Catherine Slessor visits the office of Walters & Cohen Architects, which recently celebrated its 25th birthday
Space to reflect: Wright & Wright’s extension of St John’s College library, Oxford
With its finely detailed Library and Study Centre, Wright & Wright Architects has made an elegant addition to the historic assemblage of buildings at St John’s College, Oxford, says Catherine Slessor. Photography Hufton + Crow, Dennis Gilbert
Sadly, Goldsmith Street is still the exception rather than the rule
Catherine Slessor on why the government needs to reverse 40 years of ’catastrophic inaction’ if we want more council housing like Goldsmith Street
RIBA Stirling Prize 2019: London Bridge Station by Grimshaw
This elegant remodelling emphatically restates the station’s sense of dynamism to civilise the modern commute, writes Catherine Slessor. Film and photography Jim Stephenson
Building study: Lacaton & Vassal’s renovation of a Bordeaux housing estate
Lacaton & Vassal, with Frédéric Druot Architecture and Christophe Hutin Architecture, won the 2019 Mies van der Rohe Award with their renovation of three blocks of a 1960s slab estate in Bordeaux with the addition of an outer skin of winter gardens, writes Catherine Slessor. Photography Philippe Ruault
The Tulip reframes a quintessentially English building type for our age
Foster’s tower is simply a vertical version of a Victorian pleasure pier in all its huckstering, carnivalesque glory, writes Catherine Slessor
Liz Diller: ‘My intention was never to be an architect’
The winner of this year’s Women in Architecture Jane Drew prize talks to Catherine Slessor about originally planning to be an artist, her relationship with New York and plans for London’s forthcoming Centre for Music
AJ Architecture Awards 2018: Health & Wellbeing Project of the Year
dRMM has triumphed in the Health & Wellbeing category of the 2018 AJ Architecture Awards with its Maggie’s Centre in Oldham
AJ Architecture Awards 2018: Community & Faith Project of the Year
Storey’s Field Centre & Eddington Nursery by MUMA has been named best community project at the 2018 AJ Architecture Awards
AJ Architecture Awards 2018: Cultural Project of the Year
AHMM’s third phase of works at Liverpool’s Royal Court has scooped Cultural Project of the Year at the 2018 AJ Architecture Awards