The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
RIBA Awards 2013: Public
Public buildings once again have the biggest showing in this year’s RIBA Awards, with 10 securing the coveted accolade and four achieving the EU honour
Cultural
From museums and galleries to opera houses and theatres
The ship’s sarcophagus: Mary Rose Museum by Wilkinson Eyre
The design of the Mary Rose Museum posed searching questions, but did Wilkinson Eyre and Pringle Brandon Perkins + Will find the right answers? asks Felix Mara
Kamppi Chapel, Helsinki by K2S Architects
WIth its timber curved facade Kamppi Chapel gently sits within the busy Narinkka Square in central Helsinki
Passages of time
The newly refurbished Dutch national gallery and museum, the Rijksmuseum, completes the story of Pierre Cuypers’ Gothic pile, writes Rory Olcayto
Tuned to the quay: Mareel Arts Centre by Gareth Hoskins and PJP
After a troubled gestation, Gareth Hoskins and PJP’s Mareel arts centre in Lerwick has confounded the doubters, writes Penny Lewis. Photography by John Coutts
Metamorphology – Benthem Crouwel’s Stedelijk Museum
Benthem Crouwel’s expansion and renovation of the Stedelijk Museum of contemporary art and design in Amsterdam is neither morphology nor alchemy, writes Felix Mara. Photography by Jannes Linders
Manchester’s new sound
You’d never guess there were 290 noisy, talented pupils in Roger Stephenson Architects’ clever new building for Chetham’s School of Music, writes Philip Griffin Photography by Daniel Hopkinson
A typology of spans
Seemingly effortless, Moxon’s glass and steel viaduct around Taunton Castle belies the complexity of its construction, writes Felix MaraPhotography by Simon Kennedy
The opposite of Shard: Piano in Oslo
Renzo Piano’s new Astrup Fearnley Museum is so laid back it’s horizontal, writes Rory Olcayto. Photography by Nic Lehoux
Soundforms: Peak performance
BFLS’s demountable stage shell is shaped by precise acoustic engineering, writes Felix Mara. Photography by David Grand