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Drawing board: Taunton Castle bridges by Moxon Architects
Moxon Architects’ sensitive and creative thoroughfares enhance one of Somerset’s historic sites
Drawing board: St Saviour’s & St Olave’s School, South London by AOC
AOC’s extension to a south London girls’ school opens up its defensive design with a glass entrance and uses striking brick signage to emphasise its presence
Drawing board: S333's Old Dairy, Bloomsbury
S333 rethinks the London mews with its terraced housing on the site of a former Express Dairy distribution centre
Drawing Board: Blythe House, London, by Haworth Tompkins
Architects Jim Reed and Beatie Blakemore of Haworth Tompkins talk about their restoration of a former Post Office building to create a textiles and fashion study centre for the V and A
Drawing board: The White Building, Hackney Wick
Director David Kohn and project architect Tom McGlynn discuss how they are converting a redundant print works on the fringes of the 2012 Olympics site into an arts centre with Expedition Architecture
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
Drawing board: L'AND Vineyards villas, Portugal, by Sergison Bates Architects
Sergison Bates partner Mark Tuff on the challenges of designing vineyard-led holiday homes in Portugal
Drawing board: Ironmonger Row Baths by Tim Ronalds Architects
Tim Ronalds discusses his updating of the interior of Islington’s Ironmonger Row Baths, a listed thirties community bathhouse and laundry still popular for its swimming pools and Turkish baths
La Spezia hospital by Hopkins Architects
Associate partner Laura Carrara-Cagni on the practice’s designs for a new hospital at La Spezia in the Liguria region of Italy.
Great Marlborough Street student housing in Manchester by Hodder & Partners
Stephen Hodder discusses how his practice’s new 33-storey housing in Manchester will meet the high expectations of student customers in the city’s second highest tower
Drawing board: Sita UK energy-from-waste facility by Grimshaw
Great Blakenham in Suffolk will be the location for one of the many new energy from waste (EfW) facilities. Grimshaw partner Chris Nash and project architect Chris Fletcher discuss their design for the plant.
Drawing board: Long & Kentish Porthmeor Studios
MJ Long and Rolfe Kentish discuss their refurbishment of Porthmeor artists’ studios in St Ives, Corwall
Maccreanor Lavington’s Waterside Park in the Royal Docks
Maccreanor Lavington is creating urban character in London’s Docklands. Here Gerard Maccreanor explains the firm’s housing block.
AHMM: Dagenham Park School, Barking
Paul Monaghan and Andrew O’Donnell of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris discuss the use of prefabrication at the practice’s £16.9m Dagenham Park School.
Simon Henley on the 15-year masterplan for Roehampton University
Henley Halebrown Rorrison has drawn up a 2025 masterplan for Roehampton University’s expansion. Simon Henley explains how this was informed by references as diverse as a cemetery and a lamp-post.
Claudio Silvestrin on plans for an Italian fashion mall
Retail architecture should be tranquil and beautiful according to Claudio Silvestrin, who is designing a 700m-long Fashion Mall in northern Italy.
DSDHA’s proposals for a jeweller’s premises
DSDHA is designing terracotta-clad premises to accommodate jeweller Alex Monroe’s expanding business. Deborah Saunt explains.
Sir John Soane Museum interiors by Caruso St John
Caruso St John Architects is designing three interiors at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. Adam Caruso explains how such a sensitive location was tackled.
White Arkitekter's proposals for Southend pier
Wind turbines and the sea will be used for the zero carbon transformation of Southend pier in Essex, says White Arkitekter project architect Fredrik Pettersson and sustainability director Keith Boxer.
BDP’s Tony McGuirk on building a Dutch school
BDP’s first school in Holland takes a progressive approach to integrating school and community, says chairman Tony McGuirk.
