The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Documenting the dismantling of a power station
Greg Moss spent eight years photographing the decommissioning and eventual demolition of Fawley Power Station in Hampshire. Fran Williams visits an exhibition displaying the results
Culture
Exhibitions, events and books investigating architecture and culture, including the Venice Biennale and the London Festival of Architecture
Book review: Building for Change – The Architecture of Creative Reuse by Ruth Lang
Ruth Lang’s book showcases an abundance of exemplary retrofit projects while also providing a guide to the key principles of building reuse, writes Jordan Whitewood-Neal
Oslo’s Architecture Triennale sets out on a mission for neighbourhoods
The eighth Oslo Architecture Triennale opened on 24 September with the theme ‘Mission Neighbourhood’. Fran Williams asks what it has to offer neighbourhoods in the UK
MJ Long Prize winner Fiona Monkman: ‘As a council architect you don’t expect to win big awards’
This year’s MJ Long Prize winner, Fiona Monkman, is more familiar with picket lines than the podium. She talks to Ella Jessel about designing for ‘undevelopable’ sites and why architects should take collective action
A Square of Ground: Irish architect Noreile Breen explores practice deeply connected to her native land
Rupert Bickersteth talks to Irish architect Noreile Breen about horticulture, contemporary practice in Ireland and a truly holistic approach to understanding and working in the (built) environment
Ireland: Thirty Three Churches
Architect David Lawless talks about his and researcher Sophie Kelliher’s competition-winning proposal for converting Dublin churches into housing
Annabel Karim Kassar reconstructs traditional Lebanese home in the V&A
Shamiso Oneka visits the V&A where Annabel Karim Kassar Architects has reconstructed a traditional Lebanese house, partly transplanted from Beirut
The right to roam: Radical Landscapes at Tate Liverpool
Louis Smith-Lassey journeys through Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool’s exhibition of mixed-media works spanning three centuries exploring the countryside as a site of exclusion and conflict
RA Summer Exhibition architecture room mixes it up – from Tracey Emin to elephant dung
Jointly curated by Níall McLaughlin and artist Rana Begum, the display mixes art with the architecture, seeking to show how the climate crisis is changing material practices
Walter Sickert at Tate Britain: revelatory studies in how space is used and viewed
Tate Britain’s major retrospective of the German-born British painter and printmaker provides a total education in one of Britain’s radical painters, says Rupert Bickersteth