement village, bu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tricia-blakstad-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2022 19:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tricia-blakstad-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Street smarts: educational guided walks across the UK]]></title><description><![CDATA[From architecture in London, street art in Belfast and city routes hosted by former homeless people, here are some of the most informative trails on offerDo you want to know about crime and punishment in Edinburgh? Learn about depression in Manchester or about Scottish languages? These are just some of the unique subjects of Invisible cities guided walking tours.Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/street-smarts-educational-guided-walks-across-the-uk/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/street-smarts-educational-guided-walks-across-the-uk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guggenheim effect: how the museum helped transform Bilbao]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Basque city locals remember as grimy and industrial has changed a lot since the Frank Gehry-designed building sprang up 25 years agoEvening approaches Bilbao&rsquo;s old port, bringing with it the joggers who pinball along the promenades, the tourists mulling a cruise on the dark green waters of the estuary, and the woman in the artisan ice-cream booth who keeps vigil behind tubs of dulce de leche, passionfruit and bubblegum-flavoured &ldquo;blue smurf&rdquo;.Close by, its titanium scales gl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/guggenheim-effect-how-the-museum-helped-transform-bilbao/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/guggenheim-effect-how-the-museum-helped-transform-bilbao/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be light: England’s Anglican cathedrals at dawn]]></title><description><![CDATA[The late Magnum photographer Peter Marlow was granted the rare opportunity to capture 42 places of worship in the early hours, the results of which are now collected in an exhibition and bookThere are few experiences more uplifting and humbling than standing in the nave of a cathedral. With the symmetry of columns soaring into arches, and the fine tracery of windows allowing an ethereal light to enter, the effect &ndash; as Goethe once described architecture &ndash; is like frozen music. These a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/let-there-be-light-englands-anglican-cathedrals-at-dawn/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/let-there-be-light-englands-anglican-cathedrals-at-dawn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Razing your architectural gem is a funny way to show a love for heritage, M&amp;S | Catherine Bennett]]></title><description><![CDATA[The retailer claims it values conservation and the environment. You could have fooled me&lsquo;Est 1884&rdquo;. Thanks to assiduous reminders, it&rsquo;s widely understood that the story of Marks &amp; Spencer enjoys roughly the same place in national history and affections as do the Tudors and the second world war. In the absence of a Henry VIII or Churchill, the brand gets by with an innocent cartoon character/pink sweet, Percy Pig, whom customers are encouraged to think of as emblematic.The s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/razing-your-architectural-gem-is-a-funny-way-to-show-a-love-for-heritage-mamps-catherine-bennett/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2022 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/razing-your-architectural-gem-is-a-funny-way-to-show-a-love-for-heritage-mamps-catherine-bennett/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portmeirion to Coleg Harlech: an architectural odyssey in north-west Wales]]></title><description><![CDATA[One&rsquo;s an architect&rsquo;s idyll, the other a faded brutalist gem, but both are worth seeing on this scenic coastal hike between the twoIt&rsquo;s hard to think of two building projects less alike than Portmeirion, the whimsical Italianate holiday village that was the career-long labour of love of the architect Clough Williams-Ellis, and the theatre and student housing tower of Coleg Harlech, a rugged work of concrete brutalism. Yet they were completed within a few years of each other, 197]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/portmeirion-to-coleg-harlech-an-architectural-odyssey-in-north-west-wales/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2022 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/portmeirion-to-coleg-harlech-an-architectural-odyssey-in-north-west-wales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Why not just go the full Vegas?’ The crass, ad-laden reinvention of central London]]></title><description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s a new theatre, four live venues, &lsquo;walk-in&rsquo; billboards, and a hotel for Hollywood A-listers with subwoofers en suite. So why is this West End development about as exciting as a 1980s business park?<br />
&lsquo;Coarse in the extreme,&rdquo; was how the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described Centre Point in 1973. In his eyes, the white concrete office tower &ndash; which stands at the junction of New Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road like a gleaming signpost for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/why-not-just-go-the-full-vegas-the-crass-ad-laden-reinvention-of-central-london/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/why-not-just-go-the-full-vegas-the-crass-ad-laden-reinvention-of-central-london/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beheaded monarch, subversive ceramics and oil drilling in Gateshead – the week in art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Celebrate Halloween with an executed King Charles, clay like you&rsquo;ve never seen it and a taste of Kurdistan in Tyneside &ndash; all in your weekly dispatchExecutions<br />
A gory Halloween history lesson that includes relics of the beheaded Charles I, as well as 18th-century death-cell portraits and an axe or two.<br />
&bull; Museum of London Docklands, until 16 April Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-beheaded-monarch-subversive-ceramics-and-oil-drilling-in-gateshead-the-week-in-art/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-beheaded-monarch-subversive-ceramics-and-oil-drilling-in-gateshead-the-week-in-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October design news: cave living and chairs made from car exhausts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hyperlocal makers, rebranding a nation and the Design Council&rsquo;s festival If you think there has to be a better way of living, this month&rsquo;s design news shows you how. We&rsquo;ve got inspirational people living off-grid and news of the Design for Planet festival &ndash; a free event full of &ldquo;how to&rdquo; events and workshops to make businesses more sustainable. We even have furniture made from old newspapers and car exhaust pipes. We hope something will inspire you to make a ch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/october-design-news-cave-living-and-chairs-made-from-car-exhausts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/october-design-news-cave-living-and-chairs-made-from-car-exhausts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfridges backs M&amp;S plan to raze and rebuild Oxford Street store]]></title><description><![CDATA[Public inquiry starts on Tuesday into proposals for 90-year-old shop, which campaigners opposeSelfridges&rsquo; new owners are backing plans by Marks &amp; Spencer to demolish and redevelop its Oxford Street store, with a planning inquiry into the controversial proposals beginning this week.The two-week inquiry, which starts on Tuesday in Westminster, will pit M&amp;S and its Oxford Street neighbour Selfridges against environmental campaigners and historic building fans, who argue that the 90-ye]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/selfridges-backs-mamps-plan-to-raze-and-rebuild-oxford-street-store/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/selfridges-backs-mamps-plan-to-raze-and-rebuild-oxford-street-store/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architect Moshe Safdie: ‘I was antagonistic to postmodernism – and I paid a price’]]></title><description><![CDATA[From his 60s utopian housing development to infinity pools in the sky, the Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie has always designed larger-than-life buildings. Now 84, he has written a memoir about the obsessional energy that still fuels his careerOnce, Moshe Safdie was the future. Then he wasn&rsquo;t. Now, decades later, it turns out that, after all, he was. In 1967 he realised Habitat at the Montreal Expo, one of the most memorable projects of that decade, a revolutionary model of urban li]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-moshe-safdie-i-was-antagonistic-to-postmodernism-and-i-paid-a-price/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-moshe-safdie-i-was-antagonistic-to-postmodernism-and-i-paid-a-price/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudi’s 100-mile mega-city is meant to blow our minds – so we forget the crimes of its rulers | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Protesters against Neom don&rsquo;t last long. How can western architects ignore this?The ambitious development of the Saudi region of Neom, goes the PR gush, is &ldquo;dedicated to the sanctity of all life on Earth&rdquo;. Well, not quite all, it turns out. It was recently reported that three members of the Huwaitat tribe, arrested for protesting against the forced eviction of their and other families to make way for it, have been sentenced to death. Another protester from the tribe was shot de]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/saudis-100-mile-mega-city-is-meant-to-blow-our-minds-so-we-forget-the-crimes-of-its-rulers-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/saudis-100-mile-mega-city-is-meant-to-blow-our-minds-so-we-forget-the-crimes-of-its-rulers-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airbnb donates £1.25m to English Heritage to ‘boost heritage tourism’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Housing campaigner says rental giant&rsquo;s donation is a &lsquo;cultural greenwashing&rsquo; to offset their poor publicity over the housing crisisEnglish Heritage has accepted a &pound;1.25m donation from Airbnb to support its bid to &ldquo;boost heritage tourism&rdquo; and to continue the conservation of the UK&rsquo;s most important historical attractions and houses.The donation to the charity, which acts as a custodian to the country&rsquo;s architectural legacy, follows the launch of the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/airbnb-donates-125m-to-english-heritage-to-boost-heritage-tourism/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/airbnb-donates-125m-to-english-heritage-to-boost-heritage-tourism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can build enough homes for everyone in England. So why don’t we? | John Boughton]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a country, we have produced sufficient affordable housing at pace and scale in the past when the political will was thereThe politics of Liz Truss&rsquo;s government make it unlikely we&rsquo;ll see a significant new expansion of social rented housing any time soon. But not so long ago another Conservative prime minister, Theresa May, talked of the need for &ldquo;a new generation of council homes to help fix our broken housing market&rdquo;. Opposition parties and the UK&rsquo;s devolved gov]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-can-build-enough-homes-for-everyone-in-england-so-why-dont-we-john-boughton/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-can-build-enough-homes-for-everyone-in-england-so-why-dont-we-john-boughton/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do we need homes built to last for a millennium? | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stirling prize | James Corden&rsquo;s omelette fury | Boris Becker&rsquo;s voluntary sacrifices | Screeching cliches | Teachers misspeakingI was delighted to read that the best new building is one planned to &ldquo;last another four centuries&rdquo; (Cosy nooks in a thicket of books: time-straddling library is Britain&rsquo;s best new building, 13 October). The longevity of buildings in the UK is rarely discussed, but historically only about 20,000 homes a year are demolished out of a total stoc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/do-we-need-homes-built-to-last-for-a-millennium-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/do-we-need-homes-built-to-last-for-a-millennium-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sydney festival 2023: Town Hall to be filled with 26 tonnes of sand for program showpiece]]></title><description><![CDATA[The heritage building&rsquo;s floor will become an indoor beach for an award-winning opera &ndash; one of a few architectural landmarks that will get a new life this summerGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTwenty-six tonnes of sand will be shipped into Sydney Town Hall as part of the 2023 Sydney festival, with the heritage-listed building transformed into a faux beach for an award-winning opera starring 79 people and a dog.The program for the annual festival, announced today, will ampli]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sydney-festival-2023-town-hall-to-be-filled-with-26-tonnes-of-sand-for-program-showpiece/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2022 