The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Mount Stuart visitor centre by Munkenbeck + Marshall
Although the estate is steeped in history, Munkenbeck + Marshall’s visitor centre for Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute is a building that looks to the future
Cultural
From museums and galleries to opera houses and theatres
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art by Avery Associates
Avery Associates has transformed the labyrinthine Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London’s Bloomsbury with a dramatic fente atrium and a small theatre that plays it big
National Football Museum by OMI Architects
The National Football Museum by OMI Architects, built into two stands at Preston North End’s Deepdale ground, takes visitors on a journey that is a celebration of the beautiful game
Scottish Seabird Centre by Simpson & Brown
Seabirds on the islands of the Firth of Forth are preening themselves for an audience they don’t even know is there - observing them on remote cameras, controlled from the new Scottish Seabird Centre on the mainland
World of Glass by Geoffrey Reid Associates
Geoffrey Reid Associates’ World of Glass contrasts an industrial aesthetic with glazed construction in a building which celebrates the heritage of Merseyside’s St Helens
Great Glasshouse by Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners’ Great Glasshouse on the rolling hills near Camarthen is the largest single-span greenhouse in the world and is a breath of fresh air for modern architecture in Wales
Wimbledon Girl Guides by Hugh Broughton
The efforts of a branch of the Guides in Wimbledon have paid off with an award-winning building in which Hugh Broughton’s own recommendations for reducing lifespan costs have been applied
Affairs of the art
The Lowry, Michael Wilford’s £105 million centre in Salford Quays, has become a cultural landmark as well as a fitting home for the matchstick men, cats and dogs depicted in L S Lowry’s works
Master of Arts
Glenn Howells Architects has produced a theatre and arts centre which has the heroic qualities of great civic architecture, and knits together the urban fabric of Armagh
A star is born
Imagine it’s early evening. Not the humdrum early evening of the average week, all too often swallowed up by the working day. But the beingon-holiday early evening when people begin to gather in the streets. Early evening with a hint of promise.With its new theatre and gallery complex in Milton…