An enclave of artists’ studios and apartments designed by Neat is the latest in a series of projects designed to reinvigorate the seaside town of Folkestone. Charles Holland assesses the project and a unique approach to culture-led regeneration.
Sergison 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.
Mole Architects has built a new house and boat shed on the harbour front at Wells-next-the-Sea in north Norfolk. Practice director Meredith Bowles talks to Piers Taylor from Invisible Studio about East Anglia’s otherworldly character.
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.
HTA Design has completed the world’s tallest modular residential building in Croydon, south London.
Building
Coffey Architects has completed an intricately crafted residential apartment in London
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Interrobang Architecture & Engineering has sensitively restored and converted an art deco icon in west London
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Pilbrow & Partners completes The Waterman on Greenwich Peninsula
Building Review
Groupwork + Amin Taha’s 15 Clerkenwell Close is a poetic meditation on history, building and materials, finds Piers Gough
Facades
McMullen Facades’ investment in manufacturing and off-site construction is taking design innovation to the next level
