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Designing, building and growing the natural way: Wolves Lane community centre unveiled by Studio Gil and Material Cultures

Unpacking the museum: the V&A Storehouse in Stratford opens its doors

A Serpentine Pavilion for anxious times – but is that enough?

Manchester Met robotics lab interior ©Ella Wheatley

Bennetts’ timber and straw robotics lab pilots new net zero carbon building standard

From complexity to clarity: The Sainsbury Wing transformed

A cauldron on the Mersey: how Everton built their new stadium in just five years (Manchester United take note)

Designing from first principles: Inside David Kohn Architects’ Gradel Quadrangles

Industrial remix: how Hawkins\Brown retuned Wakefield’s Tileyard North for the creative economy

Designing for dance: inside O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Sadler’s Wells East

08 Mole Dovehouse Court credit David Butler 328 Hires

Compact living, big impact: Dovehouse Court’s lesson in sustainability and community

Designing, building and growing the natural way: Wolves Lane community centre unveiled by Studio Gil and Material Cultures
Unpacking the museum: the V&A Storehouse in Stratford opens its doors
A Serpentine Pavilion for anxious times – but is that enough?
Bennetts’ timber and straw robotics lab pilots new net zero carbon building standard
From complexity to clarity: The Sainsbury Wing transformed
A cauldron on the Mersey: how Everton built their new stadium in just five years (Manchester United take note)
Designing from first principles: Inside David Kohn Architects’ Gradel Quadrangles
Industrial remix: how Hawkins\Brown retuned Wakefield’s Tileyard North for the creative economy
Designing for dance: inside O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Sadler’s Wells East
Compact living, big impact: Dovehouse Court’s lesson in sustainability and community

Digging deep: The radical engineering underpinning Stiff + Trevillion’s 65 Holborn Viaduct project

Digging deep: The radical engineering underpinning Stiff + Trevillion’s 65 Holborn Viaduct project

Designing, building and growing the natural way: Wolves Lane community centre unveiled by Studio Gil and Material Cultures

By Mary Richardson

Straw, clay and reclaimed materials come together in a strikingly unconventional eco build in north London. Mary Richardson reports on a project that rethinks not just how we build, but who gets to do the building

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Unpacking the museum: the V&A Storehouse in Stratford opens its doors

By Ben Flatman

Ben Flatman visits the V&A’s new public store in east London, where the backstage world of conservation, curation and storage is placed front and centre

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A Serpentine Pavilion for anxious times – but is that enough?

By Mary Richardson2 comments

This year’s pavilion by Marina Tabassum is grounded in thoughtful references and a clear intention to engage with the site. Mary Richardson explores why it fails to resonate

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Bennetts’ timber and straw robotics lab pilots new net zero carbon building standard

By Thomas Lane1 comments

A small research building at Manchester Metropolitan University, constructed using low-carbon materials, is among the first to be assessed against the new NZCBS. Thomas Lane reports

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From complexity to clarity: The Sainsbury Wing transformed

By Ben Flatman5 comments

Ben Flatman explores the remodelling of the Sainsbury Wing and asks what is lost when a celebrated postmodern building is updated to make it more welcoming and accessible

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A cauldron on the Mersey: how Everton built their new stadium in just five years (Manchester United take note)

By Thomas Lane

Thomas Lane reports on how Everton, with BDP Pattern, delivered its £760m stadium on budget through smart planning, digital tools and modern methods of construction

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Designing from first principles: Inside David Kohn Architects’ Gradel Quadrangles

By Ben Flatman

A major expansion for one of Oxford’s oldest colleges reimagines the logic of the quadrangle with a theatrical, landscape-first ensemble shaped by dialogue and detail

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Industrial remix: how Hawkins\Brown retuned Wakefield’s Tileyard North for the creative economy

By Ben Flatman

Once derelict and forgotten, Wakefield’s Rutland Mills have been transformed into a thriving hub for the music industry

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Designing for dance: inside O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Sadler’s Wells East

By Daniel Gayne

Last month’s opening of the new dance theatre marked another stage in the Olympic Park’s development as a cultural destination designed to lure artists and audiences out of their traditional West End comfort zone, Daniel Gayne reports

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Digging deep: The radical engineering underpinning Stiff + Trevillion’s 65 Holborn Viaduct project

By Thomas Lane1 comments

A disused railway station below half of a central London site meant conventional piling was out of the question. The team that built a five-storey basement under Claridge’s hotel while keeping it open were drafted in to come up with a radical solution

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Compact living, big impact: Dovehouse Court’s lesson in sustainability and community

By Ben Flatman2 comments

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How Bennetts Associates transformed a Victorian hospital into a forward-focused university department

By Thomas Lane2 comments

The refurbishment of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh adapts a listed Victorian hospital to house a multidisciplinary hub for postgraduate study

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Rowan Court: a blueprint for council housing that repairs the urban fabric and elevates its context

By Ben Flatman1 comments

Satish Jassal Architect’s Rowan Court helps to restore a sense of place for an under-utilised edge site on an existing council estate, writes Ben Flatman

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Space House: 1960s icon gets another chance to shine

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Centrepoint’s little sister was realised by the same architect and developer and built with similar pioneering techniques. Neglected for the past four decades, a recent refurbishment restores and celebrates the building’s groundbreaking architectural qualities

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Midland Metropolitan University Hospital: Inside the long, costly journey to deliver Birmingham and Sandwell’s new £1bn ‘super hospital’

By Thomas Lane1 comments

West Birmingham’s new super hospital has just opened, six years later than planned following the failure of Carillion in 2018. Thomas Lane visits the new building to find out how the team overcame multiple problems, and report on the finished project

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A triangular community: how Author brings generations together at King’s Cross

By Mary Richardson

The penultimate piece in the giant Stirling Prize-nominated jigsaw puzzle that is the King’s Cross masterplan has just been completed with the delivery of Related Argent’s build-to-rent development, Author. Mary Richardson went along to take a look

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A decade in the making: Norton Folgate’s controversial redevelopment unveiled

By Thomas Lane1 comments

Blossom Street was the focus of a vitriolic planning battle. But an architectural team led by AHMM has confounded the fears of Spitalfields residents by sensitively restoring many of the old buildings

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‘A glimpse of new horizons’: Cooke Fawcett’s reworking of Cockpit’s craft incubator

By Mary Richardson

A new craft garden and expanded public space enhances visibility and access for makers and the wider community, writes Mary Richardson

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A harmonious blend of context and concept: Mass Studies reimagines the Serpentine Pavilion

By Ben Flatman

Mass Studies’ innovative design for this year’s Serpentine Pavilion reimagines traditional concepts, blending contextual sensitivity with conceptual boldness, writes Ben Flatman

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Under The Big Roof… Charity unites generations and nurtures skills that last a lifetime

By Ben Flatman

Forest School Camps required a new hub where volunteers of all ages could meet and work together. Mole Architects and Invisible Studio delivered, writes Ben Flatman

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