De Prinsendam Amsterdam, Tony Fretton building
Fitting within the Masterplan for a new residential neighbourhood to the North of Amsterdam, the project forms a courtyard with the adjacent Alvaro Siza block that faces the river
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.
Stratheden Mental Health Unit Fife, Cupar building
Stratheden Mental Health Units, Cupar, for NHS Fife: the proposals were to provide an 18 bed low security and 24 bed medium security dementia units in the grounds of NHS Fife Stratheden Hospital.
Michael Faraday Community School Southwark
Designed by Alsop Sparch, the new Michael Faraday Community School, which opens its doors to its first pupils today (30 September 2010), is the first of three primary schools to be transformed under the Southwark Schools for the Future programme
Timber Hut Competition, Middlehaven Contest
More than 35 young Northeast designers have registered to enter a timber hut design competition which will see the winning proposals built at Middlesbrough’s £200m RiversideOne residential development on the former site of the town’s Middlehaven Docks.
RIBA Awards Scotland, Scottish buildings + architects
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) will announce the recipients of the 2011 RIBA Awards on Thursday 19 May. Ten exceptional buildings in Scotland are recognised for their architectural excellence.
North College Rice University: Houston Building
Walls are self-supporting of 8 inch deep bricks, reflecting the rich character of existing campus buildings, using a high lime content mortar, so that the bricks span across each façade of the building without being broken by expansion joints.
Maggie’s Cotswolds: Cheltenham Cancer Care
This healthcare project has been designed from the inside out; the ingenious manipulation of scale has successfully created an intimate and domestic environment within what is actually a very social space.
Cemex Building Awards: Mexican Architecture Prize
Since its conception almost two decades ago, the Cemex building award has continued to grow, with more and more Works of increasing quality competing each year as concrete proof of the talent of the building and design professionals who conceived and created them.
Brown’s Dental Practice, Ivybridge Building
This is a feast for the senses: from the overt tactility of the rough-hewn stone walling, to the scent and smooth warmth of the birch plywood that lines the interior spaces.
Sharrow Point Sheffield: Cemetery Road Building
Sharrow Point – Cemetery Road: The site is located along Cemetery Road, one mile southwest of Sheffield City centre, on the boundary of the established 19th century inner suburb of Nether Edge.
Dover Esplanade, Kent seafront: Tonkin Liu
The Dover seafront has been transformed by artworks that take the form of three waves gently washing up against the sheltered beach.
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