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AT Editor2022-11-22T12:16:57+00:00BDP has transformed a redundant school sports hall into suite of high-performance and environmentally responsible classrooms, dining, and social spaces for Wardle Academy in Rochdale.
Erbar Mattes Architects has skilfully remodelled a former pub in north London to create a home for an expanding family.
Threefold Architects has extended and remodelled an Edwardian home in Muswell Hill, north London, adding a contemporary extension behind the restored red brick facade to create a "house of two halves".
Loader Monteith has reconfigured a Victorian merchant's house outside Glasgow to create a home for an architectural designer and ceramicist, and added a blackened timber pottery studio.
5th Studio has converted a former vehicle testing facility into an open-access factory for makers as part of the £6 billion Meridian Water development in Enfield, north London.
Matheson Whiteley has transformed the home of not-for-profit arts organisation Studio Voltaire in Clapham, south London. Nana Biamah-Ofosu admires the ingenuity and restraint of a thoughtful remodelling that anchors the building in its community and creates the conditions for creativity to thrive.
Coffey Architects has completed a translucent, saw-tooth education building for Norwich City College's technology, engineering and design courses.
Foster + Partners has designed a museum of Roman antiquities for the city of Narbonne in the south of France. Alessandra Fanari enjoys the ambiguities of a sophisticated building where the distinction between architecture and exhibits is decidedly blurred.
Sou Fujimoto has completed the House of Music, a music museum and concert venue set beneath an undulating roof inspired by the tree canopy in Budapest's City Park.
Visuals have been revealed for the 21st edition of the annual Serpentine Pavilion competition, a drum-shaped structure titled Black Chapel that has been designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates with Adjaye Associates.
Greg Lomas of Foster Lomas reviews Kirkland Fraser Moor's Ashraya house, a low-carbon property tucked beneath an arching roof and covered in a blanket of greenery that melds it with its Chilterns Hills setting.
This year 45 projects have been named as finalists in the Civic Trust Awards, which recognises buildings that make a positive impact on local communities.