The mast has been craned into place on top of the Veemgebouw. The design features integrated LED lighting, continuing the local tradition for night time illuminations across the city's skyline. It echoes the mast that stood on top of the building in its previous incarnation as a factory for the Philips electrical company.
Caruso St John is celebrating the 10th Anniversary of its Zurich office. Established in 2011 by directors Michael Schneider and Florian Zierer as a site office for the practice's mixed-use building on Europaallee, the office has gone on to undertake projects including the Bremer Landesbank Headquarters, the new chancel at St Gallen Cathedral and the headquarters for the St Jakob Foundation, as well as the practice's largest project to date, the Swiss Life Arena.
Caruso St John have four drawings in this year’s Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, curated by the artist Alison Wilding under the theme 'Climate'. The exhibition opens on the 21st June.
Peter St John's studio at London Metropolitan University hosts their summer exhibition next week.
Adam Caruso will be part of a discussion on the publication Design in Dialogue. The event will focus on how design is shaped through conversations across both practice and teaching. The round table will also include Freek Persyn, Charlotte Schaeben (51N4E, Newrope) and Veronika Harder (Harder Haas P.AG).
Students from Studio Adam Caruso at ETH Zurich present their final projects to a panel of guest critics including Céline Bessire, Maria Conen, Fredi Fischli, Françoise Fromonot, Tine Milz, and Niels Olsen.
Director Rod Heyes and Project Architect Paula Schilliger present the practice’s masterplan for Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, Scotland, as part of the Architecture Foundation's series of talks exploring the typology of the artist's studio.
Casabella issue 932 focuses on timber, presenting an anthology of wooden constructions, including Caruso St John's newly completed renovation of a warehouse in Wiedikon, Zurich.
Opening
Gagosian Burlington Arcade
Gagosian's London shop opens 16th May. Designed by Caruso St John, the space in Mayfair's Burlington Arcade offers Gagosian publications, rare books, limited edition prints, exhibition posters and artist-designed objects. An exhibition space on the first floor will present a rotation of small exhibitions, artist takeovers and special collaborations.
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Caruso St John have four drawings in this year’s Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, curated by the artist Alison Wilding under the theme 'Climate'. The exhibition opens on the 21st June.
Peter St John's studio at London Metropolitan University hosts their summer exhibition next week.
Adam Caruso will be part of a discussion on the publication Design in Dialogue. The event will focus on how design is shaped through conversations across both practice and teaching. The round table will also include Freek Persyn, Charlotte Schaeben (51N4E, Newrope) and Veronika Harder (Harder Haas P.AG).
Students from Studio Adam Caruso at ETH Zurich present their final projects to a panel of guest critics including Céline Bessire, Maria Conen, Fredi Fischli, Françoise Fromonot, Tine Milz, and Niels Olsen.
Director Rod Heyes and Project Architect Paula Schilliger present the practice’s masterplan for Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, Scotland, as part of the Architecture Foundation's series of talks exploring the typology of the artist's studio.
Lecture
History and its Opposite
L’École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage de Lille
12th May 2022
Adam Caruso will give a lecture entitled History and its Opposite for the Tools Conference at the L’École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage de Lille.
Adam Caruso is taking part in the Institut für Entwurf und Architektur One Building lecture series at ETH Zurich. His lecture, You cannot take risks without failing, will take place at the ONA building Fokushalle on 15th March, 18.00 hrs.
Opening
Gagosian Burlington Arcade
Gagosian's London shop opens 16th May. Designed by Caruso St John, the space in Mayfair's Burlington Arcade offers Gagosian publications, rare books, limited edition prints, exhibition posters and artist-designed objects. An exhibition space on the first floor will present a rotation of small exhibitions, artist takeovers and special collaborations.
Exhibition
Heong Gallery
Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction
Cambridge, United Kingdom
15th March to 29th August 2022
The Heong Gallery at Downing College opens its new exhibition, Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction on the 15th of March 2022. The gallery designed by Caruso St John will host the contemporary artist's pioneering experiments in bringing the hand, eye, and optical instrument together inventively.
