Archinect - Features

Announcing the winners of Archinect UK Portfolio Competition 2017!

2017-07-27T04:09:00-04:00

Earlier this year, we launched the UK portfolio competition to celebrate and expose the wealth of fantastic work already up on Archinect as well as to encourage individuals not registered to upload and share their work with our global online community.

To Hire 'the Best in the World' Post-Brexit, Trade and Immigration Are Top Concerns

2016-10-25T02:56:00-04:00

In a previous article I wrote about the Brexit referendum, I concluded by saying it could be the crowning achievement of a long and glorious reign for Elizabeth II. I would like to be clear: I voted to remain in the European Union.

How To Get A Job At: Weston Williamson + Partners

2016-10-05T01:18:00-04:00

Searching for a new job can be an exhausting task, especially in such unpredictable times. When you're at your wit's end, it can be tempting to send the same exact resume to what feels like the same job ad over and over again. However, no two firms are identical. Possessing certain technical skills are required across the industry, but there are particular qualities and red flags that a firm won't always simply list on their job ad. In Archinect's “How to Get a Job at _____”, we ask architecture firms how candidates can stand out from the crowd when applying to their practice.

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

2016-08-08T05:49:00-04:00

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 Architecture Biennale.

Brexit vote was due to "a loss of identity more than anything else" – op-ed by Alan Penn, Dean of the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment

2016-07-30T06:19:00-04:00

As an architect and an optimist, I am hopeful that the chaos in Britain triggered by the Brexit referendum may be accompanied by yet another great age of creative invention.

"Living together is only possible if there is always the possibility to be alone." – Dogma studio's hard-line look at architectural solitude

2016-07-27T09:46:00-04:00

The single-person room is the among the most basic units of architecture and the background for much of daily life. Here we project our personalities on the walls in the form of decor. Here we can retreat from the world. Yet the ubiquity and familiarity of the room nearly renders it invisible. Rarely do we consider the specificity of these places, which simultaneously serve as refuge and site of labor, of reproduction, of identity formation and presentation.

Former juror Rory Olcayto breaks down the 2016 Stirling Prize nominees

2016-07-26T05:04:00-04:00

It’s that time of the year again. The moment you’ve all been waiting for. No, not the Olympics. That’s still a few weeks off. The Euros? Over already. Not Wimbledon either. Done and dusted, init.

No, no, no. What I’m talking about is bigger than all of these things put together. (Well—for some of you at least.) Because now is the time when critics and architects unite in their rejection of the RIBA's Stirling Prize shortlist. In other words, it’s architectural Hammer Time!

Brexit exposed a Britain divided, and architects must now "redouble our efforts to be at the forefront of quality and innovation." – op-ed by Chris Williamson of Weston Williamson + Partners

2016-07-15T01:00:00-04:00

I was in New York at the time of the Brexit vote. I found out the result at two in the morning and was incredibly disappointed, but not surprised.

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

2016-06-22T06:48:00-04:00

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 either end of the line. But it’s not just the suburbs that will benefit—the interchanges in the city centre are also in desperate need of an upgrade.

If houses had airplane modes: an interview with Joseph Grima of Space Caviar

2016-06-07T08:27:00-04:00

“Should our homes have an airplane mode?” asks the Italian architecture studio Space Caviar, in the descriptive text for their RAM House, a fully-equipped smart home that alternatively doubles as a refuge from the ubiquitous technology of today.

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.

Devastation is in the details: a review of "High-Rise"

2016-05-29T11:05:00-04:00

Whatever risks one takes with allegorical storytelling—namely, that the conceit will wear thin far before the third act—one does gain the advantage of being able to luxuriate in detail.