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sydney-festival-2023-town-hall-to-be-filled-with-26-tonnes-of-sand-for-program-showpiece/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stately pleasure dome is reborn in Holland Park | Rachel Cooke]]></title><description><![CDATA[The reopening of Leighton House reminds us that the artist&rsquo;s taste in interior decoration was unparalleled &ndash; if not his foodWhat bliss to be back at Leighton House in Holland Park, open again at last after a delicate redevelopment. Once the home of the artist Frederic Leighton (1830-96), it&rsquo;s surely London&rsquo;s best-kept secret: Victorian redbrick without, orientalist fantasy within.For me, the highlight of the &pound;8m project is the restoration of Leighton&rsquo;s winter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-stately-pleasure-dome-is-reborn-in-holland-park-rachel-cooke/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2022 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-stately-pleasure-dome-is-reborn-in-holland-park-rachel-cooke/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosy nooks in a thicket of books: time-straddling library is Britain’s best new building]]></title><description><![CDATA[Awash with light, boasting river views and fresh air indoors, this tall-chimneyed, Tudor-tinged book-lovers&rsquo; 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 &ndash; for a library designed to last for another four centuries.Standing next to the 17th-century Pepys Library, the cramped study spac]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cosy-nooks-in-a-thicket-of-books-time-straddling-library-is-britains-best-new-building/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cosy-nooks-in-a-thicket-of-books-time-straddling-library-is-britains-best-new-building/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hidden wonders of Battersea power station | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-hidden-wonders-of-battersea-power-station-letters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-hidden-wonders-of-battersea-power-station-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Our time has come’ – Muyiwa Oki, first black president of RIBA, reveals his shakeup plans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elderly white men in bow ties have tended to run the very grand and possibly even stuffy Royal Institute of British Architects. Muyiwa Oki, its youngest boss ever at 31, spells out his vision for unions, the climate crisis and island-buying oligarchsWith its imposing bronze doors, inlaid marble corridors and committee rooms lined with kid leather, the Royal Institute of British Architects is the apogee of professional pomp. Built in the 1930s as the modern profession of architecture was being fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/our-time-has-come-muyiwa-oki-first-black-president-of-riba-reveals-his-shakeup-plans/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/our-time-has-come-muyiwa-oki-first-black-president-of-riba-reveals-his-shakeup-plans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five of the best buildings to peek into at this weekend’s York Unlocked]]></title><description><![CDATA[The open house event will see 60 historic buildings in the city free to visit. A local expert picks his must-seesThis weekend, on 15 and 16 October in the first York Unlocked event, 60 historic buildings will open free to the public, with volunteer stewards on hand as guides.To grow up in York, as I did, is to be spoilt rotten with historical riches. Having been the capital of Roman Britain, York was arguably Britain&rsquo;s second city at various times between the 10th and early 17th centuries.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/five-of-the-best-buildings-to-peek-into-at-this-weekends-york-unlocked/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/five-of-the-best-buildings-to-peek-into-at-this-weekends-york-unlocked/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christopher Woodward obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect who designed the indoor mall in Milton Keynes to resemble the experience of shopping on the high streetThe Shopping Building, an indoor mall in the heart of the city centre, serves as Milton Keynes&rsquo;s high street. Opened in 1979 and now rebranded the Centre: MK, it is surviving the economic downturn better than most, and its natural lighting makes shopping a more pleasant experience than in other indoor centres. The light comes from high clerestories over the malls, since the main]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/christopher-woodward-obituary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2022 15:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/christopher-woodward-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battersea power station: a giant that needs no grand gestures]]></title><description><![CDATA[After decades of disuse and wild plans for its redevelopment, Wilkinson Eyre&rsquo;s restrained conversion of this huge London landmark embraces the bravura of the original design, while the new flats are not so successfulThe first thing that hits you is the scale. Have so many bricks ever been piled up like this anywhere else? It&rsquo;s a cliff, a behemoth, a Babylonian monolith. Up close, you keep recalibrating your sense of proportion, like a confused camera lens, not quite believing what yo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/battersea-power-station-a-giant-that-needs-no-grand-gestures/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/battersea-power-station-a-giant-that-needs-no-grand-gestures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shedloads of colour: how a move away from grey buildings could help farmers’ mental health]]></title><description><![CDATA[After childhood dreams of working outdoors, many farmers struggle with the reality of today&rsquo;s indoor intensive farms. Could murals and diversification help?&bull; Photographs by Alexander Turner<br />
The modern-day farm is rarely a thing of beauty. While a farmyard in Britain might for many still conjure up a bucolic idyll and freely roaming animals, the reality is often no more than a collection of bland metal sheds.It turns out that a large, windowless, temperature-controlled shed can be the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/shedloads-of-colour-how-a-move-away-from-grey-buildings-could-help-farmers-mental-health/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 07:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/shedloads-of-colour-how-a-move-away-from-grey-buildings-could-help-farmers-mental-health/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Every square inch monetised’ – is Battersea Power Station now a playground for the super rich?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It rooftop &lsquo;villas&rsquo; are &pound;8m, its shops include Rolex and Cartier &ndash; and its affordable housing figure is just 9%. We go inside the &pound;9bn, no-expense-spared return of the famous London landmarkIn 1983, the year Battersea Power Station was decommissioned, the radical architect Cedric Price drew up a provocative proposal for what to do with the gargantuan brick hulk. The London building&rsquo;s silhouette of four slender white chimneys rising from the stepped art deco br]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/every-square-inch-monetised-is-battersea-power-station-now-a-playground-for-the-super-rich/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/every-square-inch-monetised-is-battersea-power-station-now-a-playground-for-the-super-rich/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battersea power station: timeline of a modern classic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Begun in 1929, the building was a collaboration between architects Theo Halliday and Sir Giles Gilbert ScottBattersea power station housing set to open after 10-year developmentBattersea power station was built in two phases, as a collaboration between the architects Theo Halliday and Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.Halliday was responsible for the overall shape and the interior. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/battersea-power-station-timeline-of-a-modern-classic/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/battersea-power-station-timeline-of-a-modern-classic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letter: Diane Haigh obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not only was Diane Haigh influential in the architectural world, but her drive for holistic, sustainable designs led her to value the role of landscape architecture. This was recognised by her honorary fellowship from the Landscape Institute in 2012, after working with me as a &ldquo;critical friend&rdquo; on one of our publications.As a member of CABE&rsquo;s national design panel, I felt that Di as director did more than anyone to champion the role of landscape architects in the design review]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/letter-diane-haigh-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 19:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/letter-diane-haigh-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Webb obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect and safety campaigner who listened to tenants&rsquo; views on postwar tower blocksWhen he was aged six, Sam Webb accompanied his father to the grounds of the Tate gallery in London, to see an exhibition of prototype factory-built homes that gleamed with promise for better postwar social housing. That show, in 1943, resonated with him: three years earlier, during the blitz, he had seen the windows of his family&rsquo;s house and shop in East Finchley, north London, blown away. It was a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sam-webb-obituary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sam-webb-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Emma Chamberlain’s home reveals about the influencer aesthetic]]></title><description><![CDATA[The closer you look at the home of California native, 21, the more it feels like you are being shown a space inspired entirely by Instagram sponsored adsEmma Chamberlain is the 21-year-old influencer with 11.8 million Youtube subscribers who is famous for &hellip; we&rsquo;ll get back to you on that one. Anyway Chamberlain has made enough money in the last five years that she is now the proud owner of both an LA mansion and, more importantly, an Architectural Digest magazine Open House video.If]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/what-emma-chamberlains-home-reveals-about-the-influencer-aesthetic/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 08:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/what-emma-chamberlains-home-reveals-about-the-influencer-aesthetic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Healing a wound’: from neglected East German relic to lauded art gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[German billionaire restores Minsk cafe in Potsdam as showpiece of socialist realist architectureFor almost three decades it appeared to have been consigned to the scrap heap of history, a relic of East German communism considered as redundant and unsightly as the Berlin Wall and destined to fall victim to the wrecking ball.But a former terrace cafe in the city of Potsdam, just west of Berlin, is being lauded as a showpiece of socialist realist architecture having been saved from demolition by a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/healing-a-wound-from-neglected-east-german-relic-to-lauded-art-gallery/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2022 14:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/healing-a-wound-from-neglected-east-german-relic-to-lauded-art-gallery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NSW redevelopment plan poses ‘very real threat’ to Sydney’s Central station, National Trust says]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trust&rsquo;s state conservation director wrote letters to the public and organisations citing concerns over the plan&rsquo;s scale and impactGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastThe National Trust has criticised the New South Wales government&rsquo;s plan to revamp and reimagine Sydney&rsquo;s Central station, claiming that the scheme &ldquo;presents a genuine and very real threat to Australia&rsquo;s greatest station&rdquo;.The trust&rsquo;s NSW conservation d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/nsw-redevelopment-plan-poses-very-real-threat-to-sydneys-central-station-national-trust-says/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2022 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/nsw-redevelopment-plan-poses-very-real-threat-to-sydneys-central-station-national-trust-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ken Tucker obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, Ken Tucker, who has died aged 91, was an architect who specialised in retail design. He learned his trade during a postwar period when individuals from less advantageous backgrounds were encouraged to achieve their full potential.Born in Eastham, Cheshire, Ken was the son of Eva (nee Webb) and GwynTucker, a Manchester ship canal pilot. When the second world war broke out, the family moved to Newport, Pembrokeshire, where his father had grown up, re-establishing a link with that corner]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ken-tucker-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2022 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ken-tucker-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carbuncles and King Charles: was the royal family’s meddling supertroll right about architecture?]]