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 modern methods of construction.
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.
HTA Design has completed Kidbrooke Park Road in south London, delivering 452 homes for social rent across a landscape-led neighbourhood of brick buildings, gardens and community spaces.
GRID architects has completed 102 affordable homes for Women’s Pioneer Housing in west London, combining increased density with dual-aspect living and a landscape designed around mature trees.
Inglis Badrashi Loddo has transformed a Grade II-listed former council building in north-west London into five apartments.
Peter Smith, Architect at Collective Architecture, considers how architects and planners can create cities that give children greater freedom to explore, play and make use of the spaces around them.
Holcim hosted a panel discussion to explore the challenges involved in delivering intelligent solutions to the housing shortage in the UK and worldwide at the Zaha Hadid Foundation on June 23rd as part of London Festival of Architecture.
Maccreanor Lavington’s Prisca Thielmann discusses the practice’s role in shaping the first completed residential buildings at Brent Cross Town, exploring density, community, thresholds and the creation of a new piece of London.
Dulux Trade’s Dawn Scott and Andrew Roser in conversation with Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discuss how colour strategies and high-performance coatings can support wellbeing, durability and long-term value across social housing projects.
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with VELUX, exploring how the UK housing sector is responding to increasing demand, tightening regulations, and the urgent need to decarbonise.
Jon McDiarmid and Seb Loyn from YTL Developments talk to Isabel Allen about transforming the 142-hectare former Filton Airfield, just outside Bristol, into the 'least new' of the latest batch of New Towns – and identifying the right architect for the job.
As the new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) pushes suburban densification as a means of unlocking land for 1.8 million new homes, Neil Deely from Metropolitan Workshop shares the practice’s proposals for reinventing the suburbs to facilitate changing lifestyles and demographic.
