The Architecture Foundation presents a week of seminars from 19-22 October 2020 curated by Studio Adam Caruso at ETH Zürich exploring the architecture of crisis. Invited speakers include Carolyn Steel, Summer Islam, Paloma Gormley and others in the disciplines of architecture, politics and economics. Across 9 talks over 4 days, panelists will be asked to reflect upon the unit's posed question: What is Next?
Caruso St John's project for a new office building adjacent to the Hardbrücke viaduct in Zurich West will be completed at the end of November. Works to the office interiors and planting in the cantilevered balconies are complete, and ground floor retail units are currently being finished. Tenants will occupy the building early in the new year.
M Leuven presents a major retrospective of the work of the artist Thomas Demand, featuring two works made by the artist in collaboration with Caruso St John: The unrealised Nagelhaus and the soon to be built pavilion at the headquarters of fabric manufacturers Kvadrat in Ebeltoft, Denmark.
Adam Caruso contributes an article to the October Issue of Domus, outlining how on the failure of architecture to address the imbalances of contemporary life has motivated him to look again, in practice and with students at the ETH, at the ideological and programmatic promises of modernism.
What is the interest in being together in the centre of the city today, of social interaction, performance and display?
At a time when its celebration is under threat, Peter St John's studio at London Metropolitan University looks at how we protect public life and sociability, by looking at the provisional and the festive social spaces of the city.
Events
See all eventsAdam Caruso will participate in the 2020 Bauwelt Kongress, with a lecture entitled 'What is it Worth?', on reading the city and speculating about what its future might hold. The lecture will be followed by a conversation with Kaye Geipel and Lina Ghotmeh.
Adam Caruso will give an online lecture entitled, 'What Future for the City' as part of the 11th DAAD festival in Bratislava, Slovakia. The lecture will be at 20.00 (CET) and will be followed by a conversation with Architect Henrieta Moravčikova. The festival runs from 26 October to 1 November.
The Architecture Foundation presents a week of seminars from 19-22 October 2020 curated by Studio Adam Caruso at ETH Zürich exploring the architecture of crisis. Invited speakers include Carolyn Steel, Summer Islam, Paloma Gormley and others in the disciplines of architecture, politics and economics. Across 9 talks over 4 days, panelists will be asked to reflect upon the unit's posed question: What is Next?
M Leuven presents a major retrospective of the work of the artist Thomas Demand, featuring two works made by the artist in collaboration with Caruso St John: The unrealised Nagelhaus and the soon to be built pavilion at the headquarters of fabric manufacturers Kvadrat in Ebeltoft, Denmark.
Anniversary
New Art Gallery Walsall
Twenty years
New Art Gallery Walsall, United Kingdom
Thursday 20th February
Caruso St John Architects' first major project, the New Art Gallery Walsall, celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its opening this week.
Lecture
Treffpunkt Gestaltung Im Handwerk
Die Barocken Blätter der Kathedrale
Schweizer Baumuster-Centrale, Zurich, Switzerland
23 January 2020, 6pm
Florian Zierer speaks at the Schweizer Baumuster-Centrale on the subject of the construction of the new chancel at St Gallen Cathedral.
Exhibition
Barbara Hepworth:
Divided Circle
Heong Gallery, Cambridge, United Kingdom
15 November 2019 – 2 February 2020
Designed by Caruso St John, the Barbara Hepworth exhibition Divided Circle opens today at The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge.
Marking the publication of the book Hopkins in the City, editors Adam Caruso and Helen Thomas present five urban projects by Michael Hopkins and Partners at the Barbican as part of the Architecture On Stage series.
Construction has completed on the Falconhoven Apartment Building in central Antwerp. The building contains fifty-one apartments, as well as shops, offices, and a kindergarten, and is the first completed building in a city block designed in collaboration with Flemish architects Bovenbouw and ONO Architectuur, and Dutch architects Rapp + Rapp.
Following a period of isolation at the start of the Lockdown, Adam Caruso met host Matthew Blunderfield online to discuss teaching at ETH Zurich, the work of Pierre Huyghe, and the series of monographs on lesser-known Modernist architects he co-edits with with his partner, Helen Thomas.
Peter St John talks galleries, ice hockey and awards with Hugh Pearman, editor of the RIBA Journal
Press
Former AXA head-office gets new use
Caruso St John and Bovenbouw Architectuur have submitted a planning application for the redevelopment of the former AXA headquarters in Brussels.
Thinking in the logic of cardboard and paper
A preview of Thomas Demand’s exhibition at Museum Leuven, which includes documentation of two collaborations with Caruso St John: the unrealised Nagelhaus and the soon to be built Pavilion at Kvadrat Headquarters.
Architects’ Journal (United Kingdom)
29 September 2020
Work starts on Caruso St John’s revival of Arbroath arts centre
Construction work has started on Caruso St John's £11 million redevelopment of the Hospitalfield House arts centre in Arbroath, Scotland
Zurich: Hardturm project accepted at the ballot-box
Almost 60% voted ‘Yes’ in the referendum on the project by Boltshauser Architekten, pool Architekten and Caruso St John for a new football stadium and residential towers on the Hardturm site in Zurich West.