></title><description><![CDATA[He was the comedy villain of architecture, dismissed for his kitsch follies and illiterate outbursts. But has Charles III actually been proved correct?&lsquo;The most prominent architecture critic in the world&rdquo; is how the New York Times once described King Charles III. It was 1989, and the then Prince of Wales was enjoying a wave of publicity after the launch of his spiritual crusade against the heresies of modern architecture. It was a high-profile, three-pronged attack, comprising a prim]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/carbuncles-and-king-charles-was-the-royal-familys-meddling-supertroll-right-about-architecture/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/carbuncles-and-king-charles-was-the-royal-familys-meddling-supertroll-right-about-architecture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The inferno was racing towards me’: survivors of the Summerland fire on the day their holiday paradise burned down]]></title><description><![CDATA[When it opened in 1971, the acrylic-clad complex promised balmy conditions year round. But then a blaze ripped through the building in minutes, killing 50. What happened &ndash; and why has the disaster been forgotten?Heather Lea wasn&rsquo;t there when it happened; she was 19 and newly married. But her sister June was only 13 and had been looking forward to the family&rsquo;s annual fortnight on the Isle of Man. Reg, Heather&rsquo;s husband, drove June and her parents to the ferry terminal in h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-inferno-was-racing-towards-me-survivors-of-the-summerland-fire-on-the-day-their-holiday-paradise-burned-down/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-inferno-was-racing-towards-me-survivors-of-the-summerland-fire-on-the-day-their-holiday-paradise-burned-down/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It is known all around the world’: Bondi Pavilion reopens after $48m makeover]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revamp aims to transform heritage building from &lsquo;white elephant&rsquo; to cultural heart of beachside suburbGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastAlmost 100 years after it first opened, Bondi Pavilion has been given a major makeover designed to transform it from &ldquo;white elephant&rdquo; back into the suburb&rsquo;s cultural heart.The revamped site, that sits between Campbell Parade and the world-famous beach, opened to visitors on Friday, and designers are]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-is-known-all-around-the-world-bondi-pavilion-reopens-after-48m-makeover/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/it-is-known-all-around-the-world-bondi-pavilion-reopens-after-48m-makeover/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$48m makeover: Bondi Pavilion reopens with previously hidden 1920s murals on show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revamp aims to transform heritage building from &lsquo;white elephant&rsquo; to cultural heart of beachside suburbGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastAlmost 100 years after it first opened, Bondi Pavilion has been given a major makeover designed to transform it from &ldquo;white elephant&rdquo; back into the suburb&rsquo;s cultural heart.The revamped site, that sits between Campbell Parade and the world-famous beach, opened to visitors on Friday, and designers are]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/48m-makeover-bondi-pavilion-reopens-with-previously-hidden-1920s-murals-on-show/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/48m-makeover-bondi-pavilion-reopens-with-previously-hidden-1920s-murals-on-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King Charles’s endless meddling in architectural politics has accomplished nothing | Phineas Harper]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Prince of Wales, Charles campaigned for sustainable townscapes. But good intentions are no match for the UK&rsquo;s profit-driven systemOf all the speeches Charles III will give as king, none will be as incendiary as one he gave as prince. Speaking at a 1984 gala dinner celebrating the Indian architect Charles Corea, the then Prince of Wales launched, to the horror of his hosts, into a devastating evisceration of contemporary architecture. He labelled a new tower, still on the drawing board,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/king-charless-endless-meddling-in-architectural-politics-has-accomplished-nothing-phineas-harper/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/king-charless-endless-meddling-in-architectural-politics-has-accomplished-nothing-phineas-harper/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Houlton Rugby: a new town that’s sending out all the right signals]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the former site of Rugby&rsquo;s landmark 1920s radio station, the emerging new town of Houlton offers thoughtful planning, nature on the doorstep &ndash; and a secondary school with shades of Tate Modern&rsquo;s Turbine HallYou might have heard of Poundbury, the project by the man who is now King to build a traditionally styled town on the edge of Dorchester in Dorset, where 1,700 homes have been built over 30 years on land belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall, the 52,000-hectare (128,000-acre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/houlton-rugby-a-new-town-thats-sending-out-all-the-right-signals/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/houlton-rugby-a-new-town-thats-sending-out-all-the-right-signals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bulldozers and wrecking balls in Birmingham | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Graham Downie on the city&rsquo;s penchant for tearing down old buildings, and Angus Wood on Birmingham&rsquo;s former brutalist library he once studied in Sadly, Birmingham has a long tradition of tearing down its recent past (&lsquo;If the Ringway goes, I&rsquo;m leaving&rsquo; &ndash; the fight to save Birmingham&rsquo;s brutiful masterpieces, 12 September). As an art student in the city in the late 1950s, I was fortunate enough to experience some of the buildings that disappeared in the &ldq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bulldozers-and-wrecking-balls-in-birmingham-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2022 18:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/bulldozers-and-wrecking-balls-in-birmingham-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘If the Ringway goes, I’m leaving’ – the fight to save Birmingham’s brutiful masterpieces]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Clint Eastwood posed by the glorious Ringway in the 1960s, the city boasted superb buildings aplenty. As yet more face the wrecking ball, we meet the people hitting backThe Ringway Centre, sweeping 230 metres along Birmingham&rsquo;s inner ring road in one continuous curve, is a striking monument to the heroic age of the UK&rsquo;s &ldquo;motorway city&rdquo;. It stands like a protective wall, its four floors of offices framed by horizontal bands of abstract concrete reliefs and slender ver]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/if-the-ringway-goes-im-leaving-the-fight-to-save-birminghams-brutiful-masterpieces/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/if-the-ringway-goes-im-leaving-the-fight-to-save-birminghams-brutiful-masterpieces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine million people in a city 170km long; will the world ever be ready for a linear metropolis?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia has unveiled designs for a futuristic megastructure in the desert. But it is an idea that has preoccupied the imaginations of architects &ndash; and megalomaniacs &ndash; for generations&lsquo;The contemporary city needs a full redesign,&rdquo; purrs a seductive voice, over surging orchestral strings. &ldquo;What if we removed cars? What if we got rid of streets? What if everything you needed was always a five-minute walk away?&rdquo; The words accompany an animation depicting an ob]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/nine-million-people-in-a-city-170km-long-will-the-world-ever-be-ready-for-a-linear-metropolis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/nine-million-people-in-a-city-170km-long-will-the-world-ever-be-ready-for-a-linear-metropolis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tony Hunt obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Structural engineer who built the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich and the huge biodomes at the Eden Project in CornwallIf it had not been for Tony Hunt&rsquo;s formidable skills as a structural engineer, the story of British architecture over the past half-century, from the refined elegance of the steel-and-glass temple that is Norman Foster&rsquo;s Sainsbury Centre in Norwich to the huge biodomes of Nicholas Grimshaw&rsquo;s Eden Project in Cornwall, might have taken a very different course.Hunt, w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tony-hunt-obituary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2022 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tony-hunt-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hobs, dogs and mountain views: what makes the perfect office? – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[From swish &lsquo;thought pods&rsquo; to chaotic open-plan designs, a new book explores the evolution of our modern working spaces Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hobs-dogs-and-mountain-views-what-makes-the-perfect-office-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hobs-dogs-and-mountain-views-what-makes-the-perfect-office-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diane Haigh obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architect who updated the fabric of the Royal Festival Hall in line with the spirit rather than the letter of its original designThe Royal Festival Hall, London, opened in 1951. After half a century of constant use, the building and its auditorium found themselves stranded in a lifeless setting, unloved by musicians and losing money. For an upgrading in 2005-07 to enable the RFH to flourish again, the spirit of the original conception needed to prevail over the literal preservation of the struct]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/diane-haigh-obituary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/diane-haigh-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ivy owner Richard Caring defies order to remove £40m home’s incongruous windows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Billionaire appeals against Kensington&rsquo;s ruling that he installed windows without permissionRichard Caring, the billionaire nightclub and restaurant entrepreneur, is refusing to remove three &ldquo;incongruous and dominant&rdquo; windows from his &pound;40m house in South Kensington despite the council issuing an &ldquo;enforcement notice&rdquo; ordering him to do so.Caring, 74, who owns the celebrity hotspot restaurants the Ivy and Sexy Fish as well as the private members&rsquo; club Anna]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ivy-owner-richard-caring-defies-order-to-remove-40m-homes-incongruous-windows/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ivy-owner-richard-caring-defies-order-to-remove-40m-homes-incongruous-windows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billionaire defies order to remove £40m house’s incongruous windows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Richard Caring appeals against Kensington&rsquo;s ruling that he installed windows without permissionRichard Caring, the billionaire nightclub and restaurant entrepreneur, is refusing to remove three &ldquo;incongruous and dominant&rdquo; windows from his &pound;40m house in South Kensington despite the council issuing an &ldquo;enforcement notice&rdquo; ordering him to do so.Caring, 74, who owns the celebrity hotspot restaurants the Ivy and Sexy Fish and the private members&rsquo; club Annabel&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/billionaire-defies-order-to-remove-40m-houses-incongruous-windows/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/billionaire-defies-order-to-remove-40m-houses-incongruous-windows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Royal Yacht Britannia and Fountains Abbey voted top UK attractions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ruined monastery in North Yorkshire and decommissioned royal ship in Edinburgh voted joint favourites in Which? pollAsked to guess what the UK&rsquo;s favourite attractions were, you might be expected to say Stonehenge, Westminster Abbey or the Tower of London. But it&rsquo;s Fountains Abbey and the Royal Yacht Britannia that have tied first-place in a survey by the consumer body Which?.The poll of nearly 3,000 Which? members ranked sites in April and May according to value for money, staff help]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/royal-yacht-britannia-and-fountains-abbey-voted-top-uk-attractions/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2022 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/royal-yacht-britannia-and-fountains-abbey-voted-top-uk-attractions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homes for sale worthy of Grand Designs – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the Channel 4 series returns, we find a former engine house and a new-build inspired by agricultural barns Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/homes-for-sale-worthy-of-grand-designs-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2022 