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Bloomberg Student Center / BIG + Rockwell Group + Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Text description provided by Johns Hopkins University. As part of the kickoff celebration of its 150th anniversary, Johns Hopkins University officially dedicated the new Bloomberg Student Center, its first facility built solely for student life. This landmark addition to the university's historic Homewood campus reflects the aspirations of students who for generations have sought spaces to connect, socialize, and participate in student organizations and the performing arts, and much more.

The Court Theatre / Haworth Tompkins + Athfield Architects

Andreas Luco — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

The completion of the Court Theatre marks the long-awaited return of the theater to Ōtautahi Christchurch's city center, marking a major milestone in the city's post-earthquake regeneration and the creation of a vibrant new arts precinct. Designed through an international collaboration between London-based Haworth Tompkins and New Zealand's Athfield Architects, and constructed by Hawkins, the new facility represents a significant investment in the future of performing arts in Aotearoa New Zealand. Following the devastating 2011 Christchurch earthquake, The Court Theatre, New Zealand's largest professional theater company, was forced to vacate its historic home in the Arts Centre and operate from a temporary venue in Addington. In 2020, Christchurch City Council partnered with The Court Theatre to develop a new, purpose-built facility in the city centre. The result is a world-class, sustainable theater complex that anchors the revitalized cultural core of Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Powerhouse Arts / Herzog & de Meuron + PBDW Architects

Paula Pintos — Mon, 29 May 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Powerhouse Arts is a not-for-profit manufacturing facility based in Gowanus and Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, established to create a robust platform for art production and employment in the arts. Consisting of 170,000 square feet of workshop space for fabrication in wood, metal, ceramics, textile, and print, the redevelopment project transforms an existing, derelict structure on a contaminated site into a hub for artists, fabricators, and other workers and ensures that the industrial legacy of the site will extend into the next century. Reimagining a 115-year-old power plant as a modern production facility, the project aims to maintain a manufacturing presence in a historically industrial part of Brooklyn. By preserving, restoring, and reconstructing essential elements of the original power station, the project strengthens the building’s industrial character and its relationship to the immediate urban context.

Person Environment Activity Research Laboratory / Penoyre & Prasad

Paula Pintos — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 10:00:00 +0000

London-based architecture practice Penoyre & Prasad, a studio of Perkins&Will, has completed UCL’s unique research laboratory, PEARL. The research center’s goal is to improve the built environment and the way we interact with it. Life-sized environments – a railway station, high street, town square for example – will be built under controlled conditions to examine how people of all abilities interact with their urban environment and each other.

ABBA Arena / Stufish Entertainment Architects

Paula Pintos — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0000

STUFISH Entertainment Architects have designed the ABBA Arena– a brand new performance space in East London. The 3000-capacity arena will serve as the home for ABBA’s virtual concert ‘ABBA VOYAGE’, which opened 26 May 2022. The building is set to become a new cultural destination to the city, situated close to Pudding Mill Lane DLR station.

Grosvenor East Manchester Metropolitan University / Allies and Morrison

Luciana Pejić — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000

The 12,100 sqm new building for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University brings together a dynamic mix of the performing arts, journalism, and languages alongside the newly established Manchester Poetry Library, a cafe, and public foyers, exhibition space, and a 180-seat studio theatre. Situated on Manchester’s Oxford Road corridor, Grosvenor East provides the university with spaces for teaching and learning, and a highly visible new cultural hub connected to the city.

Battersea Arts Centre / Haworth Tompkins

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 01:00:00 +0000

Architects Haworth Tompkins have completed a 12-year transformation of the Grade II* listed Battersea Arts Centre. Begun as an extended, improvisatory collaboration with artists, theatre producers and the local community, the entire former town hall building is now in use for creative and community activity, increasing the number of performance spaces from 4 to 35 and incorporating artists’ bedrooms, a new rooftop office and staff garden, a creative business hub, a community allotment and an outdoor theatre.

Aldeburgh Music Creative Campus / Haworth Tompkins

Nico Saieh — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Aldeburgh Music's new creative campus at Snape Maltings opened to the public on May 9th. The project, part of a phased development of grade 2 listed 19th century maltings buildings at the edge of the Suffolk marshes, brings a range of derelict granaries and kilns into use as rehearsal and occasional public performance spaces grouped around a communal foyer. The centrepiece of the project is a new build orchestral rehearsal room, the Britten Studio, designed to complement the nearby concert hall (by Arup Associates, completed in 1970). The rehearsal room incorporates retractable seating for 350, enabling it to be used as a public venue. A second space, the Jerwood Kiln Studio, was converted from a derelict kiln and can also accommodate public performances when required. The central foyer and technical get in was formed from an existing granary sandwiched between older structures, its eccentric timber roof adapted and a new concrete mezzanine installed.

