Author Archives: Fran Williams

This year’s annual architectural commission in London’s Kensington Gardens gives a moment of calm, despite its peculiar umbrella, says Fran Williams

The seven-storey brick-clad International Rugby Experience sits on a tight urban site on the edge of a conservation area within Limerick’s Georgian Quarter

The sculptural pavilion for the Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw arts centre in Wales, designed in collaboration with artist Matthew Sanderson, is inspired by marine life

The first in a series of articles on interiors looks at the refurbishment of an Edwardian home in east London, transformed to reflect the tastes of its graphic-designer owner

This conservation project in County Tipperary, Ireland, turns a Recorded Irish Monument with colourful history into a family home

The final phase of the UK’s largest permanent space dedicated to photography comprises four new gallery spaces and a fifth reworked area

BDP has completed the new Paterson building at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, replacing a previous facility which was significantly damaged by fire in 2017

James Gorst Architects has created a striking new temple for the esoteric White Eagle Lodge spiritual organisation, marrying Byzantine forms with sustainable building design

The AJ’s top suggestions of pavilions and installations to see at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, which opened to the public at the weekend

Grafton has completed the Parcels Building on Oxford Street, a sustainable workspace neighbouring Grade II-listed Selfridges, for Duke Street Property