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.
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.
RIBA
Palladian Design
The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected
RIBA, London, United Kingdom
9 September 2015 - 9 January 2016
Designed by Caruso St John for RIBA, this exhibition explores how British architects such as Inigo Jones and Lord Burlington turned Palladianism into a national style and how 20th and 21st century architects have reinterpreted Palladio’s design principles for contemporary use in unexpected ways.
Award
RIBA National Award
Tate Britain, Millbank Project has won a RIBA National Award in addition to the RIBA London Award and the RIBA English Heritage Award for Sustaining the Historic Environment.
Award
RIBA Awards
Tate Britain, Millbank Project has won a RIBA London Award as well as the RIBA English Heritage Award for Sustaining the Historic Environment.
Caruso St John have won the competition for a new 13,500sq m office building in central Hamburg. The site on Grosser Burstah, adjacent to the Nikolaifleet canal, is part of a master-plan to restructure the area to the north of St Nicholas’s Church in order to re-establish a scale of city blocks more consistent with the older streets in the quarter.
Following its recent incarnation in Munich, the group exhibition originally curated by Caruso St John for the Central Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale has been reinterpreted and expanded by Bovenbouw Architecture.
Caruso St John's project for Tate Britain opens to the public. The project includes a new spiral staircase in the rotunda, public spaces on the lower level, and new facilities for Tate members on the upper level. The first phase of the project, focusing on the restoration of galleries in the South East Quadrant, opened in May 2013.