“The horses, Níall. The horses.”
Níall McLaughlin on hobby horses, the erotics of architecture, and ambushing a project manager on a train
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There is always a next door
Voices from architecture, development, and the arts discuss how partnerships, policies and models of stewardship can unlock underused spaces for cultural use.
"If you love the top floor of the V&A, you may not like it here. But since hardly anybody goes there, that may not be a major problem."
THING and their client Crispin Kelly discuss the genesis of Clay 1A, a forthcoming museum in Ipswich devoted to the role of the ceramic object in domestic life.
POST PRESS library
We asked the practices featured in New Architects 5 to nominate a book that had been influential on their development for inclusion in the POST PRESS library. Here we present their choices.
Black,white and red
Maximillian Worrell, founder of MW-A, discusses his design for Clapton Community Football Club's new toilet block and the influence of Peter Märkli.
Of course I wanted the effing job
Ben Kelly recalls the making of the Haçienda.
A mistake, a crack
Hélène Binet on the perils of Photoshop
On publishing architecture
Michael Mack takes on the challenge of the architecture book
We have found two million bricks
Julian Harrap on the debates that informed the reconstruction of Berlin's Neues Museum.
Heritage in a Heatwave
Polly Turton calls for an urgent adaptation of our built environment in response to the need for shade
A large part of my brain
Andu Masebo on the importance of making to his creative practice
Where's the map?
Mark Brearley on the battle to preserve space for making in London
Making a brick is hard
Dr Kent Rawlinson on the forgotten authors of Clandon Park
Don't Crush
Aska Welford describes the genesis of a radical new community facility in East London
Not £4.50
Sir Stuart Lipton dreams of Oxford Street