Antiquarian prints and amateur landscape paintings sourced from eBay and modified with abstract geometric forms play with ideas of architecture, magic and the picturesque in Sam Jacob’s new solo show at the Betts Project
Author Archives: Rob Wilson
Jonathan Burlow designs house extension with single monolithic column
The House With One Column, in the Faversham conservation area, was inspired by the open undercroft of the Kent town’s guildhall
Review: ‘Extinction Beckons’ – Mike Nelson at the Hayward
The new exhibition of Mike Nelson’s last two decades of work at the South Bank Centre is like ‘an intense meditation on dodgy and failed retrofit’, says Rob Wilson
Whittaker Parsons completes home for downsizing couple in Peckham
Forming a bookend to an existing terrace, the 88m2 home, costing £350,000, sits on a narrow site between a substation and the clients’ former family home
Avanti completes council residential infill scheme across three sites in Dover
Avanti has completed a development for Dover District Council offering a mix of social-rent, shared ownership and private units intended to set a benchmark for inclusive, tenure-blind housing in the region
Sanya Polescuk Architects reworks mews house with more light and colour
The project in Belsize Park, north London, is focused around a reconfigured stairwell and ‘bright and punchy’ kitchen with bespoke joinery and terrazzo worktops
Michael Kendrick Architects creates Sussex woodland retreat
Looking Glass Lodge, a cedar-clad holiday let, is set discreetly within a natural clearing in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Sheppard Robson completes secondary school in Croydon
The school includes a range of learning spaces arranged across three connected classroom ‘fingers’ as well as enhanced community sports facilities
Giles Reid Architects remodels Bermondsey coach house
The practice has reconfigured a two-storey 18th-century building, hemmed in by later development, so as to maximise light – both natural and reflected – to its interiors
Populous 10,000-seat arena bowl opens in French city of Orléans
The practice was the designated sports architect for the seating bowl and interiors of Arena Du CO'Met, which will host sporting and cultural events