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Tim Abrahams is Contributing Editor at Architectural Record and based in the UK. He is also a critic and a former editor at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Forum: MVRDV's revamping of the Pyramid of Tirana—a former monument to an Albanian dictator—demonstrates how structures can be maintained, but their significance transformed.
“He made the world—and the buildings so many people live, work, and learn in—more beautiful,” said architect Patty Hopkins of her late husband and professional partner.
With the completion of four new rooms including a library and a camera obscura housed in what was once a janitorial closet, the facility at the Victoria and Albert Museum is the largest of its kind in the UK.
A partner of James Stirling for two decades, the British architect later took on major commissions with his eponymous practice based in London and Stuttgart.
