A selection of Caruso St John's recent competition entries feature in Issue 103 of AV Proyectos. The issue includes prize-winning designs for the new AXA office building in central Zurich, the OLMA exhibition pavilion in St Gallen, and a pair of apartment buildings in Eggen, Lucerne.
Caruso St John have completed renovation work on the fernery and glasshouse at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, which open to the public today. This is the first phase in the wider redevelopment of the Category A listed arts centre.
Caruso St John's design for Downing College's new Student Centre has been submitted for planning approval. The three-storey structure, close to the College entrance from Regent Street is part of the first phase of the practice's master plan for the college.
Facade mock-ups for Caruso St John's Swiss Life Arena have been photographed as part of Canadian artist David K. Ross' new publication Archetypes.
Theatrically lit at night and isolated from their surroundings, the compilation of photos aims to demonstrate how pre-constructed architectural components have become a charged form of proto-architecture.
Adam Caruso contributes a review of Sébastien Marot's 'Taking The Country’s Side, Agriculture and Architecture' to Drawing Matter.
Press
Hospitalfield Arts has been officially opened to the public for the first time, with sculptural commissions, a restored fernery, a walled garden, and a glasshouse café. Caruso St John worked on the important Arts and Crafts home near Arbroath.
Architects' Journal (United Kingdom)
27 May 2021
New RetroFirst film calls on public to fight tide of demolition
A new short film about the AJ’s RetroFirst campaign has been released highlighting the need for the re-use of existing buildings. The campaign is supported by a range of organisations and architects, including Caruso St John.
Architects' Journal (United Kingdom)
6 May 2021
Caruso St John to replace '80s Quinlan Terry block at Cambridge college
Caruso St John has submitted plans for a new student centre, to replace a small '80s bar and junior common room by Quinlan Terry, at Downing College in Cambridge.
Baublatt (Switzerland)
23 April 2021
147 neue Mietwohnungen im Tribschenquartier in der Stadt Luzern
147 new rental apartments in the Tribschen quarter of Lucerne
The Credit Suisse Investment Foundation is building 147 new rental apartments on Tribschenstrasse in the city of Lucerne by 2024. Caruso St John Architects was awarded the contract for the design.
Wallpaper* (United Kingdom)
18 April 2021
The life lessons of Swedish modernist architect Sigurd Lewerentz
Stockholm’s ArkDes museum will celebrate Sigurd Lewerentz’s architecture with a publication and exhibition, ‘Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life’. Caruso St John have designed the exhibition which will open in October this year.
Caruso St John is among the six shortlisted teams for the National Gallery NG200 competition. The project will be part of the gallery's Bicentenary, working on its historic structure and visitor experience.
Teams selected for Art Museum Project
Caruso St John have been shortlisted for the competition to design the new Art Museum in Olten, Solothurn. The project involves developing the listed building at Kirchgasse 10, creating generous gallery spaces, as well as a new exhibition hall.
Architects' Journal (United Kingdom)
10 March 2021
Caruso St John wins go-ahead to replace 60s Hampstead house
Planning permission has been granted for a private home in Hampstead, London. Caruso St John's distinctive design interprets, the arches, terraces and recessed porches characteristic of the borough's historic vernacular.
Housing construction on the Veemgebouw in Eindhoven has started
The project to convert the 1940s former Philips warehouse in Strijp S will provide 39 new homes.
Designboom
21 February 2021
Kieran Long discusses curation of major Sigurd Lewerentz exhibition set for ArkDes
Sigurd Lewerentz's first retrospective exhibition is set to open in Autumn 2021, celebrating his life and architectural ingenuity. The show will be designed by Caruso St John and feature drawings, photographs, and models, including pieces from his personal archive.
Architects' Journal (United Kingdom)
18 February 2021
Highgate Cemetery contest reveals big names on six-strong shortlist
Caruso St John are one of six practices shortlisted for the competition to restore and upgrade the historic Highgate Cemetery in North London.
Caruso St John's Falconhoven apartment building is reviewed in the February edition of Architecture Today. Tom Avermaete explores the project's effect on the city through its materiality, details and references.
Architects' Journal (United Kingdom)
1 February 2021
Design Study: Organ loft at Canterbury Cathedral
A detailed look at Caruso St John's new organ loft for Canterbury Cathedral, tracking the project from competition entry to construction.
The school in the tower
The city of Zurich has announced the need for flexible developments to facilitate urban living. Caruso St John's work for the Hardturm ensemble project will now house a school, to tackle the growing number of students in the city.
The designer of the extension to MACBA will be announced in March
Caruso St John have been shortlisted for the competition to extend Barcelona's Museum of Contemporary Art. The competition runs from January to February and the winner will be announced in March.
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.
Project Architect James Hand discusses Caruso St John's Falconhoven Apartment Building as part of the Architecture Foundation's new series of online talks. The building, completed last year, forms part of an urban block designed in collaboration with Flemish architects Bovenbouw and ONO Architectuur, and Dutch architects Rapp + Rapp.
Construction has completed on a new office building in Escher Wyss, Zurich. The six-storey structure faces onto the Hardbrücke, an elevated road that crosses Zurich West.
