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2 months ago | 
architectural-review.com | Florence Wright |Manon Mollard |Eleanor Beaumont |Kristina Rapacki
‘You must stoop lower to enter,' the doorframe says, banging the top of your head should you not listen. Through the tiny window, the sea is roiling, lashing spray against the glass. The slates rattle like xylophone bars from the wind, wailing down the chimney and threatening to dout the fire. Mice scuttle behind the knotted pine panels. On a rack above your head, the moor is drying from your boots, flecked by peat and bracken.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
architectural-review.com | Alys Hargreaves |Florence Wright
A pop-up library in Mumbai’s Fort neighbourhood encourages children and young people to read and playThis project was shortlisted in the 2024 AR Public awards. Read about the full shortlist hereBookWorm, a deployable public library, first opened in November 2019 within the grounds of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) Museum in Mumbai’s Fort neighbourhood.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
architectural-review.com | Florence Wright
In a Paris suburb, Paysarchitectures have revealed the source of a spring that had been piped and paved over for almost a centuryThis project was shortlisted in the 2024 AR Public awards. Read about the full shortlist hereLocated in the commune of Vitry-sur-Seine in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris is the source of the Petite Saussaie spring.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
architectural-review.com | Florence Wright
A new cultural centre and kindergarten in Tlatenchi helps repair the neighbourhood’s existing infrastructureOccupying two residual lots within the residential streets of Tlatenchi in the municipality of Jojutla, Mexico, a cultural centre and kindergarten are within a five-minute walk from each other. Mexican architects Taller CD aimed to unite the two separate buildings through a shared material language and structural system.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
architectural-review.com | Rob Gallagher |Florence Wright
The ways of seeing produced by open-world videogames owe much to colonial prospecting toolsOpen-world games have become the dominant videogame genre. Aesthetically, the worlds players can now explore vary widely.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
architectural-review.com | Martha Dillon |Florence Wright
VC investment in ‘proptech’ accelerates, rather than tackles, the problems of an ailing property sectorVenture capitalists (VCs) like to make grandiose claims about changing the world. Twitter account ‘VCBrags’, for example, chronicles investors boasting of discovering public transport, revolutionising biotech straight out of college and inventing the colour purple. It reveals a braggadocio‑plagued and hyper‑competitive culture – one whose latest target is property.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
architectural-review.com | Randhir Singh |Florence Wright
Randhir Singh writes a postcard to India's Hall of Nations, demolished by the right-wing government in an attempt to rewrite historyCommissioned by Indira Gandhi for the 25 years of Indian independence, the Hall of Nations was a complex of five truncated pyramids that was used as an exhibition ground, hosting innumerable trade fairs and events over its life.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
architectural-review.com | Aric Chen |Florence Wright
Aric Chen sends a postcard to the iconic metabolist architecture of Tokyo’s Ginza districtAnyone marvelling at Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower in the last 15 years or so would have seen that this most iconic, singular example of metabolist architecture, completed in Tokyo’s Ginza district in 1972, was existing on borrowed time. Its 140 self‑contained living units hung off concrete cores with rusting bolts that had become seismically unsafe.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
architectural-review.com | Florence Wright
A majestic ruin provides an intimate setting for a family-run restaurantCrofting is an agricultural practice particular to Scotland. A croft is a small piece of land, usually rented by a single person or family from a larger estate and used for keeping animals and cultivating crops.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
architectural-review.com | Florence Wright
RAUM’s renovation and extension of a public swimming pool provides a serene and safe environment in which learning, leisure and exercise can co-existSaint-Méen-le-Grand is a small town in Brittany in northwestern France. In recent years, the population of the town, as well as the demand for space for young swimmers, had outgrown the capacity of the town’s public swimming pool.
