Author Archives: Catherine Slessor

Catherine Slessor talks to Lesley Lokko, recipient of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize, whose global teaching career has radically changed the conversation around race, identity and architecture

Catherine Slessor talks to Grafton co-founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, joint winners of the AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award 2020

The shortcomings of Alan Jones as RIBA president are the latest symbol of an institution that has failed to adequately represent, or lead, the profession for years, says Catherine Slessor

The US President’s attempt to turn back the architectural clock in order to titillate right-wing constituencies speaks of a poisonous bravado, impelled by a conviction that he is untouchable and unstoppable, writes Catherine Slessor

Catherine Slessor visits the office of Walters & Cohen Architects, which recently celebrated its 25th birthday

With its finely detailed Library and Study Centre, Wright & Wright Architects has made an elegant addition to the historic assemblage of buildings at St John’s College, Oxford, says Catherine Slessor. Photography Hufton + Crow, Dennis Gilbert 

Catherine Slessor on why the government needs to reverse 40 years of ’catastrophic inaction’ if we want more council housing like Goldsmith Street

This elegant remodelling emphatically restates the station’s sense of dynamism to civilise the modern commute, writes Catherine Slessor. Film and photography Jim Stephenson

Lacaton & Vassal, with Frédéric Druot Architecture and Christophe Hutin Architecture, won the 2019 Mies van der Rohe Award with their renovation of three blocks of a 1960s slab estate in Bordeaux with the addition of an outer skin of winter gardens, writes Catherine Slessor. Photography Philippe Ruault

Foster’s tower is simply a vertical version of a Victorian pleasure pier in all its huckstering, carnivalesque glory, writes Catherine Slessor