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Gasholders London King’s Cross by architects: WilkinsonEyre with Jonathan Tuckey Design: Argent LLP shortlisted for RIBA Client of the Year 2018 – the industrial heritage of Kings Cross is integral to its regeneration and the triplet of Grade II listed cast-iron gasholders is the most distinct centrepiece.
Photos added of Coldingham Priory, Berwickshire. It was founded in the reign of David I of Scotland, although King Edgar of Scotland had granted the land of Coldingham to the Church of Durham, and a church was constructed by him and presented in 1100.
Restoration of iconic Hornsey Town Hall building in Crouch End to start. The Grade II* Listed former civic headquarters scheme has 146 new homes, including 11 affordable, a new arts centre, hotel, café and flexible community and events space.
retailer Joules taking up a three year lease at the iconic Custom House in Greenock. The Grade A listed building recently redeveloped by Riverside Inverclyde. Originally designed by celebrated Scottish architect William Burns.
Lake District National Park Authority Planning Committee members gave their approval for the Wordsworth Trust’s proposed £6.2m development project Reimagining Wordsworth designed by Purcell Architects.
Bedlam Furnaces, a key industrial monument in the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, removed from Historic England Heritage at Risk Register, due to construction of a protective canopy.
Painting of all four chimneys now complete, earlier than expected. the Grade II* Listed building was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott and completed in 1939. The chimneys had been painstakingly dismantled and rebuilt.
First country house by Arts & Crafts architect Philip Webb, his only one in Scotland: his references to the English parsonage style are adapted to the Scottish Highlands, using local granite rubble with dark whinstone dressings. The house was requisitioned by the military during World War II, with training for high-profile Czech agents.
Founded by Sir Robert Geffrye, the museum is a former site of almshouses built to house the financially insecure elderly from 1714. It was converted to a museum of furniture and industry by London Country Council in 1914. Since 1930, displays of domestic life have been exhibited here to depict period rooms from the 1600s, to the present day.
Design: Lightemotion
Lightemotion is excited to announce the completion of the lighting design for 180 Wellington, one of the first illumination projects to be executed within the Master Plan for the Parliamentary Precinct.
Design: Souto Moura Arquitectos. Award for the restoration of the Convento das Bernardas building, based on the construction of a resort with 78 residences. The architecture design has two types of intervention: new construction work and the recovery of the existing building
Design: ZWEI Interiors Architecture. Working within the context of an existing CBD building, the design strips back the built layers and exposes the site’s history and amplifies this to create narrative and connection within the interior space.
Hovedbanegaarden København, built in 1904-11, designed by Heinrich Wenck Architect: landmark Copenhagen building on west side of city centre, immediately west of Tivoli.
250 years anniversary of the iconic Royal Crescent, a masterpiece of the architectural innovation and creative imagination of the Georgian era.
Two year restoration of handsome Grade II listed gatehouse completed by Austin-Smith:Lord. The Gothic revival building was formerly on Historic England’s ‘Heritage at Risk’ register.
New Holland Development chose to organize a full-fledged city park rather than a building. To implement this idea, they employed West 8, under the direction of Design Director Edzo Bindels.
The 17th-century ‘house of delight’ that began an architectural movement in Britain re-opens this October. This British Palladian villa design by architect Inigo Jones, is one of the UK’s most historically important buildings, a masterpiece of British architecture.