Author Archives: Fran Williams

James Gorst Architects has completed a 237m² double-height timber frame community hall in Framlingham, rural Suffolk

Timber Development UK, working with Waugh Thistleton Architects, has released Timber Typologies, a free downloadable ‘beginner’s guide’ for various timber solutions. Fran Williams speaks to Waugh Thistleton associate Alastair Ogle to find out what it’s all about

Fran Williams visits Herzog and de Meuron’s first London exhibition for almost 20 years, which opened last Friday at the Royal Academy

Fran Williams and Rob Wilson look at notable recent and ongoing schemes in and around Glasgow 

The Glasgow practice has retrofitted a former printing works in the north of the city into a co-working hub, events space and canteen for Agile City

Designed with consulting architects Outpost, the exterior of the four-bedroom house in Broadstairs, Kent, is composed of a metal latticework to encourage climbing plants to cover it

This year’s degree show demonstrates the importance, when it comes to creating great architects, of an awareness that buildings are made for people, writes Fran Williams

A refurbishment led by Jamie Fobert Architects, working with Purcell, has increased the National Portrait Gallery’s public space by a fifth, enhanced the entrance and added a learning centre

Hollaway Studio has completed a new concert hall, described as ‘a musical instrument in its own right’, together with a recital hall and music school, for Benenden school in Kent

Brisco Loran has completed a small extension to a house on the Dulwich Wood Park estate in Crystal Palace, inspired by the original 1950s designs of architect Austin Vernon and Partners