Author Archives: Paul Finch

From food facility design to carbon concerns, architecture engages with food production at every stage

Belgian architecture continues to strive in the face of a changing political landscape

The house, at its root, is about shelter with varying degrees of comfort, amenity and scale  – a carefully balanced combination which makes for experimental ground.

The architecture related to power and justice was for centuries a combined form, in which ‘the majesty of the law’ could be both devised, interpreted and ruled upon from within a single building complex

Both inside and outside London’s historic areas, densification and intensification are much in evidence

The countryside is now a field for experimentation, where science, digitisation, satellite mapping and agricultural production have combined in a revolution

While it is still the case that women have yet to achieve equality in the architectural world, the Women in Architecture awards applaud first architectural quality, and then the architect – who happens to be a woman

The transformation of the Yongsan US Garrison into a parkland proves that architecture can overcome a history of occupation, war and an uneasy truce

From Herzog & de Meuron’s Elbphilharmonie to Will Alsop’s Peckham Library, is it important for architecture to ‘fit in’?

In an architectural environment which favours the established rather than the unknown, emerging architects must have a good balance of creativity, knowledge and experience