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.
Zaha Hadid Foundation’s new home
Studio KA has refurbished Zaha Hadid’s former Clerkenwell studio, transforming the Grade II-listed Victorian schoolhouse into a public centre for architecture and design, with galleries, exhibition spaces and facilities for education and research.
Holborn Viaduct
PLP Architecture’s 13-storey office building in the City of London combines flexible workspaces with new public connections, responding to the neighbouring Grade II-listed gatehouse and the site’s complex archaeological history.
Cadence, King’s Cross
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.
Streatham & Marlborough Cricket Club
Andy Matthews Studio has completed a cricket pavilion in south London, reinventing the traditional clubhouse as a compact, year-round community building rooted in its parkland setting.
Altyre Street
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.
Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts
Foster + Partners’ extension to the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum in Spain introduces a dramatic elevated structure that spans the existing buildings, creating new exhibition spaces and a public atrium while bringing together more than 80 years of architectural history.
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Guerrilla Shading Pavilion
PEARCE+’s demountable timber pavilion for Camden Inspire explores how reclaimed materials, collective making and simple shading strategies can help communities respond to increasingly hot urban environments.
Global Leadership Centre
John McAslan + Partners has given Oxford’s former Osney Power Station a new lease of life as an executive education centre, preserving its industrial scale while carving new teaching, social and residential spaces into the existing structure.
The Ribbon
Orms’ brick-clad mixed-use building on the corner of Oxford Street and Wells Street draws on the architectural and material character of Fitzrovia to deliver offices, retail and a new basement venue behind a richly articulated façade.
Prague Fire Rescue Service
Architektura has completed a new headquarters for Prague’s Fire Rescue Service, combining robust civic infrastructure with a slender red tower that anchors the organisation’s Holešovice campus.
Design Museum Gent
Carmody Groarke, ATAMA and RE-ST have skilfully reworked Design Museum Gent, adding a five-storey wing that completes its historic courtyard and opens the institution more directly to the city.
Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has completed the University of Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, creating a new civic gateway that brings teaching, research and public life together beside Temple Meads station.
Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent
Studio KO has transformed a 1912 tram depot and diesel station in Old Tashkent into Uzbekistan’s first permanent institution for contemporary art, retaining the character of the industrial complex while introducing new galleries, public spaces and facilities for research and cultural exchange.
Evermore
Nimtim architects has refurbished and extended a Suffolk bungalow, creating an accessible and adaptable home designed around the long-term needs of its owners.
4 Arbour Street, Copper Square
shedkm’s 14-storey office building at Brent Cross Town combines a precast concrete frame with cross-laminated timber floors to reduce embodied carbon while providing flexible workspace alongside the new Brent Cross West station.
Jihlava Municipal Arena
CHYBÍK + KRIŠTOF’s new sports and culture venue in Jihlava combines a 5,650-seat arena with new public spaces, landscape and supporting facilities designed to extend the life of the Czech city centre.
Tullie Museum
De Matos Ryan has reworked Carlisle’s Tullie Museum, creating a new entrance, gallery, community spaces and shop aimed at strengthening the building’s relationship with the city.
Brooke House
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.
Harrow on the Hill
Inglis Badrashi Loddo has transformed a Grade II-listed former council building in north-west London into five apartments.
Čebín Primary School
Knesl Kynčl Architekti has transformed a 1970s village shop near Brno into a compact primary school, reusing its existing structure while preparing the building for future expansion and local energy sharing.
6 The Square, Liphook
Stedman Blower has restored a 450-year-old former post office in Liphook, Hampshire. Architectural historian Kenneth Powell explains how a characterful new home has been created for the practice as it secures the building’s future.
A Memorial Forest
Studio Wignall & Moore has created a memorial landscape at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, commemorating more than 400 First World War service personnel whose graves were never formally identified.
Crystal Palace Park
HTA Design, Bromley Council and Crystal Palace Park Trust have delivered the first major phase of Crystal Palace Park’s regeneration, restoring its celebrated dinosaur sculptures and Italian Terraces while introducing new landscapes, visitor facilities and routes through the Grade-II* listed park.
Crystal Palace Park Visitor Centre
Tate + Co and HTA Design have completed a timber-framed visitor centre for London’s Crystal Palace Park, combining adaptable community and exhibition spaces with the reuse of the previous building’s foundations.
Greenheys
BDP has completed a major laboratory and research building at Manchester Science Park, providing a new HQ for UK Biobank and flexible specialist facilities for the city’s growing life sciences sector.
New Story Garden
Jan Kattein Architects and Global Generation have transformed a former railway storage site at London’s King’s Cross into a permanent ecology garden, built from natural and reclaimed materials with the help of more than 3,000 volunteers.
Tollymore
Set on a steep triangular site above the Shimna river in Newcastle, Northern Ireland, McGonigle McGrath's Tollymore house steps six separate volumes down towards the water, trading the conventional continuity of a family home for a domestic landscape that rests in the spaces between nature and dwelling.
Tournesol swimming pool
Studio Arcos B has reworked one of France’s distinctive 1970s Tournesol swimming pools, preserving Bernard Schoeller’s prefabricated domed structure as the centrepiece of a more sustainable and accessible leisure complex.
All change at Bank
Studio Weave’s transformation of one of the City of London’s oldest and busiest interchanges creates a more generous pedestrian environment while enhancing the setting of the Bank of England, Mansion House and Royal Exchange.
Drumhalla
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.