Holborn House
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:17:11+00:006a Architects has refurbished and extended a run-down gym in central London to create a new community centre featuring an etched-glass facade by the artist Caragh Thuring.
Neave Brown Award for Housing 2021
Jessica Mairs2021-10-25T10:45:22+01:00McGrath Road by Peter Barber Architects has been named the winner of the 2021 Neave Brown Award for Housing, a prize given by RIBA to the best new high-quality and affordable housing project in the UK.
Lavender Hill
Peter Songi2023-09-07T15:05:16+01:00Sergison Bates has converted the site of a former sheet metal factory in Lavender Hill, London, into a community of nine dwellings with a courtyard garden at its heart. Patrick Lynch enjoys the uncanny sensation of stepping into the backyard of a busy London street and being transported to an entirely different world.
Woolwich Works
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:17:26+00:00Bennetts Associates has transformed a group of five Grade II and Grade II*-listed buildings at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich into a new cultural hub for music, theatre, dance and art.
My kind of town: Michál Cohen
Peter Songi2021-09-30T12:46:54+01:00The co-founder of Walters & Cohen on the relationship the pandemic helped her cultivate with open-air London.
Birkbeck campus
Jessica Mairs2021-08-31T09:03:42+01:00Penoyre & Prasad has added a copper-clad roof extension to 373 Euston Road and transformed the building into a new campus for Birkbeck, University of London.
Fit for the future
Peter Songi2021-08-30T18:36:50+01:00Sanya Polescuk Architects has retrofitted an unloved 1950s terraced house to make a home that is refreshed, expanded and entirely fossil-fuel free. Sanya Polescuk explains the practice’s approach to balancing conservation issues with the urgent need to inject our housing stock with a new and sustainable lease of life.
Forest School
Peter Songi2021-08-20T19:11:37+01:00Studio 54 Architecture has refurbished and extended the Prep School at Forest School, on the edge of Epping Forest, to deliver an additional storey, a rooftop playground, and an entirely new facade.
Lord’s Cricket Ground
Jessica Mairs2021-08-17T15:17:03+01:00WilkinsonEyre's Compton and Edrich stands have opened at Lord’s Cricket Ground ahead of the new season.
Fin House
Jessica Mairs2021-08-19T15:07:00+01:00Architect Stephanie Thum-Bonanno has added a stepped brick extension to her east London home, introducing vertical oak fins that frame views out to the garden.
Rendering versus reality
Jessica Mairs2021-08-09T12:26:49+01:00According to the glossy renders, the Marble Arch Mound was to be a lush green hill offering visitors spectacular views of Hyde Park. But the reality turned out to be rather different, writes Amanda Baillieu.
King’s Cross reborn
Peter Songi2021-07-21T07:22:23+01:00As 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.