Lecture
Reuse, Recycle
Lessons in Sustainable Architecture
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
10th February 2022
Peter St John is taking part in TU Eindhoven's lecture series, Lessons in Sustainable Architecture. His talk, Reuse, Recycle will discuss the practice's renovation projects with a focus on their sustainability and design process.
Students in studio Adam Caruso at ETH Zurich will spend their Spring semester exploring the protestant churches of Zurich; spiritual, social and spatial public resources that are underused in the city.
Peter St John presents a lecture on the work of James Stirling, as part of Second Floor, a new series in partnership with Metropolitan Architecture Student Society (MASS) at London Met. The series includes lectures by each of the school's unit tutors, in which they present the work of an architect that has influenced their practice.
Caruso St John's design for Laboratorium opens this week, a functional training space aimed at Calisthenics workouts using minimal equipment.
Renovation work continues at the Royale Belge in Brussels. The façade replacement of the tower has been completed, which replicates the original design but with an expanded insulation zone. Work on the podium façade is underway, with a series of new openings connecting it to the landscape. A large cut has been made in the base of the building making way for the new atrium and four new columns to support the existing diagrid roof have been added.
The landscape and interiors of Caruso St John's Veemgebouw Strijp S are now taking shape. The top floor of new construction contains 40 apartments, arranged around a landscaped courtyard, with external facades of curving brickwork that form a new dramatic top to the building.
A ground breaking ceremony was held on 3rd March to celebrate the start of construction on the St Pancras Commercial Centre. Located in an area of North London which is undergoing substantial change, Caruso St John's 24,000 m² mixed-use scheme will accommodate a dense development of housing, workspace and retail.
Caruso St John's work on a 1940’s industrial building has created new working and living spaces for a young family. The project lightly repairs the existing almost cubic building. The new construction is a new roof built almost to the limits of what is permitted by the planning regulations, a steep volume that rises up from the eaves along the street to make a new broad façade facing south towards the rear yard.
Exhibition
Heong Gallery
Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction
Cambridge, United Kingdom
15th March to 29th August 2022
The Heong Gallery at Downing College opens its new exhibition, Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction on the 15th of March 2022. The gallery designed by Caruso St John will host the contemporary artist's pioneering experiments in bringing the hand, eye, and optical instrument together inventively.
Caruso St John's design for Laboratorium opens this week, a functional training space aimed at Calisthenics workouts using minimal equipment.
Press
Arkitektnytt (Norway)
21 June 2022
Folkemøte: Hvordan videreføre kulturminner?
Public meeting: How to continue cultural monuments?
Caruso St John are presenting their proposal for the transformation of the former industrial area Thune, in Skøyen. Their design will be shown alongside the other three shortlisted teams.
architectenweb (The Netherlands)
12 March 2022
Architecten presenteren visie op vernieuwing Museum Catharijneconvent
Architects present vision for renewal of Museum Catharijneconvent
Five shortlisted teams for the renovation and extension of the Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht presented their designs to a public forum in TivoliVredenburg on the 10th of March. Peter St John and Nele Bergmans spoke about the design and answered questions on its respectful approach.
Image © Caruso St John.
An interview with one of Laboratorium's managing directors Christian Sager, on the formation of the gym and the studio's design by Caruso St John's Zurich office.
Image © Laboratorium, Bill Schulz.
de Gelderlander (The Netherlands)
17 February 2022
Vijf architecten delen in TivoliVredenburg hun visie op het nieuwe Museum Catharijneconvent
Five architects share their vision of the new Museum Catharijneconvent in TivoliVredenburg
Caruso St John's design for the Catharijneconvent in Utrecht will be presented alongside the other shortlisted architects at a public information evening in TivoliVredenburg, on the 10th of March.
Photo © Catharijneconvent.
utrecht.nieuws.nl (The Netherlands)
17 February 2022
Vijf architecten presenteren hun visie op het nieuwe Museum Catharijneconvent
Five architects present their vision of the new Museum Catharijneconvent
On the 10th of March, Caruso St John and the other shortlisted architects for the renovation of the Museum Catharijneconvent will present their vision for the building, at a public information evening in TivoliVredenburg.
