Features
The King’s Cross Pond Club, the Tower of London poppy installation, an Al Jazeera newsroom and a Premier Inn – New London Architecture unveils the capital’s best architectural projects of the last 12 months.
The Whitworth is a public art gallery founded in 1889, as the first English gallery in a park. It is home to an internationally important collection of works on paper, wallpapers and textiles – one of the finest outside London.
DuPont Corian is lighting up the architectural face of the City of London, with cladding for the new Motel One building by Mackay + Partners. This is the first commercial building in the UK to feature DuPont Corian as an exterior cladding solution.
The eye-catching new Gateway Pavilions are the first completed project in Knight Dragon’s ambitious vision for the Greenwich Peninsula. SAS International realised the bold design, working alongside Marks Barfield Architects, in this recent design, supply, install project.
New London boutique gym 1Rebel is set to shake up the city’s fitness offering. Michael Sheridan, CEO of global retail design agency Sheridan&Co, reveals how it spearheaded the brand’s retail approach and design to attract London’s dynamic, professional, image-conscious crowd.
Flanagan Lawrence’s painstaking transformation of the derelict former art deco cinema is now complete, and the stylish Shepherds Bush Pavilion hotel has officially opened. Here, FC&A profiles its stunning revamp.
While there may be no silver bullet for all housing woes, Stuart Cameron at Morgan Tucker considers what constitutes good quality housing and how two factors – The Lifetime Homes Initiative and technology – may have some of the answers.
Business Unit Director for Kingspan Timber Solutions, Ian Loughnane, shares his perspective on the merits of high-performance building envelopes and the company’s experience of building low-energy homes.
The latest £650m jewel in Britain’s scientific crown, the Francis Crick Institute has opened in the Camden Borough of London, with some of the country’s most esteemed researchers and scientists now taking up residence under its vaulted roof. The institute will aim to tackle disease and illness concerns of the 21st century, by researching the mechanics of how illness develops and pushing resulting discoveries to enhance treatments for patients.
Last year, the Malmö Municipality in Sweden unveiled the opening of Slussplan, a brand new urban park. One year on, Slussplan Urban Park has proved to be a great success, offering a public space with sustainability at its core.