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/homes-for-sale-worthy-of-grand-designs-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sheffield is leading the way on reuse of old department stores | Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[The decision to list the city&rsquo;s Cole Brothers store was the right one for both the economy and the climate, say architecture and heritage campaignersHistoric England&rsquo;s new focus on protecting department stores is most timely and necessary (More department stores in England may be given protected status, 23 August). The just-listed Cole Brothers store in Sheffield was John Lewis&rsquo;s 1963 response to modern rebuilding by blitzed competitors in Sheffield, of which the architectural]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sheffield-is-leading-the-way-on-reuse-of-old-department-stores-letter/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2022 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/sheffield-is-leading-the-way-on-reuse-of-old-department-stores-letter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Highland bling: the blockbuster castle with a gold-lined oculus and cladding made of crushed TVs]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has a cinema, an eight-door Aga, a leather ceiling, a gold-rimmed oculus, an outdoor fireplace &ndash; and walls rendered in crushed TV screens. Our writer visits a sparkling giant on the bonny banks of Loch AweIt&rsquo;s a sunny evening on the bonny banks of Loch Awe, deep in the Scottish Highlands, and something is sparkling behind the trees. Up a winding dirt track, past acres of densely planted pines, we come to a clearing where a huddle of chiselled grey blocks rise out of the landscape]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/highland-bling-the-blockbuster-castle-with-a-gold-lined-oculus-and-cladding-made-of-crushed-tvs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/highland-bling-the-blockbuster-castle-with-a-gold-lined-oculus-and-cladding-made-of-crushed-tvs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lebanese House; Shattered Glass of Beirut; Maurice Broomfield: Industrial Sublime – review]]></title><description><![CDATA[V&amp;A; British Museum, London<br />
In all their ruined glory a Beirut house and ancient glassware are recreated or restored, two years after the city&rsquo;s devastating port explosion. Plus, a magnificent snapshot of postwar Britain&rsquo;s industrial mightIn August 2020, some 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate carelessly stored in Beirut&rsquo;s ancient port suddenly exploded. The blast, one of the worst in world history, released a fireball miles into the air. In the briefest of moments before the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-lebanese-house-shattered-glass-of-beirut-maurice-broomfield-industrial-sublime-review/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2022 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-lebanese-house-shattered-glass-of-beirut-maurice-broomfield-industrial-sublime-review/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Central station redevelopment aims to heal Sydney ‘scar’ – but is it a missed opportunity?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experts say plan appears driven by real estate rather than city-making thinking and urge more focus on housing, connectivity and future-proofingGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastAlmost 150 years after inner Sydney was sliced in two, the state government is planning an ambitious operation to stitch it back together.Under the &ldquo;once in a generation&rdquo; scheme announced last Monday, parkland, homes and workspaces will be built over rail lines leading into Ce]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/central-station-redevelopment-aims-to-heal-sydney-scar-but-is-it-a-missed-opportunity/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2022 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/central-station-redevelopment-aims-to-heal-sydney-scar-but-is-it-a-missed-opportunity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roger FitzGerald obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father, Roger FitzGerald, who has died aged 63, was a leading architect who chaired the national firm ADP for 20 years. Among other projects, he designed the only significant extension to the Palace of Westminster since the present structure was built in the 1800s. He was also a prolific painter who created four books and whose works fetched thousands of pounds at charity auctions.Roger was born in Cambridge, the son of Desmond, a quantity surveyor, and Eileen, who worked in catering, and he]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/roger-fitzgerald-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 18:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/roger-fitzgerald-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Girouard obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Architectural historian who wrote extensively on stately homes and campaigned to save the Georgian houses of SpitalfieldsMark Girouard, who has died aged 90, was Britain&rsquo;s most readable architectural historian, a great authority on Elizabethan and Victorian architecture whose extensive writings used the study of buildings to illuminate the social life of the past. The publication of Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History in 1978 captured the zeitgeist in a pe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mark-girouard-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mark-girouard-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I fell asleep on a soundsystem!’ – the pyramid-building artists invading Notting Hill carnival]]></title><description><![CDATA[At this year&rsquo;s city-shaking, weekend-long bash, a triangular pavilion will be appearing amid the floats and dancers. Revellers can sneak inside for a rest &ndash; or climb on top and partyAlvaro Barrington is recalling his first ever festival experience in Grenada: &ldquo;I was maybe five years old and my cousins took me to J&rsquo;ouvert,&rdquo; he says, referring to the day that acts as a precursor to the main party in Caribbean culture. &ldquo;I have a memory of one of my older cousins]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-fell-asleep-on-a-soundsystem-the-pyramid-building-artists-invading-notting-hill-carnival/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/i-fell-asleep-on-a-soundsystem-the-pyramid-building-artists-invading-notting-hill-carnival/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a beige, banal biscuit tin: why London’s new buildings all look the same | India Block]]></title><description><![CDATA[After the 2008 crisis, developers adopted a cookie-cutter design style. You can (partly) thank Boris Johnson<br />
If you&rsquo;ve walked through redeveloped parts of London recently you may have noticed an eerily similar type of building. Every edge is so crisp and flat that staring at it face-on gives you the weird sensation the world has temporarily turned 2D. This single style has emerged as the hegemonic default for housing developments in London. Dubbed New London Vernacular (NLV), it has three]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-a-beige-banal-biscuit-tin-why-londons-new-buildings-all-look-the-same-india-block/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/like-a-beige-banal-biscuit-tin-why-londons-new-buildings-all-look-the-same-india-block/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More department stores in England may be given protected status]]></title><description><![CDATA[Historic England announces review of landmark buildings amid closures as campaigners call for&lsquo;creative reinvention&rsquo;Brutalist department stores may soon be granted protected status as the public body that looks after England&rsquo;s historic environment reviews the buildings seen by many as icons of the high street.The announcement from Historic England comes amid widespread closures, compounded by the pandemic, economic turmoil and the rise of online shopping. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/more-department-stores-in-england-may-be-given-protected-status/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 15:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/more-department-stores-in-england-may-be-given-protected-status/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Department stores in England may be given protected status]]></title><description><![CDATA[Historic England announces review of landmark buildings amid widespread closures as campaigners call for their &lsquo;creative reinvention&rsquo; Brutalist department stores may soon be granted protected status as the public body that looks after England&rsquo;s historic environment reviews the buildings seen by many as icons of the high street.The announcement from Historic England comes amid widespread closures, compounded by the pandemic, economic turmoil and the rise of online shopping.Conti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/department-stores-in-england-may-be-given-protected-status/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 15:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/department-stores-in-england-may-be-given-protected-status/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winslow Homer, Cézanne and Zaha Hadid: the best art and architecture of autumn 2022]]></title><description><![CDATA[The exhibition of the year is here, plus we have South Korean pop culture, a Sudanese women&rsquo;s champion, decoded Egyptian hieroglyphs, Zaha Hadid&rsquo;s &lsquo;yonic stadium&rsquo; and a rare showing for the &lsquo;American Turner&rsquo;The first survey of US artist Carolee Schneemann&rsquo;s (1939-2019) work in the UK, the show celebrates a radical artist and feminist agent-provocateur, tracing her development from early paintings and assemblage to confrontational performances using her b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/winslow-homer-czanne-and-zaha-hadid-the-best-art-and-architecture-of-autumn-2022/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/winslow-homer-czanne-and-zaha-hadid-the-best-art-and-architecture-of-autumn-2022/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quiet corridas: Spain wonders what to do with unused bullrings]]></title><description><![CDATA[With number of events in decline, many of the 1,700 venues often in city centres stand abandonedIn October 1940, Francisco Franco invited Heinrich Himmler to a bullfight at Las Ventas bullring in Madrid. It was reported that Himmler, an animal lover and architect of the Nazis&rsquo; &ldquo;final solution&rdquo;, was so appalled at the cruelty of the spectacle that he almost fainted.Bullfighting then was in its heyday but now, as it slides into an apparently unstoppable decline, the question is w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/quiet-corridas-spain-wonders-what-to-do-with-unused-bullrings/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2022 11:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/quiet-corridas-spain-wonders-what-to-do-with-unused-bullrings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Demolition is an act of violence’: the architects reworking buildings instead of tearing them down]]></title><description><![CDATA[The planned demolition of London&rsquo;s flagship M&amp;S store will release 40,000 tonnes of CO2 into the air. Is it time for a new age of creative architectural reuse?Nestled like a red question mark in the hills of rural Japan, the Kamikatsu Zero Waste Centre is a recycling facility like no other. A chunky frame of unprocessed cedar logs from the nearby forest supports a long snaking canopy, sheltering walls made of a patchwork quilt of 700 old windows and doors, reclaimed from buildings in t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/demolition-is-an-act-of-violence-the-architects-reworking-buildings-instead-of-tearing-them-down/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2022 13:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/demolition-is-an-act-of-violence-the-architects-reworking-buildings-instead-of-tearing-them-down/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Marble Arch Mound architects did next: a skyscraper shaped like Albania’s national hero]]></title><description><![CDATA[A building with the aquiline profile of a 15th-century warrior is the latest proposal by MVRDV to transform Tirana, the capital of Albania. But not everyone is happy with the Dutch firm&rsquo;s plansWith his distinctive aquiline nose and magnificent flowing beard, Albania&rsquo;s national hero, Skanderbeg, has long been a familiar presence in the country&rsquo;s streets and squares. The 7ft warrior king known as the Dragon of Albania, slayer of the Ottoman Turks, is celebrated in numerous monume]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/what-the-marble-arch-mound-architects-did-next-a-skyscraper-shaped-like-albanias-national-hero/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/what-the-marble-arch-mound-architects-did-next-a-skyscraper-shaped-like-albanias-national-hero/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[M&amp;S Oxford Street store plan opposed by author Bill Bryson and architects]]></title><description><![CDATA[Raze-and-rebuild proposal for London shop led to carbon footprint debate, with public inquiry loomingThe author Bill Bryson and architects including the Stirling prize winner Steve Tompkins and Mark Hines, the project director for the remodelling of BBC Broadcasting House, have lined up to oppose plans to flatten Marks &amp; Spencer&rsquo;s store on London&rsquo;s Oxford Street.Bryson, who is best known for Notes from a Small Island and A Short History of Nearly Everything, has donated &pound;50]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mamps-oxford-street-store-plan-opposed-by-author-bill-bryson-and-architects/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mamps-oxford-street-store-plan-opposed-by-author-bill-bryson-and-architects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building a Martian House review – will this be your tiny gold-foil room on Mars?]]></title><description><![CDATA[M Shed, Bristol<br />
