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

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

Leighton House Museum London interior design

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