Highcross Leicester Stores: Shopping Centre

Construction work on Highcross, a 60,000 m² extension to The Shires, which will be anchored by John Lewis, is progressing well and is scheduled to open in September 2008. Hammerson’s 60% interest was acquired in 2002.

Old Market Square Nottingham Awards

The jury said: ‘the fluid inviting public space allows the surrounding buildings both to complement each other and stand out for their architectural character”

Waingels College Wokingham Building, Berkshire

Waingels College, Wokingham building, Berkshire

Sheppard Robson has received planning permission for a transformational scheme to deliver a new school. The Waingels College in Wokingham will become a local landmark and the first structural timber school in the UK.

Hertfordshire House: New English Property

Hertfordshire home in England

New House in Hertfordshire, England, UK, design by Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects: Commissions for new private houses are rare especially in the leafy commuter belt of north London, so when a client comes forward who is committed to the creation of new and innovative architecture it is a pleasure to rise to the challenge.

Suffolk Home, Walberswick House: Property

Suffolk Home, Walberswick house

Poplar Cottage is a small house on The Green in Walberswick built in the early 1920s. Over the past eighty years a number of piecemeal extensions had resulted in a peculiar internal organisation that cut the house off from its garden

Sinfin Community School, Derbyshire Building

Sinfin School, Building, Photo, Architect, Development, Design, Image Sinfin Community School : Derbyshire Building English Educational Project in Derbyshire, northern England, UK 7 Oct 2008 Sinfin Community School Derby New Derby school welcomes first pupils Children in Derby have enjoyed their first day at a new school, built to replace a facility on the same … Read more

Poundbury Buildings, Dorchester, Dorset, UK

Poundbury Buildings, Dorchester, Dorset, UK

Leon Krier’s commission from the Prince of Wales in 1988 to design a master plan for Poundbury – a ‘new village’ on the outskirts of Dorchester in Dorset – has provided enough fuel for the debate about postwar town planning to burn several villages.

John Madejski Academy Reading: Berkshire School

John Madejski Academy Reading: Berkshire School

Using the team’s exemplar scheme developed as part of the DfES ‘Building Schools for the Future’ initiative, the John Madejski Academy will be the first of the secondary school exemplars to be built in the UK and certainly the first as a City Academy