Architecture Today Nº 272 (2016)

Forum

06 Exhibition
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s monochrome photos of derelict railway stations in the desert

08 Museums
Pedro Gadanho, director of Lisbon’s new Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, discusses how the building will display art and architecture.

10 Books
Criticat´s collection of essays on French architecture is both memorable and grimly amusing, finds Timothy Brittain-Catlin

12 Books
Volumetric analysis: Helen Thomas reviews ‘The Anatomy of the Architectural Book’.

Works

16 Building
BIG’s student residences made from shipping have been launched in Copenhagen

18 Building
Zaha Hadid Architects’ Antwerp Port House cleverly exploits the potential of a provocative
juxtaposition, say Ian Lathman

26 Building
David Ardill tours three new additions to the Dyson campus by Wilkinson Eyre

34 Building
The new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital, by RSH&P and Stantec, is a benchmark for medical architecture, finds Barbara Weiss

44 Report-housing for old age
Civic Sense: David Grandorge applauds a retirement home in Aarschot, Belgium, by DRDH
Architects and Architecten de Vydler Vinck Taillieu

52 Report-housing for old age
John Nordon of retirement home developer Pegasus Life on priorities for future housing.

55 Report-housing for old people
Better housing for older people can benfit the whole population, says Irene Craik

56 Report-housing for old age
Bruyn’s Court in Essex, by Bell Phillips Architects is intended to foster social interaction and
to enchance independent living

62 Report-housing for old age
PRP’s Windmill Court extra-care housing in Chingford, north-east London
Focus

70 Interiors
Wrigth & Wrigth has transformed the historic New Library at Oxford University’s Magdalen College. Report by Chris Foges

76 Products

My kind of Town

80 Elly Ward
Venice, California, is fun, free and flourishing once again

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