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.
The event will provide an overview of the latest developments in the real estate sector, with a focus on office spaces.
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Caruso St John director Rod Heyes will be giving a 'small talk' for Newcastle University's Architecture Society. He discusses ideas of intention and realisation, the value in existing situations and building's constant states of change; referring to the work of Robert Smithson, Edgar Degas, Atelier Bow-Wow and Paul Serusier.
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.
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.
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.
Caruso St John Architects have won the competition for a new office building in the Escher-Wyss district of Zürich West.
Lecture
Gleaning
Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, Munich
Thursday 26 November 2026, 19:00
Adam Caruso will be speaking at the Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences on Thursday 26 November. Hosted by the Faculty of Architecture, the event marks a milestone as the 100th event in the university’s ongoing evening lecture series.
Adam's talk, titled Gleaning, will address the role of reuse, existing fabric, and material resources in contemporary practice.
In mid-October, FAST (Festival for Architecture Schools of Tomorrow) will take place in Oradea, Romania. The TALKS conference series investigates how architecture responds to continuous transformation: in public space, in professional collaboration, and in the relationship between communities and institutions.
Adam Caruso will be speaking during the opening TALKS session on Monday 12 October at the Oradea Regina Maria Theatres.
In the middle of June, a symposium will be held at MICAS: Malta International Contemporary Art Space. This two-day research event brings together architects, architectural historians, curators, museologists, and sociologists to examine how contemporary art institutions emerge within historically layered environments. Adam Caruso will be one of the speakers.
Lecture
What’s next for our existing buildings?
RIBA and VitrA talks
Great Hall at Barts North Wing, St Bartholomew’s Hospital
12 May 2026
Our director Ben Speltz will give a talk as part of this year's RIBA x Vitra Talks series. He will discuss the practice's approach to working with existing buildings, drawing on a range of projects such as: Hospitalfield Arts, a complex amalgam of medieval buildings in Scotland; Düngerbau, an old chemical factory converted into workspace; and Royal Belge, a sixties office building transformed into a mixed-use program of restaurant, hotel and gym.
The ARCH-E Consortium and the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE) are organizing a conference on Architectural Design Competitions (ADCs). The program includes a keynote lecture by Adam Caruso at the start of the day, followed by panel discussions with European practitioners and policymakers as well as workshops and presentations on key topics in the field. The conference is held at the Royal Belge building in Brussels.
Teaching
ETH Zürich Final Review
The Pleasure in Small Things
ETH Zürich, ONA E30, Switzerland
16 December 2025
The Pleasure in Small Things: Final discussions and exhibition
On Tuesday 16th of December, the students from Studio Adam Caruso at ETH Zurich present their final projects to a panel of guest critics including Monster Chetwynd, Pierre Chèvremont, Tuukka Laurila and Nora Walter.
Adam Caruso will present a lecture on Art Spaces at Malmö Konsthall as part of the institution’s 50th anniversary celebrations.