This week on Dezeen, we announced that the Kingston University London ? Town House designed by Grafton Architects was the winner of this year's Stirling Prize.
Designed to act as "the university's front door," the six-storey building in Kingston Upon Thames features a series of open-plan communal spaces arranged around a statement central staircase and fronted by a distinctive colonnade.
Architect Norman Foster, who was the head of the 2021 RIBA Stirling Prize, commended the Town House for its versatility, calling it "the future of education."
Foster + Partners sells "significant" shareholding to Hennick & Company investment firm
Private family investment firm Hennick & Company has become the largest shareholder within Foster's eponymous architecture office Foster + Partners. "Towards the end of last year, we started to explore long-term structures for the practice that would respond to the challenges and opportunities of growth and encourage the next generation of leadership and this partnership is the culmination of that process," Foster said.
The office was founded by Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Foster in 1967.
Stefano Boeri covers social housing tower with 10,000 plants
Italian architect Stefano Boeri has completed his first "vertical forest" in the Netherlands, in the form of a 70-metre-tall tower with protruding balconies that features over 10,000 plants.
Called Truro Vertical Forest, the project is a so...