Offices
Drawing board: 120 Moorgate, City of London by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Director Paul Sandilands and project architect Chloe Phelps discuss the practice’s first City office development
Unison headquarters, London, by Squire & Partners
Unison’s new headquarters is an enclave of sobriety that draws on the imagery of corporate rebranding to reflect the changing language of the union movement
Grote Koppel, Amersfoort, by Fat
Fat’s new building in the Dutch town of Amersfoort is good enough to eat writes Ellis Woodman.
Bateman’s Row House by Theis Khan Architects
Combining homes, an office and a gallery, this east London building near Shoreditch High Street revels in setting up rules and then breaking them
Stanton Williams’s double decker delight at Cadbury’s Bournville
Two dramatic full-height atriums lie at the heart of Stanton Williams’ remodelling of a 1927 block as the administrative centre of Cadbury’s Bournville chocolate factory
Match made in heaven
Shed KM’s Matchbox building for developer Urban Splash, next to the former Bryant & May match factory in Liverpool, is a striking Miesian office block that links old and new, reports Peter Blundell Jones. Photos by Morley von Sternberg
Moved up to club class
When planning consultant DP9 wanted to transform a tired building in London’s Pall Mall it turned to architect de Metz Forbes Knight for something a little different
Central St Giles by Renzo Piano
Piano’s newly completed central London development represents a grim marriage of conflicting visions of London’s future
RSHP's park ages
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners may have transplanted its Chiswick Park formula to Seville, but ‘out-of-town’ is already starting to feel out of time
Turning yellow at AHMM's new Monsoon headquarters
Its bright cladding gives Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s Yellow Building a distinctive exterior, but as a working environment the interior of this headquarters for clothing retailer Monsoon is a missed opportunity
Dixon Jones Architects’s perfect pitch at King’s Place
Two new major concert venues live in harmony with The Guardian’s new headquarters at Dixon Jones’ Kings Place building in King’s Cross
Platform soul
In the new HQ for BBC Scotland, David Chipperfield Architects has blended a simple idea and complex programme to stunning effect