A+ Sessions was launched last year to discover more about architects' approaches. Interviewing a range of international architects, A+ has shown the breadth of contemporary architectural thinking.
Adam Caruso answers a series of quick-fire questions, choosing between Robert Smithson or Gordon Matta Clark, painting or photography, and architecture or agriculture.
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Caruso St John have completed renovation work on the fernery and glasshouse at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, which open to the public today. This is the first phase in the wider redevelopment of the Category A listed arts centre.
Project Architect James Hand discusses Caruso St John's Falconhoven Apartment Building as part of the Architecture Foundation's new series of online talks. The building, completed last year, forms part of an urban block designed in collaboration with Flemish architects Bovenbouw and ONO Architectuur, and Dutch architects Rapp + Rapp.
This week Adam Caruso will give an online lecture to students at TU Wien, discussing the practice's work on Sir John Soane's Museum.
In conversation
Valerie Verhack with Adam Caruso and Freek Persyn
Live-stream from Leuven, Belgium
8 April 2021
Museum Leuven's curator Valerie Verhack in conversation with Adam Caruso and Freek Persyn of 51n4e architects, part of a series of events around the museum's retrospective of the work of Thomas Demand.
To celebrate its anniversary, the Heong Gallery has created a video looking back at the five years since its transformation from an Edwardian stable block into a public gallery showing modern and contemporary art.
Adam Caruso will give an online lecture at the University of Manitoba from 12.00 CST (18.00 London time). The lecture is open to all – registration is at the link above.
Teaching
ETH Zurich
Final Crits: Making Plans for Living
Studio Adam Caruso, ETH Zurich
15–16 December 2020
Students from Adam Caruso's studio at ETH Zurich present their projects to guest critics including Lisa Fior (muf architecture/art, London), Summer Islam (Material Cultures, Studio Abroad, London), Dr. Marina Olsen (Karma International Gallery, Zurich), and Axel Simon (editor, Hochparterre).
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 participated 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?
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
Adam Caruso contributes an essay to monumental_. The 'monumental' in the 21st century is seen as a questionable characteristic. Its dubious reputation resulting in its demise, particularly with urban planning. Dortmund Positions' first book in a series of symposium texts, tackles this issue with writing from Adam Caruso, Heike Hanada, and Wilfried Kuehn, among others.
Caruso St John is among the six shortlisted teams for the National Gallery NG200 competition. The project will be part of the gallery's Bicentenary, working on its historic structure and visitor experience.
Press
The Guardian
The New Gallery Walsall: Garman Ryan collection
Walsall, United Kingdom
31 March 2021
The Guardian is currently exploring the collections of British institutions, highlighting important artworks. From the New Art Gallery in Walsall, Julie Brown the collection's curator, analyses and celebrates Sally Ryan's sculpture 'The Martinique'.
Construction continues on the new home for the ZSC Lions ice hockey team. The main arena is taking shape, with all its in-situ concrete poured and the pre-cast elements being put into place.
The renovation of a private home on Erikastrasse nears completion, with the installation of its windows.
Designs for a private house in Hampstead, north London have been granted planning permission.
Jesús Vassallo discusses the work of Caruso St John in his recently published book.
Epics in the Everyday: Photography, Architecture, and the Problem of Realism, sets out to write an alternative history of contemporary architecture and documentary photography, through a series of case studies that include Caruso St John's collaborations with Thomas Demand.
Students in studio Adam Caruso at ETH Zurich will spend their Spring semester investigating models for collective living.
Publication
Architecture Today
Building Study: Falconhoven Apartment Building
Antwerp, Belgium
February 2021
Caruso St John's Falconhoven apartment building is reviewed in the February edition of Architecture Today. Tom Avermaete explores the project's effect on the city through its materiality, details and references.
Publication
Architects' Journal
Design Study: Organ loft at Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury, United Kingdom
February 2021
The Architects' Journal has published a detailed building study of Caruso St John's new organ loft for Canterbury Cathedral. The article follows the project from competition entry to construction, with insights from Peter St John and Project Architect, Will Pirkis.
Caruso St John has won the contest for a new office building at 52-56 Stampfenbachstrasse in central Zurich. The building, for multinational insurance company AXA, houses flexible office spaces on the upper floors and retail space on the ground floor.
In December's edition of Casabella, Francesco Dal Co discusses the development of Europaallee in central Zurich, focusing on Caruso St John and Bosshard Vaquer's mixed-use building, its neighbour, designed by Graber Pulver, and the influence of modern Milanese architecture on both buildings.
Working in collaboration with Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten, Caruso St John have won the competition to build two new apartment buildings within the existing Baugenossenschaft im Gut estate in Zurich-Wiedikon.
Intern Nabil Haque has won a RIBA Bronze Medal Commendation for his final year project, Mono no Aware. Nabil studied in Studio 2, led by Caruso St John Director, Rod Heyes.
The RIBA President's Medals are international awards presented annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects to architecture students or recent graduates and are regarded as the most prestigious prizes in architectural education.
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.
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.
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.
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.