Balancing Barn by MVRDV in Suffolk

Balancing Barn by MVRDV in Suffolk

Design: MVRDV with Mole Architects. The Barn is 30 m long, with a 15 m cantilever over a slope, plunging the house headlong into nature. Living Architecture – devoted to the experience of modern architecture – commissioned MVRDV in 2008. The Barn is now available for holiday rentals.

Woodpeckers House in the New Forest

Woodpeckers House in the New Forest

Design: Strom Architects. A house in the New Forest, designed as a two-storey replacement for a 1930s bungalow. The site sits amongst fields and woodland just outside the National Park, with a heavily-treed and well-established garden.

Warborne Farm in The New Forest National Park

Warborne Farm in The New Forest National Park

Design: Pad Studio, Architects. This building in a conservation area of the New Forest National Park was built in 1880 as a model farm. Now operating as an organic farm, redundant buildings have been converted to holiday accommodation

Fusion Building, Talbot Campus, Bournemouth

Fusion Building Talbot Campus

Design: BDP, architects. The new building is the focal point on the main Talbot Campus. It fuses education, research and professional practice using flexible informal study and social collaborative spaces. Shared facilities foster cross-school activity and maximise space utilisation.

British Airways i360 in Brighton

British Airways i360 Pod in Brighton

Design: Marks Barfield architects

The world’s tallest moving observation tower, Brighton’s British Airways i360, has been closed after it broke down for a second time, trapping 200 passengers in the observation pod.

ESSEX Architecture Weekend: Buildings

The Sunshine House in Essex

Essex architecture news – Radical Essex present events celebrating county’s pioneering role in 20th century architecture: Modernist architecture & experimental community models

Cranfield University Landscape Strategy: Campus

Cranfield University Landscape Strategy

Landscape architects OOBE, who operate from offices in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, has won a three-year commission from Cranfield University in Bedfordshire and have incorporated Dr Nigel Dunnett onto its project team.

SKA Global Headquarters Jodrell Bank

SKA Headquarters Jodrell Bank building interior

Design: Hassell, architects. Approval for this new HQ building to accommodate 135 staff building and operating the world’s largest radio telescope, at Jodrell Bank: the Square Kilometre Array.

Quadram Institute for Food & Health Research

Quadram Institute

Design: NBBJ architects. A new innovation hub for the advancement of food and health research in Norfolk, bringing scientists, clinical researchers, and a healthcare clinic together under one roof.

The Market Hall of 1887, Kingston upon Hull

The Market Hall of 1887

Article: D.H. Evans. Sir William Alfred Gelder (1855-1941) was the last of Hull’s celebrated Victorian architects, and established one of the largest architectural practices in the city; he went on to be Lord Mayor of Hull five times.

McLaren Production Centre Woking, Surrey

McLaren Production Centre Building

Design: Foster + Partners, architects. The state-of-the-art McLaren Production Centre is located to the south-west of the existing McLaren Technology Centre. The two buildings are connected by a subterranean walkway and share a common language of details and materials.

Kingston Prison Homes Portsmouth

Kingston Prison Homes

Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. Built in 1877, Kingston Prison is a prime example of the ‘panopticon’ radial prison design that found favour in the late 19th century. The idea was that prisoners, housed in radiating cells, could be observed from a central rotunda.

Holy Cross Primary School, Swindon Building

Holy Cross Primary School Swindon Building

Design: Cullinan Studio architects. Holy Cross primary school is a two-form, single-storey school which was manufactured offsite, taking only three weeks to erect and 43 weeks to complete thanks to the fast build time afforded by offsite construction and timber systems.

The Chapel on the Hill in Forest-in-Teesdale

Chapel on the Hill

Design: Evolution Design. Set in the very best walking area of the beautiful North Pennines, just a short walk from the famous High Force Waterfall, this stunning chapel conversion with its historic building fabric and modern interior design is a real Teesdale jewel.