St John’s Hill Redevelopment in Battersea

St Johns Hill Redevelopment

Design: Hawkins\Brown. Peabody, in collaboration with Hawkins\Brown, has completed 153 homes for social rent, shared ownership and private sale, in phase one of its masterplan for the redevelopment of St John’s Hill in Battersea.

A Shelter for Life in A Coruña

A Shelter for Life

Design: Elsa Urquijo Architects. The social charity institution Padre Rubinos was born in A Coruña nearly a century ago with a dedication to give shelter and asylum to the needy.

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.

Queen Victoria House in Bristol

Queen Victoria House

Design: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

PegasusLife has been granted planning permission to renovate Queen Victoria House, a beautiful Victorian building on Redland Hill, and transform it into a retirement development.

85 Customs Street Development Auckland

85 Customs Street Development

Mott MacDonald Architects is designing 85 Customs Street, a new mixed-use development in Auckland, New Zealand on behalf of Shundi Customs Limited. Once complete, the 52-storey residential tower will become the city’s tallest, adding a new dynamic to the skyline.

STUDIOS 18 Apartments in Rajasthan Housing

Studios 18 Apartments

Design: Sanjay Puri Architects. Situated on an undulating site in the deserts of Ras, Rajasthan, India, Studios 18 apartments are a part of an entire layout spread over 36 acres.

Manchester Toast Rack Flats

Manchester Toast Rack Flats

Renewal Design: Ollier Smurthwaite / SixTwo Architects. The Toastrack proposal is to refurbish and re-use the post-war Grade II listed Hollings Park Campus buildings. The unusual Brutalist building was designed by the city architect and completed in 1960.

Bishopsgate Goodsyard London, Shoreditch

Bishopsgate Goodsyard Development

Developer Hammerson to spend a year redesigning this controversial £800m development in east London in an attempt to win the backing of a sceptical new Mayor’s office team.

Chrisp Street Market in London Building

Chrisp Street Market

Design: Sheppard Robson

Architectural practice Sheppard Robson has submitted plans to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to create a new community-focused, mixed-use project that will reinvigorate Chrisp Street Market.

Syria: Post-War Housing Competition Winners

matterbetter international open ideas competition for architecture students and young architects to research new housing concepts for the future of the post-war Syria. The civil war in Syrian Arab Republic created the biggest refugee crisis after the World War II.

The Great Wall of Western Australia: Luigi Rosselli

The Great Wall of SW

Under the chair of 2012 Pritzker architecture prize laureate, Wang Shu, the jury of the TERRA Award selected the winners of this prize, the first of its kind dedicated to recognising excellence the field of contemporary earthen architecture design and construction, in Lyon on 14 July.

St. John’s Residential Villages Manchester

St. John’s Village Manchester

Design: Geraghty Taylor Architects. Award-winning creative property developers, Allied London have revealed the details of their first, two residential communities within their St. John’s neighbourhood.

Isbjerget Aarhus Housing, Iceberg Denmark

Isbjerget Aarhus Housing, Iceberg Denmark

Design: SeARCH, CEBRA, JDS and Louis Paillard – new photos of this innovative and unusual residential development in the harbour of the main city in Jutland. These buildings develop Denmark’s second largest city in a socially sustainable way by renovating its old, out-of-use container terminal.

Saint-André Residence Montréal, Quebec home extension

Saint-André Residence Montréal, Quebec

Design: NatureHumaine, architects. The Saint-André residence is located on a heritage street of Le Plateau Mont-Royal, and the project consisted in adding a modern extension on the back alley side while retaining the character of the built environment on the street side.