From the British Melting Pot, "New London Fabulous" Emerges
The slew of recent projects emphasize color’s capacity to bring joy to the public sphere. Just don’t call it a movement.
The slew of recent projects emphasize color’s capacity to bring joy to the public sphere. Just don’t call it a movement.
Designed by Fletcher Priest Architects, the Brunel Building embodies the area’s rich engineering heritage.
Located in East London, the new building is a pearl in City Island, a site ensnared by old and new infrastructure.
The iconic One Canada Square in Canary Wharf has three floors filled with rich materials and an overall ’70s chic courtesy of local firm dMFK.
The Dublin-based firm worked with a somewhat radical program that juxtaposes dance studios with a library and lecture area for the southwest London university.
The Southbank Centre's famous Undercroft was a global destination for skateboarders, though it was threatened by closure and decay.
The company, known for its vibrant colors and ample indoor foliage, recently opened a new London office designed by Madrid-based firm Cano Lasso.
The first phase of the High Line–esque walkway, which features vaulted steel piers and multiple landscaped "islands," opened this week.
The project, which includes design by KieranTimberlake and OLIN, features public spaces that plug into the surrounding neighborhood as well as plantings that evoke American landscapes.
The Japanese architect's undulating slate-clad mass creates an airy space for contemplation, though the project was hampered by building regulations and the question of unpaid intern work.
The pavilion, which sits next to John Soane’s 19th-century museum, is opening as a part of the London Festival of Architecture.
Previous renovations had nearly wiped out Soane's interiors at this mansion, but a three-year project revived his designs and installed a new, modern art gallery.
While it offers some engaging installations and artifacts, David Adjaye: Making Memory struggles to broaden its scope beyond Adjaye's work and interrogate memorialization in today's culture.
Dubbed Coal Drops Yard, the project required adapting industrial buildings—intended for trains, horses, and carts—for people. The design team employed outdoor stairs, elevators, and walkways throughout the site's three levels.
London-based firm Haworth Tompkins has given the 19th century performing arts hall a sensitive, yet triumphant, new lease on life after a 2015 fire.
Several new projects in the English capital are seeing churches create new places of worship and community service—provided they find the right business partner.
The new 32,300-square-foot coworking office, operated by Fora, includes a restaurant and cafe at its base.
Barber, the subject of a recent exhibition at the London Design Museum, is creating practical and fantastical solutions for the city's housing crisis.
Architects Stiff + Trevillion collaborated with artist Lee Simmons on the facade for 40 Beak Street, which includes famed British artist Damien Hirst among its tenants.
A new show, on view at London’s healthcare-focused gallery, the Wellcome Collection, chronicles the history of the built environment and our wellbeing.