Exhibition
Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect of Death and Life
Stockholm, Sweden
1st October 2021 - 28th August 2022
Arkdes' Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect of Death and Life opens this Friday. The comprehensive exhibition has been curated by Kieran Long, Johan Örn and Lena Landerberg, and designed by Caruso St John.
Adam Caruso will give the lecture, The Historic Present, as part of the ETH Zurich's 'Future Monuments' series of talks.
Writing
A Conversation with Adam Caruso
Adam Caruso was interviewed for OASE Journal's edition on modernity. Emailing with the issue's editors, Tom Avermaete and Hans Teerds, he discusses the nuances of what it means to be 'modern' and how to engage with a cities architectural codes and conventions while adding to its definition of history.
Enabling works are underway at the Royale Belge in Brussels. The 1970's office building is being renovated by Caruso St John in collaboration with Bovenbouw Architectuur and DDS+.
Students from Studio Adam Caruso at ETH Zurich present their projects to a panel of guest critics including Marianna Charitonidou, Fredi Fischli and Niels Olson.
Construction work continues on the Kvadrat Pavilion in Ebeltoft. The hospitality and conference space is a collaboration with artist Thomas Demand, located in the coastal dunes surrounding Kvadrat's headquarters.
Construction continues on the Grosser Burstah office building in Hamburg. The new office building, due to be completed in 2023, is part of a larger development of the city north of the St Nikolai Memorial; with the aim to re-establish a scale and urbanism which is consistent with the older streets of the central quarter.
Caruso St John's design for Downing College's new Student Centre has been granted 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.
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Students from Studio Adam Caruso at ETH Zurich present their projects to a panel of guest critics including Marianna Charitonidou, Fredi Fischli and Niels Olson.
Exhibition
Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect of Death and Life
Stockholm, Sweden
1st October 2021 - 28th August 2022
Arkdes' Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect of Death and Life opens this Friday. The comprehensive exhibition has been curated by Kieran Long, Johan Örn and Lena Landerberg, and designed by Caruso St John.
Peter St John will be giving a lecture entitled, Converting office buildings into mixed-use buildings, as part of the Real Estate Society of Antwerp's symposium, The impact of corona on the office market.
Adam Caruso will give the lecture, The Historic Present, as part of the ETH Zurich's 'Future Monuments' series of talks.
To mark the opening of Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life at ArkDes, Adam Caruso will be giving a lecture on the exhibition's design process, alongside his own relationship to Lewerentz and his legacy today.
Exhibition
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021
London, United Kingdom
22nd September 2021 - 2nd January 2022
Caruso St John have a drawing in this year’s Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, curated by the artist Yinka Shonibare under the title “Reclaiming Magic”. The exhibition opens on the 22nd September. The show's architecture room has been curated by David Adjaye, with the theme of Geography and Climate.
Peter St John's studio at London Metropolitan University hosts their summer exhibition this week. The Dream of the Metropolis celebrates Unit 12's yearlong research through their site-specific artwork, Evil Queen and Lemon Tart.
Exhibition
Archetypes at the Schweizerisches Architkturmuseum
Basel, Switzerland
28th August - 31st October
David K. Ross' photographic series, Archetypes will be exhibited at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel from the 28th August to the 31st October. Façade mock-ups for Caruso St John's Swiss Life Arena feature as part of exhibition.
This annotated bibliography of writing by women about architecture was created collaboratively through conversations, invitations and spontaneous suggestions as a resource for gathering lists of texts, for encouragement, and for finding new writers. The project's editorial board is led by long-term collaborator Helen Thomas, and former Caruso St John staff members Emilie Appercé and Barbara Thüler. The project was developed with support from the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich and the Chair of Adam Caruso.
Caruso St John have completed renovation work on the fernery and glasshouse at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, which opens 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.
Façade mock-ups for Caruso St John's Swiss Life Arena have been photographed as part of Canadian artist David K. Ross' new publication Archetypes.
Hosted by BALTS Projects, Caruso St John's Tibor Bielicky will be in conversation with Ross about the project, on Wednesday 23rd June 2021, 18:30 (MSEZ).
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).
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.
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 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?
Caruso St John's St Jakob Foundation has won the Auszeichnung für gute Bauten der Stadt Zürich, 2016-2020. The prizes given every five years, look to projects which develop the city's urban heritage, offer a social contribution, carefully use resources and respect their environment.
Exhibition
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021
London, United Kingdom
22nd September 2021 - 2nd January 2022
Caruso St John have a drawing in this year’s Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, curated by the artist Yinka Shonibare under the title “Reclaiming Magic”. The exhibition opens on the 22nd September. The show's architecture room has been curated by David Adjaye, with the theme of Geography and Climate.
Interview
Gagosian Quarterly: Sigurd Lewerentz
The exhibition Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life opens in October at ArkDes, Stockholm. To mark the occasion Gagosian director Mark Francis spoke with Adam Caruso, Kieran Long, director of ArkDes, and Swedish arts critic Anna Nittve. They discussed the extent of the exhibition's research and design, as well as the enduring legacy of Lewerentz. The interview features in the Fall 2021 edition of Gagosian Magazine.
Planning permission has been granted for the renovation and alteration of Royale Belge, a listed former company headquarters in the south of Brussels. The 39,000 sqm office building, built in 1970 and standing within a landscape that is also now listed, has been empty for the last 5 years. The new mixed use programme includes offices, hotel, health club, restaurant and co-working, and is being developed by the consortium Souverain 25.
