AT231, September 2012
Adrian Forty on listening to what buildings have to say; Chris Foges reports from the Venice Architecture Biennale; Colin Davies reviews Weather Architecture by Jonathan Hill; Oliver Lowenstein on the New Nordic exhibition at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum; David Kohn on new Catalan and Balearic Islands architecture by SMS Arquitectos, Francisco Cifuentes and Bosch Capdeferro; Hana Loftus reflects on White Arkitekter’s wave-inspired Southend Pier Cultural Centre; David Grandorge on Seafield House on the Isle of Man by Gort Scott Architects; Robert Dye on Bogbain Mill, Loch Ussie, by Rural Design; Takero Shimazaki on Dixon Jones’ mews house in west London; Pierre d’Avoine on Alma-nac’s Slim House in south London; Tim Ronalds takes a tour around Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, designed by Roger Stephenson Architects; Jessica Reynolds explores the ambitious strategic interventions implemented by the London Legacy Development Corporation and Design for London on the Olympic fringe; Charles Rattray admires the character and detail of two Forth Valley College campus buildings in Stirling and Alloa by Reiach & Hall; Spacelab’s Virgin Money headquarters in Edinburgh and Google Campus in London by Jump Studios; Owen Hatherley enjoys Warsaw’s promiscuous embrace of the spectrum of twentieth-century architecture and planning.