Eleanor Beaumont
Eleanor Beaumont is Assistant Editor at The Architectural Review.
Stories
Pillar of the community: Comunal Taller de Arquitectura, MexicoSubscription
By sharing the authorship of their architecture with the local people with whom they work in rural Mexico, Comunal are challenging the authority of the architect
On the square: Beals Lyon, ChileSubscription
Clearing an agora for the citizens of Nancagua, Chilean practice Beals Lyon find space for the public in the gaps
Enough is enough: Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019Subscription
Telling new stories for the future of the planet, this year’s Oslo Architecture Triennale, Enough: The Architecture of Degrowth, peels back the skin of capitalism and finds hope in the hopeless
Social climber: SESC 24 de Maio cultural centre in São Paulo, Brazil by Paulo Mendes da Rocha and MMBB ArquitetosSubscription
A modern-day social condenser, Paulo Mendes da Rocha and MMBB’s SESC 24 de Maio is a utopian vision in an increasingly dystopian political climate
Communal luxury: Social housing, Zürich, Switzerland by Lütjens PadmanabhanSubscription
Spacious, well-designed and affordable, Swiss housing like Lütjens Padmanabhan’s apartment building in Zürich is the housing holy grail, but all that glitters is not gold
Sentimental value: from Gordon Matta-Clark to emotional capitalismSubscription
Two exhibitions at the CCA take a sledgehammer to traditional economic systems, rip apart property markets, and find value in the rubble
Lacol Arquitectura Cooperativa: ‘We collaborate with different causes, as neighbours’Subscription
The Spanish co-operative, founded a decade ago by freshly graduated students, continue to work together in the difficult context of Barcelona’s housing crisis
Cut a dash: Hollybrook Grove in Dublin, Ireland, by David Leech ArchitectsSubscription
AR House highly commended: The practice’s first house, in a quiet suburb, is a bubbling collage of germinating ideas, clever references and meticulous details
Domestic bliss: houses in Dublin by Clancy Moore, TAKA, Ryan W Kennihan Architects and Arigho Larmour Wheeler ArchitectsSubscription
In a vacuum of opportunity for young Irish architects, talent condenses in ambitious, if modestly scaled, domestic projects, such as the silvered house by Clancy Moore in Dublin’s Portobello
Love letter to suburbia: Croydon's buried treasureSubscription
In contrast to its staid, soulless reputation, the outskirts of Croydon brim with life