Press
Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden)
9 October 2021
Lewerentz vigde inte sitt liv enbart åt döden
Lewerentz did not devote his life to death alone
Critic Anna Nittve explores ArkDes' retrospective exhibition on Sigurd Lewerentz, which aims to show the Swedish architect in a new light. The show was curated by Johan Örn, Kieran Long and Lena Landerberg, and designed by Caruso St John.
The Observer (United Kingdom)
4 October 2021
Architect Sigurd Lewerentz: master of the sacred and profane
Rowan Moore explores the wide range of work produced by Sigurd Lewerentz, upon the opening of his retrospective exhibition at ArkDes. He examines Lewerentz's career trajectory, craftsmanship and his effect on contemporary practice.
Arkitekten (Sweden)
1 October 2021
Caruso St John ramar in Lewerentz på Arkde
Caruso St John frames Lewerentz at Arkdes
Sigurd Lewerentz's life's work is on show in a new exhibition at Arkdes designed by Caruso St John.
RIBA Journal (United Kingdom)
23 September 2021
Lewerentz sparkles in the limelight at Sweden’s ArkDes
Kieran Long and Max Ahrent discuss their research for ArkDes' exhibition Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect of death and life.
Baublatt (Switzerland)
21 September 2021
Beste Bauten der Stadt Zürich ausgezeichnet
Best buildings in the city of Zurich awarded
The Auszeichnung für gute Bauten der Stadt Zürich was awarded on the 20th September 2021. Twelve projects were honoured including Caruso St John's St. Jakob Foundation.
Architects’ Journal (United Kingdom)
17 September 2021
Delayed David Adjaye-curated Royal Academy Summer show opens
The Royal Academy of Arts' Summer Exhibition opens this week. Curated by David Adjaye the architecture room presents drawings and models under the theme of Geography and Climate. An etching of the Royal Geographical Society by Caruso St John features.
Architects’ Journal (United Kingdom)
15 September 2021
Caruso St John wins approval for ‘muscular’ replacement of Quinlan Terry college block
Caruso St John has won permission to replace the 34-year-old bar and junior common room designed by Quinlan Terry at Downing College in Cambridge.
The roof structure for Caruso St John's Swiss Life Arena in Zurich has been put into place. Construction is set to complete in Spring 2022 and the building will open to the public in Summer 2022.
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Caruso St John will be featured in David Adjaye's curation of the 253rd Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The architecture room will consider architecture through climate and geography, in relation to location, politics, people, community and culture.
De Standaard (The Netherlands)
5 August 2021
Renovatie van Royale Belge krijgt groen licht
Renovation of Royale Belge gets green light
Planning permission has been granted for Caruso St John, Bovenbouw Architectuur and DDS+'s Royal Belge. It is a project that will transform the existing office building.
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BAM Construct has won a £95m contract for Caruso St John's mixed-use development in Camden, north London. Work at the St Pancras Campus is due to start later this summer with completion scheduled for 2024.
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.
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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
Preview of ArkDes Stockholm's exhibition, ‘Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life’, designed by Caruso St John.
Image from the construction of St. Peter's Church, Klippan. Photo: Carl-Hugo Gustafsson and Lars Gustafsson. ArkDes collection / ArkDes collections.
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.
Nau.ch (Switzerland)
17 March 2021
Teams für Projektwettbewerb Kunstmuseum Ausgewählt
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.
ED (Netherlands)
10 March 2021
Woningbouw op Veemgebouw in Eindhoven Begonnen
Residential Construction on Veemgebouw in Eindhoven 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.
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.
El País (Spain)
23 December 2020
En Marzo se Conocerá Quién Construirá la Ampliación del Macba
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.
Trends (Belgium)
29 October 2020
Oud Hoofdkantoor AXA Krijgt Nieuwe Bestemming
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.
De Tijd (Belgium)
15 October 2020
Denken in de Logica van Karton en Papier
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
Immobilien Business (Switzerland)
28 September 2020
Zürich: Hardturm-Projekt an der Urne Angenommen
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.
Zürichsee-Zeitung (Switzerland)
7 September 2020
Ein Grosser Wurf für die ZSC Lions
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.
Enormous steel roof trusses are being craned into position at the Swiss Life Arena in Zurich. The roof structure will be in place within the month and the building will top-out before the end of Summer. Construction is set to complete in Spring and the building will open to the public in Summer 2022.
Published this month is Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect of Death and Life. The monograph covers both his built and unrealised designs; from retail spaces, churches, cemeteries and landscapes, to exhibition architecture, graphics, product design, furniture and interiors.
The comprehensive book coincides with ArkDes' exhibition of the same name. Caruso St John has designed the exhibition, which opens in October this year.
This annotated bibliography of writing by women about architecture was created collaboratively through conversations, invitations and spontaneous suggestions as a resource for gathering lists of texts, for encouragement, and for finding new writers. The project's editorial board is led by long-term collaborator Helen Thomas, and former Caruso St John staff members Emilie Appercé and Barbara Thüler. The project was developed with support from the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich and the Chair of Adam Caruso.
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.
Peter St John was interviewed by Veronica Simpson about the practice's renovation work at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath. They discussed the recently completed Café and Fernery, alongside the future plans for the arts centre.
An interview with Caruso St John on their work at Tate Britain features in Design in Dialogue. The publication is the second book in Ruby Press' series Chapters, it focuses on how design processes can be shaped through dialogue.
An interview with Adam Caruso features in a new gta Verlag publication, Against and For Method. Edited by Jan Silberberger, the volume tries to tackle the deficiencies in studio teaching and proposes possibilities for integrating research approaches into teaching and practice.
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.
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.
Adam Caruso contributes a review of Sébastien Marot's 'Taking The Country’s Side, Agriculture and Architecture' to Drawing Matter.
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.
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.
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.