How to live well, and sanely, on a freezing, dry planet bombarded with radiation, wonder two artists, whose prototype Martian house also affords a view of our increasingly challenged EarthLiving on Mars is a game for squillionaires and the agencies of superpower governments, for Elon Musk and Nasa, not the average citizen. The reason is obvious and simple: it is mind-bendingly expensive and complex to get people and equipment to a planet 140 million miles from Earth. The artists]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/building-a-martian-house-review-will-this-be-your-tiny-gold-foil-room-on-mars/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/building-a-martian-house-review-will-this-be-your-tiny-gold-foil-room-on-mars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cathedral ceilings and local tales: in praise of country church do-overs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eager buyers are snapping up unused churches around Australia and giving historic buildings a new life as homes, accommodation and workspacesSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityNot far from Cradle Mountain in north-west Tasmania, and often surrounded by snow, sits a 140-year-old church that, until 2013, served as the St James Anglican church in the hamlet of Waratah.The idyllic property was a once-in-a-lifetime find fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cathedral-ceilings-and-local-tales-in-praise-of-country-church-do-overs/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cathedral-ceilings-and-local-tales-in-praise-of-country-church-do-overs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victorian chimney in Leeds to be shortened over public safety fears]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campaigners &lsquo;reluctantly accept&rsquo; need to reduce height of Stonebridge Mills chimney by six metresA Victorian chimney in Leeds &ndash; seen as a significant local landmark by campaigners &ndash; is to be shortened due to safety fears.The 33-metre structure, which is more than 150 years old, is part of the Grade II-listed Stonebridge Mills in Farnley, which is being turned into homes as part of a &pound;25m redevelopment. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/victorian-chimney-in-leeds-to-be-shortened-over-public-safety-fears/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2022 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/victorian-chimney-in-leeds-to-be-shortened-over-public-safety-fears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day the music died? Welcome to Denmark Street and Tottenham Court Road’s new ‘digitally enabled streetscape’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The pleasingly ramshackle area of central London where punk was born and you went to buy a banjo is now includes a multi-billion &lsquo;super-flexible brand engagement platform&rsquo;. So is it as awful as it sounds?Once upon a time, just outside Soho in central London, there was a legendary hive of musical energy. It was centred on Denmark Street &ndash; Britain&rsquo;s Tin Pan Alley &ndash; a strip of shops selling instruments and sheet music, with clubs and bars and such things as production]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-day-the-music-died-welcome-to-denmark-street-and-tottenham-court-roads-new-digitally-enabled-streetscape/</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-day-the-music-died-welcome-to-denmark-street-and-tottenham-court-roads-new-digitally-enabled-streetscape/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wyndham Westerdale obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend Wyndham Westerdale, who has died aged 66 from complications arising from lung cancer, was an architect with a commitment to preserving and improving buildings of merit, regardless of their age or what purpose they served.Among the projects he worked on were the repair and conversion of Hogarth&rsquo;s House, the early 18th-century home of the artist William Hogarth, in Chiswick, west London; the dismantling and reconstruction of the old control tower at Hendon Aerodrome in Middlesex; a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/wyndham-westerdale-obituary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2022 18:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/wyndham-westerdale-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s best residential architecture: the 2022 Houses awards – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia&rsquo;s finest home design was celebrated over the weekend with the announcement of winners of the 2022 Houses awards. For the first time ever a single project, Autumn House, won in four categoriesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailContinue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/australias-best-residential-architecture-the-2022-houses-awards-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2022 05:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/australias-best-residential-architecture-the-2022-houses-awards-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be light: a radically revamped 1980s home]]></title><description><![CDATA[One Edinburgh couple have transformed a dark, brick-built 1980s house into a brighter, more open home. Here&rsquo;s howWhen John and Kate Cameron were looking to downsize from their Victorian family home in a suburb of Edinburgh after their children left home, they decided to go for a real change: a 1980s brutalist-style brick house in a suburb close to the city centre.The couple knew and loved the house &ndash; built in 1982 by Scottish architect Douglas Abrahams for his own family, and set wit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/let-there-be-light-a-radically-revamped-1980s-home/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/let-there-be-light-a-radically-revamped-1980s-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudis unveil eye-popping plan for mirrored skyscraper eco-city]]></title><description><![CDATA[Officials say the Line will be 200 metres wide, 100 miles long and the world&rsquo;s most livable cityA futuristic Saudi megacity is to feature two skyscrapers extending across a swathe of desert and mountain terrain, according to the latest disclosures on the project by the kingdom&rsquo;s de facto ruler.The parallel structures of mirror-encased skyscrapers extending more than 100 miles, known collectively as The Line, form the heart of the Red Sea megacity Neom, a plank of Crown Prince Mohamme]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/saudis-unveil-eye-popping-plan-for-mirrored-skyscraper-eco-city/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/saudis-unveil-eye-popping-plan-for-mirrored-skyscraper-eco-city/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia plans 100-mile-long mirrored skyscraper megacity]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Line &ndash; due to be just 200 metres wide &ndash; will make Neom world&rsquo;s most livable city &lsquo;by far&rsquo;, officials claimA futuristic Saudi megacity is to feature two skyscrapers extending across a swathe of desert and mountain terrain, according to the latest disclosures on the project by the kingdom&rsquo;s de facto ruler.The parallel structures of mirror-encased skyscrapers extending more than 100 miles, known collectively as the Line, form the heart of the Red Sea megacity]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/saudi-arabia-plans-100-mile-long-mirrored-skyscraper-megacity/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/saudi-arabia-plans-100-mile-long-mirrored-skyscraper-megacity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[July design news: meet the Evocado and discover the Design Library]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new book on old fabrics, a commemorative scriptorium and a sneaker exhibition celebrating vintage shoesHistory is changing. More and more stories are being retold from different perspectives and with new analysis. Once you realise that the past is not a foreign country, but something that can be renovated, upgraded or restored, your worldview changes. Don&rsquo;t like the environmental impact of avocado farming but love the taste? Make a new, locally produced fruit. Want to honour Scottish his]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/july-design-news-meet-the-evocado-and-discover-the-design-library/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/july-design-news-meet-the-evocado-and-discover-the-design-library/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The council tenants weren’t going to be allowed back’: how Britain’s ‘ugliest building’ was gentrified]]></title><description><![CDATA[The east London brutalist landmark Balfron Tower was conceived as the perfect neighbourhood in the sky by its Marxist architect. Now its flats are being sold as &lsquo;trophy properties&rsquo;A dizzying dining deck crowns the summit of the newly renovated Balfron Tower in Poplar, east London, perched like a crow&rsquo;s nest on top of the brutalist concrete lift shaft. Floating almost 30 storeys up in the air, with spectacular views across the city, it marks the apex of a new dedicated tower of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-council-tenants-werent-going-to-be-allowed-back-how-britains-ugliest-building-was-gentrified/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-council-tenants-werent-going-to-be-allowed-back-how-britains-ugliest-building-was-gentrified/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housebuilding standards need a climate update | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Louis Hellman suggests an overhaul of building regulations, while Jon Reeds looks at Britain&rsquo;s very low housing densitiesThe hilarious revelation that many housing layouts have been based upon the minimum distance at which two architects could no longer see each other&rsquo;s nipples through their shirts in 1902 seems to sum up Britain&rsquo;s antiquated building law (Edwardian morals, Thatcher and bad design &ndash; why Britain&rsquo;s homes are so hot, 20 July).But is it any better today]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/housebuilding-standards-need-a-climate-update-letters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2022 19:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/housebuilding-standards-need-a-climate-update-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dine like Da Vinci, unleash your inner diva – 101 ways the arts can slightly improve your life]]></title><description><![CDATA[Follow the gospel of Larry David, go gaming on horseback, always carry a cushion, bin your cinema mates and learn Korean off the telly &hellip; Guardian writers present their best cultural life hacksIf you&rsquo;re seeing something long and challenging, remember that having an alcoholic drink beforehand is asking for trouble. So be sure to do it. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dine-like-da-vinci-unleash-your-inner-diva-101-ways-the-arts-can-slightly-improve-your-life/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/dine-like-da-vinci-unleash-your-inner-diva-101-ways-the-arts-can-slightly-improve-your-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The kind of place planners have dreamed of’: the London Olympics site 10 years on]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anish Kapoor&rsquo;s big red tower remains a spectacular eyesore, but 10 years on from the 2012 Games, the old railway lands of Stratford are a largely thriving new urban district that few other host cities can rivalWhat have the Olympics ever done for us? Nothing, apart from the 226-hectare park that attracts six million visitors a year, the magnificent sporting facilities, the tens of thousands of new jobs, the decontamination and opening up of ex-industrial land, the schools, the cultural ins]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-kind-of-place-planners-have-dreamed-of-the-london-olympics-site-10-years-on/</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-kind-of-place-planners-have-dreamed-of-the-london-olympics-site-10-years-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s West End gets first purpose-built theatre in 50 years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Part of a &pound;300m regeneration of the area near Tottenham Court Road station, @sohoplace combines intimacy with innovative designA major new West End theatre is to open this autumn, designed to give audiences an alternative to the restricted legroom, poor sightlines and iffy acoustics &ndash; not to mention stuffy heat &ndash; of some of London&rsquo;s older playhouses.On a tour of the venue, which has been named @sohoplace, its owner Nica Burns explained that the building&rsquo;s proximity]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/londons-west-end-gets-first-purpose-built-theatre-in-50-years/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/londons-west-end-gets-first-purpose-built-theatre-in-50-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wormholes, recycled