Fran Williams

Fran Williams visits Herzog and de Meuron’s first London exhibition for almost 20 years, which opened last Friday at the Royal Academy

Fran Williams and Rob Wilson look at notable recent and ongoing schemes in and around Glasgow 

The Glasgow practice has retrofitted a former printing works in the north of the city into a co-working hub, events space and canteen for Agile City

Designed with consulting architects Outpost, the exterior of the four-bedroom house in Broadstairs, Kent, is composed of a metal latticework to encourage climbing plants to cover it

This year’s degree show demonstrates the importance, when it comes to creating great architects, of an awareness that buildings are made for people, writes Fran Williams

A refurbishment led by Jamie Fobert Architects, working with Purcell, has increased the National Portrait Gallery’s public space by a fifth, enhanced the entrance and added a learning centre

Hollaway Studio has completed a new concert hall, described as ‘a musical instrument in its own right’, together with a recital hall and music school, for Benenden school in Kent

Brisco Loran has completed a small extension to a house on the Dulwich Wood Park estate in Crystal Palace, inspired by the original 1950s designs of architect Austin Vernon and Partners

This year’s annual architectural commission in London’s Kensington Gardens gives a moment of calm, despite its peculiar umbrella, says Fran Williams

The seven-storey brick-clad International Rugby Experience sits on a tight urban site on the edge of a conservation area within Limerick’s Georgian Quarter