ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1042614/the-london-museum-moves-to-smithfields-restored-general-market-ahead-of-long-awaited-opening Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:30:00 +0000 Antonia Piñeiro https://www.archdaily.com/1042614/the-london-museum-moves-to-smithfields-restored-general-market-ahead-of-long-awaited-opening The original Museum of London building at London Wall permanently closed to the public in December 2022 to prepare for its relocation. Despite community claims to preserve the modernist building, demolition plans for the brutalist landmark were approved in 2024 to make way for the London Wall West redevelopment project. The Museum of London was then officially rebranded as the London Museum and relocated to the historic General Market in Smithfield. The decade-long restoration project of the new location was carried out by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan, alongside conservation architect Julian Harrap. The official opening of the Museum's new permanent galleries is scheduled for November 28, 2026.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1035638/the-architecture-of-restraint-when-choosing-not-to-build-becomes-design Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:30:00 +0000 Diogo Borges Ferreira https://www.archdaily.com/1035638/the-architecture-of-restraint-when-choosing-not-to-build-becomes-design In a world facing ecological exhaustion and spatial saturation, the act of building has come to represent both creation and consumption. For decades, architectural progress was measured by the new: new materials, new technologies, new monuments of ambition. Yet today, the discipline is increasingly shaped by another form of intelligence, one that values what already exists. Architects are learning that doing less can mean designing more, and this shift marks the emergence of what might be called an architecture of restraint: a practice defined by care, maintenance, and the deliberate choice not to build.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/920241/museum-of-london-unveils-expansion-into-historic-farringdon-buildings Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:00:00 +0000 Niall Patrick Walsh https://www.archdaily.com/920241/museum-of-london-unveils-expansion-into-historic-farringdon-buildings The Museum of London has unveiled the design for their new West Smithfield home. Designed by Stanton Williams, Asif Khan, and Julian Harrap Architects, the plans showcase the transformation of a campus of beautiful yet dilapidated market buildings into a 24-hour cultural destination. The scheme celebrates the historic buildings of West Smithfield, while creating a unique, memorable visitor experience.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/633664/london-s-soane-s-museum-unveil-a-series-of-new-spaces Thu, 21 May 2015 05:15:18 +0000 James Taylor-Foster https://www.archdaily.com/633664/london-s-soane-s-museum-unveil-a-series-of-new-spaces In an article for The Observer, Rowan Moore dives into a set of newly recreated rooms in London's Soane's Museum, a gallery dedicated to Sir John Soane's collection of architectural curiosities set within his eccentric former home. The experience, according to Moore, "of an internal world of unknown boundaries" has just become more extensive. Visitors will now be afforded the opportunity to visit a series of private spaces that give "a view into Soane’s bizarre mind," following extensive restoration work led by Julian Harrap.

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