Articles by Amy Peacock

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Three designs addressing housing shortages revealed as Davidson Prize finalists

May 22, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

This year’s Davidson Prize shortlist includes three conceptual projects that propose adapting existing buildings with sustainable materials to tackle climate change and housing shortage. The annual prize, which explores the concept of home, was launched in 2021 in memory of architectural visualiser Alan Davidson. Entrants this year were asked to respond to the theme Rethinking Home

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Museum of London set for demolition after Michael Gove decides not to call in proposal

May 20, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

The Museum of London and Bastion House are set to be demolished to make way for the London Wall West scheme, after UK levelling up secretary Michael Gove decided not to intervene. Gove informed the City of London last Friday that he would not call in Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Sheppard Robson’s proposal, reported

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Rebuilding destroyed Gaza homes will take at least 16 years reports the UN

May 8, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

The United Nations has predicted it will take “until 2040 and probably longer” to rebuild the homes in Gaza that have been destroyed in the Israel-Hamas war. Using data from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the report estimated it would take 16 years to rebuild the homes destroyed in Gaza as Israel’s military action in

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Six former slaughterhouses reimagined for new purposes

May 7, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

The slaughterhouses and abattoirs in this roundup, originally built for slaughtering animals, have been transformed into galleries, breweries and cooking schools. Some of the examples have had considerable alterations to make them suited for their new purpose, while others retain original features – such as white-tiled walls and metal bars – in a nod to their

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Tono Mirai Architects encloses toilet in Japanese park with rammed earth

May 3, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Japanese studio Tono Mirai Architects has used soil and wood to create Toiletowa, a curving structure in Saitama prefecture containing a public toilet that reuses wastewater. Located in a park in the town of Miyoshi, the building has a wooden frame covered with rammed earth made with soil sourced from construction sites and mixed with

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Elding Oscarson creates CLT dome theatre inside Swedish museum extension

May 2, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Elding Oscarson has extended the National Swedish Museum of Technology with Wisdome Stockholm, a timber building topped by a curving roof that bulges over a dome inside. Made from 277 pieces of triangular cross-laminated timber (CLT), the spherical structure, which the designers refer to as a “visualisation dome”, contains tiered seating surrounded by 3D

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“London’s lowest whole-life carbon high-rise” by Foster + Partners receives planning approval

May 1, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has been granted planning approval for office and residential development 18 Blackfriars Road, which the studio claims will be net-zero carbon. Located on a two-acre brownfield site in London’s Bankside, 18 Blackfriars Road will contain two residential blocks and a 45-storey office skyscraper. Foster + Partners claimed the project

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Snøhetta unveils angled office and apartment high-rises in Oslo

April 29, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Snøhetta has completed the Vertikal Nydalen office and apartment building in Oslo, with two angular towers designed to encourage air flow through the building. Located near the river Akerselva in the city’s Nydalen neighbourhood, the building was designed by Snøhetta to offer views of the surroundings and provide natural ventilation to minimise energy consumption. “The

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Study Pavilion by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2024

April 25, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Berlin architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke have been awarded this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award for Study Pavilion, a steel-framed university building in Germany. Düsing and Hacke, who founded their eponymous studios in 2015 and 2016 respectively, are the youngest people to have ever received the biennial accolade, also known as the European Union

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