Monocle's Minute on Design explored Caruso St John's Laboratorium gym. A holistic, calming space with minimal equipment. It features comments from Adam Caruso on the design's sustainability and flexibility.
Image © Bill Schulz.
Hochparterre (Switzerland)
2 February 2022
Halb Sportstudio, halb Architekturbüro
Half sports studio, half architectural office
Founded out of a desire for Callisthenic workouts and an atmospheric space, Laboratorium offers a muted studio for exercise. It was designed in collaboration with Caruso St John, with carpentry work by B4 Möbel.
Image © Bill Schulz.
Bellevue, NZZ (Switzerland)
1 February 2022
Der Körper als Trainingsgerät: Die Sportart Calisthenics boomt auch in der Schweiz
The body as a training device the sport of calisthenics is booming in Switzerland
The Laboratorium's new Callisthenic workout space is part of a wider interest in the exercises across Switzerland. Their studio was designed by Caruso St John, for a functional training space with minimal equipment.
Image © Bill Schulz.
Caruso St John's project for the Royale Belge features in an edition of A+ focused on adaptive reuse of existing buildings.
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 reviews ArkDes's Lewerentz retrospective, designed by Caruso St John.
Photo © Louise Helmfrid/Arkdes.
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The Observer (United Kingdom)
4 October 2021
Architect Sigurd Lewerentz: master of the sacred and profane
Rowan Moore explores the oeuvre of Sigurd Lewerentz on the opening of the retrospective at ArkDes Stockholm designed by Caruso St John.
Image © Karl-Erik Olsson-Snogeröd. ArkDes collections.
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.
Photo © Magnus Laupa.
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, designed by Caruso St John.
Baublatt (Switzerland)
20 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.
Photo © Georg Aerni.
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.
Photo: © Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry.
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.
Photo © Andrea Zahler.
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Caruso St John will be featured in the 253rd Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, curated by David Adjaye. 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.
Image © bovenbouw / DDS+.
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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 in summer 2021 with completion scheduled for 2024.
Photo © Caruso St John.
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 designed by Caruso St John.
Photo © Lesley Martin.
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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.
Photo © Chapel of Resurrection. The Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm. Cred: Johan Dehlin.
Caruso St John is among the six shortlisted teams for the National Gallery NG200 competition. The project to renovate the Sainsbury Wing will be part of the gallery's Bicentenary celebrations.
Photo © National Gallery.
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.
Photo © Caruso St John.
ED (The Netherlands)
10 March 2021
Woningbouw op Veemgebouw in Eindhoven Begonnen
Housing Construction has started on Eindhoven's Veemgebouw
Construction has started on the the project to renovate the Veemgebouw in Strijp S, Eindhoven. The scheme involves the construction of 39 new homes on the roof of the 1940s former Philips factory.
Photo © Caruso St John.
Designboom
21 February 2021
Kieran Long discusses curation of Major Sigurd Lewerentz Exhibition set for ArkDes
ArkDes director Kieran Long discusses the institution's forthcoming Lewerentz exhibition, designed by Caruso St John.
Image, Floating dance floor. Stockholm exhibition 1930 © ArkDes collection.
Construction has completed on Caruso St John's Paulaner housing in Munich. The 36,000m² new building on Welfenstrasse provides three hundred apartments for both private sale and social tenants, along with a crèche, kindergarten and retail units on the ground floor.
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.
Caruso St John's Zurich office visited the Swiss Life Arena at the end of 2021. Construction continues on the new home for the ZSC Lions ice hockey team and is set to be completed in Spring.
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+.
Publication
L'Architettura di Milano
Adam Caruso contributes a text on the Condominio XXI Aprile by Asnago Vender to L'Architettura di Milano. Published in November, the book describes and interprets 150 of Milan's significant post-war buildings.
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.
Intern Rachel Caul has received a RIBA Bronze Medal Commendation for her final year project, Reclaiming the Ruin. Rachel 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.