Dulwich Picture Gallery is a celebrated London landmark and was England’s first public art gallery, designed and completed by one of its most famous and respected architects, Sir John Soane, between 1811-14. But a public gallery that is simultaneously a mausoleum for a painting collection’s founding menage a trois is surely a strange circumstance to […]

The Horniman was originally designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in 1901 (he also did the Whitechapel Gallery and the Bishopsgate Institute) and the A&M work was part of a long overdue delapidations and extensions programme that called for an exhibition space, education facilities, a shop and cafe. It also called for clearing away unsatisfactory extensions […]

Peckham Library has been a social as well as architectural success, but the building is simply one part of a larger story: the third part of a plaza that terminates a new urban park (Burgess Park) as it meets the local Peckham High Street, aiming to give a regenerative civic dignity to the locale. Apart […]

Goldsmith’s is a campus with a potential to envy: most of it appears to be just another mixed bag of London architecture, but even the apparently residential terraces turn out to be occupied by the College. The Laban used to be here and it is highly questionable whether they should have moved or improved the […]

t FAT’s designs exhibit their ‘80’s training and the ‘Blue House’ (actually pale turquoise; and it’s not wood either, but fake wood boarding) betrays its author’s PoMo enthusiasms (Venturi plus a touch of Arts & Crafts). The authors tell us: “We are more interested in the effect the thing has, than how you might produce […]