Nomination
Equerre d’Argent
Caruso St John’s project for the Lycée Hotelier de Lille has been nominated for an Equerre d’Argent award in the category of Culture, Youth and Sport. The winners will be announced on 21st November.
Caruso St John have been awarded joint third prize in the competition for the Historiche Mitte in Cologne. The design included a new City Museum and offices for the Cathedral, on the site adjacent to the Roman Museum.
Europaallee Baufeld E has won a RIBA Award for International Excellence.
Exhibition
33 Competitions, 6 Projects
House of Art, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
19 October - 20 November 2016
33 Competitions, 6 Projects presents a selection of competition entries made by Caruso St John Architects over the last twenty-six years alongside photographs of recently completed projects.
Newport Street Gallery is one of six buildings shortlisted for the 2016 Stirling Prize. The winning project will be announced this Thursday.
Newport Street Gallery, the conversion of almost an entire street of listed industrial buildings in south London into a free public gallery for artist Damien Hirst’s private art collection, has won the coveted 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building.
Caruso St John Architects' project for the Bremer Landesbank headquarters in Bremen has won the Grand Prix at the 2017 Fritz-Höger Prize for Brick Architecture.
Conference
Peter St John at the Frieze Art and Architecture Conference
Frieze Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
4 October 2016, 4pm
The Feeling of Things by Adam Caruso is now available in its Italian translation published by Christian Marinotti Edizioni.
Lecture
Adam Caruso and Peter St John at Columbia
Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, New York, United States
12 September 2016, 6:30pm
Adam Caruso and Peter St John will be giving a lecture, Eight Themes, at Colombia University's Graduate School of Architecture.
Keynote
Adam Caruso at the 14th Annual Docomomo conference
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
6-9 September 2016
Adam Caruso will be giving a keynote lecture at the 14th Annual Docomomo conference in Lisbon. Titled Adaptive Re-use. The Modern Movement Towards the Future, the conference will take place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Designs by the 10 shortlisted teams in the contest to design a £40 million national Holocaust memorial next to the Palace of Westminster have gone on public display. Caruso St John, Marcus Taylor and Rachel Whiteread’s proposal consists of two parts – a cast, translucent sculpture above ground and a series of large chambers below ground.
Lecture
Adam Caruso at Porto Academy
Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, Portugal
23 July 2016
Adam Caruso will be giving a lecture at the Porto Academy, the summer school of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto.
Caruso St John Architects, in collaboration with Boltshauser Architects and Pool Architects, have won the competition for the Hardturm Areal in Zurich city. The scheme comprises a new 18,500 capacity football arena, a residential building with 173 cooperative apartments, and two mixed-use high-rise buildings. The project is being developed by HRS Real Estate SG and Credit Suisse.
Caruso St John have won the competition for a new mixed use building in Fribourg. The building comprises commercial space at street level, offices on the lower floors and apartments and student accommodation arranged in three small towers that respond to the complex topography of the site.
Caruso St John have won a limited competition to design a new organ loft in the centre of Canterbury Cathedral.
The new art gallery designed by Caruso St John for Downing College opens to the public on 6th February 2016. The gallery will open with an exhibition of British Art from the Collection of Sir Alan Bowness, former Director of Tate and an alumnus of Downing College
Caruso St John have won the competition for a new mixed use building in central Cologne. The new building will stand on the site of the former Rudolfplatz Theatre, adjacent to the historic Hahnen gate, and will provide seven floors of offices with retail and restaurant spaces on the ground floor.
25th Anniversary Event
Caruso St John
25 Years, 25 Projects, 4 Themes
RIBA, London, United Kingdom
17 November 2015
Marking 25 years in practice, Adam Caruso and Peter St John explore the projects, achievements and ethos of one of the UK’s leading architectural firms.
Caruso St John have won the competition for a new 35,000 sq m Biomedical laboratory in Basel. The building provides laboratory facilities as well as education rooms and offices. The Client is the University of Basel.
Discussion chaired by Adam Caruso with Kersten Geers, Pier Vittorio Aureli and Robert Tavernor exploring contemporary Palladianism.
The new Gagosian Gallery in Mayfair opens to the public today. The gallery opens with an exhibition of paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Cy Twombly.
Newport Street Gallery has opened to the public. The new gallery will present exhibitions of works drawn from Damien Hirst’s extensive art collection and entry is free to the public. The gallery’s inaugural exhibition is Power Stations, a solo show of work by John Hoyland.
Caruso St John Architects have won third prize in the competition to design a new museum of applied arts for Lausanne. The results of the competition will be exhibited to the public from 6 to 16 October 2015 in hall 8 of the Palais de Beaulieu convention centre in Lausanne.