19 storeys

One of the most start­ling ad­di­ti­ons to any Bri­tish mu­seum, the new £78m »cocoon« at the Na­tu­ral His­tory Mu­seum in Lon­don – an enig­ma­tic white blobby form eight storeys high and 65m long in­side a giant glass box – will open to the pu­bli…

The New Art Ex­ch­ange by ar­chi­tects Hawkins\Brown was laun­ched last month in Not­ting­ham. It is the UK’s first re­gio­nal inner city con­tem­porary vi­sual arts centre de­vo­ted so­lely to the pro­mo­tion of Black and Asian arts. It in­clu­des 1…

The ar­chi­tec­tu­ral cont­ri­bu­tion at this year’s fur­ni­ture fair IMM Co­lo­gne was de­li­vered by UN­Stu­dio ar­chi­tect Ben van Ber­kel, who ge­ne­ra­ted an urban mas­ter­plan for all three storeys of hall 11, as well as „The World’s Lon­gest T…

Belsize Ar­chi­tects has com­ple­ted the new £2 mil­lion boathouse for Ox­ford Uni­ver­sity Col­lege. The col­lege lost its Lis­ted Boathouse in 1999 as a re­sult of a fire and re­cently de­ci­ded to or­ga­nize an ar­chi­tec­tu­ral com­pe­ti­tion for…