All articles by Ben Flatman
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NewsIn pictures: Jo Townshend Architects unveil new hub at Soane’s Pitzhanger Manor
New community space within ground of Soane’s historic manor house follows recent restoration of main building
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News
FCB Studios unveil student hub at University of Staffordshire
The Catalyst Building forms part of FCB Studios’ wider masterplan and is intended to provide a focus for external engagement with business
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Features
Interview | Chris Dyson: ‘Listen to what the site and place have to say’
From James Stirling to Spitalfields, Chris Dyson opens up to Ben Flatman about the importance of place and how he grew his practice organically
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Opinion
Will Oki the radical survive contact with the RIBA?
We should all wish Muyiwa Oki well, but he faces an uphill struggle, writes Ben Flatman
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News
Bell Philips showcases ‘tree house’ pavilion at Elephant Park
Lendlease and Bell Phillips complete timber ‘tree house’ within the heart of Elephant Park
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News
Chipperfield and Feix and Merlin win LSE Lincoln’s Inn Fields competition
Chipperfield and Feix and Merlin beat a field of six runners to win the commission
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News
Winner of RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship announced
Royal College of Art student will visit direct air capture sites in Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Canada and the US
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News
The profession responds to Oki’s RIBA victory
Fellow candidates Bacon and Singha, plus former RIBA president Ben Derbyshire, are amongst those who have shared their responses to Oki’s victory
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News
Muyiwa Oki elected as next RIBA president
Reform candidate wins out over better-known names but says he looks forward to working with Jo Bacon and Sumita Singha in future
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Opinion
There is a candidate for everyone in this RIBA election, so go and vote!
RIBA members have every reason to be disenchanted but this list of candidates offers a real choice, writes Ben Flatman
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Opinion
This is a more restrained Stirling prize shortlist, but not lacking in quality
Despite some surprising inclusions, this year’s Stirling prize has nominees to match the best from any previous year
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Opinion
Boris Johnson may be going, but his built (and unbuilt) legacy will live on
More than any of his predecessors, Boris Johnson was a PM obsessed with big building projects, writes Ben Flatman
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Building Study
Building study: West Hub by Jestico + Whiles
A new hybrid building in Cambridge mixes academia with enterprise and hospitality to reimagine what a university should be in the 21st century, writes Ben Flatman
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Building Study
In Pictures: The Marlo by Barbara Weiss Architects
This extensive refurbishment and restoration project in Marylebone provides impact without the need to shout about it, writes Ben Flatman
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Review
The Lebanese House: conservation and urban catastrophe collide in V&A’s new installation
Ben Flatman speaks to architect Annabel Karim Kassar about how history, identity and loss are interwoven in her latest work about a house in Beirut.
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News
Aecom releases time-lapse film of Serpentine pavilion under construction
Watch Theaster Gates’s pavilion rise from the ground in Kensington Gardens
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Building Study
Building study: 111 West 57th Street by SHoP
The world’s skinniest skyscraper gloriously embraces the rich legacy of Manhattan’s historic skyline, but it also raises awkward questions around sustainability and affordable housing, writes Ben Flatman
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Opinion
Bartlett report sheds much-needed light on our profession’s wider failings
The Bartlett sought to break down its students in order to build them back up again in the school’s own mould, writes Ben Flatman
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Building Study
Building study: Technique by Buckley Gray Yeoman
Buckley Gray Yeoman’s refurb and extension of a former Clerkenwell gin distillery is a fine example of how to revitalise an old industrial building and repair the wider urban fabric.
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News
V&A reveals future architecture programme after RIBA split
Tropical, South Asian and social housing architecture among subjects the museum intends to explore
