Alice Tully Hall by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, New York, USA
The renovation of Alice Tully Hall is the first phase of Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s comprehensive rethink of the Lincoln Centre in New York, the campus home of 12 art institutions. Photography by Iwan...
View ArticleZa-Koenji Theatre by Toyo Ito, Tokyo, Japan
Toyo Ito creates a complex roof geometry to enliven the otherwise static plan of a new space specifically designed for Japan’s largest dance festival. Photography by Edmund Sumner
View ArticleVictor Jara Cultural Hall by L'Escaut Architectures, Soignies, Belgium
L’Escaut’s perfoming arts hall erupts from the ground with urban ambitions to become part of the townscape. Photography by Filip Dujardin
View ArticleLyric Theatre by O'Donnell + Tuomey, Belfast, Northern Ireland
The Lyric is a grounded building, in the context of its site and in light of the last century’s great auditoria. Photography by Dennis Gilbert
View ArticleMunicipal Theatre by Enrique Krahe, Zafra
A splintered landscape is revived through Enrique Krahe’s theatrical designs
View ArticleFilm Theatre in Catalonia by Mateo Architects
Set within one of Barcelona’s most notorious slum districts, this new film theatre has ambitions to catalyse cultural and civic renewal
View ArticleZaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku is a shock to the system
Confounding context, scale and materiality, the Heydar Aliyev Centre adds to a growing repertoire of prodigious object buildings in the ambitious, oil-rich capital of Azerbaijan
View ArticleAssemble's Theatre on the Fly in Chichester
Changing architecture’s relationship with the public
View ArticleBreg Horemans' Khor I Theatre in Venlo, Holland
This theatre pavilion in Holland encourages the visitors to be the performers
View ArticleStirling Prize Winner: Everyman Theatre in Liverpool by Haworth Tompkins...
Intimate yet epic, Liverpoolʼs famous Everyman Theatre has a striking new home that thrives on indeterminacy and is a crucible for experimentation
View ArticleUndergraduate Shortlisted: The Theatre of Progress by Edward Crooks,...
A bold reimagining of built heritage, the Theatre of Progress sets the stage for the transformation of Derbyshire’s Chatsworth House, bringing new relevance to our engagement with the estate’s past
View ArticleLibrary and Concert Hall in Bodø, Norway by DRDH
In a remote Norwegian town on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a new library and concert hall transcend their cultural brief to become, in effect, the townʼs public realm
View ArticleFilharmonia in Szczecin, Poland by Estudio Barozzi Veiga
Wrapped in a gauzily translucent skin, Barozzi Veiga’s Filharmonia is a ghostly and austere insertion in a variegated Polish townscape
View ArticleShakespeare Theatre, Gdańsk, Poland, by Renato Rizzi
A brooding black box with a roof that can be dramatically flung open to the elements makes for a versatile theatre
View ArticleAR Archive, April 1947: Theatre at Malmö by Lallerstedt, Lewerentz and Helldén
In this study from the AR Archive, Arla Breithel visits Lewerentz’s 1944 functionalist masterpiece
View Article‘Dilli Haat is a brave experiment that brings fresh energy and dynamism to an...
The Dilli Haat crafts bazaar, with a central theme of music, is a dynamic addition to Janakpuri, New Delhi
View Article‘Whatever its origins, this is Piano doing ornament’
Parliament building in Valletta, Malta by Renzo Piano Building Workshop
View Article‘Bureau V's National Sawdust has been born of a love of music, musicians and...
AR Culture 2015 Commended: Ambitious in every sense, National Sawdust’s desire for impact results in a new typology that feels urgent in an increasingly top-heavy New York
View ArticleEveryman Theatre by Haworth Tompkins
Winner of 2014 Stirling Prize: Pipping Renzo Piano, Zaha Hadid and O’Donnell + Tuomey to the post the Everyman Theatre is more than a shallow vanity project
View Article‘The CKK Jordanki by Fernando Menis is an intoxicating cocktail - and there’s...
Fernando Menis has exported the volcanic geography of his native Tenerife to Toruń, Poland
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