The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Work starts on EBBA’s overhaul of listed house designed by Team 4 founder
Work has started on EBBA’s proposed ‘sensitive restoration’ and extension of a Grade II-listed home in north London designed by Modernist architect Georgie Walton
Tag: Modernism
LA fires destroy Modernist landmarks
More than 30 buildings of historical and architectural significance – including some iconic 20th-century homes – have been destroyed in the devastating Los Angeles fires
Three Modernist buildings listed on Welsh university campus
A trio of Dale Owen buildings constructed in West Wales in the 1960s and ’70s has been granted listed status following a long drive by heritage campaigners
The Swiss architect who brought Modernism to the New World
Having worked with Le Corbusier, Swiss architect Albert Frey moved to the US at a time when it was lacking in Modernist architecture and went on to design much of the desert city of Palm Springs, where a new exhibition celebrates his work, writes David Brady
Heatherwick’s Humanise book: ‘A visual and textual bludgeoning’
This shouty book’s arguments against ‘boring’ buildings are too wafer-thin to obscure its true aim of self-promotion, argues Catherine Slessor. Photomontages by Maria Rodriguez
Scapolan Burney completes Milton Keynes work-to-resi conversion
A 1980s city-centre Modernist building has been stripped back with the upper floors, previously offices, transformed into 200 flats
Architects condemn Create Streets attack on ‘reckless’ post-war buildings
Architects have dismissed claims by Nicholas Boys Smith that the crisis over unsafe concrete buildings could partly be blamed on post-war architecture
Norman Foster: I’d love to talk to King Charles about architecture
Norman Foster has said he would ‘love the opportunity’ to talk to King Charles about architecture following the coronation on Saturday (May 6)
Tributes paid to author and post-war architecture champion Elain Harwood
The profession has paid tribute to author, historian and leading authority on post-war English architecture Elain Harwood, who has died aged 64
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s Cambridge ‘modernist megastructure’ handed Grade II* listing
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s 1980 Robinson College in Cambridge, described by The Twentieth Century Society as a ‘radically modern’ megastructure, has been given a Grade II* listing