The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
WilkinsonEyre’s Science Museum medicine galleries revealed
At 3,000m², the £24 million Wellcome Galleries are the largest medicine galleries in the world
Cultural
From museums and galleries to opera houses and theatres
First images released of David Chipperfield’s West Bund Museum in Shanghai
Right on the northern bank of the Huangpu River, the recycled glass-clad museum is a partnership with Paris’s Pompidou Centre
SODA Studio completes revolving Soho theatre
A new boulevard cabaret and theatre venue with a revolving auditorium has been created above the old entrance to the Raymond Revuebar in the heart of Soho
HAT Projects completes Science Museum supporters centre
The museum’s 745m² Smith Centre in South Kensington was created from a former Royal Mail sorting office
A united island: David Chipperfield’s James Simon Galerie in Berlin
The building provides access and central services for the five institutions on Berlin’s Museum Island, including David Chipperfield Architects’ own rework of the Neues Museum, writes Rob Wilson. Photography by Simon Menges and Ute Zscharnt
Nissen Richards Studio completes Magazine London: a new event space in North Greenwich
The 8m-high L-shaped black box can accommodate up to 10,000 people across 24,179m² of indoor and outdoor space
Rogers Stirk Harbour completes Louvre conservation facility
The new facility in northern France creates a centre for art conservation and research, revitalising a former mining basin
Purcell renovates former brewery to create Cornish archive centre
The 4,840m² Kresen Kernow is a new archive centre which holds a vast collection of documents relating to Cornwall’s history
RIBA Stirling Prize 2019: The Weston by Feilden Fowles
This visitor centre for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park captures something of humankind’s relationship to the landscape, ritual, boundary and transition, writes Owen Hopkins. Film and photography Jim Stephenson
RIBA Stirling Prize 2019: Nevill Holt Opera by Witherford Watson Mann
The theatre, a reworked stable block in a country estate, is beautiful, contextual, environmentally and acoustically brilliant and community minded, writes Fran Williams. Film and photography by Jim Stephenson