Chris Foges

1 week ago | ribaj.com | Chris Foges

How did this project evolve? Traditional Irish settlements had ‘rambling houses’ whose door was always open. Harpists, fiddlers and singers would turn up on a rainy night and need to be put up somewhere. Our experimental Rambling Houses are for the encouragement of gathering and conversation. I’d met the furniture maker Joseph Walsh at a crafts exhibition. Having asked us to design a test piece, he spotted a sketch in my notebook of a conceptual ‘vessel’ for zenithal light, and offered to make it.

3 weeks ago | architecturalrecord.com | Chris Foges

Architecture News London’s West End is to gain a high-profile performance venue after architect SPPARC won consent to renovate the former Saville Theatre as a home for contemporary circus producer Cirque du Soleil. The city’s “Theatreland” is big business, bringing in over $1 billion annually, but the approved scheme creates additional value for the site’s developer, Yoo Capital, by incorporating a 65,600-square-foot CitizenM hotel in a five-story rooftop extension.

1 month ago | architecturalrecord.com | Chris Foges

Architects & Firms Squire & Partners’ renovation of Richard Seifert & Partners’ Space House gives new luster to one of the most distinctive Modernist office buildings in central London. Stylish and energy-efficient interventions demonstrate that a sensitive approach to recent heritage can deliver what’s valued by today’s tenants, while at the same time aiding the reappraisal of the tower’s architect.

2 months ago | ribaj.com | Chris Foges

Since setting up almost impulsively during the pandemic, Artefact's founders Daniel Marmot and Benedetta Rogers have purposefully focused on the craft of constructionArtefact was born on a beach, and in a hurry. Founders Daniel Marmot and Benedetta Rogers were working at the same London practice, and taking on small side projects, when the opportunity arose to do a new build house together. With some family and friends in tow, they took a trip to Southend to consider their options.

2 months ago | ribaj.com | Chris Foges

Quadrangles at Oxford University have one thing in common: they are, as the name suggests, at least roughly rectilinear. Or at least they have been until now, with the arrival of curved quads at the Gradel Quadrangles designed by David Kohn Architects for New College. Bends and bulges abound in every detail of an ensemble comprising 94 student bedrooms and ancillary facilities, offices, a concert hall, and a classroom wing for a prep school attached to the college.