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!
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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 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.
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.
The construction of a new office building for insurance company AXA has now been completed on Stampfenbachstrasse in Zurich.
The renovation work has begun on Haus zum Magazin, a former administrative building of the Bally shoe factory dating from 1903. Various layers from previous era's were removed to expose the original steel columns and timber ceilings. Existing windows were retained and sometimes reinforced with new glazing assemblies, and new openings are being cut into the facade to create balconies. The project aims to balance the clearly discernible existing structure and the new residential use.
Work on the refurbishment of the Neue Pinakothek is now well underway. Re-use sits at the heart of the project: original stonework is being carefully dismantled, cleaned, and catalogued before being reinstated following the upgrade of insulation and building services. A precise labelling system and dedicated on-site storage are central to making this process work.
Caruso St John Architects, together with Studio SNCDA, have been appointed as architects for the renovation and extension of the Schwaarzt Haus, a social and community centre in Cents, Luxembourg.
Two load-bearing Atlas cedar columns will highlight the passageway in the center of the apartments in Eggen. The tree trunks come from the forests of the Occitane region in southwestern France, near Figeac, and were around 120 years old when cut.
Public notice for the commencement of the first phase of construction works for the Riverside Project. This first phase will see all works within the Grade I listed Cloisters IX completing ahead of Phase 2 scheduled to follow in close sequence by the end of the year, subject to College approval.
A mix-and-match mock-up has been constructed for the residential project Eggen. Located on the outskirts of Lucerne, the two buildings will be defined by their timber façades and a distinctive, colourful presence.