Lecture and book launch, London
All buildings are beautiful
Collected Works Volume 2
Royal Academy, London
29th November 2023
Adam Caruso and Peter St John mark the launch of Caruso St John: Collected Works Volume 2 with a lecture at the Royal Academy.
The partners will discuss their experience of working with existing structures, from modestly scaled early work, to substantial projects such as Tate Britain and the Newport Street Gallery in London, Veemgebouw in Eindhoven and Royale Belge in Brussels.
The second volume in Caruso St John’s Collected Works will be published by MACK in October 2023. The publication encompasses some of the practice’s most celebrated projects from the first twelve years of the twenty-first century. Their built projects are presented with exhibition designs, competition entries, and lesser-known projects, all with an unprecedented range of materials including unseen drawings, references, and new commentaries.
Copies of Collected Works Volume 2 2000-2012 will be available to purchase following the lecture.
Related news
As part of the IEA Practice What we Teach? Lecture Series at ETH Zurich, Adam Caruso will discuss Caruso St John's long history of working with existing buildings, from its modestly scaled early work to large-scale recent projects.
Veemgebouw has won Gold in the Housing and Residential category of this year's Erich Mendelsohn Award, which recognizes architecture built in brick. The project was chosen for its sensitive transformation and adaptive reuse of a former Philips industrial warehouse. The intervention integrates a new residential volume on top of the original brick structure, establishing a clear dialogue between the historical facade and contemporary construction.
Exhibition
Haussmann Studiolo
Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur
Chur, Switzerland
14 November 2026 – 14 March 2027
The Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur presents Haussmann Studiolo, an exhibition dedicated to the pioneering Swiss architects and designers Trix and Robert Haussmann. Returning to Chur, where Trix Haussmann was born in 1933 and spent her formative years, the exhibition celebrates the couple's influential contribution to 20th-century Swiss design, architecture, and interior design.
Newport Street Gallery has been shortlisted for the Brick Legacy Award at the Brick Awards 2026. The new category celebrates projects of enduring architectural quality that have stood the test of time.
On Thursday, 10 September, Hospitalfield will host an afternoon in conversation at Custom Lane in Edinburgh. Titled The Site Conscious Practice of Artists; the Problem of the Rural Landscape is its Beauty, the event explores how cultural organizations can create hospitable, porous environments that nurture slow artistic practice while engaging broad public audiences.
The RIBA International Awards have been announced, and our project Royal Belge is a winner!
The awards aim to highlight design that tackles global challenges, and Royal Belge is praised for its adaptive reuse strategies, extending the life of a modernist icon.
The Ice Hockey World Championship concluded at Swiss Life Arena – designed by Caruso St John – with the final between Switzerland and Finland. For the first time, a World Championship was held in "our" arena. Seeing it go off without a hitch – from the opening game to the final – has been a privilege to witness. Congratulations to all who made it happen, and to Finland on a deserved victory.
The 2026 Summer Exhibition opens next week at the Royal Academy in London. The exhibition explores the theme of Interconnectedness, examining the relationships between people, art and the wider world. This year's Architecture Room has been curated by Peter St John, and the wider exhibition by Ryan Gander.
Hospitalfield is awarded the 34th International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens, 2025-2026, a prize awarded to a place with the capacity to transmit natural, historical and cultural values, devised and organised by the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche. The prize is named in honour of Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978), the architect and creator of gardens. There will be a public ceremony in Treviso to celebrate the prize.
Book launch & talk
Caruso St John: Collected Works Volume 3, 2010–2020
Valerie Verhack & Adam Caruso
WIELS, Brussels
23 April 2026 6.30 pm
Adam Caruso will be in conversation with curator Valerie Verhack, at WIELS in Brussels, to celebrate the release of the book Collected Works: Volume 3 2010–2020, published by MACK Books.
Phase 2 of our Masterplan for Hospitalfield Arts, the Studios, have been shortlisted for the RIAS Awards 2026 in Scotland. This phase focuses on the more private areas of the site, creating studios and workshops with excellent access. Centered on the Rear Yard, this phase includes the renovation of the 1901 studios, conservation of the 1845 Patrick Allan Fraser Studio, refurbishment of the Drawing School, and construction of a new studio building.
Royal Belge has been shortlisted for the RIBA International Awards 2026. Selecting projects from five continents, the award recognizes a broad range of designs addressing global challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity, social equity, and rapid urbanization. Royal Belge is praised for its adaptive reuse strategies, extending the life of a modernist icon. The jury will visit the projects in the coming month.