Alison Brooks Architects' residential development in King's Cross draws inspiration from the Victorian exuberance of St Pancras Station, while embracing offsite manufacturing to deliver a wholly contemporary building. We spoke to Alison Brooks about arches, architectural expression and the building’s off-site construction.
Andy Matthews Studio has completed a cricket pavilion in south London, reinventing the traditional clubhouse as a compact, year-round community building rooted in its parkland setting.
Page\Park’s affordable housing development for Tollcross Housing Association transforms a vacant brownfield site in Glasgow’s East End into a new residential neighbourhood, with 42 homes arranged around a pedestrian-friendly street and shared green spaces.
Foster + Partners’ extension to the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum in Spain introduces a dramatic elevated structure that spans the existing buildings, creating new exhibition spaces and a public atrium while bringing together more than 80 years of architectural history.
PEARCE+’s demountable timber pavilion for Camden Inspire explores how reclaimed materials, collective making and simple shading strategies can help communities respond to increasingly hot urban environments.
John McAslan + Partners has given Oxford’s former Osney Power Station a new lease of life as an executive education centre, preserving its industrial scale while carving new teaching, social and residential spaces into the existing structure.
Orms’ brick-clad mixed-use building on the corner of Oxford Street and Wells Street draws on the architectural and material character of Fitzrovia to deliver offices, retail and a new basement venue behind a richly articulated façade.
Architektura has completed a new headquarters for Prague’s Fire Rescue Service, combining robust civic infrastructure with a slender red tower that anchors the organisation’s Holešovice campus.
Carmody Groarke, ATAMA and RE-ST have skilfully reworked Design Museum Gent, adding a five-storey wing that completes its historic courtyard and opens the institution more directly to the city.
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has completed the University of Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, creating a new civic gateway that brings teaching, research and public life together beside Temple Meads station.
Studio KO has transformed a 1912 tram depot and diesel station in Old Tashkent into Uzbekistan’s first permanent institution for contemporary art, retaining the character of the industrial complex while introducing new galleries, public spaces and facilities for research and cultural exchange.