loos and a zero carbon Big Banger – the battle to be Britain’s best new building]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Stirling prize finalists include an arts centre clad with toilet bowls, a glassy eco office block, a corridor-free school, a &lsquo;floury bap&rsquo; of a college &ndash; and another that&rsquo;s like a luxury treehouseA community centre made of recycled toilet bowls will go up against a naturally ventilated library and a &ldquo;zero carbon&rdquo; refurbishment of a 1980s office block, in this year&rsquo;s competition for the UK&rsquo;s best new building. As the country swelters in 40C heat,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/wormholes-recycled-loos-and-a-zero-carbon-big-banger-the-battle-to-be-britains-best-new-building/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2022 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/wormholes-recycled-loos-and-a-zero-carbon-big-banger-the-battle-to-be-britains-best-new-building/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s been a disaster’: how Boris Johnson’s docklands business hub turned into a ghost town]]></title><description><![CDATA[The former mayor touted the &pound;1.7bn London development as a vibrant beacon for Asian companies. Now there isn&rsquo;t a single tenant &ndash; though the dystopian setting is attracting film crewsIt was billed by Boris Johnson as a dazzling &ldquo;beacon for Asian investors&rdquo;: a &pound;1.7bn complex of waterside offices that would become &ldquo;London&rsquo;s third great business area&rdquo; after the City and Canary Wharf. As mayor of London in 2013, he promised it would be a dynamic &]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-been-a-disaster-how-boris-johnsons-docklands-business-hub-turned-into-a-ghost-town/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/its-been-a-disaster-how-boris-johnsons-docklands-business-hub-turned-into-a-ghost-town/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folly or art? Catalonian town to buy labyrinthine Espai Corberó for €3m]]></title><description><![CDATA[In need of repair, futuristic yet surreal complex built by artist Xavier Corber&oacute; is to become public spaceLike a three-dimensional De Chirico painting or an Escher staircase to nowhere, the labyrinthine Espai Corber&oacute; near Barcelona defies architectural logic, being designed &ldquo;without plans, obeying only space and poetry&rdquo;.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not my home, it&rsquo;s a place I made with the help of patrons and buyers as a home for my sculptures,&rdquo; the artist Xavier Corbe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/folly-or-art-catalonian-town-to-buy-labyrinthine-espai-corber-for-3m/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 19:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/folly-or-art-catalonian-town-to-buy-labyrinthine-espai-corber-for-3m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folly or art? Catalonian town buys labyrinthine Espai Corberó for €3m]]></title><description><![CDATA[In need of repair, futuristic yet surreal complex built by artist Xavier Corber&oacute; is to become public spaceLike a three-dimensional De Chirico painting or an Escher staircase to nowhere, the labyrinthine Espai Corber&oacute; near Barcelona defies architectural logic, being designed &ldquo;without plans, obeying only space and poetry&rdquo;.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not my home, it&rsquo;s a place I made with the help of patrons and buyers as a home for my sculptures,&rdquo; the artist Xavier Corbe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/folly-or-art-catalonian-town-buys-labyrinthine-espai-corber-for-3m/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 19:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/folly-or-art-catalonian-town-buys-labyrinthine-espai-corber-for-3m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Stripped back’: how a cattle farm became a sustainable coastal community]]></title><description><![CDATA[Innovative builders and architects are leading a revolution in socially and environmentally aware housing across regional AustraliaDeveloper Brendan Condon was visiting relatives in the small seaside village of Cape Paterson in south Gippsland, Victoria, when an exercise session led to a vision for a regional housing project with a difference.&ldquo;I found the site because it&rsquo;s my family beach,&rdquo; says Condon, originally from nearby Warragul in the Latrobe Valley. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stripped-back-how-a-cattle-farm-became-a-sustainable-coastal-community/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/stripped-back-how-a-cattle-farm-became-a-sustainable-coastal-community/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The climate crisis is coming home in our sweltering cities | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Innovative ways are being found to cool cities, and justice demands that rich countries help those in the global south, say Dr David Dodman and Dr Aditya V Bahadur. Plus letters from Ann and Neil Holmes and Sarah WinneWe were glad to see Oliver Wainwright draw attention to soaring heat in cities &ndash; a critical aspect of climate change (Metropolis meltdown: the urgent steps we need to take to cool our sweltering cities, 14 July). Indeed, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to whose]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-climate-crisis-is-coming-home-in-our-sweltering-cities-letters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-climate-crisis-is-coming-home-in-our-sweltering-cities-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melbourne’s Federation Square doesn’t need to change – we do]]></title><description><![CDATA[The proposal to divide Fed Square into colour-coded zones with &lsquo;totems&rsquo; to help visitors find their way ignores the beauty of chaosGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastMelbourne loves an installation. We&rsquo;ve got the soaring Arts Centre spire, laneways filled with street art, and that hotel on Eastlink that&rsquo;s just big enough to make you do a double-take. Fitzroy had a skull-faced banana, and Beach Road cyclists are watched over by a lifesize h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/melbournes-federation-square-doesnt-need-to-change-we-do/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 08:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/melbournes-federation-square-doesnt-need-to-change-we-do/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shakespeare North Playhouse review – a wooden O for the north]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prescot, Merseyside<br />
Against all the odds, and with backers including Judi Dench and Kim Cattrall, this 470-seat modern twist on a Shakespearean theatre is poised for action, from Bottom to Johnny VegasIt&rsquo;s unlikely, and the result of an intricate and roundabout chain of connections, but it&rsquo;s there. In the former watch-making town of Prescot, Merseyside, just outside the city of Liverpool, stands a brand new replica of a royal theatre from the time of Shakespeare, a galleried eight-si]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/shakespeare-north-playhouse-review-a-wooden-o-for-the-north/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/shakespeare-north-playhouse-review-a-wooden-o-for-the-north/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Palace of Westminster must be saved, but not the vast expanse of interior detail | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Houses of Parliament, a globally famous monument, will cost up to &pound;13bn to restore. But this amount can be cut in a way that hardly anyone would noticeLast Monday, the roof of the House of Commons chamber contrived to leak. This adds to the long list of hazards &ndash; asbestos, sewage leaks, crumbling masonry, fire risk &ndash; that I described in the Observer two weeks ago, along with the mind-bending &pound;7bn-&pound;13bn estimate for putting them right. The daunting scale of the p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-palace-of-westminster-must-be-saved-but-not-the-vast-expanse-of-interior-detail-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2022 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-palace-of-westminster-must-be-saved-but-not-the-vast-expanse-of-interior-detail-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[June Huh, deep thinking and the value of idleness | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trevor Jones and Tim Watson reflect on an editorial about the mathematician and would-be poet Prof June HuhWith reference to your editorial on maths and poetry (8 July) and the mathematician and would-be poet Prof June Huh, there is a parallel with Sir Christopher Wren and Le Corbusier, as Wren was a professor of astronomy and Le Corbusier had an honorary doctorate in mathematics and philosophy. Both had discovered the art of logic and logic in art: the Stem subjects of their time not being stud]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/june-huh-deep-thinking-and-the-value-of-idleness-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2022 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/june-huh-deep-thinking-and-the-value-of-idleness-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metropolis meltdown: the urgent steps we need to take to cool our sweltering cities]]></title><description><![CDATA[All over the world, temperatures in urban areas are rocketing. What can we do? Axe air-con, whitewash roofs, unleash buried rivers &ndash; and try to be a bit more like NorwichWith temperatures set to hit 37C (98.6F) in the UK next week, and heatwaves only likely to become more frequent, it might be useful to see how other sun-scorched regions have adapted their cities to cope.On a trip to Dubai a few years ago, I was shown a new outdoor shopping street that had apparently been carefully tuned t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/metropolis-meltdown-the-urgent-steps-we-need-to-take-to-cool-our-sweltering-cities/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/metropolis-meltdown-the-urgent-steps-we-need-to-take-to-cool-our-sweltering-cities/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tulsa’s futuristic ‘Jetsons house’ flies off the market]]></title><description><![CDATA[The house was designed by a welder who built it in his spare time and offers 360 views of the cityThe Jetsons hailed from Orbit City in the year 2062 &ndash; but they might have felt right at home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 40 years earlier.Tulsa hosts a building that looks a lot like George and Jane Jetsons&rsquo;s home in the cartoon, or perhaps a squat version of Seattle&rsquo;s Space Needle &ndash; shaped like a wheel on its side perched on a stick. It contains an elevator that lifts you up a 44ft]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tulsas-futuristic-jetsons-house-flies-off-the-market/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/tulsas-futuristic-jetsons-house-flies-off-the-market/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Imagine if walls could talk’: the comeback of the country pub]]></title><description><![CDATA[Recent renovation projects reveal savvy hoteliers are doing their best to appeal to tourists and locals alikeSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityWho could forget the murals in Broken Hill&rsquo;s Palace Hotel in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, or the Dampier Mermaid Inn where the legend of Red Dog was born? These far-flung watering holes are just two of Australia&rsquo;s estimated 6,000 pubs, many of which have experie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/imagine-if-walls-could-talk-the-comeback-of-the-country-pub/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2022 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/imagine-if-walls-could-talk-the-comeback-of-the-country-pub/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waterlily that changed architecture]]></title><description><![CDATA[An amazing true story of elegant structures, aquatic plants and the Crystal PalaceOne of the most wonderful things about working as a botanist is the sheer number of plants that are out there. It is estimated that there are 400,000 species on Earth &ndash; I say estimated, because more than 1,000 are recorded as new to science each year so no plant scientist can ever know all of them.And it&rsquo;s this incredible diversity that occasionally throws up something that captures our imagination &nda]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-waterlily-that-changed-architecture/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2022 09:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-waterlily-that-changed-architecture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliament is at risk from neglect, not fire | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[The buildings will resist going up in smoke, but essential services are in most urgent need of replacementRowan Moore (&ldquo;Parliament is falling down&rdquo;, the New Review) raises the spectre of a devastating Notre Dame-style fire at the Houses of Parliament. There is an important difference. The Notre Dame fire started, alas like many others in historic buildings, when the builders were in. It rapidly took hold, consuming the roof timbers and melting the lead.At Westminster, Sir Charles Bar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/parliament-is-at-risk-from-neglect-not-fire-letters/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/parliament-is-at-risk-from-neglect-not-fire-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Portals