News Jul.07
Project news Top two floors of the new Arts Council England office are handed over Cladding panels for Contemporary Centre of Arts Nottiningham under production Our proposal for the new café at Chiswick House Gardens Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood receives a regional RIBA award Caruso St John wins Tate Britain project Publications Exhibitions Carnegie Art Museum, Pittsburgh Lectures |
Entrance building for the new Museum of Childhood, photo: Hélène Binet
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Jul.07 The top two floors of the new Arts Council's England office are handed over Caruso St John are working with the artist Lothar
Götz to restructure the national office of Arts Council England. The full project will be completed in March 2008. |
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Jul.07 Cladding Panels for Centre of Contemporary Art Nottingham are under production A lace sample has been selected from Nottingham Trent's collection of lace and transformed into pre cast units that will be used to clad the building. Caruso St John won an international competition in July 2004 to design the new £13 million public arts centre in Nottingham. The Centre is due for completion in summer 2008. |
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Jul.07 The New Café in Chiswick House Gardens The new café is part of a wider master plan to restore and regenerate the historic gardens and is designed to reflect the original ideas of landscape garden pioneer William Kent who helped lay out the garden in the early 18 th century. The café draws upon his design ideas of white classical pavilions that were framed by a carefully composed informal landscape of mature trees. A colonnade of stone pillars will span across the new café's main elevations, providing an arcaded area around its perimeter. The external perimeter piers will be constructed of stacked stone blocks and the rear elevations are stone-faced. The design is being submitted for planning in August 2007 and construction will start in spring 2008. |
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May.07 Bethnal Green, Museum of Childhood Caruso St John began working on the second phase in 2005 to complete the new collection displays, a new learning centre on the lower ground floor and a new entrance building to achieve an accessible main entrance and appropriate front-of-house facilities for the 40,000 school children visit the Museum every year. The façades of the new entrance pavilion are clad with red marbles and granites in a decorative pattern, to achieve a resonance with the appearance of the Victorian building. The building reopened in December 2006. |
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May.07 Spike Island Bristol Our project at Spike Island in Bristol, one of the largest artists' studio complexes in the UK outside London, is complete. This project has involved the conversion of a 12,000 sq m factory complex which has been the informal home for the organisation for 15 years already. It will provide studios for over 100 artists, teaching spaces for the postgraduate art course at the University of the West of England, spaces for resident artists, as well as exhibition spaces, café and administrative offices. The building will reflect the vision of Spike Island, as it allows a much more social use of the existing building, giving support to artists and allowing more engagement with the public. |
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Dec.06 Tate Britain appointment Caruso St John have been appointed architects for Tate Britain, fighting off competition from de Rijke Marsh Morgan, DSDHA, MUMA and HOK International in a design proposal and tender exercise. We will be working with Tate Britain to take forward a number of projects from the Tate Britain Masterplan to modernise the gallery's facilities, and renew the building fabric and services.
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Gritty Brits: New London Architecture A new catalogue has been published by Carnegie Museum of Art (Carnegie Institute) in conjunction with the exhibition at Heinz Architecture Center, Carnegie Art Museum, in Pittsburgh USA, with introductory texts by curator Raymund Ryan and novelist Iain Sinclair, and photographs by David Grandorge. Caruso St John are profiled in the catalogue alongside Adjaye Associates, FAT, Niall McLaughlin, Muf and Sergison Bates. Gritty Brits: New London Architecture
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Kalmar Stortorg A new book documenting the process of the renewal of the Cathedral Square in Kalmar in Sweden, is published by Statens Konstråd (the National Public Art Council Sweden). The 275 page book includes essays by Adam Caruso and collaborating artist, Eva Löfdahl, and photographs by Hélène Binet. Kalmar Stortorg: Art/architecture in urban space
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As Built - Caruso St John Architects As Built, the first major monograph of the pratice's work, was published in October 2005 by a+t ediciones and is widely available in bookshops, priced £28 in the UK. The book is also on sale through the a+t website, www.aplust.net. ISBN 84-609-6609-7
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Jan.07 Gritty Brits: New London Architecture We are one of six London practices contributing to this exhibition at the Carnegie Art Museum in Pittsburgh USA. The aim of the exhibition is to present the work of a particular generation of architects born in the 60s and currently based in the east end of London. The model of our project at the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, pictured left, was specially commissioned by the Carnegie Museum for this exhibition, and it will then form part of their permanent collection. The exhibition runs from 20th January - 3rd June 2007 |
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Jan.07 Installation - British School at Rome We have an exhibition at the British School at Rome starting on Jan 30th 2007 for two weeks. The exhibition accompanies Adam Caruso's lecture at the school (see below) and will show photographs of a wide range of art spaces and exhibition designs by the practice, but focusing on the installed work rather than the architecture. We will also be showing the complete construction drawings for the Centre for Contemporary Art in Nottingham. |
Oct.07 Adam Caruso will give the annual Wouter Mikmak lecture at the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft, Netherlands, on Wednesday 10th October 2007. Sep.07 Adam Caruso and Peter St John have been appointed as guest professors at ETH Zürich from 2007 to 2009. Jan.07 Adam Caruso will be giving a lecture at the British School at Rome on Tuesday 30th January 2007. |
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