A big hit for the ZSC Lions
Peter Zahner, CEO of the ZSC Lions ice hockey team, gives a tour of the site of the new Swiss Life Arena.
Architects’ Journal (United Kingdom)
14 August 2020
Caruso St John plans 'delicate brick' replacement for 60s house in Hampstead
Caruso St John Architects has submitted plans for an arts and crafts-inspired home in a conservation area in north London.
Architects’ Journal (United Kingdom)
24 January 2020
Caruso St John wins planning for ‘highly ambitious’ Camden campus
Caruso St John has been given the go-ahead for proposals to replace a block of industrial units in Camden, north London, with a new mixed-use scheme.
Construction continues on the Swiss Life Arena, the new home for the ZSC Lions ice hockey team, and Caruso St John's largest project to date. The in situ concrete exposed shell of the building is currently being built and the project is set to complete in 2022.
Adam Caruso contributes an essay to the Autumn 2020 issue of Superposition, discussing the modernities of Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer’s ADGB Trade Union School, and Jony Ive at Norman Foster's Apple Headquarters seen through the lens of Andreas Gursky.
The school year has started at Neuhausen am Rheinfall's newly refurbished primary school. Caruso St John's project to refurbish and extend the exiting building is the first part of a larger urban scheme that includes a new town hall, market place, main fire station, and a range of housing for families and the elderly.
In the referendum of 27 September, almost 60% voted in favor of plans for the development of Hardtrum Areal in Zurich West.
The development, for clients Credit Suisse, HRS Real Estate, and Zurich housing co-operative ABZ, comprises a 18,000 seat stadium, an apartment building with 174 co-operative apartments, and two 137-metre mixed-use towers. The design is a collaboration with Zurich-based practices, Bolthauser Architekten and Pool Architekten.
Lecture
Treffpunkt Gestaltung Im Handwerk
Die Barocken Blätter der Kathedrale
Schweizer Baumuster-Centrale, Zurich, Switzerland
23 January 2020, 6pm
Florian Zierer speaks at the Schweizer Baumuster-Centrale on the subject of the construction of the new chancel at St Gallen Cathedral.
Teaching
ETH Zurich Seminar Week: What is Next?
New Material Developments
Studio Adam Caruso, ETH Zurich
20 October 2020
with Marlise Blaser, Katharina Lehmann, Summer Islam & Paloma Gormley
with Lukas Hug & Emi Lorincz
Teaching
ETH Zurich Seminar Week: What is Next?
Measuring Space
Studio Adam Caruso, ETH Zurich
22 October 2020
with Matthias Vollmer, Johannes Rebsamen, Markus Tretheway & Jürg Pulver
with Marie Page, Maximilian Fritz & Luca Rösch
with Gabriela Bruno & Raffael Buchi
with Martin Neukom
Teaching
ETH Zurich Seminar Week: What is Next?
The Future of Architectural Education
ETH Zurich
20 October 2020
with Amale Andraos & Sebastien Marot
Teaching
ETH Zurich Seminar Week: What is Next?
Food & The City
Studio Adam Caruso, ETH Zurich
19 October 2020
with Carolyn Steel, Yvonne Lötscher, and Laura Schälchli
Teaching
ETH Zurich Seminar Week: What is Next?
The Basic Income Initiative
Studio Adam Caruso, ETH Zurich
19 October 2020
with Enno Schmidt
Another popular vote will be held on 27 September 2020 to decide the future of the Hardturm Areal project.
Newport Street Gallery, the conversion of almost an entire street of listed industrial buildings in south London into a free public gallery for artist Damien Hirst’s private art collection, has won the coveted 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building.
Caruso St John Architects' design for the rotunda staircase at Tate Britain is referenced in a security feature on the new JMW Turner £20 note, which entered circulation this week.
Construction continues at the new Swiss Life Arena in Zurich.
Caruso St John Architects has won an international competition to transform a 1970s Brutalist office block in Brussels.
Exhibition
The New Art Gallery Walsall celebrates its 10th Birthday
New Art Gallery Walsall, United Kingdom
11 February 2020
The occasion is marked by Party! an exhibition featuring an eclectic range of artists whose works are linked through broad reference to the party, a theme which extends across music, singing, dancing, greetings cards, food and drink, dress and decorations.
Rod Heyes has been appointed Visiting Professor of Architecture at TU Wien for the 2020 summer semester.
Publication
El Croquis N. 201
A second monograph dedicated to the work of Caruso St John Architects has been published by El Croquis.
Caruso St John Architects has won a competition for a new apartment building in central Lucerne.
Jeremy Deller and Caruso St John Architects have collaborated on the design for the memorial to the Peterloo Massacre in central Manchester.
Caruso St John has won the competition to build a new apartment building in Lucerne, Switzerland.