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Appleby Blue in Southwark: Witherford Watson Mann’s new model for later living
BDP's new state-of-the-art research centre for The Royal Marsden
How Footprint Architects created an education centre from reclaimed beach timber
Building study: UCL East’s Marshgate by Stanton Williams
Holbein Gardens: Barr Gazetas’ exemplar net zero office refurbishment
Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen by LDA Design
How Knight Architects' innovative footbridge is replacing level crossings and saving lives
Technical Study: 8 Bishopsgate by Wilkinson Eyre
Young V&A by De Matos Ryan and AOC
Building study: Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell’s National Portrait Gallery refurbishment
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Appleby Blue in Southwark: Witherford Watson Mann’s new model for later living
This modern take on the traditional almshouse is intended to reduce loneliness and isolation by bringing community groups into the building and promoting interaction between residents. Could it tempt older people out of their family homes?
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BDP's new state-of-the-art research centre for The Royal Marsden
The Oak Cancer Centre at The Royal Marsden’s Sutton site is a state-of-the-art research and treatment facility. Thomas Lane finds out more.
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How Footprint Architects created an education centre from reclaimed beach timber
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council has built an education centre from timber groynes reclaimed from the beach. Thomas Lane looks at the project
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Building study: UCL East’s Marshgate by Stanton Williams
With the biggest development in its history, UCL wanted to create a new type of university campus. Daniel Gayne reports on how the team got on
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Holbein Gardens: Barr Gazetas’ exemplar net zero office refurbishment
Armed with new net zero carbon targets, Grosvenor and their architect tested these out on a tired 1980s office building near Sloane Square
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Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen by LDA Design
The city’s celebrated Victorian pleasure gardens have reopened after a £28.3m revamp – and decades of drama and indecision, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
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How Knight Architects' innovative footbridge is replacing level crossings and saving lives
Network Rail wants to replace rural level crossings with bridges. A team has come up with an alternative to steel that is 40% cheaper to build with less embodied carbon
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Technical Study: 8 Bishopsgate by Wilkinson Eyre
Like its neighbour the Cheesegrater, the latest addition to the City skyline – Wilkinson Eyre’s 8 Bishopsgate – had to avoid impinging on views of St Paul’s
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Young V&A by De Matos Ryan and AOC
The new Young V&A reimagines the former ‘Museum of Childhood’ as a joyous celebration of design and creativity, writes Ben Flatman
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Building study: Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell’s National Portrait Gallery refurbishment
Britain’s most establishment art gallery has reinvented itself as a palace of inclusion. Is it a success?
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Technical Study: n2 by Lynch Architects
The ground below the n2 office development in Victoria was so congested by tunnels, it is supported in just four places. Thomas Lane looks at the pinpoint accuracy of the building’s fit
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St Giles Circus by Orms and Ian Chalk Architects: the rebirth of Tin Pan Alley
Orms seeks to combine the heyday of West End art deco with historic conservation and careful urban stitching in a new music-centred district at the heart of London, writes Ben Flatman
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Building study: The Gilbert and George Centre by SIRS Architects
Building Design is shown around the eccentric London artist pair’s newly opened gallery.
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Springfield Campus by Associated Architects: a building that absorbs history itself
A project by Associated Architects for Wolverhampton University reminds us of the value of ‘persistent architecture’, writes Joe Holyoak
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Manchester’s new joy division: Factory International
Manchester’s Factory International mega‑venue aims to encourage artists to push the boundaries – as the designers themselves have done
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Urban Barn by Jonathan Tuckey Design
Jonathan Tuckey Design has completed a subtle and seductive rebuild and extension of a house in west London, writes Ben Flatman
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Flaxmill Maltings: FCBStudios' restoration of the world's first iron-framed building
When Historic England took on restoration of an 18th-century flax mill, the plan was to preserve a piece of history and give a unique industrial building a new sense of purpose
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Hanover: Exemplary collaboration and placemaking
A new over-station development on Hanover Square shows how major infrastructure projects can catalyse the delivery of excellent placemaking, writes Ben Flatman
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Mayfield Park by Studio Egret West
Manchester has unveiled its first new public park for 100 years. Thomas Lane takes a stroll though the city’s new green lung
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Stirling Prize 2022: the New Library at Magdalene College Cambridge by Níall McLaughlin Architects
Ben Flatman visits Níall McLaughlin Architects’ Stirling-nominated library project in Cambridge and finds a building rooted in its context that offers a rich interior experience
Inspirations
Sam Jacob’s inspiration: Avebury stone circle
Wiltshire’s other mysterious Neolithic circle is architecture in its purest form and would give Mies a run for his money, says the FAT co-founder
Edmund Fowles’ inspiration: Roosenberg Abbey, Flanders
The Feilden Fowles director on a remote Belgian monastery designed by a monk who devised his own version of the golden ratio
Richard Griffiths’ first project: The Old Dispensary, Stratford
The architect recalls putting quality over cost, winning over hostile workmen and an electric shock
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How No1 Poultry almost lost its stripes
The project architect on Stirling’s masterpiece recounts the extraordinary story behind his luckiest break
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
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
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