Building Study: Auckland Tower, County Durham, by Niall McLaughlin
Building Study: Walker’s Court, Soho, by Soda Studio
Building Study: Zayed Centre, Great Ormond Street, by Stanton Williams
Building Study: Marmalade Lane, Cambridge, by Mole Architects
Building Study: The Twist, Norway, by BIG
Building Study: Tintagel Bridge, Cornwall, by William Matthews Associates
Building Study: James Simon Galerie, Berlin, by David Chipperfield
Building Study: Churchill College housing, Cambridge, by Cottrell & Vermeulen
Ike Ijeh’s verdict: Junya Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion
Building Study: Drayton Green Church, by Piercy & Company
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Technical Study: Stratford Pavilion by Acme
Technical Study: Science Museum supporters’ centre, by Hat Projects
Technical Study: Beaconsfield Mews cohousing, London, by Stolon Studio
Technical Study: North West Cambridge housing by Stanton Williams
Technical Study: IOC Headquarters, Lausanne, by 3XN
Technical Study: Hill House, Helensburgh, by Carmody Groarke
Technical Study: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London
Technical Study: Boulevard Theatre, Soho
Technical Study: Pitzhanger Manor, London
Technical Study: Floating church, London
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Building Study
Building Study: Auckland Tower, County Durham, by Niall McLaughlin
The architect has given Auckland Castle a timber tower resembling a siege engine – but while it’s a permanent fixture there’s nothing static about it
Building Study
Building Study: Walker’s Court, Soho, by Soda Studio
The Walker’s Court development, on the site of the famous Raymond Revuebar, could help Soho rediscover some heart
Technical
Technical Study: Stratford Pavilion by Acme
This substantial structure at the Olympic Park had to be built over a DLR tunnel, setting the team major challenges. Ike Ijeh reports
Building Study
Building Study: Zayed Centre, Great Ormond Street, by Stanton Williams
The £90m research centre for rare diseases gives the world-famous children’s hospital civic presence for the first time, writes Ike Ijeh
Building Study
Building Study: Marmalade Lane, Cambridge, by Mole Architects
How does this housing development that was instigated and managed by residents work in practice?
Technical
Technical Study: Science Museum supporters’ centre, by Hat Projects
The conversion of a former Royal Mail sorting office into the £3.5m Smith Centre required instinct and guts, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
Building Study
Building Study: The Twist, Norway, by BIG
Bjarke Ingels’ new art gallery over a river might have the whiff of gimmickry but Ike Ijeh finds himself beguiled
Technical
Technical Study: Beaconsfield Mews cohousing, London, by Stolon Studio
Architect-developers Robert and Jessica Barker tell Elizabeth Hopkirk how they are turning community-building on backland sites into a business model
Building Study
Building Study: Tintagel Bridge, Cornwall, by William Matthews Associates
The two halves of the severed castle have been reconnected by thrusting cantilevers that don’t quite meet. Ike Ijeh asks if Merlin was involved
Technical
Technical Study: North West Cambridge housing by Stanton Williams
The architect’s first affordable housing creates a sense of intimacy while complying with tough daylight regulations, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
Building Study
Building Study: James Simon Galerie, Berlin, by David Chipperfield
The architect’s new gallery is a magnificent gateway to Berlin’s Museum Island, writes Ike Ijeh
Technical
Technical Study: IOC Headquarters, Lausanne, by 3XN
The International Olympic Committee has raised the bar for office buildings. Ike Ijeh finds out how architect 3XN created a world-beater
Building Study
Building Study: Churchill College housing, Cambridge, by Cottrell & Vermeulen
The postgraduate block is a deft study in how to do contextual architecture when the context happens to be your own work, writes Ike Ijeh
Building Study
Ike Ijeh’s verdict: Junya Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion
This year’s pavilion has its flaws and yet contains enough joy to convince BD’s critic that the series should continue into its third decade
Technical
Technical Study: Hill House, Helensburgh, by Carmody Groarke
Ike Ijeh explains how a chainmail shed is protecting a Charles Rennie Mackintosh mansion from water ingress
Building Study
Building Study: Drayton Green Church, by Piercy & Company
This west London church replaces medieval mystery with digital geometry in a thrilling reinterpretation of the gothic tradition
Technical
Technical Study: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London
Carl Turner tells Elizabeth Hopkirk how he won the biggest project of his career – and then had to design it a nerve-wracking three times
Building Study
Building Study: Bracken House, London, by John Robertson Architects
In its time it has embodied more than one archetype of the City office block, from 1950s solid sandstone to 1980s high-tech glass and steel
Building Study
Building Study: The Ray, Farringdon, by AHMM
Paying close attention to its 19th-century context has created an office with character, says Ike Ijeh
Technical
Technical Study: Boulevard Theatre, Soho
Thomas Lane finds out how Soda Studio turned tricks with a tiny space to create a supremely flexible theatre
Inspirations
Jane Kennedy’s inspiration: Manchester Town Hall
The Purcell partner on a building that had a guiding influence at the start of her career and has continued to delight ever since
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Murray Kerr’s inspiration: SESC Pompéia, São Paulo
The Denizen Works director recalls his first visit to the social and cultural centre in a Brazilian barrel factory
Delvendahl Martin’s inspiration: Katsura Imperial Villa, Kyoto
Nikolai Delvendahl and Eric Martin explain how the modernist view of the imperial palace misses all the emotion
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Angela Brady’s inspiration: Aarhus town hall, Denmark
The former RIBA president first went to Denmark as a student to study co-housing but fell in love with this gesamtkunstwerk
Alan Stanton’s inspiration: Lovell Beach House, Newport Beach, California
The architect recalls his first visit to Rudolph Schindler’s inventive ocean house that has remained in his imagination ever since
Amin Taha’s inspiration: Pergamon Altar, Museum Island, Berlin
The architect returns to a glorious Greek altar from his childhood and reflects on the questions its long history raises
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