Tag: Architecture

Asif Khan-designed Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture opens

British architect Asif Khan has reinvented a Soviet-era cinema as a space for experimentation and collaboration. Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture is Kazakhstan’s first major public building designed to encourage, educate and celebrate the region’s contemporary creatives, artists and audiences
A cabinet of curiosities – inside the new V&A East Storehouse

Diller Scofidio + Renfro has turned the 2012 Olympics broadcasting centre into a sparkling repository for the V&A’s collection. A new kind of statement building where the excitement is all on the inside, this hybrid of archive and museum an…
Christina Seilern – interview: ‘Doing a project is like writing a book … sometimes you have to trust the story and not the author’

Having set up Studio Seilern Architects in 2006, Christina Seilern has been quietly building a solid body of elegant, spatially ambitious buildings and is now garnering the industry accolades she deserves. She talks about storytelling, sexism, slow regeneration and prioritising…
Jim Eyre – interview: ‘I don’t think we are seen as starchitects. It’s not a particularly good label, really’

Jim Eyre discusses working with – and creating – landmark structures, Battersea Power Station’s reinvention, how to avoid being starchitects and the steady growth, collaborative model he and his founding partner, Chris Wilkinson, established
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp reopens after €100m renovation

After 11 years of work, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) has finally opened its doors, revealing exciting interventions by KAAN Architecten and a radically different approach by its curators
Gijs Van Vaerenbergh – interview: ‘We are always experimenting with the extremities of architecture, space, sculpture and form’

The architecturally trained duo Arnout Van Vaerenbergh and Pieterjan Gijs talk about their collaborative practice, and how they seek to create new experiences for themselves and the visitor
The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People – book review

From a medieval manor house to a modern-day folly, Clive Aslet whisks us through time and place on a fascinating tour of British country houses
Lina Ghotmeh – interview: ‘Sometimes I wonder whether I am constructing something new or revealing what was already there’

The Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect discusses her methodology of architecture as the ‘archaeology of the future’, and the origins and evolution of her award-winning Stone Garden apartment block in Beirut
The Essential Louis Kahn – book review

A photographic cornucopia of Kahn’s buildings, this highly visual publications takes its reader on a striking tour of his architectural aesthetic
Sadie Morgan – interview: ‘When you’re part of a community, architecture becomes an ingredient in a much more complex organism’

Sadie Morgan, of Stirling Prize-winning architects De Rijke Marsh Morgan, discusses social and environmental responsibility and collaborating with communities and other professions