will be as important as the car’: the architects exploring gateways to new dimensions]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Platform 9&frac34; in Harry Potter to Bill and Ted&rsquo;s phone booth, a new exhibition about portals explores the ways we&rsquo;ll soon be moving around the metaverseWith its hidden doors, folding walls and clever optical tricks with mirrors and light-wells, Sir John Soane&rsquo;s Museum feels like just the kind of place you might stumble across a portal to another dimension. Moving from one room to the next in this wildly reimagined London townhouse is never as straightforward as steppin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/portals-will-be-as-important-as-the-car-the-architects-exploring-gateways-to-new-dimensions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2022 12:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/portals-will-be-as-important-as-the-car-the-architects-exploring-gateways-to-new-dimensions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain’s Notre Dame? Why MPs need to solve the Houses of Parliament problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[The proposed renovation of the Palace of Westminster has foundered amid soaring cost projections, infighting and escalating safety fears. Can anyone find a way forward?I am looking at an electrical cupboard. Above it is a tray to catch drips from a possibly leaking vault. A pipe descends from the tray to the floor. The floor is periodically inspected to see if it&rsquo;s wet, which would mean that the vault is indeed leaking. The arrangement, given that water and electricity are known to mix bad]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/britains-notre-dame-why-mps-need-to-solve-the-houses-of-parliament-problem/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/britains-notre-dame-why-mps-need-to-solve-the-houses-of-parliament-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home tweet home: birdhouses designed by artists – in pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the few positives from lockdown is the number of city dwellers who connected with urban wildlife during the long days at home. New York-based music supervisor Randall Poster is one of them. He loved listening to birdsong in the quiet city so much that he decided to highlight the birds&rsquo; plight as their habitats vanish. With producer Rebecca Reagan, he created For the Birds, a multidisciplinary initiative that includes The Birdsong Project, a 20-LP box set of music and poems to enjoy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/home-tweet-home-birdhouses-designed-by-artists-in-pictures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2022 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/home-tweet-home-birdhouses-designed-by-artists-in-pictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We want it to come alive’: landscape architect’s plan to transform Notre Dame area]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bas Smets&rsquo; project, featuring trees and a cooling system, aims to create a more pedestrian-friendly space around Paris landmarkFor most of the last year, the Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets could be found walking purposefully around the &Icirc;le de la Cit&eacute; in central Paris staring at and thinking about Notre Dame Cathedral.On a blazing hot day in the French capital he is back there, pointing at the landmark, still shrouded in scaffolding after it was ravaged by a devastating]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-want-it-to-come-alive-landscape-architects-plan-to-transform-notre-dame-area/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2022 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-want-it-to-come-alive-landscape-architects-plan-to-transform-notre-dame-area/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We want it to come alive’: architect’s plan to transform Notre Dame area]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bas Smets&rsquo; project, featuring trees and a cooling system, aims to create a more pedestrian-friendly space around Paris landmarkFor most of the last year, the Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets could be found walking purposefully around the &Icirc;le de la Cit&eacute; in central Paris staring at and thinking about Notre Dame Cathedral.On a blazing hot day in the French capital he is back there, pointing at the landmark, still shrouded in scaffolding after it was ravaged by a devastating]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-want-it-to-come-alive-architects-plan-to-transform-notre-dame-area/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2022 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-want-it-to-come-alive-architects-plan-to-transform-notre-dame-area/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Better than we dared imagine’: Sydney Opera House unveils its ‘miracle’ new concert hall]]></title><description><![CDATA[After two years of renovations, a room once blighted by poor acoustics and outdated machinery can now accommodate musicians previously turned away, with a push of a buttonGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastFar-sighted though he was, Sydney Opera House designer J&oslash;rn Utzon&rsquo;s ideas for a room capable of hosting concerts of all kinds were rooted in the European tradition of opera and symphonic music. There was no way he could have anticipated that his c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/better-than-we-dared-imagine-sydney-opera-house-unveils-its-miracle-new-concert-hall/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/better-than-we-dared-imagine-sydney-opera-house-unveils-its-miracle-new-concert-hall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold London’s ‘landscraper’! Google’s new UK HQ – as long as the Shard is tall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech giant&rsquo;s King&rsquo;s Cross HQ replete with pool, nap pods and rooftop exercise track marks its topping out phaseA lunchtime basketball game, a walk around the rooftop exercise trail or 40 winks in a &ldquo;nap pod&rdquo;: just some of the workplace perks that are a step closer for Google&rsquo;s London employees in what will be their new home.The US tech giant celebrated the &ldquo;topping out&rdquo; ceremony of its new UK headquarters as the final beam was hoisted into place on Frida]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/behold-londons-landscraper-googles-new-uk-hq-as-long-as-the-shard-is-tall/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 18:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/behold-londons-landscraper-googles-new-uk-hq-as-long-as-the-shard-is-tall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Author Douglas Stuart on Glasgow’s ‘doocot’ culture]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Booker winner on the DIY pigeon lofts that gave the inhabitants of Glasgow&rsquo;s estates something to call their ownI grew up in the east end of Glasgow and most working-class Glaswegians have seen a doocot. My family moved often, and we lived in a variety of council housing: from the modernist, brutalist, high-rise towers of Sighthill, to the pre-sandblasted, soot-soaked tenements. No matter what housing scheme we lived on, if you walked to its edges, you would usually find a doocot built]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/author-douglas-stuart-on-glasgows-doocot-culture/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/author-douglas-stuart-on-glasgows-doocot-culture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A monument to Scottish home life: why you should visit Tenement House]]></title><description><![CDATA[Agnes Toward&rsquo;s beautifully preserved Glasgow flat tells the story of these buildings &ndash; not slums but hubs of vibrant communitiesMiss Agnes Toward was a hoarder. For more than 50 years, she filed away old household bills, recipes, wartime leaflets, letters and personal papers. She also left her Glasgow tenement flat virtually untouched. Its original gas lighting was not replaced with an electric version until 1960, almost five decades after she began living there.The magpie habits and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-monument-to-scottish-home-life-why-you-should-visit-tenement-house/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-monument-to-scottish-home-life-why-you-should-visit-tenement-house/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architect Nigel Coates: ‘I like spaces that made you wonder. I was trying to softly seduce people’]]></title><description><![CDATA[His singular works, once considered unbuildable, now seem boldly intelligent. The architect says his struggles as a gay man armed him with a courage to break all the rules&ldquo;At a certain point,&rdquo; says the architect and designer Nigel Coates, &ldquo;you have to ask yourself what makes a city worth living in.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s a question he&rsquo;s been pursuing for half a century and more, with designs ranging in scale from stools and vases to sweeping visions for vast swaths of London,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-nigel-coates-i-like-spaces-that-made-you-wonder-i-was-trying-to-softly-seduce-people/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architect-nigel-coates-i-like-spaces-that-made-you-wonder-i-was-trying-to-softly-seduce-people/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On my radar: Lucy Kirkwood’s cultural highlights]]></title><description><![CDATA[The playwright on the poetry and silliness of Aldous Harding, an inspiring new theatre in Suffolk and binge-reading Saba Sams&rsquo;s short storiesThe playwright and screenwriter Lucy Kirkwood was born in east London in 1983. She studied English at Edinburgh, where she wrote and starred in her first play. Kirkwood is perhaps best known for Chimerica, about the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests, which opened at the Almeida in 2013 and won best new play at the Olivier awards. She has also]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/on-my-radar-lucy-kirkwoods-cultural-highlights/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2022 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/on-my-radar-lucy-kirkwoods-cultural-highlights/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scottish castle on market for £1.25m after battle over £230 debt ends]]></title><description><![CDATA[Previous owner of Knockderry Castle was evicted after refusing to pay bill that then spiralled to &pound;30,000A Baronial castle that has been at the centre of a 25-year legal battle over a &pound;230 debt has gone on the market for more than &pound;1.25m.Knockderry, on the west coast of Scotland, was designed by the architect Alexander &ldquo;Greek&rdquo; Thomson and is A-listed, largely on account of its ornate and richly panelled Leiperian interior, which is considered one of the finest examp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/scottish-castle-on-market-for-125m-after-battle-over-230-debt-ends/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/scottish-castle-on-market-for-125m-after-battle-over-230-debt-ends/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Those bastard developments’ – why the inventor of the shopping mall denounced his creation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world&rsquo;s first indoor mall was meant to usher in a utopian dream. But its creator, an Austrian who had fled the Nazis, came to believe a nightmare had been unleashed that &lsquo;destroyed our cities&rsquo;&lsquo;Every day will be a perfect shopping day,&rdquo; cooed the adverts for America&rsquo;s first indoor mall when it opened in Edina, Minnesota, in 1956. Edina is blanketed by snow and ice in winter, and baked by unbearably humid heat in summer. The Southdale Center offered the blis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/those-bastard-developments-why-the-inventor-of-the-shopping-mall-denounced-his-creation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 13:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/those-bastard-developments-why-the-inventor-of-the-shopping-mall-denounced-his-creation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside the lair of the She-Wolf of France: why you should visit Castle Rising]]></title><description><![CDATA[A seat of the Plantagenets and once home to Isabella, wife of King Edward II, this fortress is a trip that satisfies the mind, lifts the spirit and takes its visitors back in timeCastle Rising castle. Once you say it, there&rsquo;s no obvious place to stop: &ldquo;Castle-Rising-castle-rising &hellip; castle &hellip; rising &hellip; castle.