Strange House, London SE8 Property
This enduringly likeable house is dropped into a tight housing hinterland, surrounded by backs and boundaries. Above a highly glazed timber-framed base sits a set-back upper tier clad in profiled rigid board.
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Bear Lane, Great Suffolk Street, London
Bear Lane, Great Suffolk Street housing development, SE1 – design by Panter Hudspith Architects – London housing: Bear Lane building, Great Suffolk Street
Millfield House Newcastle, Jesmond Dene Park
The visitor’s centre sits at the focal point of Jesmond Dene’s linear park, which has served generations of visiting families. This Tyneside building design is by Mosedale Gillatt Architects: RIBA Award winner, 19 May 2011.
No. 1 Smithery Chatham Historic Dockyard
This is a museum within the museum; its function is to show both building and the objects it houses. The ‘falling-down’ majesty of the existing buildings has been artfully retained and gently restored.
City of Westminster College London
City of Westminster College, London, UK: English further education building design by schmidt hammer lassen, architects, Denmark: contemporary England educational architecture
The City Dune Copenhagen, Urban Space
The City Dune in Copenhagen. Lundgaard and Tranberg have created two remarkable buildings, one being the SEB Headquarters, the other a smaller office building for rent
Rothschild Foundation Aylesbury: Windmill Hill
In order to accommodate the Rothschild Foundation Archive and the offices of the Rothschild charity, a series of simple rectangular buildings has been built on the site of a former dairy farm
Harbour Isle Apartments, Copenhagen Flats
The masterstroke of the housing scheme of 236 social and private apartments in Copenhagen’s regeneration area of Havneholmen is the way in which the architects have challenged the masterplan which limited access to the water for both residents and visitors.
Newton and Arkwright Building Nottingham
Newton and Arkwright Building, Nottingham Trent University. The project involves the skilful renovation of two existing historic buildings to create a contemporary university facility.
Iron Market Port-au-Prince Building, Haiti
When the Haiti earthquake mangled Port-au-Prince’s Iron Market, it destroyed a symbol of the nation. Built in France and bound for Cairo to serve as a railway station, the vagaries of history, tides or captains led it to end up here, where it served as a perfectly good market hall until ravaged first by fire in 2008 and then by earthquake.
Maple Place, Fitzroy Street, London
Fitzroy Street and Maple Place Building, London Lettable Space, Duggan Morris Architecture Fitzroy Street and Maple Place London Office Architecture Development – design by Duggan Morris Architects 19 May 2011 Fitzroy Street and Maple Place London RIBA Award winner, 19 May 2011 Design: Duggan Morris Architects photographs © Kilian O’Sullivan Fitzroy Street and Maple Place … Read more
Hampstead Lane House, North London Property
Hampstead Lane Property, London Residential Architecture, Photos, Architect, Design Hampstead Lane House New North London Property: Residence – design by Duggan Morris Architects 19 May 2011 Hampstead Lane London Design: Duggan Morris Architects photographs © James Brittain RIBA Award winner, 19 May 2011 Hampstead Lane House Love them or hate them, all too often the … Read more
Hoxton House, East London Property
Britain has an enormous stock of traditional terraced houses, which increasingly struggle to meet the needs of contemporary living – clearly a significant challenge. This typical four-storey London terraced house is a case in point
Kilburn Grange Park Adventure Playcentre
In an increasingly risk-adverse culture, what distinguishes this project is its ambition to challenge and rethink the health and safety preconceptions that surround children’s playgrounds, most obviously characterised by the ubiquitous use of ‘bouncy tarmac’.
Leighton House Museum London, Holland Park Rd
Designed in 1864 to display Lord Leighton’s collection of Islamic tiles, the house’s centrepiece is a two storey opulent domed Arab Hall with a central fountain. The whole interior of the house is richly decorated, with ceramic tiles, rich paintwork and gilded ceilings
Stoke Newington School Building London
Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form, London: Media Arts and Science College Building – design by Jestico + Whiles Architects
Claredale Street, Mansford St London Property
Claredale Street, London: Cambridge Heath buildings design by Karakusevic Carson Architects: Claredale St building, Cambridge Heath property: architecture
Pasmore Apollo Pavilion, Peterlee, Durham
The Pasmore Apollo Pavilion, originally built as part of the Peterlee’s social housing development, is a not so much an important one-off piece but more a gathering of bold architectural ideas.
