Author Archives: Catherine Slessor

[Archive] Occupying a redundant shopping mall, this new school in a poor part of LA is a positive, energizing presence.

Topped by a roof deck that doubles as an external room, this family house is an inventive if vertiginous response to Tokyo’s lack of space

A speculative housing block in Montpellier has been transformed by the treatment of its external walls

Catherine Slessor’s essay on Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum, with photography by Paul Raftery, Dennis Gilbert and Christian Richters

In the Irish capital’s Temple Bar, we examine an organic approach to the complex issue of urban renewal

In Dublin, a seventeenth-century Quaker meeting house has been remodelled as the Irish Film Centre

Eric Owen Moss’ startling internal transformations of a converted warehouse in Culver City, west Los Angeles

Proposed museum for vintage cars by Morphosis mixes influences from geomorphism to the commercial strip and beyond

Catherine Slessor discusses the first realisations of Zaha Hadid’s work in three dimensions in Japan