Carmody Groake have extended the studio of artist Julian Opie. In the mid 19th century the building was used as as a furniture workshop. The building has now been extended with a series of aluminium clad boxes which bring daylight deep into the plan. Carmody Groarke
Phillipe Malouin Core
The first architecture project by Phillipe Malouin is Core. Core is a small brutalist concrete modular structure designed as part of the Superbenches project to regenerate Kvarnbacken, a park in Järfälla, Sweden. Philippe Malouin
Tony Fretton Lisson Gallery London
Tony Fretton Architects transformed an existing building in 1986 and created a new building in 1992 to form the Lisson Gallery. Founded in 1982, Tony Fretton Architects is an international practice based in London. Tony Fretton
Duggan Morris R7 Office Building Kings Cross London
R7 is a mixed use office building at Kings Cross designed by Duggan Morris Architects, a London practice established in 2004. The building's façade is constructed of lightweight aluminum that has thin and elegant profiles to accentuate a fine structure. Duggan Morris
Claesson Koivisto Rune Pool and Spa in Sweden
Claesson Koivisto Rune, the Swedish architectural practice, has created a spa with a summertime and wintertime pool next to a 1796 mansion in south Sweden. The pool draws inspiration from the chevron pattern of French parquet. The tiles are laser cut in a chevron pattern which is amplified by the water and reflected by the glass wall. Claesson Koivisto Rune
Gigon Guyer Detached House in Zurich
Gigon Guyer's detached house in Zurich has a hexagonal volume on a trapezoid shaped plot. The exterior walls and the roof are load bearing concrete, and large windows open by sliding into a recess between the outer concrete and the inner brick wall. The main living room is on the upper floor, where the ceiling rises from 2.4m to 5.2m. Gigon / Guyer
Barbican Exhibition Japanese House 2017
23 March - 25 June 2017.
The Japanese House welcomes you inside the Moriyama House (2005), designed in Tokyo by Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA) and inhabited by Yasuo Moriyama, an enigmatic urban hermit. As well as the full-size recreation of the Moriyama House, the exhibition also features a Japanese teahouse and garden designed by Terunobu Fujimori. The Japanese House is the centrepiece of the UK’s first major exhibition exploring Japanese domestic architecture from the end of the Second World War. Barbican
Axel Verwoordt Former Gin Distillery at Kanaal
Kanaal, a former distillery and malting complex, transformed by architects Coulee & Goris, is conceived as a city in the country. Incorporating the site’s heritage as a thriving hub of economic activity, the development is geared towards the inspired combination of living, working, culture and nature. Alongside the continued operations of the Axel Vervoordt Company, and accommodation for other offices, Kanaal will also be the home of the Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation’s collection. Axel Vervoordt
Carmody Groake’s Highgate House
This new detached family house creates a strong relationship between its context, its external form and the composition of its internal spaces. Brick is used externally and internally and the sculptural use of brick provides a coherence with the surrounding houses in North London. Photograph Helene Binet. Carmody Groarke
O’Donnell Tuomey Sean O’Casey Community Centre
O'Donnell Tuomey architects create a community centre on reclaimed land in East Wall. O'Donnell Tuomey
The Life House by John Pawson for Living Architecture
Award winning architect John Pawson designed 'The Life House' as a retreat for calm and reflection for philosopher Alain de Botton's Living Architecture holiday home project. The house is situated in a Welsh valley and constructed using handmade Danish bricks, polished concrete floors and Douglas fir timber ceilings, doors and furniture. Photo © Jack Hobhouse. John Pawson. Living Architecture
Stirling prize 2016 Caruso St John Newport St Gallery
Newport Street Gallery involved the conversion and transformation of a street facing a railway line in Vauxhall, south London, into a free public gallery for artist Damien Hirst's private art collection. Three listed Victorian industrial buildings, formerly carpentry and scenery painting workshops for West End theatres, have been remodelled and flanked at either end by entirely new buildings; one with a spiky saw-tooth roof. RIBA. Caruso St John
John Pawson’s Tilty Barn
Although this project involved working within an existing envelope, the transformation is a radical one that pushes at the limits of what is covered by conventional definitions of remodeling. A complex of eighteenth-century barns is transformed into a series of residential spaces in which the refinement of the newly inserted elements, full-height glass walls and low white plaster partitions contrasts with the intricate configuration of the original timber frame. Rather than cut inappropriate openings into old walls, the interior is lit by large-scale sheets of glass which sit directly on the ground and make the original pitched roofs appear to float. Tilty Barn, Essex, England 1994-1995. John Pawson
Caruso St John Brick House
On a constricted site in West London stands a family house designed by Caruso St John. The unusual shape of the site has shaped the interior living spaces and is in contrast with the typologies of the London town house that surround Brick House. The interior spaces are broad, intimate and overlook small gardens. Caruso St John was formed in London, with a second office in Zurich, by Adam Caruso and Peter St John in 1990 with the aim of pursuing architecture that is rooted in place. The practice's refined and considered approach has won them international competitions and prizes. Caruso St John