An album of easter eggs, a film about a woman with worrying dreams, a series about an unknowable man, new Welsh music and the last chance to see a design great.
Architects Declare has published an open letter to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, setting out the group’s position on the environmental cost of skyscrapers. The letter, published on the Architects Declare website, was originally sent to CTBUH in July but has now been made.
Allies and Morrison’s 100 Bishopsgate: ‘The first of its kind… and maybe the last’
Graham Morrison hails the tower as ‘the first of a new generation of offices’, offering Canary Wharf-scale space in the City of London. But have the crash, Covid, Brexit and the climate crisis changed the game?
26 April 2021 By Rob Wilson. Photography by Jason Hawkes and Nick Guttridge
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‘It goes from Medieval to Miesian,’ says Allies and Morrison’s Graham Morrison, as we contemplate 100 Bishopsgate’s faceted glassy form rising above us. The building morphs from a parallelogram-shaped footprint at ground level – generated by the angles of the original Medieval street pattern – rising to glassy four-square office floorplates nearer its top, 40 storeys above. To take a tailoring analogy, these angled facets in its envelope twist its form from spreading skirt to tightly fitted torso. ‘The shaping is intended to make it less overbearing,’ says Mo