Sandy Rendel has designed an intergenerational family home in the leafy village of Cuckfield, West Sussex. John Pardey locates the project within a history of one-off houses that are meaningful, modest, and very much of their time.
The Arts Theatre Cambridge
Ian Chalk Architects has refurbished Cambridge’s historic Arts Theatre, renewing the venue’s auditorium and backstage areas, balancing technical upgrade with the preservation of intimacy, craftsmanship and acoustic performance.
Dinosaur Playground, Crystal Palace Park
HTA Design’s new play landscape for Crystal Palace Park draws on the site’s 19th-century ‘journey through time’ concept to create an immersive environment that combines education, accessibility and imaginative play within a wider programme of park regeneration.
RAI: partner update
RAI partner Schüco UK introduces Schüco low carbon aluminium as standard across all aluminium profiles.
Curtidores 32
JOTAJOTA+ reimagines a Madrid mattress store as a sequence of domestic interiors, using spatial choreography, material contrast and layered thresholds to reinvent the retail experience.
Millport Town Hall
O’Donnell Brown has worked with local campaigners to transform a neglected 19th-century town hall on the Scottish island of Cumbrae into a thriving centre for community life.
Muzeul Ivan Patzaichin
An extraordinary museum and community centre in Romania’s Danube Delta locks into the sustainable networks of one of Europe’s last great wildernesses to support the culture and the future of the Lipovan people
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Cabin Devín
Ark-Shelter and Archekta’s 20 m² off-grid retreat at the edge of the Zlatý Roh vineyards above Devín Castle compresses full domestic function into a single modular volume, operating year-round without connection to mains services while opening almost entirely to the surrounding landscape.
Gígur Visitor Centre
Nissen Richards Studio and SP(R)INT Studio's permanent exhibition and interior design for a visitor centre at Lake Mývatn uses Iceland's volcanic landscape as both subject and setting, creating an immersive environment that draws geology, ecology and culture into a single, coherent experience.
New Museum extension, New York
New York’s New Museum has a new extension. Designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) with executive architect Cooper Robertson, the expansion addresses the institution’s desire for increased capacity to host its growing public programme.
Theatr Clwyd
Haworth Tompkins’ comprehensive renewal of a Grade II-listed theatre in North Wales reimagines a 1970s arts complex as an open, accessible and low-carbon cultural hub rooted in its rural setting.
Can using ultra-modern building techniques improve the viability of PBSA schemes?
'The Future of Student Living', a panel discussion hosted by Walsh on 19 March, looked at two recent PBSA projects whose viability has been positively impacted by engineering design.
Jevany Villa
Located on a steeply sloping site in Jevany, Czech Republic, Architektura has completed a visually-striking house that employs sectional design and a robust material palette to frame views and connect domestic life with the surrounding forest.
Vault Youth Zone
John Puttick Associates’ multi-storey youth centre for OnSide draws on Preston’s brutalist heritage to deliver a new civic landmark that treats its young members with ambition and respect.
Box Library
U-Build has launched the Box Library, a pioneering initiative based at BLOQS in northeast London, that enables modular timber components to be borrowed, reused and returned for temporary construction.
Folgate Building
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has reworked and extended a 1980s office building in London’s Spitalfields, retaining 88 per cent of its structure to deliver a low-carbon, contextually-responsive workplace.
West London House
Goldstein Heather has skilfully reworked a narrow, end-of-terrace Victorian house in Stamford Brook, creating a light-filled, interconnected family home, designed to support multigenerational living.
Strážné Cottage
Mimosa Architects’ mountain cottage in the Krkonoše village of Strážné reinterprets the spatial principles and material character of traditional alpine dwellings, creating a contemporary family retreat rooted in the landscape and craft traditions of the region.
Kao La Amani Children’s Village
At the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro in Boma Ng’ombe, Tanzania, Article 25 has completed a climate-responsive off-grid settlement designed to provide long-term care, stability and a community for orphaned children.
Senior Citizens’ Home
Architektura’s brick-built retirement home for the Town of Nový Bydžov reinterprets the orchard, cemetery walls and open Central Bohemian landscape to create four courtyard households arranged around light-filled atriums.
Haberdashers’ Monmouth School Masterplan
Levitt Bernstein’s comprehensive retrofit and decarbonisation strategy for Haberdashers’ Monmouth School in Wales transforms six buildings across three town sites, unlocking the potential of existing assets to support a newly co-educational model and a clear path to Net Zero Carbon.
Orchard House
Studio Bark’s modest Paragraph 84 home in the Cheshire Green Belt re-establishes a historic orchard while delivering a low-impact family house rooted in landscape, memory and environmental rigour.
Quayside Watersports Centre
On the banks of the River Liffey, Dublin's first public watersports centre by Urban Agency, transforms a stretch of the North Quay into an accessible and resilient public space, recasting the river as an active and usable asset to the city.
Dispatches from Malawi: John McAslan + Partners
Construction of Kamuzu University of Health Sciences’ dental school by John McAslan + Partners has begun, becoming Malawi’s first faculty of its kind.
Boršov Rye Mill
The conversion of a historic rye mill in Boršov nad Vltavou, Czech Republic, by mar.s architects brings together restored silos, new residential buildings and a redefined public square to create a distinctive, mixed-use riverside community.
O House
Lawrence and Long Architects reimagine traditional approaches to constrained mew sites by carving an internal courtyard from a square, timber structure, creating a house nested around a garden: carefully balancing privacy and openness in a tight urban setting.
Muse House
Rodić Davidson Architects’ Chelsea mews house unites domestic life with museum-grade conservation for a treasured couture collection.
Horizon Youth Zone
John Puttick Associates has completed a bold and ambitious youth hub in Grimsby, skilfully blending heritage retrofit with new-build construction.
Nederlands Fotomuseum
Renner Hainke Wirth Zirn Architekten and WDJArchitecten have transformed a listed early-20th-century coffee warehouse in Rotterdam into a spectacular new home for the Nederlands Fotomuseum.
Can wood be used in healthcare environments?
How can timber contribute to healing environments in hospitals? Jens Axelsson, architect at White Arkitekter, and Cristiana Caira, healthcare architect at White Arkitekter, discuss salutogenic design, the evidence behind wood and wellbeing, and the technical, cultural and regulatory barriers that still shape its use in healthcare buildings.
Florentia Village
Turner.Works has transformed a former textile manufacturing site in north London into a sustainable makers’ campus that combines refurbished industrial buildings with new creative workspaces.