Lynch Architects’ Westminster Coroner’s Court is one of three building studies to be found in this month’s issue, with our critic declaring it to ‘invoke something of the “secular sacred” that’s rarely found these days’.
Also presented are AOC’s storage facility for the National Railway Museum in County Durham – which has delicate touches reminiscent of a white cube gallery – and Cooke Fawcett’s Deptford office rework for arts incubator Cockpit.
In the News section you can find out who’s odds on to win this year’s Stirling Prize, and read a profile of Jane Darke, whose 1976 examination of six London council estates highlighted a gulf between architects’ preconceptions and tenants’ reality.
The humble brick takes centre stage at an exhibition mounted jointly by Tate Liverpool and RIBA North, which is reviewed in the Culture section. Opinion pieces are authored by the Secret Architect on the Stirling, and Cristina Monteiro on Colin Ward: ‘We need his values to guide planning reforms’.
The Grenfell Tower Memorial is featured in Competitions, while David Grandorge’s column focuses on electricity, Tesla and Belgrade. At-risk cinemas are the hot topic in our Letters pages, and this month’s Sketchbook drawings are courtesy of Dom Walker.
