Reception Hide Complex, Titchwell, Norfolk

Reception Hide Complex, Titchwell, Norfolk

A series of unheated and unserviced timber structures sit astride a raw concrete barrier that provides some form of flood defence and creates two very different habitats: a fresh water lagoon and salt water marsh. This is a most unusual hide for bird-watching

St. Patricks School Building London

‘Less is More’ would seem to sum up this tiny yet delightful and ingenious school extension providing a library, music room and store room. The building has a simplicity that comes from a straightforward plan.

Shadow House London St Paul’s Crescent Property

Dense urban living requires successful compact housing models, something this thoughtful, rigorous yet inspirational house, designed and self-built by husband and wife architects, delivers admirably on a tight site and limited budget.

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.

Millfield House Newcastle, Jesmond Dene Park

Millfield House Visitor’s Centre, Newcastle

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

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.

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