As the country emerges from lockdown, the public spaces of what, not so long ago, was an urban no-go zone are the very picture of urban regeneration. Deyan Sudjic gives his verdict on what’s been achieved and what’s been lost.
Hutchinson & Partners has refurbished the neoclassical Victoria House building on London's Bloomsbury Square, transforming it into a refined oak- and marble-lined co-working office.
Peter Bishop served as director of planning at the London Borough Camden from 2001 until 2006 when the Kings Cross development was being planned. He reflects on the project's ambitions and the factors that contributed to its success.
Adam Richards Architects has designed a floating cheese restaurant in the Paddington Basin, featuring a patinated metal roof based on James Stirling's Bookshop Pavilion in Venice.
Morris+Company and Freehaus have won a competition to redevelop the Thames-side school with their design for a russet extension enclosing a courtyard and framing views to the river and St Paul’s Cathedral.
Wright & Wright Architects has skilfully reworked London’s Museum of the Home, revitalising and extending the assemblage of 300-year-old almshouses the interiors museum occupies.
The 2021 Serpentine Pavilion by Sumayya Vally of Johannesburg-based studio Counterspace splices together forms taken from meeting spaces – from bookshops to markets and places of worship – significant to migrant communities in London.
A reflective aluminium block designed by Barozzi Veiga for Ravensbourne University’s Institute for Creativity and Technology is the first building to complete at the Greenwich Peninsula Design District in London.
Tsuruta Architects has added an entirely timber extension to a 1950s terrace in south London, using a flat-pack of over one thousand wooden parts assembled onsite like a piece of Ikea furniture.
Studio Ben Allen's pigmented concrete extension to a Victorian terrace in Haringey has been named the winner of this year's Don't Move Improve! competition.
Erect Architecture has designed a textured brick community centre adjoining a church by Sir George Gilbert Scott in Stoke Newington, north London.
HTA Design has completed the world’s tallest modular residential building in Croydon, south London.
