At Drumhalla House in County Donegal, Pasparakis Friel has reconfigured a traditional venue, reconnecting three formerly separate houses and introducing a sequence of new thresholds, views and rooms that recast the country house as a contemporary setting.
Marcus Lee and Corinna Dean have converted a Hopper-esque cluster of farm buildings in the Suffolk countryside into a maker space and home. Yuki Sumner applauds an 'architecture of empathy' that finds poetry in the awkwardness and rawness in agricultural infrastructure and opts for minimum intervention for maximum effect.
Thomas-McBrien Architects and contractor New Wave London’s skilful reworking of the contractor’s London headquarters demonstrates the potential of adaptive reuse for enhancing workspace and minimising embodied carbon.
The Edinburgh Futures Institute by Bennetts Associates resuscitates a prominent but long-neglected building in central Edinburgh to create a state-of-the-art teaching space for the University of Edinburgh.
Moxon Architects has transformed a historic Aberdeenshire farmstead into a carefully crafted guesthouse, glasshouse and artist’s studio.
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has transformed the former Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel into Tower Hamlets Town Hall. Chris Dyson admires a project that combines conservation, retrofit and new build to create a complex, vibrant building that plays a vital role in civic life.
Alessandro Verona Studio has turned a 13th-century tower in Udine, northern Italy, into a museum showcasing the industry of the city.
ritchie*studio’s bold reworking of a listed brewery in Malta combines spatial inventiveness with environmental performance and future flexibility.
Clementine Blakemore Architects has transformed a collection of ignored agricultural buildings in Dorset into an inclusive retreat and valuable community asset.
When Lord Snowdon, Cedric Price and Frank Newby designed the aviary at London Zoo, they captured the spirit of the times. Samantha Hardingham charts its transformation from 1960s icon to modern-day monkey hangout.
