Author: Natalie Mortimer
The owners of this row house in Brooklyn, New York wanted to find interesting ways to bring in colour and light, as well as accommodate their pets. The client, an artist, poet and professor and her husband, a poet and administrator required spaces for each of them to live and work and to display their extensive […]
A strong use of colour was the guiding design principle for the Ivanhoe Grammar Senior Years and Science Centre, with architects McBride Charles Ryan playing with pattern and shape. The brief for this new school building in Melbourne included a variety of general learning areas, provision for the senior year teachers and a science centre. The circular […]
Designed by BSPN Architecture, the new Centenary Library at Anglican Church Grammar School, commonly called Churchie, is the most significant project undertaken in the school’s 105-year history. The brief was to redefine the library’s role as the ‘heart-of-the-school’ during a time that many are questioning the importance and purpose of school libraries, explains Bretton Watson, director at […]
In 2014 Heatherwick Studio was commissioned to radically rethink two heritage rail buildings from the 1850s in London’s King Cross as a major new shopping district and public space. With the announcement that Coal Drops Yard is set to open to the public in October, ADR takes a look at the studio’s design. The site itself […]
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