Tag: Grafton Architects

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
Grafton Architects: ‘A building is a collection of experiences. It’s not an abstract thing’

Designing a new building for the LSE, Grafton’s founders, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, were inspired by Georgian architect John Soane’s mastery of light in the building opposite. They talk about this and a shared social and spatial sensibility, revealed…
Venice Architecture Biennale 2018

The 16th Architecture Biennale focuses on freespace – in which buildings are engaging, inclusive and accessible to all and use the Earth’s resources wisely. And the curators, Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell, have mostly succeeded in their aim to offer…
Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined

Royal Academy of Arts (Main Galleries), London 25 January – 6 April 2014