St Pancras Campus is reviewed in the December issue of the Architects Journal. Rob Wilson visits the building with Peter St John and Rod Heyes and discusses its position in the emerging cityscape between the railway land of King Cross and the Victorian terraces of Camden Town.
The article includes an account of the project by Rod Heyes and a detail text by project architect James Hand describing how the image of the building emerges from an elaboration of its structure.
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Museum of Youth Culture is the world's first museum dedicated to the lives of teenagers and young people. Caruso St John is working with the Museum on the design of its new permanent space at St Pancras Campus. Opening soon!
The St Pancras Campus in Camden is being opened up to the public as part of this year’s Open House Festival. Guided tours will take place on Saturday the 12th of September between 10am and 5pm.
St Pancras Campus
Architecture Foundation
Summer School 2024
London, United Kingdom
11th – 15th September 2024
The Architecture Foundation is staging a summer school for architects and architecture students at Caruso St John's newly completed St Pancras Campus mixed use development.
The central slip form core of the St Pancras Commercial Centre is being poured. The process uses an efficient rig system to pour the concrete, and will take around 4 weeks to complete. Once the slip form is done horizonal slabs will be cast to make the structure rigid.
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.
How can we build today so that housing becomes affordable, social and sustainable again? ‘Wohnen/Housing’ published by DETAIL, shows 33 projects from the fields of social housing, cost-effective construction and building in existing buildings. Veemgebouw by Caruso St John Architects features in this publication with detailed construction drawings, alongside text and photographs.
Royal Belge is featured in the 63th issue of a+t, which is the first in the new 2ndHAND series. The issue discusses buildings in Belgium, France and Switzerland that are hybrid in program as well as construction.
The Butterfield Student Center for Downing College, Cambridge features in the recent publication Building in Stone Today, written by architect and researcher Natalia Petkova. The book explores what the choice of stone in structure does to contemporary architecture.
A book launch and conversation with Hugh Strange will take place at the AA Bookshop in London on November 4th at 6pm.
In a recently published essay in Forum #2, Adam Caruso writes about gleaning in architecture and the need for architects to discover new ways of working with the structures and materials already present in our built environment.
Adam Caruso has been interviewed by architect and writer Nile Greenberg for the September issue of The Brooklyn Rail.
Opia Store Sihlstrasse is featured in french architectural magazine d'architectures. Issue n°335 focusses on workspaces/hotels/restaurants/shops.
A new publication about Hospitalfield is out now. Published by Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche on the occasion of the 34th Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens. The book tells the story of Hospitalfield, from its 13th century origins as a hospital to an art school founded by Patrick Allan Fraser, and to the current program of artist residencies and community programs.