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David Morley Architects has completed Phase 1 of its empathetic masterplan for Matlock Spa, the redevelopment of a challenging former quarry site at the edge of the Peak District National Park, writes Fran Williams
The practice’s low-rise, mixed-tenure blocks on a Hackney housing estate have a grander-than-usual proportion and civic presence, writes Rob Wilson
While in London Robin Hood Gardens was being demolished, over in Geneva Jaccaud Spicher Architectes Associés had begun a meticulous 11-year retrofit, now nearing completion, of its close contemporary, the huge Le Lignon housing complex, writes Sabrina Syed. Photography by Paola Corsini
Amanda Levete Architects’ combined Access Centre and Undergraduate Centre updates a historic quadrangle on the campus with an exceptionally considered façade treatment, writes Fran Williams. Photography by Hufton + Crow and John Cairns
The practice has created an elegant artist’s studio and home plus a separate apartment on a constrained cul-de-sac plot in Bouverie Mews, north London, writes Rob Wilson
The practice has created the first of a new type of justice centre in Scotland, bringing together criminal and civil courts and community services under one roof, writes Ben Addy
The purposefully tectonic 32-storey hotel and apartment block, The Bryant, is the practice’s first major project in New York City. Rob Wilson spoke to associate director Mattias Kunz about the scheme
Graham Morrison hails the tower, designed with Arney Fender Katsalidis, as ‘the first of a new generation of offices’, offering Canary Wharf-scale space in the City of London. But have the crash, Covid, Brexit and the climate crisis changed the game?
An extraordinary ‘steampunk’ home-from-home with exceptional views has been created out of a dilapidated industrial water tower in rural Norfolk
Tower Hamlets has boosted its social housing stock with the addition of three blocks of affordable homes built on infill sites
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