Shortlisted for the MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice 2020: Mole Architects’ Alice Hamlin skilfully delivers four dwelling types in Marmalade Lane, Cambridge, in a rare British example of co-housing
Author Archives: Douglas Murphy
Off grid: MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK, by 6a Architects
Poised at the edge of Milton Keynes’ Modernist city plan, 6a Architects’ extension of the MK Gallery rekindles a lost arcadian vision
Frame of mind: de Vylder Vinck Taillieu’s Caritas psychiatric centre
De Vylder Vinck Taillieu’s Caritas psychiatric centre in Melle brings the outside in
A song in stone: 15 Clerkenwell Close, London, UK, by Amin Taha + Groupwork
With pivoting bookshelves and vanishing doors, Amin Taha + Groupwork create flexible spaces to live and work in London’s historical Clerkenwell neighbourhood
Ghost storeys: Sala Beckett theatre in Barcelona, Spain by Flores & Prats
Restoration of the Sala Beckett building in Barcelona by Flores & Prats puts their stamp on the building without excising its ghosts
Cedric Price (1934–2003)
Behind the 9am brandies, cigars and extreme lunching lies Price’s vision of public leisure, freedom and equality
Outrage: ‘until the Grenfell tragedy, the housing crisis has mostly been slower and more grinding’
Is a historic crisis what will prompt action over the dire housing shortage for the under-privileged?
Buildings within buildings: on fragments, blurred thresholds and endless interiors
Spaces that have all the basic threshold qualities of architecture, but are themselves a part of a larger structure, force us to rethink how we expect architecture to behave
The end of utopia
Architects have always dreamed of building a better world, dreams that were realised on a gigantic new scale in the twentieth century, but since the 1970s this ambition has faded – so why did we stop thinking about tomorrow?
Notopia: The fall of streets in the sky
The three-dimensional city was undoubtedly naive, but the implications of its disappearance are profound