Author Archives: Eleanor Beaumont

Bringing new life to a forgotten factory on the outskirts of Lille, the cookery and hospitality school by Caruso St John is the first piece in a complex, political puzzle

A wolf in sheep’s clothing: designed by Henry van de Velde, Hôtel Wolfers is frozen in a state of ruin, an artwork in its own right

Transforming the riverside and converting a Brutalist bank into a centre for cinema, V+ and L’Escaut set a gold standard for Charleroi’s future as the city attempts to rise from its post-industrial ashes

Overlooked by the AR at the time of its completion, the enigmatic internal landscape of Sigurd Lewerentz’s masterpiece in Klippan still carries power and meaning in every brick

Founded in London and now based in Moscow, O’BVDSH takes care with every aspect of their recent rejuvenation of Rustaveli Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia

The new innards of the town hall in Ledeberg erupt from its 19th-century chrysalis

Placing the Aztec ruins centre stage, the Teopanzolco Cultural Centre is a dramatic landscape for performance

Depicting 30 years of global capitalism and mass consumerism, the photographs of Andreas Gursky sometimes make for uncomfortable viewing

Both a ruined civilisation and the embryo of a new urbanity, this reimagined coal mine waits for a future that may never happen

Women in Architecture Architect of the Year 2018 shortlist: Returning to the medieval monastic garden, nature permeates 6a Architects’ addition to Churchill College in Cambridge