The Architects' Journal

The Architects' Journal is a weekly magazine focused on architecture, published in London by Ascential.

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Venice Biennale 2025 round-up: what else to see?

1 day ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams

This edition of the Venice Biennale includes 65 national pavilions, 11 collateral events, and over 750 participants in the international exhibition curated by Italian architect and engineer Carlo Ratti. Entitled Intelligens: Natural Artificial Collective, its stated aim is to make Venice a ‘living laboratory’. But Ratti’s exhibition in the Arsenale has been hit by mixed reviews.
Carmody Groarke’s silver office scheme completes in east London

1 day ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams

The project retains and extends a former three-storey concrete-framed workshop near Bethnal Green tube station, which was once slated for demolition. Client and developer Unity Land (formerly DAO Estates) commissioned Carmody Groarke to reinvent the building, reusing as much as possible. Inspired by the skinny-framed buildings of New York’s Soho district, the building sits on a very narrow site on top of a vent tunnel for the tube line.
What should you expect at Scotland’s Architecture Fringe 2025?

3 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams

Tell us what you have planned for this year’s Architecture FringeThis is the seventh edition of Scotland’s Architecture Fringe, and the theme is Reciprocity - Architectures of Exchange. We have almost 90 exhibitions and events taking place across Scotland and further afield, exploring this theme in one way or another.
New ‘disruptor’ developer to oversee retrofit of No 1 Poultry

3 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Greg Pitcher

Named MORE, its first job will be overseeing a retrofit of James Stirling and Michael Wilford & Partners’ Grade II*-listed No 1 Poultry in the City of London. MORE says the project will revamp ‘outdated’ energy systems in the 1997 building while celebrating ‘the idiosyncratic quirks of the design that have been previously shied away from’.
Serpentine 2025’s Marina Tabassum: ‘This one is more for the adults’

4 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams

What is the concept and how did you react to the site? When we started designing this pavilion quite a lot of things came to mind. One is that it’s a celebration of the summer months in the Kensington Garden. A lot of people come here from all different parts of the world, as well as London. It has a presence for a short period of time – June to October – so there is a sense of temporality. It also has an afterlife after this location.
Marina Tabassum’s armadillo-like Serpentine pavilion opens

4 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams

The 56-year-old Dhaka-born architect’s temporary structure in Kensington Gardens, London, is the 24th in the gallery’s series of annual architectural commissions, which began 25 years ago with Zaha Hadid in 2000 (see full list of previous designers below).
Gays and dolls: How an architect uses dollhouses to imagine homes for queer people

4 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams

Scholars of gender and sexuality have been exploring ‘queer spaces’ for over six decades. While for many years homes and domesticity remained out of focus or at the margins of queer space research, a recent ‘domestic turn’ has brought queer people’s homes to the foreground.
Wallace Collection picks National Gallery architect to revamp its London base

5 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Richard Waite

Annabelle Selldorf's practice will create a five-year masterplan for the museum’s Grade II-listed Hertford House base on Manchester Square. The job comes soon after the practice completed the controversial revamp of Venturi, Scott Brown’s 1991 National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing. The Wallace Collection comprises 5,500 objects, including medieval and Renaissance works of art and princely arms and armour.
LGBTQ+ champions: Marf Summers

5 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Gino Spocchia

How did you get into architecture? I chose architecture because I am from a working-class background and wanted to study something vocational at university. Going to art school felt like too much of a risk. It also, I think, represented a kind of escape or freedom – the possibility to shape your own surroundings. How has being a member of the LGBTQ+ community shaped your career and your work? It’s both good and bad. I no longer work in practice as part of someone else’s studio.
ARB sets out details of shake-up in professional practical experience

5 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Gino Spocchia

In an announcement last week, the regulator said it would work to implement two of the commission’s recommendations: to create a co-ordinating role for learning providers, and to introduce a standardised record of competency (ROC) for trainees. But a third recommendation – to mandate continuing professional development (CPD) in mentoring – will not be introduced. The recommendations were made in February by the independent commission on professional practical experience (PPE) in architecture.