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Recent work in London is showcased in this issue, guest-edited by Yasuhiro Teramatsu. The city’s 21st-century role as a centre of architectural activity is profiled across a diverse range of projects and scales, set alongside buildings from the 19th century through the modern period. From renewal and urban expression, to style and ornament, the dialogue about London’s essential nature is investigated in work by Tony Fretton, Anish Kapoor, SOM, Foster + Partners, Caruso St John, John Nash, 6a architects, and many more, plus essays by Alan Powers and Christopher Woodward, and comments by Sam Jacob, Adam Caruso, Stephanie Macdonald, and Nathalie Rozencwajg.

Feature: London – Renewing Architecture and Cityscape

Maps of London

Project List

Essay: Small is Beautiful: two hundred years of London architecture
Alan Powers

Westminster Abbey
St Paul’s Cathedral
John Soane, Sir John Soane’s Museum
William Wilkins, E. M. Barry, National Gallery
Robert Smirke, British Museum
Decimus Burton, Richard Turner,
Palm House, Kew Gardens
William Butterfield, All Saints Margaret Street
Charles Barry, Augustus Welby Pugin,
Palace of Westminster, Big Ben
Alfred Waterhouse, Natural History Museum
George Gilbert Scott, St Pancras Renaissance Hotel
William Henry Barlow, Rowland Mason Ordish,
St Pancras International Station
 
Column: London – Eras, Ideas and Representations
 
Ellis and Clark, Owen Williams, Daily Express Building
George Grey Wornum,
Royal Institute of British Architects
Berthold Lubetkin & Tecton, Penguin Pool, London Zoo
Berthold Lubetkin & Tecton, Highpoint I & II
Ernö Goldfinger, 2 Willow Road
James Gowan, Schreiber House
Lyons Israel Ellis, Haworth Tompkins,
National Theatre Studio
H. T. Cadbury-Brown, Royal College of Art
Alison and Peter Smithson, Economist Building
Lyons Israel Ellis,
Cavendish Campus, University of Westminster
Leslie Martin, Robert Matthew and Peter Moro,
Royal Festival Hall
Denys Lasdun & Partners, National Theatre
Denys Lasdun & Partners,
Institute of Education, University College London
Cedric Price, Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo
Richard + Su Rogers, Rogers’ House
Richard Rogers Partnership, Lloyd’s of London
James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates,
Clore Gallery
Colin St John Wilson, British Library
Albert Richardson, Michael Hopkins & Partners,
Bracken House 84
Michael Hopkins & Partners,
Lord’s Cricket Ground: Mound Stand
Future Systems, NatWest Media Centre
Conran & Partners, Design Museum
Ralph Erskine, The Ark
Nicholas Grimshaw, Waterloo International Terminal
Richard Rogers Partnership,
Channel 4 Television Headquarters
James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates,
No.1 Poultry
Foggo Associates, Queen Victoria Street
Tony Fretton, Lisson Gallery
Michael Hopkins & Partners, Portcullis House
Foster and Partners,
Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts
Richard Rogers Partnership, Millennium Dome
Marks Barfield Architects, Arup, London Eye
Foster and Partners, Great Court, British Museum
Herzog & de Meuron, Tate Modern
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, British Museum, World
Conservation and Exhibitions Centre
Foster and Partners,
London School of Economics and Political Science Library
Theis and Khan Architects, Bateman’s Row
Claudio Silvestrin, Victoria Miro Private Collection Space
RARE architecture, Town Hall Hotel & Apartments
Anish Kapoor, Cecil Balmond, ArcelorMittal Orbit
John Pawson, Sackler Crossing, Kew Gardens
Marks Barfield Architects,
Treetop Walkway, Kew Gardens
Caruso St John Architects,
Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, One Hyde Park
6a architects, Victoria & Albert Museum, Gallery 40
David Chipperfield Architects, One Pancras Square
 
Renewing the city
 
Essay: London: unique no longer
Christopher Woodward
 
John Nash, Regent Street and Regent’s Park
Darbourne and Darke, Lillington Gardens Estate
London Borough of Camden Architects Department,
Neave Brown, Alexandra Road Housing
Patrick Hodgkinson, Brunswick Centre
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard,
BBC New Broadcasting House
William Whitfield, Paternoster Square
Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, Barbican Estate
Arup, SOM, Broadgate
SOM, Canary Wharf
J. Theo Halliday and Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Rafael
Vinoly Architects, Battersea Power Station
Foster and Partners, Albion Riverside
Foster and Partners, City Hall
OMA, Rothschild Bank Headquarters
Foster and Partners, 30 St Mary Axe
Renzo Piano Building Workshop, The Shard
 
Comments by architects working in London
Adam Caruso, Sam Jacob, Stephanie Macdonald,
Nathalie Rozencwajg