L’Atelier Senzu’s pedagogical pavilion is the first loadbearing rammed earth building in Paris
Life lesson: Le Vau Pavilion in Paris, France, by L’Atelier Senzu
Author Archives: George Kafka
Regeneration station: Open Havelock in London, UK by Alison Crawshaw
Alison Crawshaw’s conversion of undercroft garages into community rooms in the Havelock Estate in Southall stands in opposition to demolition
Follow the money: building the museum
The Bilbao effect is alive and well, but cultural institutions face increasing pressure from their publics to offer more than an iconic edifice
Green Labour: Material Reform, and The Value of a Whale
Two books that make visible the complex and exploitative systems behind material production
Floating University in Berlin, Germany by Raumlabor
Ephemeral structures planted into the concrete floor of a disused rainwater basin hidden in the centre of Berlin house Floating University’s interdisciplinary programme of activities
The burden of antiquity: veneration of the past becomes stasis
Development is stymied by reverence for the Acropolis in modern Athens, a city where the past still casts its heavy shadows
Raising the roof: Terrain Architects, Japan
Terrain Architects’ body of work in Uganda, although defined by its response to local need and the tropical climate, has a distinctly Japanese slant
Game plan: TAKA, Ireland
Merrion Cricket Club pavilion in Dublin by TAKA Architects epitomises their ethos of creating buildings rooted in their physical and sociological contexts
Money talks: Bloomberg London, UK, by Foster + Partners
At a cost of £1.3 billion, was the 2018 Stirling Prize winner ‘too big to fail’?
Inside the Box: Kokoon by Helsinki’s Aalto University Wood Program Students, Finland
AR House 2018 Commended: made of stackable units providing living space for up to three months, this modular, portable and temporary housing system suggests new possibilities for superior forms of emergency shelter
