Architecture

Groupwork’s latest project, now rising on Finchley Road, extends the practice’s investigation into structural masonry at an unprecedented scale. The mixed-use residential building comprises three buildings that form a complete stone skeleton of over 400 Larvikite beams and columns.

Vanessa Norwood spoke to Raghav Kumar about his ethos of building through care, community and conscious materials, all powered by a serious amount of dancing!

When architect Jonathan Mizzi took his young family to the Green School in Bali he wasn’t planning on building there. Feeling despondent at the rate of development in his birthplace of Malta where growth was coming at the cost of history, Jonathan needed a change of pace.

Set against the historic backdrop of Clerkenwell Green, the striking vaulted hyperbolic arches of Brick from a Stone: Arch Revival Pavilion formed an elegant centrepiece to the 2025 edition of Clerkenwell Design Week.

Alex de Rijke and his practice dRMM have extolled the virtues of working with wood since their formation in 1995. WorkStack, completed in 2024 and already winning awards, is an admirable example of how dRMM push the boundaries of what is possible with timber construction.