London South Bank University presents 10 architecture student projects

London South Bank University presents 10 architecture student projects

Dezeen School Shows: a museum redevelopment project informed by the history of animation is included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students at London South Bank University. Also included is cohabiting development... Read more »
Architecture festival to unveil dinosaur sculpture – South London News

Architecture festival to unveil dinosaur sculpture – South London News

A restored dinosaur sculpture will be unveiled on Sunday as part of the London Festival of Architecture. The sculpture of Palaeotherium Magnum, a large extinct mammal distantly related to horses, will be revealed... Read more »
72 Upper Ground: the latest development selling the Thames down the river | Architecture

72 Upper Ground: the latest development selling the Thames down the river | Architecture

The Thames, world-famous river through the heart of the British capital, without which London would not exist, half-tamed work of nature, inspiration to Dickens and the Kinks, to Monet and Wordsworth, along... Read more »
Vic Nierop-Reading obituary | Architecture

Vic Nierop-Reading obituary | Architecture

My father, Vic Nierop-Reading, who has died aged 95, was a conservation architect who spent much of his life helping to restore the precious old buildings of Norwich. Born in Finchley, north... Read more »
Sam Webb obituary | Architecture

Sam Webb obituary | Architecture

When he was aged six, Sam Webb accompanied his father to the grounds of the Tate gallery in London, to see an exhibition of prototype factory-built homes that gleamed with promise for... Read more »
Elephant Park slammed by architecture group as ‘social cleansing’ – South London News

Elephant Park slammed by architecture group as ‘social cleansing’ – South London News

An architecture campaign group has described a development in Elephant and Castle as “social cleansing” and criticised a national body for shortlisting it in an award. Elephant Park, which controversially replaced the... Read more »
Living in Hackney Wick: London Festival of Architecture director Rosa Rogina’s area guide

Living in Hackney Wick: London Festival of Architecture director Rosa Rogina’s area guide

I moved to Hackney Wick with my husband, who is also an architect, a year ago. I’d been in west London and was reluctant to move anywhere else but Hackney Wick has... Read more »
Sir Michael Uren Hub wins architecture award | Imperial News

Sir Michael Uren Hub wins architecture award | Imperial News

The Sir Michael Uren Hub on White City Campus has won a major award from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In announcing the 2022 London Award (on 5 May) judges... Read more »
Henrietta Howard’s historic Georgian villa to open to public after restoration | Architecture

Henrietta Howard’s historic Georgian villa to open to public after restoration | Architecture

“There is a greater court now at Marble Hill than at Kensington,” the poet Alexander Pope wrote in 1735. Now, the historic Georgian villa in west London belonging to Henrietta Howard, the... Read more »
Atomik Architecture updates west London school building with gridded extension

Atomik Architecture updates west London school building with gridded extension

Thorpe Lodge is a Grade II-listed building and the former home of Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944. Since 1958, it has provided an entrance to... Read more »