The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Carmody Groarke reveals first images of Manchester science museum gallery
The first photographs of Carmody Groarke’s temporary exhibitions gallery for Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum have been released
Cultural
From museums and galleries to opera houses and theatres
RSHP completes Richard Rogers’ Drawing Gallery at French vineyard
The pavilion at Chateau la Coste in Provence was Richard Rogers’ final project before his retirement from Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) last June
Building study: David Brownlow Theatre by Jonathan Tuckey Design
A studied miscellany of materials and styles add performance spaces and a new civic presence to a prep school near Newbury, writes Jay Merrick.
Buckley Gray Yeoman creates gallery hub in Grade II-listed London terrace
This 3,250m² scheme in central London will operate as a membership organisation offering offices, meeting and viewing rooms, underground storage facilities and a club room, as well as 14 gallery spaces
First images of Chipperfield’s revamp of Mies’s Neue Nationalgalerie revealed
The first photographs have been released of David Chipperfield’s overhaul of Mies van der Rohe’s celebrated Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin
Chipperfield completes £175m extension to Kunsthaus Zurich
Faced by Jura limestone, the new building is constructed from 90 per cent recycled, low-carbon concrete, partially exposed inside to contrast with a marble-floored atrium, oak-floored galleries, brass thresholds and a green velvet-lined bar
Carmody Groarke designs temporary pavilion for Hamburg’s Großmarkt
A new 1,078m² circular aluminium pavilion will provide hospitality services for the 1,700-seat temporary theatre within the north German port’s listed market
Chipperfield completes second phase of conference and cultural centre in southern Germany
Commissioned by the Würth Group, the building components and chemicals company, the new buildings include a conference space and art museum
Collective complete restoration of Grade ‘A’ Watt Institution in Greenock
A tight budget for external conservation has been intelligently stretched to include significant internal improvements to accessibility and natural lighting
Manalo & White completes ‘fine-tuned’ conversion of garage into gallery
This light-touch conversion of an 1890s London stable into the RODEO art gallery is designed to accentuate the historic interior