Archinect - Features

RIP to the EU 1973-2016: Five monumental buildings in the UK by European architects

2016-09-09T14:29:00-04:00

The UK joined the European Community, later to become the European Union on the 1st of January 1973 with Denmark and Ireland. If the UK had never joined the EU, how different would the architectural landscape be? Lets take a look at five buildings designed by European architects working in the UK from 1973 until 2016; the lifespan of the UK’s membership of the European Union.

Edinburgh's maker-architects: a visit to GRAS

2016-06-02T04:24:00-04:00

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 Groves-Raines Architects, his own architecture practice in Edinburgh.

Slight of hand: Konishi Gaffney meld beautiful interventions with Edinburgh's history

2016-04-28T05:01:00-04:00

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, working as an architect on early projects from 1998 until 2004.