Walker’s Court Theatre / SODA

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000

SODA Studio has completed the first phase of the Walker’s Court development, featuring the groundbreaking Boulevard Theatre that has a revolving auditorium at its heart, along with a new restaurant and apartments. The second part of the project will include offices created at the top of the scheme, shops and restaurants at ground level and the rebirth of Madame JoJo’s in the basement. Designed for Soho Estates, Walker’s Court has replaced a series of tired and dilapidated post-war buildings with a bold, revitalized center for entertainment and numerous related uses. Fawn James, the granddaughter of the ‘King of Soho’ Paul Raymond, envisioned a project that would pay tribute to the Raymond Revuebar that originally occupied this site while helping to secure Soho’s future as a center for creativity. The resulting 55,000 sq ft development contains a mix of new and repurposed buildings with the original Revue building overclad with a façade of hundreds of interlocking bricks.

St. Ann's Warehouse / Marvel Architects

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 18:00:00 +0000

St. Ann’s Warehouse built its new theater in an 1860 Tobacco Warehouse along Brooklyn Bridge Park in DUMBO. The facility includes a main flexible presenting theater space, a control booth, and seating rake, a small studio theater space, a public lobby and foyer, administrative offices, dressing rooms, and public restrooms.

Royal Opera House / Stanton Williams

Paula Pintos — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 03:00:00 +0000

At all times of the day, the Royal Opera House building should be a place to glimpse the remarkable forces at play behind the scenes; a place to relax and have a coffee, lunch or a drink in the midst of the one of the world’s most beautiful opera houses; a place to see artists at work; and a place to showcase its guiding principles of excellence, theatricality and curiosity.

Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre / Haworth Tompkins

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0000

Haworth Tompkins have completed a new Performing Arts Centre for The Perse School in Cambridge. The building, naturally ventilated throughout, includes a 400 seat auditorium, an adaptable foyer space, and full back of house facilities. The Perse School has an extensive programme of music and drama activities which had outgrown its previous facilities. The Performing Arts Centre is named after Peter Hall, who was a pupil at the school from 1941-1949. He went on to be the director of the National Theatre, an institution with which Haworth Tompkins has a long association.

Bristol Old Vic / Haworth Tompkins

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 03:00:00 +0000

Architects Haworth Tompkins have completed a new foyer and studio theatre for the Grade I listed Bristol Old Vic, the oldest continuously working theatre in the English-speaking world, the oldest continuously working theatre in the English-speaking world. The result of five years careful research, consultation, design and construction, the project aims to open up the front of house areas to a wider, more diverse audience and to place the theatre at the heart of Bristol’s public life and public space.

Alexandra Palace / Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 03:00:00 +0000

Largely hidden for over 80 years, Alexandra Palace’s East Court and Theatre has reopened following the completion of a hugely ambitious, three-year East Wing Restoration Project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Haringey Council.
The regeneration of the Victorian Theatre and East Court of the People’s Palace reinvigorates this spectacular building and, through the discreet integration of technical infrastructure, enables it to become a significant theatrical and cultural venue for London once more.

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire / Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 05:00:00 +0000

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s new state-of-the-art home is the first purpose-built music college to be constructed in the UK since 1987 and is the only one in the country which has been specifically designed to cater for the demands of the digital age.

Preston Bus Station Refurbishment / John Puttick Associates

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 02:00:00 +0000

John Puttick Associates has completed the refurbishment of Preston Bus Station, a celebrated Grade II listed Brutalist building designed by BDP and completed in 1969. In order to reinstate the powerful original design, John Puttick Associates has pared down the interior and returned features to their original material and colour palette. Overall existing elements have been carefully restored, many of which were in good condition but had been compromised due to visual clutter within the building.

Storyhouse / Bennetts Associates

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 15 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Storyhouse includes a large main theatre space with a 20m high flytower and up to 800 seats, a 150-seat studio with a dedicated bar, a 100-seat boutique cinema and a city library with over 700m of shelving throughout the building. These functions are supported by a large foyer and café, and large backstage with dressing rooms and company facilities.

York Theatre Royal / De Matos Ryan

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:00:00 +0000

York Theatre Royal has re-opened following a significant redevelopment by De Matos Ryan, dramatically transforming the theatre’s spaces and visitor experience.