Sir John Soane at Home: The restoration of private rooms in the London house museum of the innovative early 19th-century architect allows a broader look into his domestic life.
John Soane's private apartment, on the third floor of his extraordinary London house at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, was a refuge for the architect and his wife, Eliza, within a building that was also his office, salon, and showcase for a vast collection of art and antiquities.
From Al Jazeera's London broadcast hub on the 16th floor of the Shard, staff and viewers enjoy panoramic skyline views. It was this vantage point that attracted the global media network to the Renzo Piano-designed tower, but its choice created challenges for architects John McAslan + Partners (JMP), which designed reception and workspaces, and Veech x Veech, responsible for the broadcast studio.
London's Jewish community is fairly large, and long established, but until the opening of JW3 in late 2013 it lacked a high-profile venue for the enjoyment and celebration of Jewish culture.
Held this year from September 13 to September 21, the festival has grown to become one of the city’s calendar events, visited by an estimated 350,000 people. In over 12 years the London Design Festival, held this year from September 13 to September 21, has grown to become one of the city’s calendar events, visited by an estimated 350,000 people and acting as an umbrella for projects by over 250 collaborators, from retailers and manufacturers to galleries and colleges. Its hub was the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), where many of the Festival’s commissioned pieces are temporarily installed. Here, explains
BruumRuum! is a dynamic installation by David Torrents with artec3 Studio and LEDsControl that transforms the sounds of Barcelona into patterns of light.
In five years’ time, when Barcelona’s largest urban regeneration project is complete, the Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes will be a leafy oasis in the middle of a new business and leisure district.
Odile Decq draws from Lyon’s industrial context to project the waterfront’s new identity. From Oslo and Lisbon to Hamburg and Amsterdam, the last 20 years have seen many of Europe’s redundant urban dockyards transformed into architectural zoos, peppered with signature structures by top-tier architects, often with greater regard for novelty than for the particularities of history or place.