Articles by Eleanor Gibson

Jamie Fobert’s cliffside extension to Tate St Ives nears completion

April 24, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Work is almost complete on a sunken extension to the Tate’s seaside art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, which is set to open to the public later this year. The extension by Jamie Fobert Architects will double the size of Tate St Ives gallery, which overlooks the Atlantic sea from a cliff in Cornwall, southwest England. The aim of

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Jamie Fobert’s cliffside extension to Tate St Ives nears completion

April 24, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Work is almost complete on a sunken extension to the Tate’s seaside art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, which is set to open to the public later this year. The extension by Jamie Fobert Architects will double the size of Tate St Ives gallery, which overlooks the Atlantic sea from a cliff in Cornwall, southwest England. The aim of

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Cities are “deeply tragic” says Rem Koolhaas

April 24, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architects have lost control of city design according to Rem Koolhaas, who says the gap between the profession’s rhetoric and the reality is wider in Italy than anywhere else. Speaking at a conference during Milan design week, the OMA founder said that Italy was “tortured” by this situation. “The architecture profession thought not so long ago that it knew how

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Nimtim adds pergola-like extension to 1950s terrace in south London

April 23, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Timber portals frame windows and skylights in this garden-facing extension, which Nimtim Architects has added to a terraced house in Peckham, southeast London. The London-based practice designed the extension and renovation to an “unremarkable” infill house built between brickwork residences during the 1950s. The client, a young professional, wanted the extension to serve as an open-plan kitchen and dining

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WeWork opens “whimsical” co-working space in former opium factory

February 9, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Shanghai studio Linehouse has transformed a former opium factory with green-painted metalwork and pastel-coloured terrazzo to create the Chinese flagship for co-working company WeWork. Located in Shanghai’s Jing’An district, the 5,500 square-metre WeWork Weihai hosts more than 1,300 members of WeWork, a co-working company that offers rented desk spaces at relatively low cost, with shared amenities for workers. Local

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AR Design Studio replaces landslide-damaged holiday home with cluster of larch-clad blocks

February 8, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

This holiday home on the West Dorset coast is made up of four irregular larch-clad blocks, and was designed by AR Design Studio to replace a house destroyed in a landslide. Hampshire-based AR Design Studio was originally asked to extend an existing holiday home on a cliff top on the coastline of Lyme Regis. But half way through

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Moon Hoon creates housing with owl-like features in South Korea

January 4, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

A concrete frame angles out from a window at the top of this irregularly shaped housing block in South Korea, which was designed by architect Moon Hoon to resemble an owl. South Korean architect Moon Hoon designed the four-storey Busan Times building for the city of Busan and included plenty of windows to offer views across the urban landscape. A series

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KPF unveils China’s second-tallest skyscraper

January 3, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

US firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has completed a 530-metre skyscraper in Guangzhou, the second tallest in all of China and the fifth tallest in the world. KPF’s CTF Finance Centre is located in Guangzhou’s Zhujiang New Town and is the second of two towers built on a site overlooking the Pearl River. At 530 metres, the skyscraper is the tallest in

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Grey brick Amsterdam townhouse by 31/44 Architects features large rooflight and sunken living room

January 3, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

James Jeffries of 31/44 Architects has designed a spacious and light-filled Amsterdam townhouse for his family, faced in grey brickwork and illuminated inside by a large skylight. Architect Jeffries, who co-founded of the London- and Amsterdam- based practice with William Burges and Stephen Davies, designed the three-storey townhouse to slot into a narrow plot. The aim was to reference the

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Hermansson Hiller Lundberg adapts Adolf Loos concept for brick House Juniskär in Sweden

January 3, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firm Hermansson Hiller Lundberg has completed a monolithic brick house for a sloped site in Sundsvall, Sweden, featuring staggered interiors based on Adolf Loos’ Raumplan concept. Stockholm-based Hermansson Hiller Lundberg designed House Juniskär for site in the Swedish city that steps down from the higher entrance level to the lower garden at the rear. To adapt to the

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