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Jan 20, 2025 | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Peter Cook |Ellen Peirson
The building, designed by Nimmo & Partners to replace the 1930s Associated British Pictures Corporation’s headquarters, which previously stood on the site, has been expanded by John Robertson Architects to offer 2,739m2 of office space over eight floors. The increase in floorspace was enabled by removing rooftop plant screen to create an additional office level and partially infilling the rear courtyard. The refurbishment respects the character of the surrounding heritage area.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Ellen Peirson
The building sits as an infill to a courtyard created by other houses and flats owned by Hackney-based housing association Shian Housing, as well as the Grade II-listed Pitfield Street Library. On the library's exterior, glazed tiles echo the interior of the Hoxton Baths which occupied the site before being demolished after the war. The six new homes make use of the brownfield land which, until recently, had just been used as storage.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
archpaper.com | Ellen Peirson
The medieval city of Canterbury is steeped in history, at the end of ancient pilgrimage routes in the southeast of the U.K. The spires of Canterbury Cathedral tower over the tightly wound streets of the city center, but two miles northeast of the cathedral is the University of Kent. Designed by William Holford in a pared-back Brutalist style, the Kent School of Architecture is now the center of a campus that has sprawled over the years.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
archpaper.com | Ellen Peirson
In North London, a greenhouse has become a music venue for cacti. “This is where the musicians sit and play for the plants,” Elki Guillen explained. “Sometimes we invite humans, but it’s mainly for the plants.” Guillen is the guardian of the cactus house at London’s Wolves Lane Centre in Haringey, a community food growing center on a site home to a series of 1970s greenhouses that were once owned and run by the local council.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
untappedjournal.com | Michael Webb |Diana Budds |Ellen Peirson
Enrique Peñalosa Londoño is a pragmatic politician who combines idealism with a firm grasp on reality. He was twice elected mayor of Bogotá, the fast-growing capital of Colombia, and fought special interests to transform it for the better.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
architectural-review.com | Manon Mollard |Eleanor Beaumont |Ellen Peirson |Kristina Rapacki
1513: AR PublicRead online | Digital Edition | Buy NowCover (above) Dean Kaufman for The Architectural ReviewThe southern end of Manhattan’s elevated High Line park sits on Gansevoort Street, next to the Whitney Museum of American Art in the heavily gentrified Meatpacking District. Having taken a hit during the Covid-19 pandemic, New York’s pretzel vendors – a fixture of the city’s public life – are back in full force here.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
archpaper.com | Ellen Peirson
In the rotunda of the Royal Academy’s (RA) Wohl Central Hall, a precast windowsill of sanded cement and stone dust leans next to an exit door. Swatches of paint—burnt orange, maroon, ochre, and gray-blue—are slapped on the wall above it, salvaged from pots of leftover paint. These haphazardly arranged and messy materials don’t feel at home in the storied arts institution, but this revisioning is an attempt by Assemble RA to enter a new dialogue. This is not the Summer Exhibition as we know it.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
untappedjournal.com | Charlie Weak |Eva Hagberg |Ellen Peirson
One of my earliest memories is of my grandpa Jim, my mom’s dad, helping me build a pinewood derby racer in his garage in Juniata, Nebraska. I vaguely remember him showing me how he used an old band saw and belt sander to shape the racer’s aerodynamic body, whittling down compartments under the nose to fit weights so that the car would accelerate more rapidly.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
untappedjournal.com | Mimi Zeiger |Marianela D’Aprile |Anjulie Rao |Ellen Peirson
“Time is a space in which change happens.” That’s how physicists, I recently heard poet Jane Hirshfield say, have defined the term to her. I found the description unexpectedly affecting: It conjures up the notion of buildings as containers for life, places for possibility that can be set into motion by the human mind and hand. It also suggests that space—be it a room, a building, or any open expanse—holds invisible truths that are there to see if we only look, or look differently.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
untappedjournal.com | Mimi Zeiger |Marianela D’Aprile |Anjulie Rao |Ellen Peirson
Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect (Yale University Press) is about absence as much as it is about the presence of its protagonist. Organized by the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, the 336-page book of essays and photographs is forensic, collecting things that are ineffable: demolished structures, gaps in a fragmented archive, and a figure missing from the architectural canon.
