'Everyone deserves a decent place to live.' – minding London's development gaps with Mohsin Cooper, Sun, Aug 14 '16

Mohsin Cooper Architects is a young practice focused largely on housing, based in Brighton and London, and run by Justin Cooper and Abe Mohsin.

‘To be with architecture is all we ask.’ – interview with Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, Mon, Aug 8 '16

Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries, Hans-Ulrich Obrist is a much revered polymath. Curator, historian, critic and interviewer of the world’s leading artists, Obrist has often courted the world of architecture, most notably for his curatorship of the Swiss Pavilion at 2014's Venice ...

WikiHouse's lead architect on how open-source idealism could cure a sickly building market, Tue, Aug 2 '16

Working far beyond the simplistic notion of crowdsourced design, WikiHouse Foundation is a building system and a stamp of approval for open-source innovations around the building industry.

Station to station: the architects behind Crossrail, Europe's biggest infrastructure project ever, Wed, Jun 22 '16

When it begins operating in 2018, London’s Elizabeth Line, aka Crossrail, will ease travelers commuting and connecting across the city, bridging east and west. With construction progressing on schedule, attention has turned to the stations that will give a new lease on life to the suburbs on ...

Touring BIG's 2016 Serpentine Pavilion and the new Summer Houses, Wed, Jun 8 '16

Perched on the lawn of the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Royal Kensington Gardens, the annual Serpentine Pavilion has been a summer highlight for Londoners since its inception in 2000. The first Pavilion, which enjoyed a four-month residency, was created by Zaha Hadid. Since then the site ...

Edinburgh's maker-architects: a visit to GRAS, Thu, Jun 2 '16

While they were both still studying architecture at the University of Strathclyde, Gunnar Groves-Raines and Stuart Falconer decided to set up a design practice at the same time: GRAS. The no-small-feat was made a bit easier by Gunnar’s father, who allowed GRAS to attach its office to ...

How 'Chicks with Bricks' finds female solidarity (and humour) in the UK's building industry, Wed, May 4 '16

With an easy to remember name, an inclusive attitude and a pragmatic sense of duty, Chicks with Bricks has been holding networking events in London since 2005 with the aim of inspiring and connecting women in architecture and construction.

Previewing the 2016 Venice Biennale: the British Pavilion's "Home Economics", Tue, May 3 '16

In advance of the 2016 Venice Biennale, we've spoken with the curators behind a few select pavilions to see how they're grappling with Alejandro Aravena's theme, "Reporting from the Front". For this feature, we spoke with the curators behind the British Pavilion, "Home ...

Slight of hand: Konishi Gaffney meld beautiful interventions with Edinburgh's history, Thu, Apr 28 '16

I’m in Leith, a short distance from Edinburgh city centre, to interview Kieran Gaffney, one-half of the Konishi Gaffney work partnership with his wife, Makiko Konishi. Konishi and Gaffney met whilst working for Thomas Heatherwick in London. Gaffney was Heatherwick’s first employee ...

The architects trying to restore Mackintosh's Library to its former glory, Sat, Apr 23 '16

The Charles Rennie Mackintosh building at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is an iconic structure and home of one of the greatest art schools in Europe. The building, voted the best British-designed building of the past 175 years in a nationwide poll conducted by The Sunday Times newspaper and ...

The unbranded, hybrid approach of the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape, Fri, Apr 8 '16

This past January, Suzanne Ewing became the head of Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at The University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Prior to the post (which is held on a rotating system among academics at the school), she served as a Senior Lecturer in ...

Glasgow's Collective Architecture finds success and freedom in employee ownership, Tue, Mar 29 '16

Glasgow-based Collective Architecture was founded in 2007. In what can now be heralded as a great strategic move, former owner Chris Stewart decided to transfer company ownership from himself – after a successful ten year run as Chris Stewart Architects – to an employee-owned trust ...

New kids chipping on the old blocks – the London School of Architecture's first phase, Thu, Feb 25 '16

Is contemporary architecture practice forging a new identity for itself through collaboration? What part does education play in this mix?

Working Warrior: an interview with Katy Marks of Citizens Design Bureau, Tue, Feb 23 '16

Three awards sit centre stage on the desk of Citizens Design Bureau’s tiny office and workshop in Hackney Downs, in East London. First a Sterling Award 2014 for The Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, from CDB founder Katy Marks’ time at Haworth Tompkins Architects, and then two fresh World ...

New year, new you: how a few UK firms are switching up their game, Thu, Jan 14 '16

It's that time again – the fresh slate of a new year, the bloat of holidays past and the intent to make good on promises to oneself. Evolution through resolution. Before Christmas, I'd attended a talk organised by London’s Museum of Architecture entitled “Alternative ...

Playing to the House: architecture's unconventional performance in film and theatre, Wed, Dec 23 '15

During the 2015 London Design Festival, Groves Natcheva Architects exhibited a short film they'd made, entitled Black Ice. Written by Adriana Natcheva's brother and shot entirely in his house – which the architects had designed, and located across the balcony from where Groves ...

London's Bleak Housing, Fri, Dec 18 '15

The housing crisis in London has rumbled on for decades, its supply never quite catching up with the demands of its own population growth. Council stock has been sold off without being replaced, creating an un-developable green belt around it – a victim, in part, to its success as a hip ...

Science Nonfiction: bringing emerging technologies into the UK's architecture education, Sat, Dec 5 '15

Taking stock of emergent technologies at The Bartlett and the Architectural Association in London – two of the most innovative and genre-pushing architectural education institutions worldwide – it’s difficult to not be in awe of the possibilities. Michael Weinstock, Director of the Emergent ...