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Technical Study: Old Admiralty Building, London by BDP
After a £60m refurb, the top-secret former haunt of Churchill and Ian Fleming is back in Her Majesty’s Service, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
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Technical Study: Floating church, London
Denizen Works explains how VW Campervans and an organ bellows inspired a highly unusual place of worship
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Technical Study: Bushey Cemetery, London
The rammed earth walls of Waugh Thistleton’s Stirling-shortlisted Jewish cemetery roots it in the timelessness of religious ritual
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Temperate House, Kew, London, by Donald Insall Associates
The world’s largest Victorian greenhouse is about to emerge from an at times nerve-racking restoration
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Technical Study: the Cambridge Mosque
One of David Marks’ last projects is a contemplative Cambridge mosque with complex timber geometry
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Technical study: Maggie’s Oldham
dRMM’s centre for the cancer care charity hovers above its landscaped garden like a giant treehouse – and represents the practice’s most ambitious use yet of cross-laminated timber.
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Behind the scenes at the V&A Dundee
Realising Kengo Kuma’s extraordinarily complex design for the V&A’s outpost in Dundee would not have been possible without sophisticated modelling tools and precision construction techniques.
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St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross by Avanti Architects & McGinlay Bell
St Peter’s Seminary near Glasgow is a brutalist ruin that is being given new life as an arts venue. What makes the refurb unusual is that the crumbling decay, instead of being covered, will be used as a central feature. Ike Ijeh reports
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Poplar Baths by Pringle Richards Sharratt
Poplar Baths in London’s East End is a historic example of state architecture used to improve public health. But to preserve this listed building, the project team had to demolish part of it and rebuild through a PPP agreement
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Eastern Cemetery, Malmö, by Johan Celsing
Modernist architect Sigurd Lewerentz worked on the Swedish city’s cemetery for more than half a century. Now Johan Celsing has meticulously restored the canopies to two of its chapels
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Maagdentoren, Zichem, by De Smet Vermeulen and Studio Roma
Following a collapse in 2006, this 14th-century tower in the Belgian town of Zichem has been restored to designs by De Smet Vermeulen and Studio Roma. Hugh Strange reports
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1735 organ, Christ Church Spitalfields, by Dow Jones Architects
Following completion of the building renovation works at the Hawksmoor gem in 2004, its organ remained unrestored. Determined teamwork has now led to the renovation and reinstallation of the instrument to its former glory
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Landmark, Nieuw-Bergen, the Netherlands, by Monadnock
Monadnock’s new landmark building, cast at the centre of a pedestrianised regeneration of Nieuw-Bergen, purposefully creates a focal point for the Dutch town, without reverting to civic or religious type
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Britten-Pears Archive by Stanton Williams Architects
Two intersecting volumes house composer Benjamin Britten’s archive in Aldeburgh
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Mobile Art Library, Mexico City by Productora
Flexible space accommodates a range of cultural activities
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North Holland Archives by Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven
Haarlem reading room remodelled with modular furniture
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Brent Civic Centre by Hopkins Architects
Hopkins Architects brings together a range of public services in an elegant structure crowned by a stunning ETFE and steel roof
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Kortrijk Crematorium by Souto de Moura Arquitectos and SumProject
A technical look at the simplicity of green roof planting and maintaining the idea of a recessive building
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Lo-Reninge Town Hall by NOA Architecten
A technical look at this 16th century former nunnery whose structure and internal linings are made entirely of timber
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Folkwang Library by Max Dudler
An innovative glazed facade uses photographs to create the illusion of stone