&rdquo; This chant would come, without fail, from the back of the car as we headed past fields of lavender, between high hedgerows, down narrow lanes leading t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/inside-the-lair-of-the-she-wolf-of-france-why-you-should-visit-castle-rising/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/inside-the-lair-of-the-she-wolf-of-france-why-you-should-visit-castle-rising/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open your eyes to Britain’s hidden history. Here’s our pick of places to explore]]></title><description><![CDATA[From prehistoric stone circles and cave art to castles and galleries, our writers pick their favourite spots for a day outHidden histories. In 2022, this phrase may bring to mind heated arguments at the National Trust, disputes over controversial statues, and the righteous efforts of campaigners and academics to write various groups of people back into the shared story of these islands. But perhaps it has a double meaning. I&rsquo;ve always thought of Britain as in some way hidden: a nooks and c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/open-your-eyes-to-britains-hidden-history-heres-our-pick-of-places-to-explore/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/open-your-eyes-to-britains-hidden-history-heres-our-pick-of-places-to-explore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘There was only one possible theme’: Alison Wilding on her climate crisis Summer Exhibition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Environmental change is the subject of this year&rsquo;s Royal Academy show in London but, says its curator, &lsquo;there is a celebratory aspect&rsquo;Selecting the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is one of the biggest curating jobs in the world, but it is done by artists not professional curators. This year&rsquo;s boss is Alison Wilding RA, not someone you might think of as a showy or grandstanding public figure but a deeply sensitive and thoughtful abstract sculptor, who has twice been short]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/there-was-only-one-possible-theme-alison-wilding-on-her-climate-crisis-summer-exhibition/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/there-was-only-one-possible-theme-alison-wilding-on-her-climate-crisis-summer-exhibition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘An embassy of optimism’: the legendary Africa Centre rises again]]></title><description><![CDATA[Its club nights were epic &ndash; and now the sorely missed venue has reopened, injecting a whole continent&rsquo;s worth of zing into a once drab London building. We take a tourFlashes of neon pink, acid yellow and lime green furniture shine from a first-floor terrace in Southwark, London, bringing a zinging taste of sunnier climes to a nondescript street of offices and apartments. They are the first signs that, after almost 10 years without a home since its Covent Garden base closed down, the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/an-embassy-of-optimism-the-legendary-africa-centre-rises-again/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/an-embassy-of-optimism-the-legendary-africa-centre-rises-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘An embassy for optimism’: the legendary Africa Centre rises again]]></title><description><![CDATA[Its club nights were epic &ndash; and now the sorely missed venue has reopened, injecting a whole continent&rsquo;s worth of zing into a once drab London building. We take a tourFlashes of neon pink, acid yellow and lime green furniture shine from a first-floor terrace in Southwark, London, bringing a zinging taste of sunnier climes to a nondescript street of offices and apartments. They are the first signs that, after almost 10 years without a home since its Covent Garden base closed down, the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/an-embassy-for-optimism-the-legendary-africa-centre-rises-again/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/an-embassy-for-optimism-the-legendary-africa-centre-rises-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sainsbury Wing redesign: spare us the art-world good taste]]></title><description><![CDATA[Born in controversy, the National Gallery wing was a lesson in throwing away the architects&rsquo; rulebook. Now plans to remodel it threaten its quirky splendourThe Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, tucked into a corner of Trafalgar Square, which opened in 1991, is a building like no other. The galleries on its upper level, containing works by Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Piero della Francesca and other masters of the Italian renaissance, achieve a widely admired combination o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-sainsbury-wing-redesign-spare-us-the-art-world-good-taste/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-sainsbury-wing-redesign-spare-us-the-art-world-good-taste/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture students deserve better than toxic cultures and sleepless nights | Rowan Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revelations about the renowned Bartlett school reflect a wider and longstanding problem with the professionThe Bartlett, one of the most esteemed schools of architecture in the country, a part of University College London, is the subject of a damning report. Produced by the investigation firm Howlett Brown, it found evidence of bullying, racism, sexual harassment and a &ldquo;boys&rsquo; club&rdquo; of staff who protected one another from complaints. It reported allegations that a &ldquo;senior]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architecture-students-deserve-better-than-toxic-cultures-and-sleepless-nights-rowan-moore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2022 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/architecture-students-deserve-better-than-toxic-cultures-and-sleepless-nights-rowan-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A York building that should be admired, not criticised | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peter Fisher says the Aviva building by Lendal Bridge has considerable architectural qualityKevin Rushby dismisses the Aviva building next to Lendal Bridge in York as &ldquo;an example of how town planning can have dire consequences&rdquo; (A walk through historic York to a great local pub: the Phoenix Inn, 3 June). In fact, it is generally acknowledged in York that it is one of the few postwar buildings here that has considerable architectural quality. This resides in its massing &ndash; in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-york-building-that-should-be-admired-not-criticised-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-york-building-that-should-be-admired-not-criticised-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greenery and bright colours in cities can boost morale – study]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers in France used virtual reality to test the impact of tweaks made to urban settingsHaving bright colours and greenery in our cities can make people happier and calmer, according to an unusual experiment involving virtual reality headsets.A team of researchers at the University of Lille, in France, used VR to test how volunteers reacted to variations of a minimalist concrete, glass and metal urban landscape. The 36 participants walked on the spot in a laboratory wearing a VR headset wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/greenery-and-bright-colours-in-cities-can-boost-morale-study/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 05:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/greenery-and-bright-colours-in-cities-can-boost-morale-study/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We wanted to offer a sense of hope’: architects respond to the climate crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Royal Academy Summer Exhibitionshowcases daring use of planet-friendly materials from Portland stone to elephant dungA gigantic stone beam greets visitors to the architecture rooms of this year&rsquo;s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, balancing precariously overhead like a neolithic seesaw. It is a fitting introduction, looming ominously above you like the climate crisis theme that haunts this year&rsquo;s show.While the climate topic could lead to a sense of apocalyptic despair and hopeless]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-wanted-to-offer-a-sense-of-hope-architects-respond-to-the-climate-crisis/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-wanted-to-offer-a-sense-of-hope-architects-respond-to-the-climate-crisis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[18th-century Leeds pub upgraded to Grade II*-listed status]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whitelock&rsquo;s Ale House, along with 1856-built Prince Alfred in Maida Vale, awarded extra protectionAn 18th-century pub described by the poet laureate John Betjeman as the &ldquo;very heart of Leeds&rdquo; has been awarded Grade II*-listed status as part of a drive to protect historic drinking houses across the country.Whitelock&rsquo;s Ale House, Leeds&rsquo; oldest pub, dates back more than 300 years. Originally called the Turk&rsquo;s Head, it served merchants and traders at the nearby Br]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/18th-century-leeds-pub-upgraded-to-grade-ii-listed-status/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/18th-century-leeds-pub-upgraded-to-grade-ii-listed-status/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How London will look in 2066: Zaha Hadid’s mind-blowing visions]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 14-storey bridge, an underground skyscraper cooled by a waterfall, a building that falls apart as it crosses the river &hellip; the late architect&rsquo;s spectacular plans for London have been turned into an absorbing, gravity-defying showA blood red River Thames hurtles across a long sheet of black paper on the wall, splicing through a fractured landscape of city blocks that twist and sway as if commanded by some irresistible force. Tangled webs of arteries fan outwards from the centre of Lo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/how-london-will-look-in-2066-zaha-hadids-mind-blowing-visions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/how-london-will-look-in-2066-zaha-hadids-mind-blowing-visions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who built his own cathedral – podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[For nearly 60 years, a former monk toiled almost single-handedly on an extraordinary building outside Madrid. Is it a folly or a masterpiece?Archive: Mille et une vies; 360&deg; - GEO Reportage; BBC news Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-man-who-built-his-own-cathedral-podcast/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2022 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-man-who-built-his-own-cathedral-podcast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theaster Gates’s Black Chapel Serpentine pavilion review – a welcoming labour of love]]></title><description><![CDATA[Serpentine Gallery, London<br />
Gates uses an artist&rsquo;s touch to create a dignified, Staffordshire kiln-inspired structure that celebrates community and work &ndash; and honours his late fatherLast autumn, at the Whitechapel Gallery in east London, the Chicagoan artist Theaster Gates exhibited works in clay: large, heavy, wrought objects, shaped by hand, formed with intense heat and effort. In last week&rsquo;s intermittent summer sunshine, outside the Serpentine Gallery in west London, he opene]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/theaster-gatess-black-chapel-serpentine-pavilion-review-a-welcoming-labour-of-love/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/theaster-gatess-black-chapel-serpentine-pavilion-review-a-welcoming-labour-of-love/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UCL apologises for ‘bullying and sexual misconduct’ at architecture school]]></title><description><![CDATA[London university investigation finds &lsquo;culture of unacceptable behaviour&rsquo; going back decadesUniversity College London has apologised to current and former students and staff for a &ldquo;culture of unacceptable behaviour&rdquo; at its architecture school going back decades.The apology comes after the university conducted an investigation into complaints of sexism and racism on campus, first reported by the Guardian last year. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ucl-apologises-for-bullying-and-sexual-misconduct-at-architecture-school/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2022 19:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/ucl-apologises-for-bullying-and-sexual-misconduct-at-architecture-school/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the archive: ‘A tale of decay’: the Houses of Parliament are falling down – podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2017: As politicians dither over repairs, the risk of fire, flood or a deluge of sewage only increases. But fixing the Palace of Westminster might change British politics for good &ndash; which is the last thing many of its residents want Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-the-archive-a-tale-of-decay-the-houses-of-parliament-are-falling-down-podcast/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2022 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/from-the-archive-a-tale-of-decay-the-houses-of-parliament-are-falling-down-podcast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theaster Gates’s Serpentine Pavilion: Black Chapel review – an empty vessel?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The artist has built a space for quiet contemplation in homage to his roofer father, but the materials seem too clean-cut and corporate to fit the ideaA tolling church bell has joined the summer sounds of birdsong and tinkling fountains in Kensington Gardens, announcing the arrival of an unusual sacred space. Standing among the trees as a brooding black cylinder, this year&rsquo;s Serpentine pavilion, titled Black Chapel, is one of the more sombre structures built for the annual commission so fa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/theaster-gatess-serpentine-pavilion-black-chapel-review-an-empty-vessel/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 11:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/theaster-gatess-serpentine-pavilion-black-chapel-review-an-empty-vessel/</guid></item></channel></rss>