The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Heatherwick’s Humanise book: ‘A visual and textual bludgeoning’
This shouty book’s arguments against ‘boring’ buildings are too wafer-thin to obscure its true aim of self-promotion, argues Catherine Slessor. Photomontages by Maria Rodriguez
Tag: Modernism
Scapolan Burney completes Milton Keynes work-to-resi conversion
A 1980s city-centre Modernist building has been stripped back with the upper floors, previously offices, transformed into 200 flats
Architects condemn Create Streets attack on ‘reckless’ post-war buildings
Architects have dismissed claims by Nicholas Boys Smith that the crisis over unsafe concrete buildings could partly be blamed on post-war architecture
Norman Foster: I’d love to talk to King Charles about architecture
Norman Foster has said he would ‘love the opportunity’ to talk to King Charles about architecture following the coronation on Saturday (May 6)
Tributes paid to author and post-war architecture champion Elain Harwood
The profession has paid tribute to author, historian and leading authority on post-war English architecture Elain Harwood, who has died aged 64
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s Cambridge ‘modernist megastructure’ handed Grade II* listing
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s 1980 Robinson College in Cambridge, described by The Twentieth Century Society as a ‘radically modern’ megastructure, has been given a Grade II* listing
Historic England lists ‘remarkable’ 1930s home in south London
A south London house been listed at Grade II after Historic England said its ‘remarkable survival' showcased 'the architectural ideals of the 1930s’
A polymath of Modernism: Sophie Taeuber-Arp at Tate Modern
Harriet Jennings appraises the first UK retrospective of the work of prolific transdisciplinary Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp
The Third Man: Gray-Jeanneret and the Modernist Getaway
The first in a new series in which Patrick Massey constructs imagined conversations between historical figures from their own words, facilitated by the anonymous ‘Third Man’
Tory council under fire for plans to turn Modernist town hall blue
A Conservative-run council in north-east England has been criticised for plans to turn part of its FaulknerBrowns-designed Modernist town hall Tory blue