AT204 - January 2010

Forum
Exhibitions and events including Alan Fletcher's graphic design in Manchester, Design Real, the Serpentine Gallery's first show dedicated to design, and Seismograph City at the Aedes Gallery in Berlin; plus monographs on Stanton Williams, Proctor & Matthews and John Miller & Partners reviewed.

Round Europe
Rome Won in an international competition a decade ago, and due to open to the public in May, Zaha Hadid Architects' MAXXI gallery - the imperial city's museum of contemporary art and architecture - confronts issues of context and contemporaneity.
Cangas Fishing facilities in the Galician port by Inisarri & Piñera.
Cologne A brick apartment building by Wolfgang Felder.

Building
Sarah Wigglesworth visits the new Jerwood Dance House, set within the Cranfields Mill development in Ipswich docks, and is impressed by both the architectural and entrepreneurial invovement of John Lyall Architects.

Building
James Soane on Trevor Horne Architects' adaptive reuse of a warehouse as a studio and home for photographer Rankin.

Building
Dominique Boudet is impressed by Nottingham Contemporary, Caruso St John's most significant gallery project since Walsall; plus thoughts on photographing the project, by David Grandorge.

Technology
Sunpipes and windcatchers are among a range of sustainable technologies put to effective use at Little Venice Sports Centre, a Westminster council initiative designed by LCE Architects.

Refurbishment
Ros Diamond visits two major interventions at much-loved national institutions - the Asmolean Museum in Oxford, by Rick Mather Architects, and the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries at London's Victoria & Albert Museum, by MUMA.

My kind of town
has a real relationship between work and pleasure, says MJ Long.

Front cover
Caruso St John's Nottingham Contemporary, photographed by David Grandorge.